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7PM Project divides critics
This week Channel TEN’s 7PM Project notches up 8 months on air.
After repeated attempts at developing a show to fill the timeslot, including Taken Out and even the infamous Yasmin’s Getting Married, TEN has held its nerve with the Roving Enterprises show, despite figures which many assumed would sound the death knell.
Last week it averaged 653,000 viewers, and has doubtless impacted on TEN’s early evening schedule.
But has it found its feet? Has it improved its mix of news and comedy and is it time for audiences to revisit the show?
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Special deal for Hamish & Andy
The Sunday Herald sun reports Hamish and Andy have signed a deal with Channel TEN for more specials.
“It’s no secret Hamish and Andy are the most keenly sought after television talent around,” TEN’s David Mott said.
“It’s great news for us and we can’t wait to see what they have planned.”
The tireless radio duo have proven just as popular on television with several of their former specials, many of which have been piggybacked onto radio events, including a recent roadtrip in the US. Whilst networks have been keen to utilise them more …
Rove returns to Chelsea
Rove McManus will make his second appearance on E! chat show Chelsea, Lately next week.
The former TEN host appeared on the show when Chelsea Handler filmed her show at FOX Studios late last year.
McManus will record the show in LA next week, and appear in an episode with Keshia Knight Pulliam, Loni Love, and Michelle Collins.
Aussies are quite the flavour with Chelsea. Wil Anderson recently made a return appearance while Radha Mitchell is also a guest next week.
The episode with Rove airs in the US next Monday while Rahda Mitchell is …
Report: Idol out for 2010
Channel TEN will reverse its decision to air Australian Idol this year according to a feature story in today’s Daily Telegraph.
The newspaper claims the show will be “rested” this year despite it being announced as part of the network’s 2010 line-up.
“TEN is going to rest Australian Idol for 2010. They will make a decision towards the end of 2010 as to whether it will return in 2011,” an unnamed source said. “They have asked Fremantle for ideas on how to relaunch in 2011.”
Last year was Idol’s softest year on record …
TV Tonight Awards 2009: The year of Shaun Micallef
The votes are in.
Readers have spoken on their best and worst television for 2009 in the third annual TV Tonight Awards.
The winners: Shaun Micallef, MasterChef and Packed to the Rafters.
Over 1000 surveys were completed this year, and there were some definite trends. Some choices were clear decisions, others were tight races.
Several “winners” were also “losers” elsewhere, showing a divided audience, and a number of populist shows proved their mettle by staying ahead of underdogs.
Shaun Micallef won both Favourite Male and Most Underrated Performer, while Talkin’ ‘Bout Your …
November 09: Rove, Roscoe, Rafters and 7TWO
November:
7TWO is on the air
Toby quits Idol
A Prime concern: where is 7TWO?
Gone: The Spearman Experiment
‘Junglist’ ready to move on
Austar offers MyStar HD
SBS: Top Gear loss “not the be-all and end-all”
The Rafters Wedding
2.6m stop for the Cup
Community TV wins digital breakthrough
Murphy Brown reunion
Ally McBeal reunion
PJ sings for Don
Matthew Johns’ contract expires
Matt Passmore lands (another) US lead
NZ axes Dancing with the Stars
‘Roscoe’ calls it quits
Merrick and Rosso ending radio gig
Jonathan Holmes: “Pwned!”…
September 09: Patrick Swayze, Kanye West, Hey Hey, Glee visit
September:
ABC most reliable network, Nine worst -readers
Supernatural creator eyes 2010 finale (kinda…)
Popular characters banned from children’s ads
New boss for FremantleMedia
Freeview wants streaming video
Audience anger: “Finish my show or tell me where it’s gone!”
NBC to remake Prime Suspect
TimeShifting Viewing in 2010 ratings
Seinfeld: Reunion “a miracle”
WIN Television general manager exits
Adam Brand wins Dancing trophy
Call to flick SBS ad breaks
Tila Tequila ‘choked’ by boyfriend
Deputy PM “not smarter than a Fifth Grader.”
Poh lands ABC cooking series
Melrose remake: …
August 09: Kyle dumped, Double Take & City Homicide apology, GO! arrives
August:
Lebanese TV passes ACMA scrutiny
Futurama cast on board
David Leckie, back after this break.
Top ABC executive quits
Australian Idol axes Sandilands
US critics praise Battlestar
Sea Patrol loses 3 cast members
TEN to raise $138m
News boss returning in consultancy role
Paula Abdul quits American Idol
Southern Star boss quits
True Blood stars engaged
Actors strike on overseas ads
‘Squatter’ to face trial over TT assault
Talia dances on US Dance finale
Multiview to track Pay TV
Philadelphia given cold shoulder by Cold Case
Australia gets to GO!…
Hey Hey cast waiting for the call
Jacki MacDonald, Ernie Carroll and Molly Meldrum are unlikely to return for Hey Hey its Saturday specials in 2010, while Red Symons hasn’t said whether he would be back, according to news.com.au.
Russell Gilbert and Trevor Marmalade are yet to hear from Daryl Somers if they will form part of the the next generation of Hey Hey.
Livinia Nixon is likely to return as Somers’ sidekick, and presumably Wilbur Wilde. John Blackman would be considered indispensable.
Somers delivered the good news via his Twitter and the Hey Hey Facebook page (now …
Critics’ Choice 2009
With the official TV year at an end TV Tonight has turned to those who know it best, Australian TV critics & journalists, to ask them what worked, what failed, what surprised and what annoyed?
Participating in this survey were:
Melinda Houston (Sunday Age), Richard Clune (Sunday Telegraph), James Manning (Mediaweek), Nicole Brady (The Age), Erin McWhirter (Daily Telegraph), Colin Vickery (Herald Sun) and Andrew Mercado (TV Week).
BEST DRAMA
Tangle was a popular choice: “It was new, nasty and unpredictable.”
“It was another standout from the John Edwards stable and showcased the subtle …
TEN chasing Matthew Johns
Channel TEN is said to be chasing Matthew Johns, on top of Channel Seven’s interest, according to a report today.
David Mott and Nick Falloon from TEN reportedly approached Johns late last week to front a league-based program and to have a light entertainment role with the station.
It follows earlier reports that Johns is hawking several projects, including a comedy vehicle, to Seven. That network is said to be keen on him with a view to bidding for future NRL rights.
A join production company between John Singleton and Johns was announced last …
Is that you Ryan?
He doesn’t look a bit like ‘Jason Stackhouse’ from True Blood, but here’s a glimpse of Ryan Kwanten as he appears in tonight’s episode of Chelsea, Lately.
The former Home and Away hottie is a guest on the local show, the first of which went to air on E! last night with Rove McManus.
Maybe it’s all for his new film Griff the Invisible, in which he plays a meek office worker by day and a crime-fighting superhero at night….