2010 Headlines: July – September

JULY:
Axed: Party Down
Axed: Nightline
Collectors host may not be reinstated
Producers want content quotas for digital channels

MasterChef shock as Marion exits
Jonathan terminated from MasterChef
TEN drops Dance in favour of Glee-inspired contest
Axed: Australia Versus
ABC viewers lose HD shows
Rove US show rejected
Nine dumps Wimbledon
Neil Perry denies trashing MasterChef
Great Debate (won’t) tackle MasterChef finale

Dustin Clare joins Spartacus prequel
Sunrise regular offends families living with disabilities
Damages saved from axe
Hawke telemovie overlooked Hazel
TEN pulls out of Free TV revenue audit
Newspaper spoiling MasterChef
Seven signs Graham Richardson
Liam McCormick wins Football Superstar

Uhlmann scoop launches ABC News 24
Adam Liaw wins MasterChef 2010

Media tycoon buys UK’s Channel Five
Weekend Sunrise, Prue MacSween apologise.

Charles Firth joins GO!
Laurie Oakes leaks Gillard allegations
Demolition at Seven’s Epping studios
CBS to add more gay characters
Jessica McNamee quits Rafters roost
Neighbours toasts 6000
Ellen DeGeneres quits American Idol

AUGUST:
Andy Muirhead in court appearance
Sunrise hosts a “real” Debate

Minute to Win it gives away $500,000
Myles Barlow: “Killing Kyle Sandilands”
Don’t Stop Believing flops in UK
Parental locks on new TVs from 2011
Jeff Goldblum quits Criminal Intent
Nigel Lythgoe returns as Idol producer
Adam Boland in consultancy role for Seven
Skins reveals new cast

Mary Hart confirms her Entertainment Tonight exit
Charlotte Dawson to sue over online comment
Mark Latham files for 60 Minutes

Neighbours character comes out
Jane Badler to return to V
Georgie Parker joins Home and Away
HBO confirms Entourage to end
Killing Time delayed by legal woes
Fantasia Barrino hospitalised after overdose
ALP candidate fails to disclose identity to Insight
Gruen Nation pitches best Greens ad yet

AFL complains over “distasteful” Ben Cousins promos
Kellie Connolly speaks up
Shaun Brown delays retirement from SBS
Shameless actor in hit and run arrest
Big Brother UK housemates evacuated
Ernie Dingo facing assault charge
Hugh Jackman production co winds down
SelecTV ceases English-language Pay TV

Why did David Wirrpanda quit Dancing with the Stars?
Matt Newton out as X Factor host
The Stig revealed (again)
Matt Newton in alleged assault
Anna Coren reports live Hostage shoot-out
ACCC looks into OzTAM
Carole Sklan appointed ABC Head of Fiction
ELEVEN to launch in early 2011
Newton & Taylor engaged in Rome before meltdown
No conviction for Ben Fordham
New channel coming: 7mate
Second charge against Andy Muirhead
Nine hands in 3D report
Matthew Newton on ‘suicide watch’ as parents anguish

SEPTEMBER:
Ex Factor: Rachael Taylor applies for AVO
Gunman shot dead at ‘Discovery’ siege
Conan returns as …..Conan
Seven takes another shot at AFL show
Nine’s COPS thump TEN’s Rush
All clear for Mark Holden

Stephanie Rice apologises for ‘offensive Tweet’
Sam Newman slapped for racist remark
Denton says Logies are stuck in the past
Mike Munro on driving ban
The Stig to be “sacked” from Top Gear
RSPCA to review Animal Rescue protocol
Fergie signs series for Oprah
Stig claims: “Bullied” by Top Gear

Nine to launch GEM for women
Steve Bisley guilty on assault
Michael Pell for Sunrise promotion
Andy Whitfield resumes cancer treatment
X Factor cooked by the kids
Derryn Hinch battles liver cancer
Elusive Grundy disappointed by TV landscape

Winners and Losers: Seven confirms new drama
Home and Away scene too hot for NZ
Indigenous drama for ABC
Austar execs top the salary pack
Newton to comply with AVO
Kerry O’Brien to exit 7.30 Report
Katy Perry in Sesame Street ban
ARIA Hall of Fame inducting Johnny Young
Spartacus to recast as Whitfield undergoes treatment
Stars turn out for Grundy’s book launch

Live shock at Australia’s Next Top Model
Seven reporter suing Media Watch
Corrine Grant: Today Tonight “lied to me.”
Silence as host waited for Top Model name
Seven hits back at “lying” claims by Corinne Grant