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Cougar Reality series for Channel TEN?
Is this TEN’s next hit reality series?
Ten teams of desperate cougars are berated by Red Symons, on their journey to the title of the next big celebrity chef. An elimination ceremony is based on a challenging obstacle course which appears to have been borrowed from Gladiators. Hosted by Dicko.
No it isn’t.
And neither is this:
A bunch of singing contestants undergo routine humiliation by Kyle Sandilands, to win the prize of Australia’s next teen idol BMX stunt rider. A weekly live show includes a guest musical act completing a sadistic lie detector test. …
Gone: Law and Order, Bondi Vet, The Hothouse.
TEN will hold over Accidentally on Purpose and The Office tonight to run an Oprah episode “Christmas At The White House.”
“In this hour-long special, Oprah will usher in the holidays at the White House, visiting President Obama & the First Lady as they prepare for their family’s first Christmas there. Oprah will also sit down with the First Couple, for an exclusive interview.”
Both US sitcoms remain in schedule on Thursday as well as returning next Tuesday.
Meanwhile it can’t score big on Fridays and is removing Bondi Vet repeats, plus Law and …
Supernatural back for TEN’s summer
New episodes of Supernatural, The Office, Numb3rs, Law and Order, Californication, Glee and Futurama are coming to TEN over summer.
The network has revealed its first week of programming for the non-ratings season, beginning November 29th.
It will premiere Family Guy spin-off, The Cleveland Show and launch new Jenna Elfman comedy Accidentally on Purpose.
White Collar, which premieres on November 25th, continues.
It will also repeat The Simpsons, Merlin, Little Britain USA, Bondi Vet, Lie to Me, Rules of Engagement, Law and Order: CI.
TEN airs US game shows Don’t Forget The Lyrics and, for the …
Australia’s Perfect Couple
But really, Jules, what’s the point of it all?
That’s about all I kept saying at my television set as I watched the first episode of Australia’s Perfect Couple.
Here’s another variation on the dating / reality genre with 8 couples competing for a big cash prize and the title of ….Australia’s perfect couple. It is based on the US series Here Come the Newlyweds.
The couples are young, mostly white Anglo-Saxon and mostly heterosexual (wait, am I watching homeMADE again?). They are all assembled in front of a rambling rural estate (no it’s …
‘Fugly’ creator calls it quits
EXCLUSIVE: Last May Anthony Dever flew from Brisbane to Crown Casino, rolled out a bit of brown carpet, stood behind a milk crate podium and ‘awarded’ non existent trophies to empty chairs with the words Kyle Sandilands, Jackie O, Anna Coren and Gladiators.
This year there’ll be none of it. After 7 years, The Fugly Awards are packing it in.
The “anti-Logies,” as they have come to be known, were an online hit, “honouring” the worst in Aussie telly. Attracting 12,000 votes in their first year and 25,000 in their second, they …
Can The Block boys score a Home Run?
Big Brother may have been eliminated this year, but Nine’s newest show in development could be hoping to take its place next year.
Home Run, developed by The Block’s Julian Cress and David Barbour is described as “the biggest renovation competition to hit Australian television.”
The show will air on the Nine Network in the first-half of 2009, Monday-Friday. If it is stripped as a 7pm show, it could attempt to go where TEN’s renovation contest, The Hothouse, failed.
Across the series interior designers will battle it out as they make over everyday …