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May 09: Matthew Johns, Karl after the Logies, Eurovision, Bud Tingwell
May:
WIN loses defamation case
The Chaser: Charges? What charges?
Gold Logie: It’s Rebecca!
Gretel’s Logies flop
Search for an Aussie Jerry Springer
Late News returns to Nine
Sam Newman to be ‘tarred and feathered’
ABC’s Eternity Man wins international award
Media Watch: 20 Years: Stuff Ups, Beat Ups & Barneys
Karl Stefanovic, the morning after
Fawlty Towers stars reunite
MASH’s David Ogden Stiers comes out
Gossip Girl spin-off ‘dead.’
Sam Newman put on ‘ACMA watch’
Rex Hunt guilty of road rage
Kiefer Sutherland charged with assault
Idol dumps Monday …
GO! adjusts for school holidays
Nine recently expressed some frustration over classification limitations it’s tackling since the arrival of GO!
During school holidays, Free to Air networks are restricted in what they can show during the daytime for M rated programmes.
It’s an issue that all networks face, and have for some time.
During September it will impact on several shows intended for repeat.
Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles, Fringe and Eleventh Hour won’t be replayed on Thursday Sept 10 and Gossip Girl and Moonlight won’t be repeated on Friday Sept 11. If anybody cares Neighbours at War is also out …
Australia gets to GO!
When the new series of Wipeout airs tonight at 6:30pm, Australia will officially have another new channel.
GO! is Nine’s new digital channel aimed fair and square at eyeballs between the ages of 14-39 years old. With titles including Survivor, Gossip Girl, Fringe, Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles, Moonlight and TMZ, there are certainly some alluring shows on offer. Compared to 20 to 1, Australia’s Perfect Couple and Commercial Breakdown Adults Only, GO! is practically worthy of an Emmy.
Those of us licking our lips for new episodes of Weeds and The Wire will …
“Survivors ready? GO!”
From today GO! begins its signal on digital televisions, ahead of its ’soft-launch’ on Sunday night with an array of tasty titles.
TV Tonight spoke to Les Sampson, Nine’s Network Director of Multichannels about its programming.
GO! is structured similar to a subscription TV channel with ‘block’ programming from 3:30pm – 12am, which is repeated again the next day. The SD channel has been carefully programmed so as not to cannibalise Nine and to skew towards younger demographics.
“The model is designed so that we get maximum use of the available audience,” says Sampson.
“At …
The Dames of Deception
Feast your eyes on this inventive trailer in the US for two FOX series, Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles and Dollhouse (pictured).
Filmed a la the double feature for Tarantino’s Grindhouse film, it’s bound to get the attention of its target audience, young males.
Some Aussie networks have been borrowing ideas for promos and openers lately, I guess FOX is borrowing an idea from Tarantino too. But somehow it comes across as a bit more of an homage.
Besides …
Terminator not yet terminated
Much to the surprise of many, Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles was given a full season by FOX on Friday.
The extra nine episodes for its second season follows a growing US fan base and some positive critical attention.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Fox’s overall ratings tend to significantly increase after the first of the year, powered by American Idol.
The series which stars Lena Headey, Thomas Dekker and Summer Glau last aired in Australia on the Nine Network in March, moving from 8:30 to 10:30 timeslots.
Now word on future episodes here just yet.
Source: …
Gone: Fringe
Nine has just pulled the plug on one of it’s big new dramas, Fringe.
The big budget “thrilling new drama” the network recently promoted as with a big marketing push has been pulled from it schedule effective immediately.
Nine will instead move The Mentalist into its place from next Wednesday at 8:30pm, followed by CSI: NY.
This week the series rated a disappointing 671,000 viewers -thrashed by Criminal Minds’ 1.47m, beaten by Spicks and Specks 1.23m, and pipped by House’s 885,000 viewers.
The complex, futuristic drama starring Australian actors Anna Torv and John Noble has …
Darkly deconstructing Dexter
Online media continues to be a great space for the deconstruction of television, allowing fans of programmes to see behind the scenes.
This photo of a patient Michael C. Hall sitting on the set of Dexter is one of many that are featured in a photo shoot in “Hollywood Backlot”, a feature of the LA Times. You can see a lot more on make-up artists working on grisly murder victims, and other actors from the third series, which has just launched in the US. Here’s another on Terminator: Sarah Connor …
Fringe
Mental note to self: never, ever take a flight with screenwriter J.J. Abrams. He’s the guy who crashed Oceanic Flight 815 onto a tiny Pacific island in Lost. Now he opens his newest television drama, Fringe, with another disastrous flight.
This time a virus breaks out aboard a jet descending into Boston. Nobody survives a rapid, flesh-eating outbreak. Enter FBI agent Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv), called in to investigate as part of an interagency task force.
When her partner, and bed mate, Special Agent John Scott (Mark Valley) falls victim to the virus, …