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  3. Just finished off 5 more shows… and it just so happens that they were all on Binge.
    Mrs. Davis S1 – I sat to the bitter end very unimpressed with this mess of a show, and I only went the distance because it had Damon Lindelof as one of its creatives. What a disappointment.
    Bupkis S1 – Surprise packet for sure… I actually like the polarising Pete Davidson so I went in half on board already. The final episode was a real highlight.
    Love & Death – Instantly enters my Top 5 shows so far this year. Like Bupkis, this surprised me. Elizabeth Olsen and Tom Pelphrey (as always) were flawless. I seriously loved this show, especially the way they presented the story. A real winner.
    Slip S1 – A mixed bag. A very odd show that I’m not sure what the entire point of it was. Certainly a unique take on the multiverse. Zoe Lister-Jones was excellent though.
    A Town Called Malice S1 – Totally loved the aesthetic of this. Music was on point. A great little family crime tale.

    1. Always great to see these mini-reviews from readers. Thanks Troy.
      Of those, I have only seen Mrs. Davis, which I enjoyed more than you, but is definitely hard to recommend given how totally bonkers it is.
      Love & Death was up next for me anyway. I’ve delayed it a bit as I only recently watched Candy on Disney+, which is based on the same real life murder & beat Love & Death to air. If you have seen Candy, how do you compare them?

      1. I agree, I love to read little reviews and thoughts from readers regarding the endless amount of content out there. And yeah I’ve heard of Jessica Biel’s Candy but it passed me by last year unfortunately. I’m not sure I could watch this story again so soon after Love & Death but I might eventually watch it. One thing I can say is that it’ll have to do a hell of a lot right to come close to what I just watched. It was superb.

    2. I watched only one episode of all of them. Bupkis was not my style. Love & Death is a well known legal case and I wasn’t interested in rehashing it again. The others were a total mess. Though Gilipin was good in Mrs Davis the story was obviously going nowhere. I’ve been rewatching the early seasons of Supernatural.

  7. Will any Australian TV channel, multichannel or streaming service ever air the Fox show in the States, “Call Me Kat”?

    You know, the Miranda remake with Mayim Bialik from TBBT?

    1. The now cancelled Call Me Kat. Took a while to find it’s feet, obviously a very American version where breaking that 4th wall sometimes didn’t fit.

  8. I know NITV has had comedy in the past, though it was stand-up and sketch comedy, though what about a sitcom?

    It could be about an Indigenous family or business in the suburbs, featuring the whole community and any adventures.

  9. With the Logies nominations coming out on Monday morning, will we ever see which programs & stars the networks sent out to be in contention of the Popular Awards? For 60 odd years, the popular awards were made by us, the public.

    And from around the mid 1990s until 2019, there was a checklist on who we can vote for (and who got omitted, which there are many articles on this site containing that).

  10. Chuck128….GEM/92 have also started Madam Secretary from the beginning….episode 3 of season 1 The Operative next Wednesday night…10.50PM….Also 9NOW…..which is strange as current series is on Paramount + ?

    1. The entirety of Madam Secretary and Scorpion are available to stream on 9 Now. Must’ve been part of a content deal they did for their catch up service.

    3. Homeland has been one of the feature dramas on Nine Now for months. They started with S1 and added new seasons regularly, usually a sign that people are binging it. Now they have to do something with the FTA rights. Homeland was made by Fox 21 as a premium drama for Showtime cable. It’s a lot better than The Equaliser, Nines only first run drama, especially from S5 when they dropped the melodrama and turned it into a lower budget, but intelligent spy drama based on Carrie. The Equalizer is also on around midnight, on Wednesday when you know it’s going to be heavily disrupted and late because of the SOO and cricket, and has been streamed on Now for months.

  13. Another SBS oddity-last night at 2.00am or so they broadcast the final ep of ‘Fear The Walking Dead’ S3-I had thought it mighty be a recap of the situation for the 4th season (which was shown a while back but hasn’t been repeated yet)-the 4th doesn’t appear in the line up anywhere over the next week at least, so why show a random ep?

  14. The upcoming Warnie mini series looks awful, looks like it was made by the same people responsible for Underbelly etc, lots of loud music used in promo, probably full of bad acting and a terrible script. I won’t be watching Warnie.

  16. An odd thing on ABC2 very late night tonight-‘Tipping The Velvet’, a BBC series from 2002-has been on ABC a few times since then, but not for a very long time-this would be the oldest thing shown on ABC2 apart from the odd film.

    2. Tipping The Velvet was the first starring role for Keeley Hawes & Rachael Stirling, and it had very good supporting cast. Not that unusual to put some M rated shows on late. The BBC also made versions of other Water’s novels Fingersmith and The Night Watch (which I haven’t seen).

      1. All shown on ABC1 at various times, but not for a long while now-utterly no promotion for it-the repeat is being shown at 3.00am Sat morning Primetime!

  17. ABC Kids and ABC TV Plus appears with the channel information data as ABC Kids/ABC TV Plus without a space between the words and slash. This would indicate that the channels are more interchangeable than distinct in identity. As opposed to a space between the words and slash.

    Given that ABC TV Plus has some adult content, is it the intention to be more interchangeable than distinct? If anyone isn’t aware, I might contact them directly. This is because the style guides and regional conventions are taught as such in schools.

    I thought I should check here first in case anyone knows.

    1. I suspect you might be reading into it a bit too much – my understanding is that ABC Kids is 5am to 7:30pm, then it’s ABC TV Plus from 7:30pm onwards, so it’s fairly distinct.

      Not putting a space around the slashes might just be to save space – some TV guides don’t give a whole lot of space for the channel name. For example I think on Foxtel the channel name overruns the space given for channel names in the TV guide.

    1. Was going to mention the same thing, also 3AW’s Jane Holmes (long-time Neil Mitchell announcer and TV segment reader) this morning also regarding the same thing with Tony Jones filling-in.

  19. So just to check – is that it for the 1% Club? I can’t find it on this week’s timetable so I’m wondering if they moved it again or if the season is over.

    One of the ads in the show asked people to sign up for the next season on their website – so I guess that means it’s renewed?

  20. Email Newsletter: Ah Womans Daze…not unexpected….does anyone ever believe anything in them…I would not be even game to try the recipes for accuracy?…Same for No Idea 🙄…Sad really, they use to be my go to as a young woman before the magazine wars.

  21. Australian Buddha Lo has walked away for the second season in a row with the Top Chef Worldwide AllStars title. Congratulations to this kid from Port Douglas.

    1. So excited for Buddha! Love Top Chef and Buddha is an incredible talent and the best Top Chef Chef of all time!! Was an exciting and nerve wracking finale.

  22. Hi David I know this usually happens every a few years but what happened to over the 22,000 Responses here at the Tv Lounge because they have all been deleted and we now have over 2,000 Responses?
    Thanks

  23. Hi David,

    Do you know when the last three episodes of Accused will air as The Front Bar is now on Wednesday nights in it’s place. Thanks.

  25. The final episode of season 34 for The Simpsons has just been released on Disney+. It seems strange not seing the cartoon airing on free tv or Foxtel.

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