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Bumped: Top Gear
A number of changes from Nine….
On Tuesday June 29 Top Gear moves to 8:30pm with Who Do You Think You Are? at 10pm. Australian Families of Crime is out, set to return for a finale 10pm Tuesday July 6th (9:45pm Melbourne).
After this Sunday, RBT settles into its regular timeslot of 6:30pm Sundays, followed by Send in the the Dogs.
CSI will also become the Underbelly replacement from 8:30pm July 4th.
Cold Case has a series return from 9:30pm July 4th.
UPDATE: Two and a Half Men rpt 7:30pm Tue 29 followed by Under Surveillance: …
2010 AWGIE Awards: Nominees
The Australian Writer’s Guild has announced its nominees for its 43rd AWGIE Awards.
Amongst the television nominees are shows including Underbelly, Rush, The Jesters, Lowdown, Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation, Good News Week, Home and Away, Neighbours, Dance Academy and Spirited.
The AWGIEs are traditionally selected from submissions put forward by the writers themselves.
TV Nominees:
COMEDY: SITUATION OR NARRATIVE
The Jesters – Hard Time Getting Soft by Kevin Brumpton and Angus Fitzsimons
Lowdown – Who’s Your Baddy? by Amanda Brotchie and Adam Zwar
30 Seconds – Invisible Fault Lines by Timothy Bullock, Justin Drape and Scott Nowell
COMEDY: SKETCH …
America to remake Underbelly
Just when you think you’ve heard it all…
America is planning to remake Underbelly.
And no they won’t be bringing Al Pacino to Melbourne to re-do the series. They will be hunting for American gangs to which they can apply the format.
Bizarre stuff… .but a win for Screentime nonetheless.
The US version is due to screen on Starz, the Pay TV network which is screening Spartacus and will co-produce Torchwood.
Starz CEO Chris Albrecht, is a former HBO chief whose in-house team developed The Sopranos, Sex and the City, The Wire and Six Feet Under.
NY …
Tough Nuts
Crims, crooks, cops, bad guys, drug lords, hitmen, gangster, thugs -they’re everywhere. Everytime you turn on the box there’s another true crime popping its head up in a crowded landscape. It’s has gotten to the point where you’re better off taking them out with your remote.
So what can another new series possibly offer that the others don’t?
Tough Nuts is the newest offering on the Crime and Investigation channel, which at least purports to be nothing more than a dedicated channel for those who love their hardened tales from the dark side.
This …
Underbelly movie cast
More actors from Seven soaps are joining the Underbelly franchise.
Todd Lasance (Home and Away, CloudStreet), Brett Climo (All Saints, The Elephant Princess, The Flying Doctors), Jane Allsop (Blue Heelers, Tangle), Paul O’Brien (Home and Away), Greg Stone (Blue Heelers, Marshall Law) will be joined by Jeremy Kewley (Stingers, Janus, Whatever Happened to That Guy?), Annie Jones (Neighbours, City Homicide), and Dimitri Baveas.
They have been cast in Underbelly Files: Tell Them Lucifer was Here, which dramatises the 1998 murders of Victorian police officers, Gary Silk and Rod Miller. It is …
It’s all about next week
Next week is shaping up as quite a tasty week in TV. While they won’t all be blockbusters, there are a lot of treats to tempt you.
Sunday:
- Sunday Night final.
- MasterChef Australia. London week.
- Underbelly. Second last episode.
Monday:
- Season finale for The Mentalist.
- Hung premieres on Seven. If you like edgy dramas with flawed characters such as Nurse Jackie, Californication and Weeds, check this one out. Hope it works in primetime on a commercial network. We kinda need it to.
- I ROCK final episode on ABC2.
- Outrageous Fortune returns to TEN …
Underbelly defamation claim renewed
A former New South Wales policewoman who took court action to access episodes of Underbelly: The Golden Mile before they aired to see if they defamed her, is now suing the Nine Network and production company Screentime for defamation.
Wendy Hatfield claims that the character of Probationary Constable Wendy, played by Jessica Tovey, is based on her.
In the series Constable Wendy is seen having sex with King’s Cross entrepreneur John Ibrahim (Firass Dirani).
Hatfield has denied she had a sexual relationship with Ibrahim.
TV Tonight can confirm ‘Constable Wendy’ is due to make another …
Rescue Special Ooops
Nine’s Promo department was caught out yesterday by Media and Marketing website Mumbrella over a network promo for Rescue Special Ops that hijacks a concept for Bear Grylls on the Discovery Channel.
The Rescue team can be seen scaling huge walls which turns out to be a gigantic title version of the show.
You can compare them both below:
Nine has been guilty of this before.
Last year an Underbelly promo …
Sunday’s Big Bang ratings theory
It was another strong Sunday for GO! with its 4.6% share eclipsing both SBS channels on 3.4% despite the network having quality arthouse content with Who Do You Think You Are?, Movie: Mrs Mandela and a repeat of Saved.
The broad appeal of GO!’s repeats of Big Bang Theory (328,000) and Top Gear (266,000) was streets ahead of other digital channel offerings including the MotoGP on ONE (134,000), Calliou on ABC2 (116,000) and Movie: The Wilby Conspiracy on 7TWO (125,000).
GO! more than doubled its direct competitors with 7TWO managing 2.0% while ONE …
Panic at Rock Island: a worst case scenario
One of Channel Nine’s next telemovies, Panic at Rock Island, will provide a point of difference from Nine’s other drama slate projects that are dominated by cops, crims, navy and emergency personnel.
To be produced by the team behind Scorched, the project is another ‘hypothetical drama’, as Nine’s Head of Drama Jo Horsburgh explains to TV Tonight.
“It’s based on the same kind of premise, that is a Worst Case Scenario. We call them ‘What If?’ scenarios,” she says.
“Scorched proved to be contemporary, current content because of the fires, the desalination plant and …
MasterChef’s master week
MasterChef Australia has officially cemented its place as our favourite show taking out the #1 spot of the week with 1.88m viewers. Until now the spot has eluded it, mostly due to the effect of averaging 5 shows and competition from Underbelly and events.
It reached a new season high and was the top show of the night from Sunday to Thursday (TEN still separates the Sunday and Friday editions from the rest). But while it lifted TEN’s shares, it wasn’t enough to stop Nine from taking out Week 23.
The Nine …
TV’s Overkill
What’s happening to our TV landscape?
Call me crazy but I’m just a litle bit over all these crime docos, re-enactments and profiles of killers, drug runners and gangs every second night.
I thought we already had Underbelly? Who are all these other baddies? They’re really doing my head in….
It’s getting so that I can’t turn on my TV anymore without seeing yet another police file re-opened, regurgitated, re-enacted, rinsed and repeated.
In the last 12 months we’ve been bombarded with a parade of documentaries, factuals and hybrids in-between. Australian Families of Crime, Australian …