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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!”…
October 09: ‘Jackson Jive,’ Don Lane, Letterman, Good Game, All Saints
October:
2.1m as Hey Hey thumps MasterChef
Matt LeBlanc signs for ‘dumbed-down’ sitcom
Top Gear airship mishap
Comedy Channel series slims down to special
Hot Seat beats Deal (for real)
Chris Lilley lands joint ABC, HBO, BBC series
Sunday Arts gravitates to online
Letterman admits affairs with staff
Josh Lawson for US comedy series
Nine pulls Hey Hey repeat
Angry Hey Hey fans call for Nine boycott
GO! has official launch
Sacked WIN boss takes legal action
Nine News crew rattled in Indian report
Nine says Daryl asked to drop repeat
NRL final scores 2.41m
Letterman: “My wife has …
Birth for a nation
The final week of the ratings year is over and it was a Rafters baby that defeated singing Idols, Celebrity Masterchefs, new Apprentices, Geeks and Robbie Williams. Seven enjoyed a clean sweep of Week 48, winning all 7 nights, 3 key demos and all 5 cities -it was almost a microcosm of 2009, but this year Nine has seen to it that it didn’t quite enjoy that triumph.
The Seven Network won Week 48 with 31.3% over Nine’s 26.8% and TEN’s 21.3%. The ABC had 15.2% and SBS 5.4%.
GO! had 3.1% over …
Can We Help? dumps studio format for 2010
Exclusive: ABC series Can We Help? might be in need of a little help of its own following confirmation it is undergoing significant format changes in 2010.
The light entertainment series, which answers general knowledge questions and arranges reunions from viewer enquiries, will no longer be filmed in studio.
Host Peter Rowsthorn told TV Tonight he expected to instead be filming links to stories.
“They’re taking it out of the studio next year, so they’re changing the format,” he said. “I’ll be doing all the links. There’ll be in no more chats in between …
1.47m for Idol
Australian Idol averaged 1.47m last night for the moment when 19yo soul singer Stan Walker was announced as winner.
It pulled its biggest audience in Sydney with 476,000 viewers over Melbourne’s 421,000 viewers between 9:21 and 9:47 “The Winner Announced.”
TEN divided the show into no less than three parts, broadly dividing into a first hour, second hour and winning announcement. The first two sections averaged 1.1m and 1.23m respectively.
Its peak audience during the closing moments was 1.71m.
TEN’s chief programming officer, David Mott, said: “These results just go to show, Australians love Idol. …
The last Sunday Arts
The Einstein Factor is not the only ABC series departing our screens today.
It is also the last edition of Sunday Arts. The show, hosted by Michael Veitch with Virginia Trioli and Fenella Kernebone, is to be replaced by Art Nation next year.
The rebranded show will contain news, reviews, performance, features and interviews and showcase submitted work from its Arts Gateway website and run just 30 minutes instead of its current one hour. It will be interesting to see if it has crews who will go to events and interview visiting celebrities …
Sunday Arts: The Trocks
Next Sunday arvo ABC1’s Sunday Arts, guest host Namilla Benson meets the all-male ballet troupe Les Ballets Trockadero De Monte Carlo.
Benson goes behind the scenes as all-male ballet troupe Les Ballets Trockadero De Monte Carlo, or the Trocks as they are affectionately known, don their tutus and pirouette onto the stage for their current Australian performances.
The Trocks will perform in Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and Perth throughout October and November.
It airs at 5pm Sunday November 8th and is repeated on ABC2 at 7:30pm.
BYO tutu.
All the drama of Week 44
In Week 44 viewers bid farewell to All Saints after 12 seasons across 11 years. The 70 minute episode ensured the show departed with its reputation intact and possibly signalled the end of an era of long running weekly dramas. It finished on 1.5m viewers -time will tell if Packed to the Rafters ever comes close to its legacy. Seven, which has been top-heavy in local drama with an embarrassment of riches, won the week and with the introduction of 7TWO today may have ended a winning run by the Nine …
Online to drive rebranded ABC Arts
ABC TV has revealed its overhaul of Arts programming with the announcement of a slew of new titles, a ‘digital Arts Gateway’ website and the rebranding of Sunday Arts to a half hour format to be known as Art Nation.
The move follows continued speculation the long-running Sunday afternoon show would indeed be trimmed with content shifted online.
The rebranded Art Nation will contain news, reviews, performance, features and interviews and showcase submitted work that has premiered on the Arts Gateway. At 30 minutes instead of its current one hour, the …
Sunday Arts set for cuts?
UPDATE: Sunday Arts to become Art Nation.
As per recent rumours, the ABC is expected to announce tonight its changes to its Arts programming.
The Australian notes that Director of ABC Television, Kim Dalton, will make an announcement tonight at a two-day Sydney conference, aptly titled Revealing the Arts, jointly presented by the ABC and the Australia Council for the Arts.
Many anticipate significant changes to Sunday Arts will see it slashed from its one-hour programme, with content moving online. Sunday Arts last week rated a slight 75,000 viewers.
That could be a …
Variety the spice of Nine’s life
In the week that Seven announced its new digital channel it lost another week to Nine and its GO! channel. Nine’s win included its tribute to a favourite son, Don Lane. On the back of the Hey Hey reunions it was another reminder its audience loves Variety. It was also a week in which the networks trumped one another in the publicity stakes. After the ABC launched ABC3, Seven stole its thunder the next day with 7TWO, which was subsequently trumped that afternoon by Nine winning Top Gear.
The Nine Network won …
Sunday Arts gravitates to online
The Age reports today that ABC’s Sunday Arts program is set to undergo changes including reducing it from 60 to 30 minutes and shifting some of its content from on-air to online.
According to the article executive producer, Greg Dee, refused to confirm the plan, saying only that the ABC’s arts programming was ”evolving” but confirming that the ABC would be significantly expanding the amount of arts content it carried online.
”We’ve been developing for about a year and a half what we’ve been calling an ‘arts gateway’ online. Every artist in …