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The Amazing Race 16: Teams
Minor spoilers: Season 16 of The Amazing Race gets underway in the US on February 14.
This time around the race includes Miss South Carolina, two detectives from Rhode Island, a Father/Daughter team from California, a Newly Dating couple, two moms who are also Attorneys (take that Good Wife!), Brothers who are also Cowboys, High School but Married Sweethearts, a 71yo Grandmother who is a Personal trainer and her granddaughter, an Actress and Voice Over Artist, two Brothers (what -that’s it?), and a Married Asian-American couple from California. The newly-dating pair are …
Producers Guild of America Awards: Winners
Awards, awards, awards….this time it was the Producers’ Guild of America which dished out its prizes in film and television.
The TV winners were:
The Danny Thomas Producer of the Year Award in Episodic Television – Comedy:
30 Rock beat Californication, Entourage, The Office and Weeds.
The Norman Felton Producer of the Year Award in Episodic Television – Drama:
Mad Men beat Breaking Bad, Dexter, Lost and True Blood.
The Producers Guild of America Producer of the Year Award in Non – Fiction Television:
60 Minutes beat Deadliest Catch, Intervention, Kathy Griffin: My Live on the ‘D’ List …
Renewed: Survivor, Amazing Race.
Once again, Immunity is back up for grabs.
CBS has just ordered two more seasons of Survivor and one more for The Amazing Race.
With “Heroes v Villains” about to launch shortly, Survivor is now assured to its 22nd season. Host and Producer Jeff Probst is currently signed for the upcoming season.
Nine has promised to air the next season, after the franchise performed well over summer. But those Winter Olympics may get in the way of Fastracking.
A new Amazing Race begins in the US on February 14 with two former Big Brother (US) …
Survivor: Heroes v Villains cast
Survivor’s Rupert and Russell are back for more.
They will return to the show for the next season “Heroes v Villains” along with Coach from Tocantins, Sugar from Gabon, Parvati from Cook Islands and Reality addict ‘Boston’ Rob from Marquesas (he has also appeared in the All Stars edition as well as The Amazing Race!).
Colby and Jerri from Survivor: Australian Outback are included.
Absent from the list is the devious Johnny ‘Fairplay’ (could there be a twist?).
The list is close to those rumoured on fansites, and was drawn from a preview screened in …
TV Tonight Awards 2009: The year of Shaun Micallef
The votes are in.
Readers have spoken on their best and worst television for 2009 in the third annual TV Tonight Awards.
The winners: Shaun Micallef, MasterChef and Packed to the Rafters.
Over 1000 surveys were completed this year, and there were some definite trends. Some choices were clear decisions, others were tight races.
Several “winners” were also “losers” elsewhere, showing a divided audience, and a number of populist shows proved their mettle by staying ahead of underdogs.
Shaun Micallef won both Favourite Male and Most Underrated Performer, while Talkin’ ‘Bout Your …
September 09: Patrick Swayze, Kanye West, Hey Hey, Glee visit
September:
ABC most reliable network, Nine worst -readers
Supernatural creator eyes 2010 finale (kinda…)
Popular characters banned from children’s ads
New boss for FremantleMedia
Freeview wants streaming video
Audience anger: “Finish my show or tell me where it’s gone!”
NBC to remake Prime Suspect
TimeShifting Viewing in 2010 ratings
Seinfeld: Reunion “a miracle”
WIN Television general manager exits
Adam Brand wins Dancing trophy
Call to flick SBS ad breaks
Tila Tequila ‘choked’ by boyfriend
Deputy PM “not smarter than a Fifth Grader.”
Poh lands ABC cooking series
Melrose remake: …
Survivor: It’s double Samoa
Survivor fans really need to be on alert lately, with extra episodes and amendments proving to be their own Survivor Challenge.
Updated: But it’s good news for them with a double episode slated for 7:30pm Tuesday December 15. Continues in doubles Dec 22.
If Nine keeps up the double eps through summer it might minimise damaging leaks about the winner, given the season is currently airing in the US.
On Tuesday it took 788,000 third in its slot behind The 7:30 Report and Accidentally on Purpose.
Seven was fourth with Gary Unmarried.
Nine moves the movie …
Seven summer update
Seven has updated its first week of summer programming, filling in several TBAs and shuffling a few shows around.
New titles include Stephen Fry in Kingdom as a kindly solicitor who devotes his career to representing the oddball people in the Norfolk town of Market Shipborough, England. Kenneth Brannagh stars as Inspector Kurt Wallander, a brilliant detective who takes each murder case he works on personally and will stop at nothing in his search for the truth. The Take is a UK drama set in the criminal underworld of the East End …
Are we there yet?
Are we there yet? Just two weeks to go until the 2009 ratings end, with a baby Rafter, a new Idol, a Celebrity MasterChef, and a first Apprentice all due. Audiences are already showing signs of switch-off as numbers diminish -either from fatigue, daylight saving, multiple entertainment choices or all three. But they are hanging on for Julie Rafter whose motherly condition ensured she was the week’s top show. And Seven again won the week.
Seven Network won with 30.1% over Nine’s 26.3% and TEN’s 19.8%. The ABC had 18.0% and SBS …
Seven amendment update
A pile of changes are in for Seven for the last two weeks of ratings. It’s bad news if you like American Dad but good news if you prefer Family Guy.
Wed Nov 18
11pm American Dad is replaced by Family Guy rpt
Thu Nov 19
10:30pm Family Guy marathon 3 eps rpt
American Dad is out
Sun Nov 22
9:30pm Castle double ep
Real Crime is out
Tue Nov 24
7:30pm Unlikely Animal Friends
9:30pm Private Practice dbl ep
Wed Nov 25
9:30pm Criminal Minds (new ep)
11pm Family Guy dbl ep rpt
Both American Dad and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (shifting to summer) …
Sport wins the ratings trophy
If 2009 has been remarkable for one thing, it has been comic tone put under the spotlight. But in a week when our sense of humour was questioned once more, it was sport that ruled the week. The NRL Grand Final topped the week with 2.41m viewers, ahead of Hey Hey the Reunion. Both were Nine properties and gave the network a decisive victory -its fifth successive win.
Nine finished with 31.1% ahead of Seven’s 26.2% and TEN’s 19.6%. The ABC had 17.8% and SBS 5.3%.
Nine won 3 key demos 16-39, 18-49 …
Survivor safe distance from disaster in Samoa
CBS reality series Survivor filmed its 19th and 20th seasons in Samoa, which has been devastated by earthquake and tsunami today.
Survivor was filmed on the island of Upolu, where damage is said to be very widespread, particularly on its south-east coast.
The earthquake reached a magnitude between 8.0 and 8.3, and its subsequent tsunami has resulted in loss of life that is expected to rise.
Jeff Probst and the Survivor crew, which regularly features Australian members, were not harmed with the 20th season not being filmed at the time.
The 19th season is currently …