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Prisoner in Logies Hall of Fame leak
Cult soap Prisoner is in the running for a Hall of Fame Award at the 2010 Logies.
The show will compete with 8 other nominations put forward by television networks, to be decided by a jury. Only one will be successful.
The other 8 are all performers:
Brian Henderson
Ian Ross
Brian Naylor
George Negus
Ken Sutcliffe
Les Murray
Maggie Tabberer
Ray Meagher
Last year’s winner was Bill Collins. It has previously been awarded to either a show or an individual, who could be an on-screen or off-screen industry name.
The names were leaked in today’s Australian newspaper. Traditionally the name of the …
Maggie Beer: Senior Australian of the Year
Television chef Maggie Beer has been named Senior Australian of the Year.
Beer, who finished co-hosting ABC’s The Cook and the Chef last year, was announced as winner in a ceremony conducted by Kevin Rudd and Chair of the National Australia Day Council Adam Gilchrist outside Parliament House last night.
She was recognised for championing local produce by farmers from the Barossa Region.
Aged 65, the self-taught cook couldn’t resist extolling the virtues of cooking in her acceptance speech.
“All I am doing is what I love to do and being able to share it. …
Sons & Daughters Bulgarian style
27 years after it first aired on Australian television, Sons and Daughters has another lease of life.
The format, now known as Forbidden Love, has been remade and screening in Bulgaria.
FremantleMedia, which owned the show when it was once knows as Grundy Television, has just won a second seson with Bulgarian broadcaster Nova TV.
It will run as 98×26′ episodes where it is known locally as Zabranena Lyubov. It has previously had territorial remakes as Verbotene Liebe (Germany, 1995- ); Skilda världar (Sweden, 1996-2002); Apagorevmeni agapi (Greece, 1998); Cuori Rubati (Italy, …
7TWO to launch November 1st
Channel Seven has unveiled its free-to-air digital channel 7TWO, a broad entertainment channel set to launch on Sunday, November 1, 2009 at 12noon on Channel 72.
Channel Seven’s Director of Programming and Production Tim Worner said, “I am pleased to announce that 7TWO will be the new home for premiere episodes of our international hits including J.J Abrams’ Lost, Ugly Betty, Heroes and 24,” said Worner.
“We’ve been strategic in putting together a program schedule for 7TWO that allows us to grow our audience between our two channels, without sacrificing one for …
TV’s family values
Some years ago when he was Treasurer, Peter Costello suggested Australian families should have one baby for mum, one for dad and one for the country. Maybe he should have thrown in one for television too.
The traditional, nuclear family is disappearing from primetime television. Yet TV families are amongst our most popular genres.
If you step into the fictional suburb of Erinsborough today you will find great change from its origins. Under the roofs of Ramsay Street there is an array of family groupings: married couples, children, brothers and sisters, friends, step-parents, …
Returning: East of Everything
Actor Nick Tate will enjoy something of a ‘comeback’ with his role in the second series of the ABC’s East of Everything.
Tate has had plenty of guest roles over the years, in everything from Lost, Matlock, Murder She Wrote, Star Trek: Next Generation and Party of Five, but it’s been a long time since we have seen him in an ongoing role.
You would have to go back to shows such as Sons and Daughters, Holiday Island and Space: 1999 for some of his well-known regular roles. These days Tate is one …
Gallery: Red Carpet Arrivals 2009
There were swine flu masks that look like they had met with the Bedazzler, see through tops, lots of slimming black, The Stig and possibly some Hollywood tape.
There was also a gaggle of media asking “who are you wearing” and “who is your tip to win?” (copy that never delivers so well by the time it makes it to print / on air). And there was more than a few media asking “who was that again?”
Once again they came from across Australia and New Zealand for the country’s premier Red Carpet …
Seven censors Home & Away same-sex kiss
The Seven Network has censored a same sex kiss in its soapie Home and Away.
A scene involving a kiss between Joey (Kate Bell) and Charlie (Esther Anderson) has been censored following media stories with lobby groups criticising the storyline in a ‘family’ show.
The plotline involves the arrival of a young lesbian who has become attracted to one of the show’s regular characters. As the two grow more intimate they were set to share an on-screen kiss. In last night’s episode (pictured) the two girls finished a dance with an awkward and …
Returning: Where Are They Now?
Once Dancing with the Stars finishes, Seven has a new Where Are They Now? special hosted by David Koch and Melissa Doyle (note: there’s actually no “?” on the title but there will be on this site).
It airs at 7:30pm Sunday November 16.
The special features a reunion of the long-running soap, Sons and Daughters, with appearances by Rowena Wallace, Peter Phelps, Ally Fowler, Tom Richards, Ian Rawlings and Belinda Giblin.
As some fans will remember, this was a show produced by Grundy Productions with families based in both Sydney and Melbourne, as …
Get out your best Reg Grundies
Television pioneer and magnate Reg Grundy will celebrate his 85th birthday with a bash at a Sydney hotel in December, The Age reports.
Grundy, whose name is synonymous with Australian television, produced game shows from the 1960s after creating Wheel of Fortune, later adding dramas such as Prisoner, The Restless Years, The Young Doctors, Sons and Daughters and Neighbours to his stable. He sold the Grundy Organisation in 1995 to Pearson, which has subsequently been overtaken by FremantleMedia.
These days he is retired in Bermuda (maybe he hangs out with Bruce Gordon?) with …