Television Programmes

Imparja cuts all news services

ABC News reports that the Alice Springs-based remote station Imparja Television has cut seven reporting and research staff.
Imparja scrapped its half-hour news bulletin last year in favour of Nine’s Brisbane news bulletin, replaced by a weekly current affairs show, Footprints. Sources told the national broadcaster that the program will cease at the end of next […]

Web confusion over Idol vote

An error which saw incorrect telephone numbers published on the Australian Idol website last night could throw into doubt the validity of tonight’s outcome.
A spokesperson from Network Ten has said that for 25 minutes last night the website had displayed the incorrect telephone numbers for contestants Wes Carr and Mark Spano.
Fellow contestant Luke Dickens‘ telephone […]

Kate Ritchie back on TV

Former 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 […]

Foxtel unveils 2009 line-up

Foxtel has announced that fifteen new and returning local productions will be featured on its channels over summer and the new year.
The new shows include satirical drama 30 Seconds, from Andrew Denton’s production company Zapruder’s Other Films, and new reality series The Phone.
Also appearing in the new year will be Crime Investigation Australia, Maggie With…, […]

UK: Top Gear cause new Beeb controversy

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 […]

New ad show for Denton

Just days after announcing his resignation from hosting ABC’s Enough Rope, Andrew Denton has already moved on to his next venture.
A new six-episode satirical drama based around a fictional advertising agency has been conceived, created and written by ad agency Three Drunk Monkeys and is set to go into production by Denton’s company Zapruder’s Other […]

Denton signals end of Enough Rope

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 […]

ABC questioned over Q&A audience

Federal Opposition Senator Eric Abetz today questioned ABC management over a lack of coalition voters in the studio audience of Q&A. Figures provided by the program show that of those audience members who agreed to reveal their voting habits, 32 per cent favoured Labor, 24 per cent the Coalition, and 17 per cent the Greens.
The […]

Wilkinson, Stefanovic on Christmas Eve

Today co-hosts Lisa Wilkinson and Karl Stefanovic will host Nine’s annual Carols by Candlelight broadcast this Christmas Eve, replacing Ray Martin.

Rudd to appear on financial crisis special

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is set to appear in a TV special to give Australians advice about their financial problems and his $10.4 billion financial security package.
Minding Your Money: An Audience With the Prime Minister will air this Sunday on the Seven Network.
It will feature Mr Rudd answering questions from a studio audience of more […]