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2010 Logies: Who didn’t make the cut already?
Sarah Wilson was Presenter on the highest rating show in 2009 -but it wasn’t enough to land her on the shortlist for 2010 Logie Nominations.
The Masterchef host is now out of the race for Best Presenter and Gold Logie before the race even begins. But she is in good company.
Yesterday’s list of possible contenders published by TV Week again utilised a voting system it has employed in recent years: an individual numerical code for each actor, actress and presenter as a way of facilitating the results. It contrasts with a historical …
March 09: Sound Relief, Home & Away’s ‘gay kiss’, Freeview parody, ONE HD
March:
‘Norman Gentle’ challenges American Idol
AFL plan to push players to media
Axed: Life on Mars
Feud shadows Naylor funeral
TEN cutting staff hours
Mariska Hargitay hospitalised
SBS moves Sydney & Melbourne sales in-house
ITV axes shows, cuts staff
Monkee Peter Tork has cancer
Coleby quits Home and Away
Seinfeld cast re-group for Curb
Music channels sing for Sound Relief
Scrubs set for prime time
TEN orders new 7pm show from Roving Enterprises
Freeview parody pulled from YouTube
Axed: The All in Call
Community TV rallies for Logie invite
Critics knife US Chopping Block
Battlestar Galactica at the UN
Humphrey gets …
Sunday Night shafted for 3 months
Recently it was reported that the new season of Dancing with the Stars would premiere at 6:30pm on Sunday July 5 -a timeslot that has been home to Sunday Night.
The move left question marks over the future of the new current affairs show.
Today it is confirmed that Sunday Night will be off air for the next three months.
The move comes at a crucial time for the programme, which had been building a steady following recently. Last week it won its slot with 1.27m viewers. This week, it didn’t air in Adelaide …
Sunday Night rumour mill
Seven boss David Leckie is rumoured to have told producers at the Sunday Night’s launch it had 10 weeks to win and hold its audience and if it didn’t, it would be cancelled, claims news.com.au.
It is one of several media stories that has been speculating on the future of Sunday Night this week.
The new programme is now in its sixth week.
Any honeymoon the show enjoyed in its initial weeks has well and truly ended, particularly given it didn’t win its timeslot on Sunday. The axing of The All in Call …
Watching the producer
Media articles are eyeing producer Adam Boland this week, with speculation about everything from an impending resignation to dissent behind the scenes of Sunday Night, which he co-produces with Mark Llewellyn.
One report which indicates The All In Call was axed this week (as reported on TV Tonight a week ago), goes as far as to say it is his second show axed this year. The other one? Apparently The Night Cap.
It was actually axed in March 2008.
Sunday Night did come third in ratings on Sunday, pipped by The Biggest …
Axed: The All in Call
The Seven Network has hung up on The All In Call, its 7HD off-shoot of Sunday Night.
The show was a forum for debate, opinions and further dissection of stories that had featured in the premium show using hosts, reporters, guests, live audience and viewer emails.
Last Sunday it did not appear when Seven abandoned its usual current affairs format for a “Beating the Recession” special.
Now the show is out altogether, with 7HD resuming telecasting of normal programming, with Border Security.
TV Tonight understands the discussions will now be integrated into Sunday Night’s final …
A chorus of opinions
This week SBS’ long running forum show Insight travelled to Melbourne to discuss a topical subject inviting a broad range of opinions. In the old Pumphouse building at Scienceworks, Spotswood, SBS staged a live to air outside broadcast on the topic of bushfires, climate change and the danger zone.
TV Tonight was there as gale force winds were howling down on the city, ironically reminding the 54 audience guests of the force of nature. Many of them, survivors of the Black Saturday bushfires, needed no reminding. The wind grew so loud it …
All in Call engaged
There will be no All In Call on 7HD this coming weekend.
TV Tonight understands Sunday Night will be abandoning most of its normal format for a financial special.
As a result The All In Call is held over.
Sunday Night
Now we’ve had two weeks’ worth of Seven’s new current affairs show, it’s time to look a little closer at its style and content. The show was clearly thrown in the deep end in the first week, having to cover the bushfires in Victoria. It wisely sent Mike Munro and Monique Wright to Victoria. How well they covered it is debatable, but it would have looked foolish to premiere a new flagship current affairs show without including the biggest breaking story in the country.
Seven deserves a tick for attempting to revitalise …
Bumped: This is your Laugh
If you’re wondering where Andrew O’Keefe’s HD experiment has gone, it is no longer screening on Sunday nights on Seven.
Although Seven screened it’s first episode of The All in Call on 7HD last night, it doesn’t seem particularly interested in continuing the original programming with This is Your Laugh. Maybe Seven doesnt want to dilute its audience from its main channel?
Instead, the show is moving to Saturday nights.
It returns on February 28th at 8:30pm with guests Angry Anderson and Cal Wilson.
Screening on a Saturday on 7HD could suggest it is unlikely …
Networks adjust schedules for bushfires
Networks are adjusting their schedules in Melbourne due to the extent of bushfires in the state of Victoria.
Updated: 173 lives have been lost, over 750 homes destroyed with a 100km firefront and towns razed.
The threat is far from over.
Both Nine News and Seven News in Melbourne are expected to air extended bulletins to 7pm. Seven coverage begins as early as 4:30pm. TEN News has also aired a special one hour bulletin from Melbourne, instead of its normal Sydney weekend bulletin.
TV Tonight is advised by a spokesperson in Melbourne the premiere of …
Sunday Night answers an All In Call
EXCLUSIVE: Adam Boland and Mark Llewellyn’s new venture Sunday Night may go to air live at 6:30pm this Sunday night, but it’s not the only show the two will have to deliver.
Immediately after Sunday Night’s screening a live, unscripted follow-up programme will air on 7HD.
The All In Call will see hosts, producers, reporters and guests taking questions from the audience, both live in studio and online, about the night’s show.
“It’s live from our Sunday Night studio as a continuing, unscripted event,” Adam Boland told TV Tonight. “Essentially what will happen is …