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Asian TV Awards: Aussie nominees
Several Aussie productions have been nominated in the 14th Asian TV Awards.
To be held in Singapore in December, the awards draws about 1,400 entries each year from a wide range of broadcasters, including Free to Air and PayTV platforms in Asia.
Australian finalists include City Homicide, All Saints, Scorched, and rather curiously, The Chopping Block for Best Adaptation of An Existing Format. Very peculiar given it was devised by Julian Cress and David Barbour.
Entries appear to be listed under distributors.
Best Natural History Or Wildlife Programme Or Docu-Drama
Death of the Megabeasts – Prospero …
Airdate: A Model Daughter
TEN’s telemovie A Model Daughter- The Killing of Caroline Byrne will air on Wednesday, November 4 at 8.30pm.
Based on the death of the model in Sydney, 1995, it looks at her father’s battle for justice in proving that his daughter was murdered.
It was Tony Byrne’s belief that his daughter was murdered by her boyfriend Gordon Wood, chauffeur and personal assistant to stockbroker the late Rene Rivkin. His determination to bring his daughter’s killer to justice, coupled with the persistence of several journalists to keep the police investigation open, led to the …
Seven tops local content list
The Australian Communications and Media Authority has released its findings on Australian content on commercial free to air television in 2008.
It found Seven, Nine and TEN all exceeded the minimum requirement of 55% local content be aired between 6am and midnight.
Channel Seven broadcast 64% Australian content while Nine’s PBL-owned stations on the East Coast aired more than 60% Australian content. TEN just cleared the minimum averaging 56%.
Seven was the only network to increase its local content from 2007.
2008 was a strong year for local content, particularly in drama with …
AWGIE Awards: 2009 Nominees
The Australian Writers’ Guild has announced the nominees for the 42nd annual AWGIE Awards.
Contenders in the drama series category include Rush, Satisfaction and Carla Cametti PD, while the serials will be fought between Home and Away, Neighbours and Out of the Blue. Saved and Scorched go head to head for the telemovie award while the miniseries nominees are East West 101, The Circuit and False Witness.
Titles competing in comedy include Newstopia, Good News Week and Review with Myles Barlow. ABC kid’s series Zigby has landed all 5 nominations in the P …
Libby to Nine’s Rescue
Last week Nine confirmed its casting for its newest drama, RESCUE Special Ops (yep more titles with CAPS!).
To be produced by Julie McGauran (Out Of The Blue, Home and Away) and Sarah Smith (The Alice) the 13 part series will feature Les Hill (Underbelly), Libby Tanner (Scorched), Peter Phelps (Underbelly: A Tale Of Two Cities), Daniel Amalm (Two Fists, One Heart), Gigi Edgley( The Starter Wife), Katherine Hicks (Out Of The Blue) and newcomer Andrew Lees.
Playing brothers Dean Gallagher and Chase are Les Hill and Andrew Lees: competitive alpha males, who …
Too Scorched for encore
With a Logie nomination and a Digital Emmy this week for the telemovie Scorched, it might be fortuitous for Nine to give the film another run.
There were plenty of people who missed it last year, and with the Easter non-ratings period coming up, it would be a good chance for some to see it before the Logies in early May.
Except for one problem.
Its entire premise revolves around bushfires.
TV Tonight understands Nine was considering another screening of the telemovie, but the timing was all wrong.
Scorched wins Digital Emmy
It lost out athe AIMIA Awards but the Nine’s telemovie Scorched has won the 2009 International Digital Emmy for best fiction program.
The announcement was made at a gala ceremony on Monday night in Cannes.
Nine’s disaster telemovie was launched with a huge online campaign with an extensive story with a fictional blogger, Cassie, and 20 webisodes, each two to three minutes long, that serve as a prequel and sequel to the futuristic story. Rachael Carpani and Nine’s Mark Ferguson played reporter and news presenter for a fictional news network CPN in the …
Logie Awards 2009: Nominees
Packed to the Rafters and Underbelly dominated 2008 television and so it is with the 51st TV Week Logie Awards.
Rafters leads with 11 nominations while Underbelly has, appropriately, nine. Rebecca Gibney, Kat Stewart and Gyton Grantley all have nods in acting for both popular and peer-voted outstanding categories. Gibney is also a front runner for the Gold. Both shows are also in as Most Popular Drama and Most Outstanding Drama.
The lists reflect a strong showing by Drama in 2008. While the magazine’s younger readers favour soaps, the industry also nods to …
A gold year for Rebecca
Last night Julie and Dave Rafter, Australia television’s favourite new mum and dad, decided to keep the baby.
At age 44 ‘Julie Rafter’ faces a number of health challenges that were laid out to her by a doctor, some of which could be life-threatening.
The episode capped off an extraordinary first season for the new Seven drama.
Less seriously, actress Rebecca Gibney, also 44, could be facing a challenge of her own, when the TV Week Logie nominations are announced next week.
Packed to the Rafters was one of the success stories of 2008, arguably …
Vice President Daddo
Cameron Daddo turned Vice President this week in the US, but it was all in the name of an episode of 24.
Daddo will appear in episodes of the action drama on Seven in coming weeks (assuming it doesn’t get another bump by the network).
Daddo most recently appeared on Nine’s Australia Unites telethon after he assisted in rounding up expat Aussies in LA for the event. He was also in Scorched and the less enticing My Kid’s a Star.
He has appeared in several US shows including Pirate Master, Hope Island, FX and …
Bob Morley: “meat puppet”
Surprising comments today from actor Bob Morley being candid about his time on Seven’s Home and Away.
In less-than-flattering comments to the Daily Telegraph, Morley has reportedly lambasted the show as a “machine that can chew you up and spit you out”.
The 23-year-old actor spent two years on Seven’s soap and now stars in Nine’s The Strip and recently had a role in Scorched.
“It’s nice to be in a show (The Strip) where it’s not based on taking your shirt off,” he said.
“That was one thing that got me down (in …
Seven packed with hits
It was the week ASTRA and Seven got into a stoush over AFL, gardening gurus came out fighting, SBS took its funding campaign to the people, Today Tonight apologised to a dating a dating agency and Lateline apologised to the Corbys, WIN TV sacked a news chief, David Koch stumbled over the marvels of “fasttracking v downloading,” we lost a veteran actor with a huge list of credits, and our first gardening celebrity, while actor Mark Priestley was laid to rest.
And it was another win for Seven, with 29.4% in Week …