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Big Bang minus the laugh-track theory
So what’s a sitcom like without the laugh track added?
Umm not very funny.
Check out this clip of The Big Bang Theory without the required mirth.
I once saw an entire episode of Get Smart without laughs. And it went to air too. It was really weird…. Some shows the laugh track is clearly a character in itself and just not the same without it. Someone MASH fans may be able …
Trailer: Treme
The Wire is legendary in the realm of modern television.
Now its creator David Simon and writer Eric Overmyer have a new HBO series, set in post-Katrina New Orleans.
Treme (pronounced “Trem-ay”) is named after a neighbourhood in New Orleans. The series is about the rebuilding of the city through the eyes of local musicians -a captivating idea in itself, would we expect anything less?
Simon has said the series will move beyond the music scene to encompass political corruption, the public housing controversy, the criminal-justice system, clashes between police and Mardi Gras Indians, …
So what’s been your summer gem?
The other week a journalist asked me for some quotes on how our TV summer season was faring and I pointed out that historically, the 09 / 10 season has offered an abundance of choice -at least compared to when we had just 5 channels, half of which were stuck on sport.
This year the amount of content has boomed, thanks to our extra digital channels.
But when the article appeared in print, readers hit back saying summer is still a dead zone. I got slammed. Well, it is if you stick with …
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!…
The Greatest TV Shows Of The Noughties?
Lists, lists and more lists emerging as the year and the decade draw to a close.
There are many opinions about which shows have shaped the last ten years of television.
The Sunday Age on the weekend noted: The Sopranos, The Office, Australian Idol, Big Brother and Lost.
“Big Brother debuted in the Netherlands in 1999. By 2001 we had our own version, and we could not believe our eyes. For the first time we were seeing not just real people on television, but real people like us. Despite furious denial in some …
The Wire: Top 100 quotes
It’s rough, it’s raw, and it’s a spoiler if you haven’t seen the full series (some of which is still airing on GO!).
But here is a pretty cool montage of some of the best lines from The Wire. Or should that be The Mother F***** Wire?
Sit back for Omar, Bubbles, Bunk, McNulty, Rawls, Stringer, Avon, Snoop, Marlo, Cheese, Prop Joe and Clay Davis’ best grabs.
“Yo happy now, bitch?”
Warning, warning, warning…….
Returning: Weeds, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Wire, Fringe
As promised, those shows that have been dumped from GO! are back once non-ratings begin.
This is because Nine is keen to lift its network share in the final days of the ratings year. Probably so it can claim the “Nine Network” won key demographics.
South Park is back 8:30pm Sunday November 29th
Curb Your Enthusiasm is back 9:30pm Sunday November 29th
Weeds is back 10:00pm Sunday November 29th dbl ep
The Bachelor is back 10:30pm Tuesday December 1
Fringe is back 8:30pm Thursday December 2
The Wire is back 9:30pm Wednesday December 2
Drop Dead Diva is back …
More changes for GO!
More changes for GO! from as early as tonight.
Moonlight will be a double episode tonight from 8:30pm meaning no Gossip Girl. This will see the Moonlight’s finale air next week, November 19th. Gossip Girl appears to be pausing at Ep 13.
Next Wednesday The Wire is out, replaced by a double episode of Fringe from 8:30pm. Double Fringe also continues a week later.
Drop Dead Diva is out on Thursday 19th replaced by the 2005 movie House of Wax at 9:30pm. The show is back on November 26th but at 10:30pm.
On Sunday 22nd …
Series 2 of The Wire on ABC2
As expected, ABC2 will continue with a second series of The Wire next week when the first season finishes.
Possible Spoilers:
As the illicit drug war with Avon Barksdale’s (Wood Harris) crew rages on, the action moves from the battered streets and squalid projects of West Baltimore, to the city’s troubled waterfront.
With an unflinching look at Baltimore’s port workers and unions, the second series chronicles the steady decline of the working class.
As was the case in the first series the storyline is told from the points of view of both the police and …
Returning: The Wire
The fifth and final season of The Wire is coming to GO! in October.
The drama series, which is currently airing in its first season on ABC2, continues to examine the Baltimore police department, the Stanfield organisation and city hall. In the fifth series its major focus is journalism, dramatised through a newsroom.
Variety’s Brian Lowry noted that the series’ look at the media as the most realistic portrayal of a newsroom in film and television history.
It returns at 9:30pm Wednesday October 14th on GO! and is repeated at 2am.
GO! full launch: Schedule
When GO! has its full launch on October 4th the channel will add titles including Australian premieres of Nip / Tuck, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Weeds, Father of the Pride and episodes of South Park and Reno 911.
The Vampire Diaries launches next week, Monday September 28th.
The channel will be offering extra block repeating of its primetime shows from midnight. The Partridge Family also appears weekdays at 11:30am. So far GO! is yet to add other titles including The Wire (promised for October), Hell’s Kitchen and Privileged.
From 11th October, GO! gets local with …
September TV loves sport
Sport is surging in September. Two AFL matches roared to over 1.4m giving Seven and TEN some big victories, notably helping the latter save face after an ordinary week. NRL topped 1m at Nine and also helped the network win Sunday. But while audiences fluctuate it was GO! that again got Nine across the line to win Week 38 -the second such glory in a row.
Nine finished with 28.9% ahead of Seven’s 27.5% and TEN’s 20.7%. The ABC had 17.7% and SBS 5.2%.
Nine won all key demos 16-39, 18-49 and 25-54.
GO! …