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More love for Big Love soon
SBS has some enticing titles coming up in its last quarter and into 2010. It includes the second season of local drama The Circuit starring Aaron Pedersen, to begin in the first week of December. The...
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Airdate: Man Vs Wild. Bumped: High Altitude, South Park
For the second time in seven days, SBS programming makes a surprising move. After deciding not to premiere the new season of East West 101 against tough competition (Packed to the Rafters, new NCIS and...
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Flashforward by seven days, what did you seen again?
A week on from their launches and most of last Monday’s new shows took a tumble. It’s just a question of how far. Last week FlashForward took 1.78m. Last night it was 1.47m. Mercy slipped from 1.07m to...
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Sport wins the ratings trophy
If 2009 has been remarkable for one thing, it has been comic tone put under the spotlight. But in a week when our sense of humour was questioned once more, it was sport that ruled the week. The NRL...
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Face the factuals. Seven rules the week.
After five straight losses, an aggressive Seven Network showed it wins on consistent programming and not events or boosts from digital shares. It dominated the week’s top shows, as its factuals...
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Variety the spice of Nine’s life
In the week that Seven announced its new digital channel it lost another week to Nine and its GO! channel. Nine’s win included its tribute to a favourite son, Don Lane. On the back of the Hey Hey...
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All the drama of Week 44
In Week 44 viewers bid farewell to All Saints after 12 seasons across 11 years. The 70 minute episode ensured the show departed with its reputation intact and possibly signalled the end of an era of...
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Top Gear loss “not the be-all and end-all”
TV Tonight continues its interviews with key executives in television. Following on from last week’s interviews with Seven, ABC, TEN and Nine, today the spotlight turns to SBS Director of Content Matt...
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Race that tops the nation
Week 45 saw Seven launch its new digital channel 7TWO with a mix of broad entertainment offering. It addressed the Nine / GO! combo that had upstaged it in the last few months. In sheer audience...
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Are we there yet?
Are we there yet? Just two weeks to go until the 2009 ratings end, with a baby Rafter, a new Idol, a Celebrity MasterChef, and a first Apprentice all due. Audiences are already showing signs of...
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Say bye to variety for me
The Noughties will end with a nail in the coffin of variety after Rove McManus announced he was winding down his show last Sunday. It closed a ten year chapter for the genre with a string of Logies,...
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Birth for a nation
The final week of the ratings year is over and it was a Rafters baby that defeated singing Idols, Celebrity Masterchefs, new Apprentices, Geeks and Robbie Williams. Seven enjoyed a clean sweep of Week...
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Extra 7PM Project pays off
The first weeknight of summer ratings was good news and bad news for TEN. Its move to extend The 7PM Project has paid off with 826,000 viewers. The network is airing one hour episodes on Mondays and...
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So what’s been your summer gem?
The other week a journalist asked me for some quotes on how our TV summer season was faring and I pointed out that historically, the 09 / 10 season has offered an abundance of choice -at least compared...
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2010: SBS looks beyond Top Gear
Next Monday night SBS bids farewell to Top Gear for the final time. The show drives off to Nine after a ferocious acquisition battle last year that SBS lost due to being outbid. But the network is keen...
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Bear Grylls filming in Oz
Tough guy ‘Bear’ Grylls is currently filming an episode of Man Vs Wild on Murray Island, the most eastern of the Torres Strait islands. The episode is one of two filmed in Australia. A second location...
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TEN’s Reality is Seven’s headache
MasterChef Australia passed the 1.8m figure for the second time this week, netting 1.81m viewers as Jimmy Servai was eliminated. Before it has even hit the halfway mark the series shows no sign of...
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Returning: Man vs Wild
SBS ONE has new episodes of cult hero Bear Grylls next month, or at least first run on Free to Air. Since the loss of Top Gear to Nine, the dashing Grylls has certainly been doing his bit for the...
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SBS: January – March highlights
SBS has provided more details on some of its programming across upcoming months. JANUARY The Late Session with Waleed Aly This summer, Australian audiences are invited to take a seat at this exclusive...
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SBS handpicks from across the globe
Today SBS Network Programmer Jane Roscoe talks to TV Tonight about some of the broadcaster’s highlights for 2011. While Australian commissionings are the focus for SBS, Roscoe can’t hide her enthusiasm...
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