TV Spotlight FRI: Ronin (Go!, 8:30pm), U.S. Marshals (Ch 9, 8:30pm), Bored to Death (ABC1, 9:30pm), Caddyshack (Ch 9, 1:10am), Rubicon (Go!, 1:40am). SAT: Leonard Cohen: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970 (SBS1, 1pm), Wall-E (Ch 7, 7:30pm), The Tenant (ABC2, 8:30pm), Public Enemies (Ch 7, 9:30pm), Nikita (SBS2, 9:35pm), Day of The Triffids [...]
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Ten Profits Plunge
Ten Network Holdings have reported a drop in its full year profit from $150 million last year to $14 million this year. This represents a drop of 90.5%. The drop has been partially attributed to a $85.4 million restructure of the company. Give or take a few pennies, that’s a drop of $136 million. I’ve [...]
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Televised Revolution – Episode 204
We have a bonus episode of Televised Revolution this week featuring an interview with Michael Bodey. Bodey, a writer on the media for The Australian, has written Broadcast Wars which sets its focus on the Australian TV industry following on from the death of Kerry Packer. The Australian TV industry has a number of colourful [...]
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Australian Quickflix Set To Commence Streaming Service
US streaming media giant Netflix announced this week that they are set to roll out their services to the UK and Ireland in early 2012. They’ve made no secret that Australia is one of the markets that they are very keen to move into soon. They’ll have some competition in the local company Quickflix, however, [...]
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The Dark Tower blurs the line further
The Dark Tower is back on. With some financial hurdles now overcome, Imagine Entertainment are moving forward on bringing the Stephen King books to the screen. A trilogy of movies will hit cinema screens, with a TV series accompanying it that fills in the blanks between films 1 & 2 and a second season between [...]
READ MORE[TV Diary] Wednesday 26 October 2011
TV Spotlight Jeopardy (One HD, 6pm), Louis Theroux and the Brothel (ABC2, 8:35pm), Spiral (SBS2, 8:30pm), Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (Go!, 9:30pm), The Hamster Wheel (ABC1, 9:35pm). Assigned Reading Go! upset their viewers with the decision to onsell The Vampire Diaries to Foxtel. Not surprising that viewers are upset considering that Go! built [...]
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[TV Diary] Monday 24 October 2011
TV Spotlight Jeopardy (One HD, 6pm), Kill Arman (SBS1, 8:30pm), Housos (SBS1, 10pm), Chuck (Go!, 11:20pm). Assigned Reading Fox International Channels are offering internships to those in their final year of uni. It’s an outstanding opportunity for those wanting to get into the business. The official Steve Jobs biography has been released and included details [...]
READ MORE[TV Diary] Friday 21 October – Sunday 23 October 2011
TV Spotlight FRI: Superman Returns (Go!, 7:40pm), The Bank Job (Ch 7, 9pm), The Thing (7Mate, 9:30pm), Naked Calendars (SBS1, 10pm), Bored to Death (ABC1, 10:10pm), The Enforcer (Ch 9, 11:30pm). SAT: Ratatouille (Ch 7, 7:30pm), Live and Let Die (7Mate, 8:30pm). SUN: Sunday Best: Teenage Paparazzo (ABC2, 8:30pm), Edward Scissorhands (Eleven, 8:30pm), The Man [...]
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The 400 Club Podcast – Episode 35
We get a bit introspective this week as Dan and Dave take an overview of two radically different series. Dave offers some (rather non-spoilery) thoughts on the most recent season of Breaking Bad, having caught up on it this past week. Meanwhile, Dan (inspired by Prue and Dave discussing the show on the podcast) has [...]
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