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New series for Durie
TV gardener Jamie Durie is working on a new lifestyle series for Seven, according to the Daily Telegraph.
But details on the show are still under wraps.
Durie has most recently been filing some stories for Sunday Night.
He is reportedly in the US filming episodes for an American version of The Outdoor Room. He also hosts The Victory Garden for PBS.
Source: Daily Telegraph
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TV Tonight begins a look back over 2009, by logging some of the headlines that made 2009 so memorable.
January
Simon Baker mulls US citizenship
Heather Locklear gets probation
Grant Denyer on the comeback to recovery
Matt Smith named eleventh Doctor Who
NRL Footy Show loses “The Chief”
Queensland courts the Logies
Joe O’Brien becomes permanent co-host of ABC2 News Breakfast
Mike Munro signs to Sunday Night
TEN ends Bold & Beautiful 6pm experiment
President Obama Inauguration
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LifeStyle ready for Garden Angels
The LifeStyle Channel has commissioned a 12-part half-hour practical gardening series, featuring former gardening experts from several free to air shows.
Melissa King (Battlefronts and Gardening Australia), Jody Rigby (Backyard Blitz and The Outdoor Room) and Linda Ross (Ground Force and radio’s The Garden Clinic) will host ‘ acomplete garden guide – taking viewers through everything that needs to be done in the garden, no matter what part of Australia they are in.’
To be produced by Southern Star Entertainment, Garden Angels will premiere in September.
Nicole Sheffield, The LifeStyle Channel’s General …
Durie sees red over New Idea
Jamie Durie is said to be furious over republished claims in New Idea that he has been “dumped” by US talk show host Oprah Winfrey, acoording to the Daily Telegraph.
An article this week claimed Winfrey had “fallen out with the gardener and no longer wants him on her show”, alleging his “contract” with Harpo Productions had not been renewed.
However Durie, who is currently in the US filming an American version of The Outdoor Room, denied he was ever signed to Harpo Productions, instead appearing on a project by project basis.
New Idea …
Seven finds role for Durie
Looks like Seven has found a new role for Jamie Durie, with an appearance fronting a conservation story on Sunday Night this weekend.
Durie’s Outdoor Room has not been renewed by the network amid speculation over the costs involved with the show.
This Sunday he presents a story in which he travelled to Lake Eyre, including a sail on Australia’s ‘inland sea.’
“We had a chopper out here filming with some pretty high tech equipment to give viewers a birds-eye view of exactly just how big and beautiful Lake Eyre really is and …
It Takes Two on hold?
There are question marks over the future of It Takes Two this year with a report today claiming it has been put off until mid-year, if it goes to air at all.
Last year the show took a seasonal average of just under 1.3m -which in this climate is worth greenlighting again.
But added with Dancing with the Stars, Seven may be struggling to convince people it can find enough celebrities for both franchises. For some time now there has been scepticism these shows are finding enough A-listers to balance against a flood …
Axed: The Outdoor Room
Another Seven show has bitten the bullet, this time Jamie Durie’s The Outdoor Room.
Durie’s show saw him travel the globe and makeover Aussie gardens with international themes. At a reported $450,000 per half-hour episode that’s a steep bill in harsh economic times. Earlier this week travel show The Great Outdoors also was revealed to be in doubt.
Durie re-signed a new two-year deal with CEO David Leckie on Christmas Eve, on an annual salary of $1.5 million.
Seven will move Sunday Night into the 6:30pm Sunday timeslot.
Last year Durie hit out at Nine’s …
Returning: Outback Wildlife Rescue
Ernie Dingo’s factual series, Outback Wildlife Rescue, produced by Freehand, returns to Seven’s Sunday nights in summer.
The show disappeared from Seven’s schedule during the changes caused by the financial meltdown specials and the rush to get the US Kath & Kim to air.
The fourth episode includes the transportation of a saltwater crocodile, the rescue of a black swan and a baby sugar gliderwhich had been picked up by a huge dog.
It returns 6:30pm Sunday December 7th, to replace The Outdoor Room. It’s followed by Hot Property.
Monique Wright for Sunday Night?
Monique Wright will be a reporter on Seven’s Sunday Night programme, according to the Sunday Telegraph.
Producers Adam Boland and Mark Llewellyn are believed to be looking at two hosts, with Andrew O’Keefe a front-runner, possibly alongside Samantha Armytage, claims the newspaper.
If speculation proves correct, O’Keefe and Wright would be the third personalities from the Sunrise / Morning Show / Night Cap camp to win new roles recently.
Matt White, who helmed the desk during the short-lived 7HD show The Night Cap is now fronting Today Tonight.
But talk of Sunday Night airing …
Rudd talks money with Seven special
Seven has just announced another news special for 6:30pm Sunday night, Minding Your Money: An Audience with the Prime Minister.
The half hour special, to replace The Outdoor Room, will see PM Rudd talking to a forum of Aussies in a pre-recorded special filmed on Sunday afternoon.
Seven says there will be “no moderator, no filter,” just the PM one on one with audience members. Last week’s hurried Financial Crisis Special did well for Seven, at over 1.4m viewers. Nine even dropped Battlefronts from its forthcoming schedule as a result.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd …
Gone: Battlefronts
Channel Nine is dropping Battlefronts from its Sunday line-up effective immediately.
It will be replaced by new episodes of 20 to 1.
On Sunday the show rated 857,000 trailing Seven’s Financial Crisis special at 1.44m / Kath & Kim 1.23m viewers and a repeat of Thank God You’re Here on 962,000.
When it last screened two weeks ago, Nine’s show had 963,000 behind The Outdoor Room’s 1.04m and Outback Wildlife Rescue’s 961,000. Thank God You’re Here had 1.04m in the same week -a comparable performance by Nine, really.
Nine’s Domestic Blitz fared much better gaining …
New, local content wins Seven week
It was the week the “Prince of Darkness” descended upon Nine, the Imparja takeover of NTD9 inched closer, Seven lost an appeal relating to a children’s court case and lost a packet in the financial freefall, TEN signalled the return of boxing only to have its promoter caught up in a drug arrest, two networks fight over the contracts of one presenter, ACMA cancelled a community broadcasting license while a leak led to a Federal Police raid, the Government introduced a bill to firm the switch to digital, TEN turned off …