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  1. With what happened yesterday with the bloke jumping out of the hot air balloon, should ch 9 really be showing today’s ep of Skippy, Up and Beyond, noting it starts with 2 people jumping and parachuting out of a balloon and then having Sonny and Skip floating around in an uncontrolled one ??? Other shows have been pulled for less…

  2. SBS Movies showed ‘Dr Strangelove’ in a primetime 8.30 slot-first time in such a slot for that film since it was shown in the early 70s by 7 as a Sunday evening film! Oddly enough it received a mention in last Friday’s ‘Planet America Fireside Chat’ when they were discussing strange choices for Vice Presidents over the years, although they identified USAF General Curtiss Le May as the inspiration for the character of Strangelove in the movie, which is incorrect-Le May was General Buck Turgidson and Strangelove was Werner Von Braun with a dash of Henry Kissinger thrown in . Truly great film though…

  3. Does anyone else think 7 regional should make a 30 minute bulletin for Victoria, obviously they have a presence in Vic since they provide 2 minute updates from the Canberra studio and they should have a rival to win news Victoria

    1. What was Prime is now owned by 7. They provide a full 30 mins of news (18 plus commercials) in Qld, parts of NSW (e.g. 7NEWS Riverina, 7NEWS Coast, 7NEWS Central West), and they should be compelled by legislation to provide a complete news bulletin to all areas, not just to some, with a 60-seconds rip-and-read “update” to others, especially where they once provided a complete half-hour local bulletin.

  4. Boy oh boy, Seven are not happy with Nine, RE: this morning’s Mumbrella article with the former giving a response to Nine’s release last week. Ah, the age old rivalry riff-raff never disappoints!

  5. So interesting titbit, the new Seven renovation show Dream Homes with Dr Chris is based off a NZ format, which Nine has already done an Australian version of back in 2000, and from that show they created The Block. Were sued by the creators of Dream Home for copyright but won. So Seven is taking on The Block with the show used in some part to inspire/create it.

  6. Just finished Masters Of The Air. I didn’t watch Band Of Brothers or The Pacific so my thoughts are isolated to just this show. I just felt it was a little lite on with its story and characters. We never really went any deeper than surface level of those two things. I was expecting a gritty, heavy show, and what I got was a series that looked great but didn’t have a whole lot to say. That’s not to say there wasn’t moments of brilliance cause there was (in fact the final episode was excellent). But even in that final episode, as much as I liked it, still just provided flashes of what I wanted more of. It just felt glossy. I have to say though, the music was the finest example of a TV show soundtrack I’ve ever heard… I got very misty several times (especially in the finale), and the music did a lot of the heavy lifting. The show was beautiful to look at, and the acting was good… but yeah it was mostly a middling display that consistently teased more of what should have been.

    1. Over 20 years ago I was surprised to see an ad for 10s disastrous soap ‘Above The Law’ at a Hoyts cinema. I assume it was a last ditch attempt to drum up an audience for it-it didn’t work. That was the 1st time I can think of such an ad for a TV program.

  7. From the Weekly Wrap “Still trying to work out why Survivor US in Fiji is full of Japanese architecture…. anyone?”
    We all know geography is Americans’ most challenging subject. Seems someone (their travel agent?) typed “Fuji” into Google when trying to find where “Fiji” is located!? Or…are they really in Fuji, Japan but believe they are really in Fiji?

  8. Is it possible that in Vic regional markets WIN will ever return to 10 or is WIN stuck with 9 permanently. Channel 9 regional is better with SCA and when they had 9 local news

    1. WIN has been a 9 affiliate since the early 60s, when Rupert Murdoch owned WIN. They had a fallout over streaming which ended up in court and TEN seduced WIN. WIN would much rather be with 9 than with a network, 10, that is sometimes #5, and #4 at best. WIN provides a regional news half-hour, produced by WIN. Cannot imagine WIN going back to SCA, but if that ever happened WIN would dump Deal Or No Deal for WIN Local News at 6.

    1. Two weeks across Easter are non-survey but we have seen in recent years improvement on first run content, especially from Easter Monday onwards when a lot of people have returned home from holidays. My instinct is networks are hoping to bed in new shows when there is less competition around. We’ll see quite a bit this Easter period.

      1. That would require the networks to have new and interesting content, and an audience that appreciated and watches it. What we will get is the nth season of I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here. Having finished The West Wing, my viewing for Winter is going to be Screw, The Chelsea Detective, Babylon Berlin, Classe Secret and Northern Exposure. Back when I last watched NE it may have been VHS quality, but there was plenty of interesting stuff on from 7:30 -11:30 or later every night.

          1. FTA is shunning me, and anyone else who appreciates well written and made TV, I just go where the good shows are. 30 years ago Heimat was on SBS’s main channel and heavily promoted, these days BB is only online because it’s subtitled. ABC I mostly watch for free BBC content: Ghosts, Earth, This Is Going To Hurt, Life After Life. Commerical TV not worth bothering with: Irrational already dumped, Mr Bates double eps finishing after 11pm thanks to Seven’s endless battle to beat Nine, the OC bumped to near 11:30pm Thursday so Nine can catch some NRL viewers too drunk to change channel or go to bed. And I probably missed it anyway if the NRL, post-game or news were extended as they are want to do (and Seven does even worse). Ten only FBII S2.

          2. Ha, I don’t disagree with many of those points, and no issue if your personal focus is scripted. But the topic was first run content through Easter period so it spans several genres… networks have been lifting in recent years, including 2024 as far as I can see.

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