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  1. With the recent news regarding the so-called quote-unquote “local” versions of Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune, it reminded me of this little story:

    Years ago, someone at Channel 9 thought it would be ratings gold to fly in Joey Fatone of *NSYNC to host a little game show called The Singing Bee, ostensibly because he hosted the US version of the format.

    However, unlike Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune, at least it was filmed locally, and Joey Fatone was replaced by Tim Campbell when the show was renewed, due to Joey’s busy schedule.

  2. Watching Simpsons on Disney+ why is the character Mrs Alice Glick still appearing in latest episodes ? She died during 2011’s 23rd season.

      1. And here I have been thinking for years that ER had little if any repeat showings considering how big it was (and for the early seasons there are two actors that became huge stars in it).

  5. Forgive me if I am wrong but has channel ten put Ready Steady Cook on Saturdays now? Amanda was right it was a mistake getting rid of The Living Room.

  6. I haven’t seen this profiled here as yet, but tomorrow night the series ‘Icons Uncovered-The Lord of the Rings’ airs on SBS2 tomorrow night-the one on James Bond was very interesting (George Lazenby came across as a world class egotist though). Should be good. Coincidently the recent film on J.R.R. Tolkien’s early life is on ch 76 very late tonight.

  7. Watching the Drew Barrymore show on 10 (11am-12pm). Across the hour, the entire ad blocks (bar one) is dedicated to a single 3 minute infomercial, no advertising or 10 promos air during the blocks.

  8. tomorrow night 7mate (in victoria) is screening the Jurassic park movie, i remember 5 months ago it screened on channel 9, does this mean now channel 7 has the rights and 9 no longer has them, i definitely remember 9 screening Jurassic park in December (5 months ago) and now its on 7mate tomorrow

    1. Films/TV shows are changing networks all the time-a couple of years back ‘Blade 3’ was shown in prime time on 2 different commercial channels within 2 weeks, for example.

    3. I’m sure “channel 7 has the rights and 9 no longer has”. Stations tend to rerun the bigger titles as close as possible to expiry dates.

      1. 7 has made a major deal with Universal, so it is not expected that Universal movies like Jurassic Park will end up there.

        I notice that Go is back to running Disney Movies (Toy Story films), so looks like they’ve struck a new deal with Disney.

  10. Here’s another piece of tech news that has been recently published: In addition to 2014 Sony TVs, Netflix is also ending support for the 2nd and 3rd generation Apple TV boxes that were launched in 2010 and 2012, respectively, according to MacRumors. The old boxes also no longer receive software updates from Apple, making it difficult for Netflix to “maintain the best possible Netflix experience”, according to an email sent to customers.
    The Netflix app will remain available on Apple TV HD (4th generation) and all generations of Apple TV 4K.

  11. Surely it is The End of Days for FTA for old timers like us? Our territory is 5 stations Prime Time. There is practically nothing there all week. Ch7 Thursday 4 hours of football but it is nearly a specialist football channel now. CH 10 Masterchef, it used to be a marquee program it is now amateur cooks. And so on….

    3. “Our territory is 5 stations Prime Time”. I’m a ‘senior’ I think, aged 80. I see we have more than 5 stations, perhaps even more than 15. We watch the old L&O:SVU family on 7something, ER on ABCsomething, news on ABC24, movies on SBS and ABC movies channels. Not much after 7:30 on 7, 9, or 10.

  12. I noticed The Resident season 6 is up on Disney+ now… I don’t recall it ever airing on Seven because I’ve been keeping an eye out for it (I could be wrong) ..
    Now if only Nine now would finally bring out Chicago Med season 9 which I’ve been also waiting for.

  13. The whole of Simpsons 35th season is now on Disney +. The 6th series for Young Sheldon premiers on 9Go! next week. Hopefully the final 7th season follows on. From Tuesday afternoon Channel 7 are showing game show Catch Phrase at 2pm.

  16. 9Now seems to have walked away from whatever deal they had with LG TVs. “No longer supported”, says the slide (showing my age, I know, I know).

    1. According to tv week on Wednesday 12 June 10 peach becomes 10 peach comedy and Bold becomes 10 bold drama what do you think of this change . I don’t watch these channels really but if youre not changeing the content much I don’t know why change the name and they’re pathetic names for Tv channels anyways.

