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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 …
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 …
June 09: The Chaser, Ramsay v Grimshaw, Jodi Gordon, Michael Jackson
June:
John Foreman quits Idol
SBS2 channel arrives
The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien launches
Nine refreshes Sydney News set
Anti-Piracy group targets schools
Chaser “Make a Realistic Wish” branded tasteless
Home and Away stars in news controversies
ABC pulls The Chaser for 2 weeks. Team apologises.
Defamation case over Molloy comments
Gyngell admonishes Gordon Ramsay
MasterChef heads to Hong Kong
ABC executive admits Chaser sketch was her call
Tracy Grimshaw’s right of reply
ABC Executive relieved over Chaser “error of judgement”
Ramsay apology: “I am deeply, deeply …
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 …
Morello wins The Apprentice
23 year old Victorian real estate auctioneer Andrew ‘Morello’ has won The Apprentice Australia.
He defeated Heather for the inaugural title of the Nine reality series.
Third place-getter Gavin was eliminated following a dinner with boss Mark Bouris.
Both finalists had to draw teams from their former colleagues for a final challenge with the launch of a new men’s fragrance including name, bottle, TV ad and magazine …
Say bye to variety for me
The Noughties will end with a nail in the coffin of variety after Rove McManus announced he was winding down his show last Sunday. It closed a ten year chapter for the genre with a string of Logies, A-List guests and live memories to take home. Without any advance warning it also didn’t pull the kind of figures such a farewell deserved. Both the night and the week went Seven’s way for the second last week of the ratings season.
The Seven Network won Week 47 with a big 30.0% ahead of …
Reminder: Finale week
A reminder to all readers that with at least three finales coming up in the next few days TV Tonight will be logging winner results.
Australian Idol, The Apprentice Australia and Celebrity MasterChef all have finale episodes due.
Readers anywhere other than AEDT may consider holding off visiting if they have not seen episodes air, as per normal protocol at TV Tonight.
Mark Bouris keen for more Apprentice
Should it be Gavin, Morello or Heather?
That’s the question Mark Bouris has had to contemplate this week in the lead-up to the finale of The Apprentice Australia.
All three were still in the running after Monday night’s penultimate episode.
“Anyone of those three could do the job. They have the skill and ability to do the job. Which one is the right one is another issue,” Bouris told TV Tonight.
“40% of people say to me it should be Gavin, 40% say Morello and the balance say Heather. And I have one response to …
Delays on Humphrey’s future
Humphrey B. Bear is still silent on his future. Which is hardly so very surprising….
Or at least his adminstrators are.
It’s been months since the cleaners came in to wind up Banksia Productions in Adelaide, and there are more than 80 interested parties who are keen to give the famous bear a new home.
But Administrator Maris Rudaks said Banksia Productions was not the only party claiming intellectual property rights, according to News Limited.
He refused to identify others.
Some agreements may not be in writing or cannot be found.
That’s leaving some prospective new …
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 …
Programming round-up
A few people have emailled about upcoming shows, many of which I have noted in other posts, but let’s do a round-up as a friendly reminder…
Survivor: Tocantins is now in double episodes on GO! on Tuesdays and triple eps on Fridays. This is to wind up the show before Survivor: Samoa airs on Nine in December. Nine has also corrected its guide to ensure the 2 hr finale will be followed by the Reunion beginning at 8:30pm Friday November 27th.
False Witness this Sunday night on Nine is 3 hours (including ads) …