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Any info about new Disney streaming service „Star”? Is it going to be available in Australia?
I read it’s meant to go International but when and where is the question ,they already have Hulu with DP in the states so this will be part of Disney plus here and abroad.
Just wanted to say how much I’m enjoying ‘The Heights’. I got behind but up to episode 11 of season 2 now. It’s really a great show and has got me wanting more each episode. The music is also great I’ve been rewinding to shazam a fair bit! I hope it gets a third season but won’t be holding my breath. I remember loving The Time of Our Lives which ended at 2 seasons.
delayed a week..its been reported that the move to push back the first of two planned Darwin rounds by a week could open the door to midweek racing in the Top End.
Ah ok thanks for the heads up.
next week no footy classified on Monday, will be on Wednesday only.
Just saw that the Darwin round of Supercars has been cancelled , wonder when they’ll fit that back into schedule.
Does anyone know when The Block is starting? Must be soon.
Late August.
Thanks
With normal ANW wrapping up on 10/8/20, I would estimate that The Block will start on the 17 Aug. I’ve seen promos of ANW: SOO on 9Now on my computer and it says Coming Soon. There’s no date of premiering the Spinoff of ANW. With the Origin NRL to be played in Nov, can this Ninja special air in Q4 2020?
Update: ANW: SoO starts August 16.
I just saw the ad for ANW Grand Final 7pm ,who will be crowned ,is that false advertising or fake news as it doesn’t finish until Monday night.
Is ANW short for Australian Ninja Warrior?
Sure is ☺️
Finishes Monday.
Reni Santoni best known for playing Poppie in Seinfeld has passed away. 😭
He was also in Dirty Harry as his partner ,he must have been a good age that was 1971 I think. RIP
Anyone know what happened to Seven’s trumpeted new sitcom ‘Family Time ‘ ?
The station has been deathly quiet about this one for ages ( was it meant to run last year ?) , and its creator, long time some time Seven contributer Michael Horrocks was reported as having left the building for good some months back.
It was due to run with Modern Family this year, but obviously a new plan. When I asked about MH departing it was denied, but I believe it has happened since.
Courtney Hope who plays Bold and the Beautiful’s Sally Spectra (not to be confused with Darlene Conley) has posted on social media she is leaving the soap.
David could you please dig up something on Darlene Conley for this weeks Flashback Friday?
7 News @ 4PM….rush to finish….4 minutes before 5PM…to allow for P of O promo…(it looks good, I will definitely watch)…
Then Chaser starts 2 minutes before 5PM….did not work for me …I went over 10…end of B&B before News.
You’ll wear out the channel selector Maev.😄,as for P.O.O well I’m not so sure on that one.
What’s POO?
Plate of Origin Saxybre ,lol,you have been warned.😆
P of O SaxyBre….some people cannot help themselves 😞
I’ve been calling it POO ever since it was flagged here as an acronym. When I see the advert, I always ask my partner if they want to watch POO? The answer is always no, 😀
Yes POO does look good. Will watch it to.
I never thought i would say this, but i think with tonight’s Four Corners episode, namely the promotion of such, the ABC are guilty of clickbait journalism. i think of myself as left leaning, but even i question the use of our taxpayer money funding such journalism. The $ are much better spent on repeats of old shows on ABC Comedy…. especially for Melbournians…who might be too lazy to find a dvd, take it out of its case, put it in the dvd player & dust off the dvd remote ;D
Wow tvaddict! That is an amazingly muddled and unfocussed post – I have no idea what you are trying to get at re the 4 Corners report other than you have some indefinable problems with the episode and its promotion. What exactly is central to your criticism? And why the final swipe at Melburnians? Most of the 4 Corners issues were with north coast NSW residents – but yes, there were minor mentions of cities elsewhere in the country.
Possibly the perceived issue was the fact that the ep was dealing with 2 distinct but related problems-irrational folks being stoked by deliberate hostile foreign misinformation campaigns, and the actual problems of a 5th Generation system as a near monopoly of a Chinese state controlled company.
yes thankyou Chuck128, put it into words better than i could. To be fair, it was mostly the promo spots that i felt misrepresented exactly what they would be reporting on. But that is a tactic now being used by nearly all media outlets now it seems, just the commercial ones did it first.
yes muddled, i won’t deny that. i live in Melbourne, must’ve been having a go at myself in my jest then. Here i’ll spell it out for you, that part of my comment was a joke, well sort of, i honestly do believe comedy is much needed especially at the moment.
This was actually a rare example of Four Corners being objective. But of course being objective here means giving fair treatment and airtime to a conspiracy theory unsupported by any evidence, but pointing this out. Most Four Corners episodes, like Panorama, are activist pieces twisting the facts to support one position and undermine another. Perhaps that is what you are missing?
Can’t help but wonder if curfew will help HYBPA? to an all time high tonight…
Interesting…
i certainly think people will be looking for some comedy relief & light entertainment, so yes will be interesting to see ratings…(that’s why the art’s need funding Scomo! entertainment plays a vital role, who are the doctors & nurses to watch when they finish their shifts & plonk down on the couch?)
What does everyone think about Hot Seat temporaliy switching back to the original Millionaire format during COVID? The UK and US versions have got around no audiences quite nicely and they have less people in the studio?
Hot Seat hope to resume in coming weeks when I asked last week. I think without an audience would still work.
