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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 …
Bored rigid by lack of competition, it’s Seven.
It was the week that Seven and Nine argued over Karl Stefanovic, Grant Hackett signed with Channel Nine, ASTRA again attacked the anti-siphoning rule –prompting an hilarious “bored rigid” response from Seven, Nine denied a takeover of its Darwin affiliate by Imparja, Grant Denyer landed in hospital, a former Idol was assaulted, WIN trimmed its Queensland newsrooms, SBS said sponsors wouldn’t affect its editorial on Top Gear Australia and networks and advertisers all held their breath as the US financial market went into meltdown.
And unsurprisingly it was another win by Seven …
Koch to host money crisis special
Before he was Mel’s brekkie sidekick, or hosting choir sing-offs and cast reunions, David Koch was actually a financial expert.
As the financial world comes tumbling down around our eyes he returns to that role this Sunday for a late change by Seven to its evening line-up.
At 6:30pm he will host Your Money: How to Survive the Crisis of 2008. Aided by other experts, Koch will break down the week’s events and detail how it affects families, pensioners, students and investors.
It will be followed by The Outdoor Room with Jamie Durie at …
Nine’s Sunday touchdown
‘Thankyou Rugby League’, is what Nine will be thinking today after a decisive Sunday win over the Seven Network.
The Storm v Warriors match gave Nine a perfect lead-in to its evening line-up and managed to snatch back the night it lost to Seven the week before.
Nine’s 29.8% share was a triumph over Seven, which came third on 22.5% behind TEN’s 22.8%.
Buoyed by the NRL, National Nine News hasn’t enjoyed figures of 1.63m for longer than many care to remember. That didn’t stop Seven sending out a Press Release today reminding media …
Seven wins as TEN is taken out
It was the week that Ernie Dingo and Kyle Sandilands had a spat on radio, the ABC renewed its push for a kids’ channel, Access 31 was put on the market, TEN picked up women’s netball from FOX Sports, GTV9 won a Heritage listing, Nine axed its Euro correspondent, Underbelly won the right to start screening in Victoria (sort of), TEN and Seven fought over AFL sponsors and a 17yo reality contestant took a stand on her show’s conduct.
And it was another big win for Seven with 29.9% in Week 37 …
Seven packed with hits
It was the week ASTRA and Seven got into a stoush over AFL, gardening gurus came out fighting, SBS took its funding campaign to the people, Today Tonight apologised to a dating a dating agency and Lateline apologised to the Corbys, WIN TV sacked a news chief, David Koch stumbled over the marvels of “fasttracking v downloading,” we lost a veteran actor with a huge list of credits, and our first gardening celebrity, while actor Mark Priestley was laid to rest.
And it was another win for Seven, with 29.4% in Week …
Backyard biffo
“You don’t have to be sick to get a new garden on my show,” Jamie Durie said of The Outdoor Room.
It was a comment directed at Nine’s Domestic Blitz, which had a special on Lauren Huxley and her family, in the publicity lead up to his own launch. It was probably a throw away line, but it’s enough to have drawn a retort from Nine’s Scott Cam, who worked with Durie for years on Backyard Blitz.
Cam told 2UE’s Steve Price that Durie’s comments were “very misguided and frankly offensive. What I …
Seven executive appointments
Channel Seven has made a number of changes to its executives in charge of programming, development and production that sees several top guns in the equivalent of musical chairs.
Lisa Fitzpatrick, who was exec producer on Better Homes and Gardens, It Takes Two, and Make Me A Supermodel will become Channel Seven’s new Head of Program Development.
Seven’s Head of Program Development Brad Lyons , who was in that role, has been appointed Program and Communications Manager, Melbourne. Graeme Hill, vacates that Melbourne role to become Program and Communications Manager, Sydney.
Dan Meenan who …
Airdate: Outback Wildlife Rescue
As predicted, Seven’s Outback Wildlife Rescue will be partnered with The Outdoor Room from Sunday September 7.
The new factual series shot in the Northern Territory and Queensland will air from 7pm.
The series is produced by Freehand who are also behind the revamped Dancing with the Stars plus Top Gear Australia.
The series is narrated by Ernie Dingo.
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