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COPS L.A.C. casting
A number of actors have been confirmed for COPS L.A.C., Nine’s new police drama.
In addition to Kate Ritchie, the cast now includes:
- Martin Dingle-Wall (Rescue: Special Ops, Underbelly, Satisfaction, Home and Away, All Saints)
- Graeme Squires (Home and Away)
- Kelly Paterniti (Packed to the Rafters, Stormworld, Wormwood)
- Tom O’Sullivan (Wolverine, Happy Feet, Rainshadow, Home and Away, Streetsmartz)
- Ria Vandervis (pictured -Underbelly, Packed to the Rafters, Rescue: Special Ops, The Cut).
The series begins filming in May in Sydney and screens later this year.
Other roles are yet to be confirmed.
Source: TV Week
Underbelly claim dismissed
An ex-police woman who was seeking access to episodes of Underbelly: The Golden Mile with suggestions she had been defamed has lost a courtcase in the Supreme Court today.
Wendy Hatfield alleges the book Underbelly: The Golden Mile defames her by claiming she had a sexual relationship with John Ibrahim, and therefore the Nine series upon which it is based also defames her. She had not seen the Nine series.
But Justice Ian Harrison ruled in favour of Nine and Screentime.
“It does not appear to me at present that the plaintiff may be …
#1 Cloudstreet
If this house built for Showcase’s production of Cloudstreet is any indication, the miniseries being produced by Screentime looks like it will be one to watch.
Filming for the six part series has been underway in Perth, with this house created by set designer Herbert Pinter built at the old Sunset Hospital site in Dalkeith.
Appearing in the screen adaptation of Tim Winton’s novel are Essie Davis (The Silence, The Girl With The Pearl Earring, After The Deluge, The Matrix) as Dolly Pickles with Stephen Curry (30 Seconds, The King) as her husband …
Logie nominations March 29
The 2010 TV Week Logie nominations will be announced on Monday March 29th.
They will be announced as usual at a morning event in Sydney, this year at 8am from the Ivy Pool Bar in George St.
“With so much great television being produced locally, the TV Week Logie Awards are an ideal opportunity to recognise and applaud the talent we have here in Australia,” Editor Nicole Byers said.
“Long running favourites like Home and Away and Neighbours are being joined by productions such as Packed to the Rafters, Underbelly and MasterChef, creating a …
Ian Smith in Underbelly
He’s played one of Australian television’s most lovable characters for over 20 years, but Ian Smith will next appear in Nine’s Underbelly series.
Universally recognised as ‘Harold Bishop” from Neighbours, Smith will appear as politician Ken Wallace in the third instalment of Nine’s gangland series.
He joins a number of actors from both Neighbours and Home and Away to have a role in the series including Les Hill, Dieter Brummer, Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Peter O’Brien, Kevin Harrington, Madeleine West, Jessica Tovey, Danielle Carter, Steve Bastoni, Mark Furze and Kate Ritchie.
Smith will appear in 2 …
Nine to defend Underbelly claims
In further developments in the Underbelly “defamation” story….
TV Tonight now understands court action yesterday against Underbelly was neither Defamation nor Injunction proceedings, but an application from lawyers acting on behalf of former NSW police constable Wendy Hatfield to gain access to episodes of Underbelly.
The upcoming Nine series is based in part on a book loosely based on the Wood Royal Commission.
A Nine spokesperson told TV Tonight that the network has robustly defended any proposition that it in any way has any case to answer.
Justice Ian Harrison will hand down his …
“Defamation” suit against Underbelly
Here we go again.
Updated: Former NSW Police Constable Wendy Hatfield has launched proceedings in the NSW Supreme Court against the Nine Network, claiming she has been intimately linked with John Ibrahim in the upcoming Underbelly series.
According to the Daily Telegraph, the former officer argues the series is based on the book Underbelly: The Golden Mile which defames her in chapter three by claiming she “had a sexual relationship with John Ibrahim, knowing him to be a notorious criminal”. Ms Hatfield, who now lives in Victoria, was linked to Ibrahim in the …
After Easter, it’s war.
It’s hard to believe, but we’re only three and a half weeks away from non-ratings again.
Yep, two weeks of Easter non-ratings begin on March 28th and end on April 10th. It barely feels like the television year has begun, and certainly with the Olympics it hasn’t been much of a level playing field.
Between now and then Nine is rolling out Top Gear, V and Survivor while Seven and TEN are by and large staying the course with shows already unveiled.
From April 11th the ball game changes. That’s when networks have a …
Matt Passmore pilot gets US pick-up
Australia’s Matt Passmore has himself a US television series after the pilot episode of Sugarloaf was given the pick-up by the A& E network.
The cable network has given the greenlight to a 13-episode order.
Produced by FOX TV Studios, the drama describes Passmore as Jim Longworth “an attractive, brilliant, yet hard to get along with homicide detective from Chicago who after being wrongfully accused of sleeping with his former Captain’s wife, is forced into exile.”
Longworth relocates to Sugarloaf, a sleepy small resort town in the middle of nowhere on the Gulf Coast …
$250m fallout for government handout
That $250m Rebate has fast become the story that won’t go away.
Media are scrutinising at it from every angle: putting Conroy under the gun, pushing the arguments by Pay TV, attacking Tony Abbott, and even getting quotes from the PM in support of some popular TV shows.
Following on from claims Conroy skiied with Kerry Stokes in Colorado, The Age has noted he enjoyed the following freebies:
-Tickets to the Melbourne Cup last year as a guest of the Seven Network.
-Tickets to watch his AFL team, Collingwood, take on Essendon and Carlton in …
Nine: After the Olympics
Nine has released details of its programming for the week of February 28, when the Olympics winds up.
Despite some TBAs, it heralds the return of Domestic Blitz, 60 Minutes, the newly titled Kerri-Anne, Kitchen Nightmares USA, plus returning Cold Case and CSI: NY. The second Whizz Kids Millionaire episode will air, while the Closing Ceremony of the Olympics screens live in the daytime with an evening replay.
Nine will also air the Wicked Love telemovie in this week, likely to be slated in the 8:30pm Sunday slot.
Nine is yet to declare …
Underbelly 3 “flat out terrific”
The Australian’s Graham Blundell has given Underbelly: The Golden Mile the thumbs up.
Referring to the drama as “flat out terrific” he notes that watching it brings “a mixture of horror and fascination.”
“The first episode, which establishes the Ibrahim gangster plot, seems initially like a circus: an arrangement of high-octane violent acts and comic high-jinks. It opens on a parade of nut cases, screwballs, bloodied psychos, drug dealers, brothel keepers, call girls and cops straight and bent. Their names flash up on the screen to the full-on accompaniment of a big …