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Minister Conroy for sale on eBay
Guiding Light switching off
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Dateline scoops coup
Gavin & Stacey star collapses from exhaustion
Girls turn it on for Ladettes auditions
Andre Rieu in Ramsay Street
The very scholarly Kerry O’Brien
Leckie sells network shares
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Star Trek premieres at Opera House
Fennessy brothers to Shine for Murdoch
TEN backtracks on House promise
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The cancelled list
As the US Fall Season nears it’s time to take stock of the shows in the US that are not moving forward (including two Aussie adaptations).
Whilst many of us are up to speed on most of these, sometimes one or two escape out attention, and others kinda never get cancelled but remain in permanent hiatus.
For the record here is the list of those that are no more:
ABC has cancelled Cupid, Dirty Sexy Money, Eli Stone, In the Motherhood, Kyle XY, Life on Mars, Pushing Daisies, Samantha Who, Surviving Suburbia, and The …
Sit Down, Bump Off
After just two episodes, FOX has bumped the US animated adaptation of Aussie sitcom Sit Down, Shut Up from its 8:30pm timeslot that followed The Simpsons.
From next week it moves to 7pm -a low-rated hour that’s only considered “primetime” on Sundays.
The remaining episodes of the final season of King of the Hill will take its place.
Despite the strong voice cast and Mitch Hurwitz on board, the show was panned by the critics as “basic and banal.”
Few acknowledged that even in its original form it didn’t work in Australia either.
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Sit Down, Shut Up: “one big letdown”
Another Australian format adapted by the Americans has landed dud reviews.
This time however, it has to be said the original series was not even a hit here. Sit Down, Shut Up was a short-lived 2000 sitcom on Channel TEN with a cast including Stephen Curryand Marg Downey.
The show featured teachers who misbehaved more than their students. It was picked up by Arrested Development’s Mitch Hurwitz and animated with voices including Jason Bateman, Will Arnett, Henry Winkler and Kristen Chenoweth.
It will premiere on FOX this Sunday night.
Transported from an Aussie high school …
King of the Hill to end
The FOX network has decided animated comedy King of the Hill will not proceed beyond its current 13th season.
But the news is no big surprise given Greg Daniels and Mike Judge have moved on to other projects, and FOX is developing new animated comedies, including one based on Aussie sitcom Sit Down Shut Up.
Daniels is behind The Office, while Judge has The Goode Family, launching on ABC in midseason.
The Texas-based series which began life in 1997 was voiced by Judge, Kathy Najimy, Pamela Adlon, Brittany Murphy, Tom Petty, Toby Huss, Johnny …
FOX to remake Ab Fab
Not content with re-making Kath and Kim, America is about to tackle Absolutely Fabulous -again.
Arrested Development’s Mitch Hurwitz (who is also behind the animated and retitled version of Sit Down Shut Up), is one of three executive producers for Sony Pictures. Jennifer Saunders is also in on the deal, as one of three other executive producers, but that doesn’t necessarily mean she will be hands on each episode.
The script will be put together by Saturday Night Live writer Christine Zander.
The new US version to air on FOX will be located in …
Lost in the 80’s
We went back to the fifties in Happy Days, the sixties in the rather wonderful Wonder Years, the seventies in That 70s Show and now we may flashback to the eighties in Lost in the 80s.
Writer-producer Bob Brush, who created The Wonder Years, is to make a half hour dramedy, described as Fast Times at Ridgemont High meets The Ice Storm -two wildly different takes on the era.
Brush won an Emmy for his writing The Wonder Years which aired for six seasons.
Arrested Development’s Mitch Hurwitz, currently developing an animated series from …