Summer on ONE
ONE HD launches a new summer line up with themed nights including Golf, Football, Motorsports, Basketball and even movies.
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ONE HD launches a new summer line up at the end of the month, with themed nights including Golf, Football, Motorsports and Basketball.
It even has a Movie night, playing sports-themed movies and documentaries. It begins with The Fan (1996) starring Robert De Niro and Wesley Snipes at 8:30pm Sunday November 28th.
ONE’s summer sporting events including the Kellogg’s Nutri-Grain IronMan Series and NBL.
SUNDAY NIGHT – MOVIE NIGHT
Commencing Sunday, November 28 at 8.30pm ONE HD will broadcast a variety of popular sport movies and documentaries. The Fan (starring Robert De Niro and Wesley Snipes), Into Thin Air – Death on Everest (based on the #1 best-selling book Into Thin Air by Joh Krakauer) and Rudy (starring Sean Astin and Jon Favrea) are just some of the movie titles that will feature in the summer line-up.
MONDAY NIGHT – GOLF NIGHT
Monday night’s are golf nights with the popular panel show The Pro Shop hosted by Paul Gow and Luke Elvy continuing throughout summer along with a plethora of exclusive golf tournaments and programs including Fore Inventors Only, Tee it up with Tiger Woods and Handa Australian Senior Open 2010.
TUESDAY NIGHT – FOOTBALL NGHT
ONE HD will continue to bring every Arsenal and Liverpool match from the English Premier League, Carling Cup and FA Cup to Australian audiences over summer. Match previews and behind the scenes footage from each club will also feature in this football inspired program line-up.
WEDNESDAY – USA NIGHT
MVP and NBA will form the basis of this all-American themed programming night. Steve Carfino and the team from MVP will continue to shine the spotlight on the best stories, unforgettable moments and amazing plays from America this summer and will be followed by all of the action and excitement of the NBA.
THURSDAY – COMBAT NIGHT
The WWE Experience boasting all of the highlights from NXT, Raw and Smackdown will continue over summer. Combat Night will also feature a number of UFC events including UFC 100 and exclusive episodes of UFC Unleashed.
FRIDAY – BASKETBALL NIGHT
ONE will continue to bring Friday Night NBL to Australian viewers live and exclusive every Friday night over summer.
SATURDAY – MOTORSPORT NIGHT
Rev heads around Australia unite because Saturday night has over six hours of motorsports coverage. ONE HD will look at the year that was in motorsports broadcasting a variety of highlights from the most popular races including Isle of Man TT, Australian Rally Championship, Andra Drag Racing and Grand-am Rolex – Sportscar Series.
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I like it. I watch a lot of sport during the day on ONE HD but at night I would prefer a movie unless a significant sporting event was on.
oh dear . a sports channel now becoming a movie channel .
im sure u can do better than this . network ten
Hello Jerome, the “daily” share only covers primetime, 6pm-midnight. Since most live sport is outside primetime (e.g. U.S. sport), we don’t know how many people are actually watching at those times. Also the 0.5% you quote is as bad as it gets on One – a more usual figure is around 0.9, with peaks up around 5 when there is live sport during primetime. In the lead-up to the F1 finale, One beat every secondary channel except for Go (unfortunately for them the actual race didn’t start until after primetime ended at midnight EDT, or they probably would’ve beat Go as well).
hello 0.5%
They did already try showing Warren Miller films in the past. I presume it wasn’t much of a success. If they’re going to show movies though Le Mans hasn’t been on in a long time! Friday Night Lights is currently running on the W channel, for those who aren’t aware – half-way through S2 – 11pm weeknights.
@dan: all part of packers plan to sabotage :L
@DansDans – I agree, ‘The Fan’ might feature a baseball obsessed nutter as its central character but that’s where the sports relevance ends. This whole movie night idea raises a question. Has ONE been told to broaden its appeal beyond 100% sports programming in an attempt to appease certain new significant shareholders at Ten.
BASEketball anyone?
Oh here we go – adding movies to the channel. Sorry but this is a sports channel, if I wanted to watch movies in HD I would get the foxtel package or something. Keep the movies off One HD and use it on the Ten channel or the new Eleven, I see no reason for them to add movies – what a joke. Sounds like they’re messing up this channel.
@ Craig, those are the two greatest suggestions I have ever heard.
Does this mean we get to see Happy Gilmore again?
What happened to the Poker tournaments they were initially showing on a weekly basis? … and now, nothing. 🙁
Oops. MightY Ducks.
@DansDans – don’t forget “The Might Ducks”!
“Sick of Charlie Sheen? Switch over to One and watch his brother in glorious HD”.
Not sure about the movie night, why not have Friday Night Light marathon?
It might help it in the ratings as long as they are good sports related movie or TV shows, maybe they could bring back the under rated “Sports Night” comedy 🙂
WTF? Movie night? The Fan isnt even a sport movie – its a bloody thriller about a psychotic baseball fan!!
How about Remember The Titans (even though its Disney and you dont have the rights, but you get the idea), The Air Up There etc You know, the Real sports movies based on Real sports moments
Hopefully we wont see stuff like White Men Cant Jump, Above The Rim, Legend Of Bagger Vance etc
Why don’t they replay Friday Night Lights?
Movie night?? OHE HD have lost the plot. Why don’t they have a best-of or sports classics night instead.
I wonder how much of this will actually be native HD. There seems to be less and less recently. But then that would be matching the FTA HD channels which are a total joke.
This actually sounds good. Movies and all, Love it!!
One are going to have to focus on more than just 3rd rate sports. I think Movie nights are a good example and there are soooo many good sporting themed films there’s also alot of sport based TV Programming that isn’t actual sport that One should try get their hands on. Just to fill the holes whilst they’re waiting for more rights to expire so they can snap them up.