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ABC bumps My Place, Sleuth 101, ‘reinstates’ Collectors.
The ABC has announced two major scheduling changes, affecting My Place, Sleuth 101 and Collectors.
Collectors will be reinstated to its traditional time of 8pm Fridays from March 19th. It follows the ABC’s attempt at a 6:30 Sunday slot after the exit of The Einstein Factor. But viewers have been adamant in online forums that they preferred its Friday night slot.
Sleuth 101 which was in the Friday night slot will shift to 6:30pm Sundays from March 28th.
Meanwhile, ABC3 family drama My Place which had been replayed at 7:30pm Sundays on ABC1 has …
Collectors: Feb 28 / Mar 7
Not all fans of ABC’s Collectors are thrilled with its new timeslot of 6:30pm Sundays this year.
This year the show has taken over the slot of the now-defunct Einstein Factor, while Sleuth 101 enjoys its tradional Friday night slot.
Here’s a look at what’s coming up:
Episode Four screens Sunday 28th February
Andy gets dolled up and heads to a Sydney hospital dedicated to ‘real’ plastic surgery. We explore the intricate designs of the humble lace doily and a beautiful Art Deco cocktail cabinet to die for.
Former MP Barry Cohen joins Andy and the …
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 …
Seven announces TV Quiz, The White Room.
Tony Moclair and Julian Schiller will host a new comedy game show all about television for Channel Seven, The White Room.
An original format developed by Seven, it features two teams of “well-loved TV faces, established comedians and some of Australia’s best emerging comedy talents, as they are quizzed, challenged, poked and prodded about TV shows and TV stars.”
Both comedians and broadcasters, Moclair and Schiller have recently been regulars on The 7PM Project on TEN. Schiller hosts a breakfast radio show on Nova in Adelaide, where he previously worked with Moclair following …
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!”…
August 09: Kyle dumped, Double Take & City Homicide apology, GO! arrives
August:
Lebanese TV passes ACMA scrutiny
Futurama cast on board
David Leckie, back after this break.
Top ABC executive quits
Australian Idol axes Sandilands
US critics praise Battlestar
Sea Patrol loses 3 cast members
TEN to raise $138m
News boss returning in consultancy role
Paula Abdul quits American Idol
Southern Star boss quits
True Blood stars engaged
Actors strike on overseas ads
‘Squatter’ to face trial over TT assault
Talia dances on US Dance finale
Multiview to track Pay TV
Philadelphia given cold shoulder by Cold Case
Australia gets to GO!…
New slot, panellist for ABC’s Collectors
Another shake up from ABC’s programming department will see Collectors taking over The Einstein Factor’ old timeslot, with a new member Sydney-based fashion designer Claudia Chan Shaw.
She replaces Niccole Warren who has left to focus on being a full time mum. Chan Shaw appeared on the show mid-2008 with her collection of robots and tin toys, one of her passions along with Warner Bros animation cells (The Bugs Bunny Show), fossils and Australian photography.
She has worked in Sydney and overseas as a fashion designer, retailer, wholesaler and …
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 …
Can We Help? dumps studio format for 2010
Exclusive: ABC series Can We Help? might be in need of a little help of its own following confirmation it is undergoing significant format changes in 2010.
The light entertainment series, which answers general knowledge questions and arranges reunions from viewer enquiries, will no longer be filmed in studio.
Host Peter Rowsthorn told TV Tonight he expected to instead be filming links to stories.
“They’re taking it out of the studio next year, so they’re changing the format,” he said. “I’ll be doing all the links. There’ll be in no more chats in between …
1.47m for Idol
Australian Idol averaged 1.47m last night for the moment when 19yo soul singer Stan Walker was announced as winner.
It pulled its biggest audience in Sydney with 476,000 viewers over Melbourne’s 421,000 viewers between 9:21 and 9:47 “The Winner Announced.”
TEN divided the show into no less than three parts, broadly dividing into a first hour, second hour and winning announcement. The first two sections averaged 1.1m and 1.23m respectively.
Its peak audience during the closing moments was 1.71m.
TEN’s chief programming officer, David Mott, said: “These results just go to show, Australians love Idol. …
The last Sunday Arts
The Einstein Factor is not the only ABC series departing our screens today.
It is also the last edition of Sunday Arts. The show, hosted by Michael Veitch with Virginia Trioli and Fenella Kernebone, is to be replaced by Art Nation next year.
The rebranded show will contain news, reviews, performance, features and interviews and showcase submitted work from its Arts Gateway website and run just 30 minutes instead of its current one hour. It will be interesting to see if it has crews who will go to events and interview visiting celebrities …