2010 Headlines: October – December

OCTOBER:
Foxtel takes the blame but hides the detail
Axed: The Boss is Coming to Dinner
Top Model producer didn’t push button
TEN drops religious show over gay comments
Guy Sebastian’s live telly blooper
Calls to dump ‘Spida’ Everitt travel show
Kerri-Anne: AFL players “picking up strays.”
Game on: Rake vs Rush vs COPS L.A.C.
Logies shakes up voting process

TV HITS magazine to fold
George Negus to quit SBS for TEN
Viewers into overdrive as Seven delays Bathurst
Jane Hall quits Neighbours

Networks cover Chilean rescue
Muirhead case adjourned
Andrew Gunsberg lands CBS hosting
Kerry O’Brien to host Four Corners
Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar storm off The View
SBS axes World News Australia presenter
Charmaine Dragun suicide was preventable
Altiyan went AWOL
Packer seriously raiding TEN

Axed: City Homicide?
New Battlestar Galactica prequel
30 Years for SBS
Two year AVO for Matthew Newton
Wilfred pilot approved for US series
Sara Groen quits TV for love
Charlie Sheen in another meltdown
Now Lachlan Murdoch may enter TEN deal
Mark Scott renews in ABC top job
Prime newsreader: “What you see, is what you get”
Red Faces over Hey Hey camera shots

NOVEMBER:
Neighbours sinks to 386,000
America rallies for Colbert, Stewart and the right to arm bears

Veteran Adelaide newsreader Rob Kelvin to retire
TEN offers Packer, Murdoch board seats.
SPEED is on the air
Report: ABC News closing bureaux, axing support staff.

The death of Melissa Rafter
David Gyngell appointed PBL Media boss
Union slams ABC foreign correspondent cuts
Hinch may have 12 months to live
Falloon agrees to exit TEN
SuperNanny quits TV series
Sandra Sully says goodnight

“De-butt”: ARIAs off-key with 624,000 viewers
Govt promises all TV channels for regional Australia
IQ Test fails “Obsequious”
SBS to launch Mandarin News Australia
Gene Shalit quits NBC Today

Gyngell passes Nine’s top job to Jeff Browne
TEN cancels Don’t Stop Believing
Leckie: “I’m sick of all this crap…. We are #1.”
Virginia Trioli: “I’m Michael Rowland”
Just not cricket on GEM

“Budgetary constraints” signal early ABC summer
Ex-Survivor producer arrested on murder charge
Leckie denies exit plan
Axed: Medium
Axed: Cops LAC
Gina Rinehart buys TEN shares

Altiyan wins The X Factor
Teri Hatcher denies quitting Housewives
Sarah Murdoch dumps Top Model producers
NBN newsreader Ray Dinneen to retire
Anti-Siphoning List: New live sport rules
Michael and Jessie win Beauty & the Geek
Adam Boland ends Sunrise reign
Short Stack wins [V] Oz Artist 2010

Stars farewell GTV9 Studio
Talking Heads wraps six years of chat
Nine News Melbourne boss replaced

DECEMBER:
Jim Waley on path to recovery
Qatar snatches 2022 FIFA World Cup hosting
Warnie show fails to score
Chris Uhlmann & Leigh Sales to host new-look “7:30″

Bryant Gumbel given all clear
TEN’s Harry Potter in semi-retirement
Bickmore grilled in Mac attack
Nine promotes programmer Michael Healy
Foxtel to sell Arena?
Contender champ KOs Anthony Mundine

Kerry O’Brien: “The time has come to say goodnight”
Crew cuts for Neighbours
TEN scoops the AFI Awards
The Closer to close
Hinch on road to recovery
Oprah conquers “Oprah House”

Report: Hey Hey it’s Saturday axed
Grant Blackley takes top TEN Holdings role
Larry King ends 25 year reign

Nicollette Sheridan drops key claims
Defamation win against Underbelly book
Government issues Anti-Siphoning “interim” list
TEN dumps Neighbours -it’s Eleven all the way
ONE SD is no more
Beaconsfield telemovie for Nine