TV Tonight:
This week Australian Television Podcast“Boxcutters” hit its 200th episode with special guest Myf Warhurst.Created in 2005 by Josh Kinal, Brett Cropley and Ross McQueen -now replaced by John Richards- the podcast is produced each week at 3RRR Studios in Melbourne. With their regular banter on television news, gossip, reviews (Read More)
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Is there really any point analysing the weekly shares this week? Unless you're a sponsor of the games, not really. But for the record Seven took out a 43.9% share as all other networks, possibly with the exception of SBS, took a holiday.Other shares were: Nine 18.5%, TEN 16.5%, ABC 14.5%, and SBS 6.6%.The share for SBS is s (Read More)
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Cast members of TV's first 'supersoap' Dallas will reunite at the Southfork Ranch on November 8 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the show.Several key actors, including Larry Hagman, Linda Gray and Patrick Duffy, have confirmed they will attend.76yo Hagman, who played central character JR Ewing from 1978-91, said "I may (Read More)
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The NBL has finally secured television coverage for its upcoming season, although basketball fans may have to wait nearly a month into the competition to watch games live on Fox Sports.With the struggling national competition to tip off on September 13, the NBL said on Thursday they had reached agreement on a one-year deal (Read More)
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The Dresden Files is finally coming to Australian TV via Sci Fi next month: http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2008/08/...den-files.html The Dresden Files will screen on the Sci Fi Channel in September. Based on the fantasy / mystery novels written by Jim Butcher, these tales are told from the point of view of fictional wizard Har (Read More)
TV Tonight:
There's only a two week reprieve in between the end of the Beijing Olympics and the start of the 2008 Paralympics, which begin Friday September 6th.ABC TV will broadcast over 100 hours of live, and highlight, coverage across ABC1, ABC2, ABC HD and ABC iView -the biggest effort by any broadcaster, anywhere in the world.Most (Read More)
TV Tonight:
The results are in on TV Tonight’s Current Affairs Inventory and you have spoken!There are big ticks for the ABC, particularly The 7:30 Report and Kerry O’Brien which wins on popularity and credibility. The ABC stormed home as the network with the best reputation for covering current affairs. But there were big crosses aga (Read More)
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Wikipedia info: "Fringe is the fourth TV series co-created by J. J. Abrams (Felicity, Alias, Lost) and also his fourth collaboration with co-creators Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman (Alias, Mission Impossible III, Star Trek). It is produced by Bad Robot in association with Warner Bros. Television, and deals with a research s (Read More)
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Angry viewers have attacked the Seven Network's decision to interrupt their Olympic Games coverage to show the Sunday afternoon AFL match.Seven's website has been bombarded with complaints on its "Fan's Forum" who are calling on others to boycott the broadcaster's coverage over its decision to show the Adelaide versus Richm (Read More)
TV Tonight:
Here's one for fans of nostalgic television: the reunion of the cast from The Mary Tyler Moore Show.In the 1970s, it was a monumental sitcom, not merely for a brilliant cast who had precision comic timing, but for the fact it presented America with a modern, independent, career-driven, 30-something single woman trying to ma (Read More)
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Nothing like a reality show v the Australian Family Association which has come out swinging (again) against TV, this time Make Me A Supermodel.Remember that the formula of reality television + quote from lobby group + media article, usually = win / win for all. The show gets more publicity, the group gets to further its age (Read More)
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A political lobby group supporting the Tibetan community is seeking answers from Channel Seven about why its advertisements were not screened around the Olympic Opening Ceremony.Advocacy group GetUp! claims it booked and paid for advertisements. "The Olympic Opening ceremony came and went - and no GetUp! Ad was broadcast," (Read More)
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The US Sci Fi Channel has officially ordered a two-hour Battlestar Galactica movie, set to debut in 2009 following the conclusion of the TV series.The movie will take place before the events of Galactica, with Cylons dealing with survivors following an attempt at wiping out the human race. So far, the cast includes Michael (Read More)
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NBC Universal's Sci Fi Channel is trying out Twitter to build buzz for its new program, Eureka. NBCU shop Fallon has set up a Twitter account in the persona of S.A.R.A.H., an artificially intelligent, talking house that plays a central role in the series. For the past two weeks, S.A.R.A.H. has been behaving like other users (Read More)