In a move that surprises no one who has been paying attention to the Channel 9 schedule the past few weeks, Joy of Sets will premiere on September 20 in the Tuesday 9pm timeslot. I’d somewhat expected that it might be early to mid October before we saw the show launch (taking the show through [...]
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[TV Diary] Wednesday 23 March 2011
TV Highlights Dance Academy (ABC3, 7:40pm), Closing Down Guatanamo (SBS2, 8:30pm), Big Love (SBS1, 8:30pm), Hungry Beast (ABC1, 9:30pm), Sex: The Revolution – The Big Bang (ABC2, 10:30pm), British In Bed (ABC2, 11:15pm). Looking at the ABC2 late night Wednesday programing, I was mistaken thinking they’d cut/paste the late Friday night SBS schedule. Assigned Reading [...]
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Winner! Uh, no.
Bet somebody feels pretty silly with their new “Winner” tattoo. Unless, of course, said person does remarkably well out of the inevitable lawsuit that is set to follow. Deadline report that Charlie Sheen has now officially been fired from Two & A Half Men. Last week Warner Bros began lawyering up with the hire of [...]
READ MORE[TV Diary] Monday 7 March 2011
TV Highlights Rake (ABC2, 8:30pm), Parkinson – The Frost Interview (Ch 9, 9:30pm), The Departed (GEM, 9:30pm), Being Erica (ABC2, 11:10pm). Assigned Reading The new-look 7:30 starts tonight. Leigh Sales says “You can’t let the tail wag the dog and dumb down the program.” Then why is the show being re-branded as 7:30? So, when [...]
READ MORE[TV Diary] Thursday 3 March 2011
TV Highlights Party Down (ABC2, 8:30pm), Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations (SBS1, 8:30pm), Force 10 from Navarone (7Two, 9:20pm), The Motorcycle Diaries (SBS2, 9:30pm), Inside the Actors Studio: Ricky Gervais (ABC2, 11:15pm), Spectacle: Elvis Costello With…Mary Louise Parker (ABC1, 11:20pm). Further Reading Jim Schembri defends Ben Elton: Live From Planet Earth with this not very timely [...]
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[TV Diary] Monday 28 February 2011
TV Highlights The 83rd Academy Awards (Ch 9, 11:30am AEDST), Rake (ABC2, 8:35pm), Generation Kill (ABC2, 9:30pm), The Silence of the Lambs (GEM, 8:30pm), Ugly Americans (SBS1, 10pm), Being Erica (ABC2, 11:30pm). The big show on today is the 83rd Academy Awards. Kudos to Nine for simulcasting them live around the country during the day, [...]
READ MORETwo & A Half Men: It’s Toast
On Friday I wrote that the cancellation of the current season of Two & A Half Men would not lead to a permanent cancellation. Money talks and there is a whole lot of money at stake with this awful, unfunny show. But, an awful, unfunny show that is one of the biggest and most profitable [...]
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Two & A Half Men: In Limbo
Don’t get too excited by some of the headlines floating around today. Two & A Half Men has not been cancelled. It’s more in a limbo state. Following comments made by Charlie Sheen this morning about the showrunner of the sitcom, Chuck Lorre, Warner Bros have announced that this current season of the show is [...]
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