  17. Question, so now that 2 of the ABC channels are closing, does this mean ABC news 24 channel will be in HD since they are freeing up bandwidth by closing channels???

    1. Not ‘closing’, just renaming with some restacking of content with 22 becoming 23 and visa versa-some elderly shows getting a 1st ABC run like ‘ER’ but others are stock standards like ‘Dr Who’ from the start of the current late 2000s reboot…

    3. ABC Me renamed family moves to 22 after ABC Kids. And ABC Plus moves to 23. But there’s two things I want to watch on it The Cleaner and Not Going Out, two comedies I haven’t seen.

      1. Hideous watermarks were a feature of ABC2 when it started 15 or so years ago-they never bloody learn. Consider this another complaint about it!

      2. Just went and looked….really old ‘ER’?….watermark is not that large…but being hot pink it is very distracting , well for me.

  19. Hi David,

    7Plus has just introduced Picture in Picture (PIP)to enable multitasking on your iPhone. This means ABC iview, 9Now, SBS On Demand all have PIP and 10 play doesn’t. Are you able to approach them about this and any plans to enhance the app.

    Also a separate story, from a regular watcher of 10 play, could they change the ads within it, you get the same ads at almost every break.

    Thanks,

  20. Just saw the ad for ‘Do You Want To Live Forever’. Firstly the promo feels like its taken up a year of my life, then I felt transported to the early 00’s where Jennifer Kyte hosted a medical show… Poor Tracy, I guess Postcards is an option

  21. Those readers who own older Sony TV’s and devices may be interested in this article I read. ‘Last year, Sony announced that Netflix would stop working on 2011-2013 TVs as well as Blu-ray players. This month, it has announced that the app will also stop working on 2014 Sony models.’

    1. I think ultimately that these upgrades are bad for the environment. There was a time when TVs would last for decades. Now they’re outdated or won’t work after a couple or few years. It leads to more TVs on the scrapheap. Firmware or software upgrades are proving to be useless when manufacturer support is lost for older models. Something needs to be done to prevent TVs from becoming outdated sooner. Even I’m not big on environmental issues, but even I can see that what’s happening is not a good development. It’s good for the back pocket of manufacturers, but at what environmental cost.

      I’d recommend buying TVs that are future-proof.

      1. It’s not just TV’s Solace2021 it’s the consumer society we currently live in where its cheaper to replace something than repair it, I note that this is also happening with EV’s as well, where repairing accident damaged batteries is too expensive and insurance companies write the car off. Chinese and Western Governments are not exactly saving the planet or considering the socio-economic and environmental damage being done to developing countries with their current policies are they?.

        1. Right to repair legislation has been enacted in Europe and some US states. As usual Australian Governments prefer to stick their head in the sand until there’s a massive crisis that is to big to be fixed.

  22. Just a question, who voted no in the poll on whether Nine should report on its own sexual harassment and payout issues, why the no vote?

    2. I voted no, and an absolute no.

      Firstly, it makes no sense from a business standpoint, the people are not paid to support the undermining of their own business by stirring the pot further, and secondly, you couldn’t take any report seriously on full value, it would be compromised, it is just too close to home.

      All the facts aren’t even known publicly on this issue, depending on who works on any such reports, it could come back at them in the future if it becomes public knowledge they were involved in the story more closely than was known, which the news hierarchy may or may not know at this time.

      1. A news division should at all times be impartial to any influence of business even its own. The ABC reports on its own issues as should the commercial networks. Otherwise we end up with the one sided media reporting, oh wait we have that.

    1. This is a show that transcends demographics and captures a broad audience. Even to the point that it was scheduled to be shown on 7Mate. I do take note of what people are watching and what resonates. It’s also family entertainment. It’s worth showing somewhere. It was also on 7Flix. People from all backgrounds are drawn to it. I don’t know what happened with the scheduling but it’s not good for the fans that 7 isn’t getting it right.

  24. Another excellent TVT email newsletter…I love all the little snippets which are only in the email….like the Spicks and Specks one ….and also the free giveaways every so often….Thank for all that extra work!

  25. Odd thing on SBS2-when I saw that ‘The Orville’ was on tonight. tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday for 3, 3 , 3 and 1 eps I assumed it must have been a repeat but it is, in fact, the 3rd and final season that hasn’t been broadcast before-utterly no promotion for it that I have seen…

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