PVRs at the ready for killer Sunday night
This Sunday is shaping up as a very big night of television.
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This Sunday is shaping up as a very big night of television.
ABC has Rake, with an hilarious Cate Blanchett cameo and guest Magda Szubanski, followed by several chapters of Tim Winton’s The Turning with a stellar cast including  Cate Blanchett, Rose Byrne, Miranda Otto, Richard Roxburgh, Hugo Weaving, Callan Mulvey, Susie Porter, Harrison Gilbertson, Brenna Harding, Matt Nable, Wayne Blair, Robyn Nevin, Dan Wyllie.
Seven premieres a new season of Downton Abbey and that darned cooking show will surely steamroll its timeslot.
Nine premieres Fat Tony & Co. and has another Block room reveal.
TEN is hoping Robbie Williams can lure in a crowd for the first Performance show of So You Think You Can Dance Australia but they also have Elementary, Have You Been Paying Attention? The Graham Norton Show and a little thing called the Winter Olympics.
And Foxtel has high hopes for The Real Housewives of Melbourne, preceded by A Grammy Salute to the Beatles across 3 separate channels: Arena, FOX8 and MAX.
There’s just not enough hard drives to go around!
14 Responses
I prefer DVDs. Mainly because they are far more reliable than any recording device. Although not perfect.The only thing I miss with recording stuff is being able to get the ads and interviews. I do prefer live TV. Although I do have known difficulties.
I just hope everyone does find their audience. I personally hope to watch Downton.
Good thing I just got a twin HD tuner PVR, plus with my Foxtel box I can record up to 4 shows at once. I just need the time to watch all of them LOL
Ive been taping everything I usually watch because i have been watching the winter olympics.
Yes this is a pain, 3 things that I would watch all overlapping. Elementary, Downton Abbey and Rake. Unless one of them is repeated later in the week I suppose I will watch Rake ‘live’ and record the other two….but first I will have to watch the first two episodes of this season’s Rake which are still waiting to be watched on my PVR.
I’ll be watching SYTYCD. I wasn’t interested in the audition episodes but I’m keen to see the production values and dancing in the live show.
After that I’ll give Fat Tony a go.. And during the ad breaks I’ll probably go online and check out the room reveals from The Block, they’re easily knocked over in about 10 minutes.
“There’s just not enough hard drives to go around!”
You can imagine how I feel!!
I’ll be watching The Block, then doing a marathon watch of True Detective.
Not a problem for me, i will watch the ABC and record Elementary.
Jennome it is only TV and most of it is really not worth watching!
I’m going to do Block, with MKR in the Ad breaks. Then Rake.
Will check out INXS on Sunday Night as a follow on from the Mini Series.
Will be watching live performance of SYTYCA, Elementry is icing on the cake
When there is not enough hard drive space (or tuners), there is always catch up tv. ABC iView and 7plus especially.
Why do they do this?? It can’t be to anyone’s advantage. They’re all sooo pathetic in their desperation to grab the tiniest bit of ratings advantage.
And boo-hiss to the ABC in getting involved to this race to the bottom, they have no commercial advantage to gain so putting Rake on another night shouldn’t make any difference to them, specially when reality TV has taken over the rest of the week.
I have seen downtown abbey already and this season is as dull as ditchwater . It has one interesting story arc but that just fizzles out. It’s a shame they don’t get new writers