Gonna be interesting to see visually how they will distance the six contestants
Hi David, Just wondering whether The Masked Singer will be able to continue filming with the new workplace restrictions in Melbourne. Somehow I don’t think it will be able to. Thank you for keeping us up to date during this time. Thanks.
Yes it will.
How much better is Sunrise when Sam Armytage is away!
Natalie Barr should be the female host as she is far more natural.
None of the anger and ill informed rantings that Sam constantly delivers.Thinks she is the spokesperson for the Bush!!!!
David, are there any figures comparing ratings for when Sam is off (usually Mondays) against days she is There?
Totally agree with you. Nat definitely relates to the audience….and Koch so much better.
I just wanted to shout out to all Vic readers, hoping you all stay safe – as we all want you all to recover asap.
Am one. And am a tad worried myself. Thanks mate 🙂
Thank you SydneyTV – that’s very kind.
Melbourne used to be the world’s most liveable city, now it’s possibly the world’s biggest prison. I get travel emails from travel companies offering trips to Hawaii. Hawaii? Cricky. Now I can’t even go to Hampton.
^ Rich people’s problems (compared to almost all the world’s population).
don’t be so insensitive, people are stuck within 5 km’s of their Brighton mansions & can’t drive their Rolls to the Portsea beach house, life isn’t easy!
i hate to say, i think this could change the landscape of Melbourne for a very very long time. We’re known for our great theatre, music & sports venues, & cafe culture, we don’t know just how much of that will recover. Apart from thinking positive, we need to lobby govt to take arts as seriously as it does construction, people need entertainment options besides sport.
ABC moves straight into the latest season 10 of Vera next Sunday at 830pm. These eps aired in the UK in January.
8pm curfew for Melbourne for the foreseeable future-a captive audience indeed…
I just clicked on the Carona Virus category on the homepage and saw we are up to 31 pages now.
Yes and to think at one stage I was mulling whether to create a category or not. Already ahead of dedicated Eurovision, Upfronts, Logies, Olympics, Comm. Games, Election categories.
Perhaps not a great statistic, but once again showing how contemporary this blog sites is to keep evolving. Yikes 31 pages!?!
I don’t particularly care about soccer, but apparently the English FA Cup was played last night but wasn’t broadcast here-given it’s one game that’s been shown here since the 70s, what’s the story?
I presume you mean on FTA? It was on ESPN for Foxtel.
The FA Cup was originally on the anti-syphoning list so SBS could pick it up cheap and there was no point in anyone else bidding for it. After that ended ESPN had the exclusive rights for few years but didn’t renew them after 2018. Most of the 2019 tournament was not broadcast in this country, until ESPN signed a new deal covering the 2019 final and some number of subsequent seasons.
heads up criminal minds fans, , criminal minds suspect behaviour double episode is on channel 7 tonight at midnight.
I hope you realise this is an almost decade-old show that has been on 7 two to three times already over the journey. Personally, I would have preferred if they just put the final 3 unaired episodes of the normal Criminal Minds on in that timeslot.
Criminal Minds is back on Tues 11th.
Anyone else feeling slightly alarmed by the return of Hitler content to the network once referred to as “the Hitler channel”? Thursday night SBS saw 2 Hitler docos – ‘ Hitler’s Supercars’ basically a fanboy tribute to the fuhrer’s love of motorsport ..then ‘The day Hitler died ‘. Dunno but something left me feeling these shows serve to glorify and even celebrate the Nazi leader. Discuss ..
Never heard it called that, but ‘SBS-All Hitler, All The Time…’ rings a bell. Late afternoons Sunday is a very popular slot for the Third Reich and the number of times ‘Downfall;, ‘Valkure’ and ‘Valkirie’ have been on over the last few years is impressive.
I don’t think it’s glorifying or celebrating Hitler, but i do think more docos and films about the atrocities he oversaw should be shown. I know people who have no idea about the Holocaust, and I think everyone should know about it.
Good one 7…Not….The credits are part of the movie….Under The Tuscan Sun…
No wonder so many are leaving FTA….the networks have no respect for viewers…
Cutting off endings….10 jumping from one show straight into another…leaving us confused….seriously, commercials channels have little credibility left.
On the other hand, the credits for the film Marshall on SBS went for so long I nearly nodded off
It was once a requirement from studios that credits must be shown, it was a mandate from unions etc. if I worked on one of these i’d want the recognition. over time the networks have been allowed to “speed up” or drop credits altogether. I cant see where the likes of Spielberg, Eastwood, Kubrick would appreciate this. Kubrick (Estate) mandated that his titles be shown “As Is”, no edits in anyway, this meant leaving entr’acte, intermissions or Overture cards.. Eyes Wide shut was digitally enhanced for the American audience to “hide” the simulated sex.scenes, oh those Americans.
These days the official record of credits is the IMDB Pro. Agents make sure their clients are properly credited there.
Did Wednesdays episode of H&A air in Melbourne? It was pre-empted by the Footy at 7.00pm, didn’t realise ’till I watched Thursdays that an episode was skipped. If it did air, the Foxtel IQ didn’t pick it up.
Yes, was on 7TWO
Did they even advertise that?
Don’t they normally say to watch h&a go to this channel (e.g 7TWO)
I don’t know, not a regular viewer, but have been taking a dip back into summer bay recently.
Hey David – did you see 9News Sydney on Friday. Erin Molan was interviewing Andrew (Joey) Johns and you could cut the tension with a knife. Very akward haha