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  2. Have others watching shows like New Tricks, then The Closer, then Rizzoli and Isles and then Law and Order get frustrated when they run all the shows together? One minute you are at the end of an episode and then you find yourself straight into the next shows episode at a crime scene?

    1. Hi BellJay, yes I find it annoying. The endings seem cut short and I wonder what I’m missing. The tv execs don’t want us to have a toilet break or change stations, lol. Tuesday is one of my favourite tv nights. Except instead of New Tricks I watch ABCme ‘cos I like my cartoons.

      1. This was so annoying when TEN used to merge L&O:SVU and Blue Bloods. 10 still has this obscene habit with the end of CSI Hawaii and other shows.

  3. Home and away should reinstate the opening titles like they used to with the theme song. Surely it’s not that much trouble to do opening titles especially since neighbours does it

  4. Finally after years of campaigning and asking questions and writing it as my “show we need to see in Australia” answer to David’s annual survey, The Other Two has found a home on Binge. S3 will begin May 4th too!! So so exciting. I managed to watch the first season by buying it on the Apple Store a while back, but I’ve never seen S2. I was so impressed with this show. It’s amazing. I’m so pumped!!

    1. This is great news, I’m in the same boat have been waiting for S2 for ages. I read an article that said the first two seasons were streaming now but I can’t see the show on there at all.

    1. Especially when some of the questions are so outdated “What is the Queen’s…..”. “What is Prince Charles’….” It surely can’t be too hard to record and extra 40 minutes for a new episode. Elsewhere I see it takes Seven almost 5 hours to record one 40 mins episode of their latest quiz show. OMG spare me, in one day we could churn out a week (5 days) of Take The Hint, Say When, Concentration, It Could Be You, Divorce Court, etc., etc. Given the sets were not as hideous with blinding lighting, but that was a good thing.

  7. I’ve recently started to watch the 2011-14 sitcom Suburgatory. While watching it I was interested to know if the street which they film on was real or one on the Warner Bros. back lot. My Google search found it’s actually a real street in California, and that the house exterior has been used in other television and movie productions before. I noticed on Google Street View that recently the entire house has been stripped down to the bare timber frame. There’s no longer any internal or external walls, windows or roof. Even the garage has gone, the only thing still standing is the side room to the right which would likely be the laundry room leading to the driveway and former garage.

    2. Speaking of WB, the ranch backlot is being redeveloped and streetscapes and homes from Friends, The Middle, Lethal Weapon, Vacation movies, I Dream of Jeanie, Bewitched and many more will be torn down.

    3. I watched the 3rd series last year, which I’d missed because Nine broadcast it at 4:30pm Saturdays. I have hoping to catch some of Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, currently still on Stan and the expensive stores.

  8. On 9GO this evening at 7.30pm is the original and best RoboCop ,this is rated R and its showing this time with an M rating , why not show at 8.30.

      1. A film that has its moments, but without Paul V directing, it’s a pale imitation overall. Oddly enough the version I first saw in the cinema here in Perth WA in the 1980s was censored with the coarse language substituted for less strong dialogue. Violence was the same.

  10. A pity that Colbert is in repeats this week-he would have had a field day with the unceremonious departure of ‘Mother’ Tucker Carlson’s sudden departure from Fox News…

  11. I finished a couple of shows today. Class Of ‘07 on Amazon started off rocky, but wow did it improve as it went along. The dynamic between the girls really settled and shone through the longer they spent time together… episodes 5 and 6 were standouts. Caitlin Stasey stood out in the ensemble, however the rest were all as good as each other, the writing improved immensely as it went on too. I’m very keen for a follow up season.
    Rain Dogs on Binge was a difficult show to like. I didn’t like the characters and for a show that trades off on how damaged they are, it was too outlandish for me to sympathise. I understand the themes of toxicity and dependence often being linked when it comes to certain relationships, but this was a show that sort of reeked of thinking it was something it really didn’t have the capacity to be. I wondered what the point of all of it was. Having said that, episode four will go down as one of my fave episodes of 2023. A strange show.

  14. Odd thing on SBS1 last night-the 7.30 doco was listed on the EPG as being about our old friend the Woolly Mammoth but was instead focused on an extinct giant killer whale whose remains litter parts of Egypt’s modern desert regions-next week is listed as about the Sabre Tooth Tiger (maybe)…

    1. SBS have run a documentary other than the one listed in guides and EPGs about 4 times so far this year. This one was actually about something I knew nothing about and probably more interesting than the scheduled documentaries on Mammoths aren’t that rare.

    1. Seven signed an exclusive deal with NBCU for their lifestyle, chat, true crime and documentary shows for Bravo. E! shutdown their channels on Foxtel and Fetch at the end of January as a result. And Foxtel picked up some NBCU dramas and comedies which would have gone to Seven.

  16. I’m most disappointed ABC’s rage hasn’t paid tribute to Mark Sheehan from the Script, S Club 7’s Paul Cattermole and Gary Rossington of Lynyrd Skynyrd.

  17. Only a few eps of James Corden left-will 10 do repeats of it or will they have to find something else to fill 2 hours each week night as it’s premiered on 13 and then repeated very late on 11? Also noted that they’ve gone back to having guests make their entrance at the back of the audience and then climb down the stairs-very awkward for women in the usual impractical shoes!

  18. Excellent Email Newsletter this week…informative as usual….not surprised the blog broke traffic record….it is the only place to be for all things TV….Even Variety cannot keep up lol…..Anyone not signed up is missing so much not here on the site ⭐…Long may you reign 👑

  20. Poll…majority of my time is my PC…I read…listen to music…research for others as well as myself….chat with friends and family…Oh and TVT a number of times a day …
    When TV is on…it is mostly 2nd screen…unless you have drawn my attention to some good viewing…👌

  21. I was surprised to see that Season 2 of ‘Somebody Somewhere’ begins on Fox Showcase next Tuesday the 25th of April. That seems to have come around quickly.

  22. There’s something odd about the episodes of Hot Seat ,on Monday they celebrated the 2500th show and today it’s episode 2513 and Fridays a repeat anyway so back to 2515 on Monday ,unless I am reading this wrong its all out of kilter.

    1. Nine have been playing episodes out of sequence for quite a few years now.. this is because generally there’s the potential for higher ratings earlier in the week, so episodes shown on Mondays/Tuesdays often have a winner with a decent prize or interesting contestants with a heartfelt back-story… all to assist with ratings.

      1. Ah ok thanks ,that seems like a logical idea and Monday was the 2500th show , it’s a shame no one won the big prize ,I knew the answer 😁.

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