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Wil Anderson on Chelsea Lately
This just in….
Wil Anderson will appear on tonight’s episode of Chelsea, Lately on E!
It’s the second appearance for The Gruen Transfer host, who was also a guest on her show when she recently filmed episodes of her chat show in Sydney.
Anderson recorded the spot in LA last week.
Chelsea, Lately airs at 10:30pm tonight on E!
May 09: Matthew Johns, Karl after the Logies, Eurovision, Bud Tingwell
May:
WIN loses defamation case
The Chaser: Charges? What charges?
Gold Logie: It’s Rebecca!
Gretel’s Logies flop
Search for an Aussie Jerry Springer
Late News returns to Nine
Sam Newman to be ‘tarred and feathered’
ABC’s Eternity Man wins international award
Media Watch: 20 Years: Stuff Ups, Beat Ups & Barneys
Karl Stefanovic, the morning after
Fawlty Towers stars reunite
MASH’s David Ogden Stiers comes out
Gossip Girl spin-off ‘dead.’
Sam Newman put on ‘ACMA watch’
Rex Hunt guilty of road rage
Kiefer Sutherland charged with assault
Idol dumps Monday …
April 09: SuBo, Deal v Hot Seat, IceTV victory, Talia wins Dance
April:
Naylor will cuts son from family estate
Andrew G to front Idol solo
‘Fugly’ creator calls it quits
Minister Conroy for sale on eBay
Guiding Light switching off
Profits tumble at TEN
Dateline scoops coup
Gavin & Stacey star collapses from exhaustion
Girls turn it on for Ladettes auditions
Andre Rieu in Ramsay Street
The very scholarly Kerry O’Brien
Leckie sells network shares
Game on. It’s Eddie v Andrew
Star Trek premieres at Opera House
Fennessy brothers to Shine for Murdoch
TEN backtracks on House promise
Neighbours producer: Lack …
ABC: 2010 returning programs
Following on from the select highlights for ABC 2010, some readers have been asking about returning shows.
As we know The Einstein Factor, Sunday Arts and triple j with the doctor have all ended.
Here is the list of returning Australian-made shows not previously noted for ABC1 and ABC2:
Australian Story (ABC1, ABC2, iView),
News Breakfast (ABC2),
7pm News (ABC1),
The 7:30 Report (ABC1, iView),
Four Corners (ABC1, iView),
Foreign Correspondent (ABC1, iView),
Lateline (ABC1),
Landline (ABC1),
The Midday Report (ABC1),
Insiders (ABC1),
Inside Business (ABC1),
National Press Club (ABC1),
Offsiders (ABC1),
Stateline (ABC1),
Behind the News (ABC1)
Asia Pacific Focus (ABC1),
The Gruen Transfer (ABC1, repeated ABC2, iView),
Hungry …
2009 AFI Awards: Nominees
The ABC, SBS and Pay Television dominate the Television nominees in the 2009 AFI Awards.
Leading the drama nominations were False Witness (UKTV, pictured), Underbelly (Nine Network) and East West 101 (SBS). Two were produced by Screentime and East West 101 by Knapman / Wyld.
In comedy The Librarians (ABC1), Review with Myles Barlow (ABC1), and Very Small Business (ABC1) received several nominations.
In light entertainment it was again a public broadcaster battle between Spicks and Specks (ABC1), The Gruen Transfer (ABC1) and RocKwiz (SBS ONE).
Seven’s adult drama nominations were confined to Packed to …
Q & A: Oct 8
Uh oh. Q & A is bound to be a tad controversial this week. Feminist and author Germaine Greer is set to appear on the panel, hosted by Tony Jones. Always worthy of a headline…
If that isn’t enough, NSW MP Belinda “Iguanagate” Neale is joining them.
Gruen Transfer’s Todd Sampson will also appear along with Senator Cory Bernardi and columnist Janet Albrechtsen.
It airs 9:30pm Thursday on ABC1.
Hungry Beast team revealed
Dan Ilic is one of the 7 on air presenters in Hungry Beast the new media project from Andrew Denton and Anita Jacoby.
Ilic, remembered from his role in The Ronnie Johns Half Hour, is known for his savvy and satirical digs at the wider media including his now infamous Freeview parody on YouTube and as a writer of the fringe theatre piece ‘Beaconsfield The Musical.’
The seven who are fronting the ABC series are aged from 20 to 28 years old and have diverse backgrounds and experiences in media, journalism, documentary, radio, …
Airdate: Hungry Beast
Following TV Tonight’s scoop on Denton’s new show being retitled from Project NEXT to Hungry Beast, the ABC has now confirmed an airdate for the show.
A 10 x half hour series, it will be broadcast on ABC1 at 9pm, and as a daily web program, from September 30th. It will also be shown on ABC2 from Thursday October 1st at 8.30pm.
Hungry Beast will also be available on iView from midnight on September 30th.
A weekly, topical TV show and daily web program, Hungry Beast is a new look at the world …
ABC pulls The Chaser for 2 weeks. Team apologises.
In a major response to public fury over a sketch this week, the ABC has opted to withdraw The Chaser’s War on Everything from its schedule for two weeks.
ABC Managing Director Mark Scott made the decision following the controversy surrounding The Chaser’s sketch, “Making A Realistic Wish Foundation,” that went to air on Wednesday night.
The sketch depicted child actors as terminally-ill patients and was roundly blasted from manysections of media, politics, health industry and community. It illustrated the programme needs better checks and balances for what qualifies as satire, given the …
Thank God for laughter
In gloomy times we just want to laugh. On almost every front, it is local content -and especially light entertainment- that continues to resonate with Australians. Week 21 saw another win by the Seven Network as TEN continued a positive run and Nine relied on a glossy drama series to keep its ship on course.
Seven won with a 27.9% share ahead of Nine’s 26.0% and TEN’s 23.4%. The ABC had 16.9% and SBS 5.9%.
TEN won key demos 16-39, 18-49 and Seven took out 25-54. Seven won all cities except Sydney, which …
Seven tops Nine’s introspective week
Week 20 was quite a week for Channel Nine. Amid a media storm over NRL Footy Show host Matthew Johns, Tracy Grimshaw put in one of the interviews of her career. Meanwhile its big new reality series homeMADE bombed, whipped by TEN’s new series Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation -the #1 show of the week.
But it was Channel Seven that quietly took out another win with 28.3% to Nine’s 25.7% and TEN’s 22.9%. The ABC had 17.4% and SBS 5.6%.
Seven won all nights except Thursday and Saturday, snatched by Nine, plus all …
ABC: “Edgier” drama & 24/7 News
The ABC will press on with plans to develop a 24/7 news and current affairs channel, despite doing so without new funding.
“We’re demonstrating the investment being made in ABC News nationally and internationally means we can deliver a 24/7 news channel, but to do that we need the (digital) spectrum, which is something we are continuing to discuss with the Government,” said Managing Director Mark Scott.
Scott says he is happy with the budget outcome, and hopes the ABC can produce ‘edgier’ dramas.
“It’s my hope that we’ll provide a broader array of …