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Kate Ritchie back on TVFormer Home And Away star and TV Week Gold Logie winner Kate Ritchie is returning to TV in a role far removed from that of Sally Fletcher.
Ritchie, who left Home And Away earlier this year after more than two decades, is to return to TV as Judi Kane, wife of slain 1970s standover man Les […]
Seven Network newsreader and former Dancing With The Stars contestant Chris Bath will be co-hosting Summer Breakfast with Alex Dean for Vega 95.3FM in Sydney.
The new program starts 26 November.
Source: B&T Today
MediaSpy discussion: Vega, Chris Bath
ABC News reports that former correspondent Peter Lloyd has agreed to plead guilty to some of the drugs charges he is facing in Singapore.
In return, the authorities have agreed to drop the most serious charge of drug trafficking, which carried a possible jail term of 20 years.
Lloyd’s lawyer says the former correspondent is remorseful about […]
Comments about truck drivers by Jeremy Clarkson in the series premiere of Top Gear on Sunday night are expected to provide further controversy for the BBC as it attempts to recover from “Sachsgate”.
Over 200 people have complained directly to the BBC, while trucking groups have written to the BBC’s director general to complain about the […]
Under-performing radio duo Wil Anderson and Anthony ‘Lehmo’ Lehmann have been dumped from their drive-time slot on Triple M and will leave the network, the Daily Telegraph reports today.
“We’re allocating resources elsewhere in the station and going with a different direction in drive,” Austereo CEO Michael Anderson said yesterday. “We explored other opportunities for Wil […]
Veteran reporter Peter Harvey was rushed to the Royal North Shore Hospital yesterday suffering severe chest pains.
The Channel Nine journalist, who started with the network back in 1975 reporting from Canberra on the Whitlam dismissal, was admitted hospital last night and will undergo a series of tests on his heart today.
The news warhorse, who won […]
An advertising campaign for soft-drink giant Coca Cola featuring television and film actress Kerry Armstrong is facing the axe.
The Advertising Standards Bureau is reporting to be considering whether or not the ad should be pulled.
The full-page advertisement featuring Armstrong aims to break the “myths” surrounding Coca Cola:
“When I was asked to speak out in favour […]
ABC’s popular Monday night interview program, Enough Rope With Andrew Denton, will finish up when the current series ends in December.
Andrew Denton has decided that after six seasons of Enough Rope, it is time to move on:
“It’s a good time to finish. Not everybody gets to finish in their own time and on their own […]
Former Nine Network reporter Christine Spiteri has settled with her former employer for a ’six figure sum’, according to News Limited. Legal representatives from both sides met today to have the private settlement formally approved.
The former Los Angeles correspondent sought damages of more than $500,000 under the Trade Practices Act after being sacked from Nine. […]
Radio National presenter Stephen Crittenden has been taken off air by the ABC pending an inquiry into comments he made on-air last week. ABC News reports that management told Mr Crittenden yesterday that he would not be allowed to present The Religion Report this Wednesday morning.
“I am not at liberty to discuss the particulars, however […]