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And while we’re talking finales…
And while we’re on the subject. Kudos to Seven for slating The Amazing Race in a two hour finale on Thursday December 18.
Adding the extra episode gets around the issue of a final which would have fallen on Christmas night.
The fastracked season concludes in America on Sunday (Monday Aus) so beware of internet spoilers.
Next week’s ep on Seven includes a very funny attempt at marching in the Russian army.
The two hour TAR final means no Heroes on December 18.
New series of reality faves
Reality fans will be pleased to hear there are new series of Survivor and The Amazing Race scheduled in the US.
Survivor is back for an 18th cycle on February 12th. This is the first season that can include applicants under the age of 21. Nine is currently screening the 16th series, Micronesia: Fans v Favourites.
The 14th season of The Amazing Race returns February 15th. Seven is currently airing season 13.
Both shows premiere on CBS just as we return to the ratings season.
Amazing Race pitstops in Sydney
The Amazing Race swept through Sydney last week, shooting episodes of its 14th season.
One reader tells TV Tonight, “I was in Sydney this weekend and they were filming new Amazing Race. They were at the Opera House. Two teams came up running with camera crews -I was so excited! I think they were after Mrs Macquarie’s Chair. I wanted to follow, them I love the show!”
According to news.com.au it was also in Manly: ….for an hour or so there was a sudden stampede of earnest, sweaty, tired types with backpacks clambering …
Seven summer guide
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Seven’s first week of summer viewing is in, and as previously reported, it includes the premiere of Eli Stone, Holby Blue, the return of Ugly Betty, Dirty Sexy Money, Kath & Kim (US), Las Vegas, Dance Machine. The 24: Redemption telemovie will also air.
Both Ugly Betty and Eli Stone air twice weekly.
Seven also continues Heroes, Prison Break, The Amazing Race, The Rich List, The Unit, repeats of How I Met Your Mother, A Touch of Frost and Bones.
Both Dirty Sexy Money and Eli Stone have just been all but axed …
Eli Stone to sing on Seven’s summer
Seven will finally premiere Eli Stone in Australia as part of its summer line-up.
The US drama by Greg Berlanti (Brothers and Sisters, Dirty Sexy Money, Everwood) features Jonny Lee Miller as an attorney with an inoperable brain aneurysm -and a bit of a fixation with the catalogue of George Michael. Each episode is named after a Michael song, and the pop star even makes an appearance during one of the fantasy sequences, incorporated as one of Stone’s hallucinations.
Seven will also premiere British crime drama Holby Blue and (gasp) American Gladiators.
Scrubs will …
24 about to have its Redemption
Channel Seven has confirmed to TV Tonight, 24: Redemption will air in the first week of summer, in the week beginning November 30th.
The two hour telemovie airs in the US on November 23rd, as part of a link to the next season in the US to premiere in January on FOX.
And there are other Seven shows set to continue through summer.
“The week after Prison Break returns on November 26th it will play twice a week at 10:30pm,” says Seven’s Head of Scheduling and Acquisitions, Angus Ross, “to play out the remaining …
Bumped: The Strip, This is your Life, Amazing Medical Stories
Channel Nine has pushed back its local drama The Strip to 10:30pm from this Thursday night.
Last week the show had 834,000 viewers, beaten by Law and Order: CI’s 1.21m and The Amazing Race on 1.01m.
It will be replaced by This is your Life on Nov 13 and 20. The Mike Munro show had been set for a 6:30pm Sunday return. Instead a 20 to 1 repeat will air this weekend.
Amazing Medical Stories which was airing at 10:30pm Thursdays is currently out of schedule.
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Once again immunity is back up for grabs
Jeff Probst this year won the inaugural Emmy for the Most Outstanding Reality Host, probably due to his years in the genre and the show being at the top of its game for so many years.
Probst is also king when it comes to building the drama and describing the state of play throughout challenges. It helps to interview the players at Tribal Council, with his years of experience gauging the success of the individuals and groups he is the perfect storyteller for reality viewers.
But Jeff sure loves his script too. Some …
The double-edged sword of fame
Wednesday was quite an historic day.
While America was cheering in its first ever African-American president, I was talking down the phone to Gary Coleman, former child star of 1970’s sitcom Diff’rent Strokes.
Coleman was on the line to spruik a new DVD website enterprise, but I couldn’t help but wonder about the significance of the day.
In the ’70’s he had played a kid from Harlem adopted by a rich white family and living the good life. With his comic timing, precocious cheek, and memorable catchphrase, Coleman’s character ‘Arnold’ became a household name. …
Gone: Prison Break. Bumped: Heroes
Wentworth Miller’s Prison Break is the latest casualty of network programmers with Seven removing it from the schedule until summer. Earlier this month Nine did the same thing to Fringe.
The drama attracted 427,000 viewers last night, which was actually up from 389,000 the week before. Seven lost the night to the Nine Network.
But Seven has had problems with Heroes, netting a disappointing 624,000, dropping from The Amazing Race’s 902,000. It was beaten by RPA’s 1.02m and a repeat of Law & Order: SVU on 930,000.
Race was #1 in key demographics 16-39, …
Returning: The Amazing Race
Good news, racers. Seven will fasttrack the newest season of The Amazing Race, which launched this week in the US.
It premieres 8:30pm Thursday October 16th.
Kicking off from LA this is the 13th season of the show, and a repeated winner of the Emmy’s “reality” category.
You can read more on the pitstops of the series here and the competitors here.
The return of Race means that Heroes will sit in the 9:30pm timeslot following its 2 hour premiere next week. Prison Break remains at 10:30pm.
That just leaves Knight Rider still to …
The Amazing, undisclosed, Race
The 13th season of The Amazing Race has revealed for the first time the 11 stops on its next series.
For the forthcoming season, contestants include an ex-NFL player and his estranged wife, a former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader and her actor brother, recent divorcees, ageing hippies, a pair of Southern belles and frat brothers.
The race starts in L.A. and finishes in Portland, Oregon. It will visit Brazil, Bolivia, Cambodia, India, Kazakhstan (thanks Borat), Russia and the US. The race will also visit New Zealand, homeland of host Phil Keoghan. The show …