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• “I’m not a bisexual or a lesbian or anything like that.”

  12-09-2018 20:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Barely a week after TEN won praise for a Neighbours same-sex wedding, the network has been criticised by viewers for teasing sexual orientation as a reality secret.
  Last night on The Bachelor Brooke Blurton, 23, told Nick Cummins, 30, she has previously had relationships with both men and women.
  But the exchange was preceded by network promos across the week about a big secret in an episode with a “human lie detector” and body language expert Steve van Aperen.
  “I’ve been
  
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• Block offers Gatwick apartment as contest prize

  12-09-2018 20:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  A Block apartment is being offered as a contest prize as part of a merchandise partnering with Hasbro-owned board game Monopoly.
  At a media event at The Gatwick last night host Scott Cam announced a Block Special Edition game hitting retail stores today with former addresses including South Yarra, Bondi, Elsternwick & Albert Park residences featuring.
  Each game includes a “golden ticket” to enter a contest with a mammoth prize of an apartment at The Gatwick (tipped to be an
  
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• Kitty Flanagan to depart The Weekly

  12-09-2018 20:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  Comedian Kitty Flanagan will depart ABC comedy show The Weekly with Charlie Pickering after 4 seasons.
  She announced the news last night on the show with a comedic “In Memoriam” song parody.
  Flanagan and Pickering previously worked together on TEN’s Project before she joined his break-away show on ABC.
  Pickering confirmed she would return for a 2018 “Yearly” special in December.
   
  
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• Airdate: Superwog

  12-09-2018 20:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  New comedy series Superwog, written by and starring brothers Theodore and Nathan Saidden, will have its premiere on their YouTube channel in early October, 2 days ahead of a broadcast on ABC Comedy.
  The 6 part series created by the duo is the first scripted series commissioned for ABC Comedy and builds on Superwog success on YouTube. Last year it was the highest trending YouTube video in Australia, in excess of 3.7 million views (90% Australian based).
  Produced by Superwog and Princess Pictures
  
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• Compass: Sept 15

  12-09-2018 20:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  This week on ABC’s Compass, is “Turban Legends” looking at Australia’s Sikh community.
  An inter-generational story about why and how the turban is making a comeback in Australia’s Sikh community. Hip hop artist L-Fresh the Lion, spoken word poet and activist Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa and cricket star Gurinder Sandhu are all thriving as they embrace their cultural traditions.
  6pm Saturday on ABC.
  
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• Report: Showrunner sidelined from American Gods

  12-09-2018 20:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  American Gods showrunner Jesse Alexander is no longer actively-helming the fantasy drama according to a US report.
  The Hollywood Reporter claims Alexander is no longer working on the drama as a writer or showrunner, and has been asked not to sit in on editing, be involved on set or participate in any other areas of production or post-production.
  “Fired but not fired” was how one source described the move with suggestions Fremantle would rather exile Alexander than endure the negativ
  
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• Returning: Channel Zero

  12-09-2018 20:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Season 4 of anthology horror series Channel Zero screens on Syfy in time for Halloween.
  It returns with “The Dream Door” on October 31, with a double episode. The cast includes Brandon Scott, Maria Sten, Steven Robertson & Steven Weber.
  There are 6 episodes all up.
  A US date is yet to be announced.
  Tom and Jillian, a pair of childhood friends turned newlyweds who are hoping to transform Tom’s childhood home into their own dream house. Though Jillian has high hopes for the
  
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• Ex-Disney teen actor arrested over handgun

  12-09-2018 08:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  Only in America do former Disney stars carry handguns…
  Former Wizards of Waverly Place actor David Henrie has apologised after being arrested on Monday for bringing a loaded handgun to Los Angeles International Airport.
  Henrie, 29, who played Selena Gomez’s brother Justin, was arrested at LAX after officials went through his baggage and found the firearm.
  Following the incident, Henrie apologized in a statement on Twitter.
  “I am so sorry for any trouble it caused but I a
  
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• Airdate: Drain the Titanic

  12-09-2018 08:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  Documentary Drain The Titanic airs on SBS this Saturday.
  This is a 2015 National Geographic special. Note the later timeslot in WA due to Premier League.
  Drain The Titanic will reveal the wreck of the Titanic as it has never been seen before. Using state of the art computer animation and the most recent comprehensive mapping data collected in 2010, this documentary will not be just another deep sea dive to the wreck, but the most dynamic and comprehensive look at Titanic to date.
  It will o
  
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• Airdate: The Good Cop

  12-09-2018 07:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  We’re getting an awful lot of TV shows with “good” in the title….
  Tony Danza returns to television with his new offbeat drama series The Good Cop on Netflix.
  Danza stars alongside Josh Groban as father & son police who become an ‘odd couple’ pairing.
  The series of 10 episodes is based on an Israeli format
  In The Good Cop, Tony Danza plays Big Tony, a lovable yet not exactly honorable, former NYPD officer who never followed the rules. He lives with his so
  
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• UK TV Choice Awards 2018: winners

  12-09-2018 06:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  Peaky Blinders, Liar (pictured), Call the Midwife and Strictly Come Dancing were amongst winners at Britain’s TV Choice Awards.
  The awards, run by consumer magazine TV Choice, is voted by readers and includes international titles. No Aussies were in contention.
  Winners are in bold:
  Best Drama SeriesPeaky Blinders BBC2Doctor Foster BBC1Outlander Amazon Prime VideoPoldark BBC1
  Best Family DramaCall The Midwife BBC1Casualty BBC1Doc Martin ITVThe Durrells ITV
  Best ActressMichelle Keegan Our G
  
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• The Family Law final season to premiere at Adelaide Film Festival

  12-09-2018 05:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  The third and final season of The Family Law will have its World Premiere at the Adelaide Film Festival on October 17.
  The series based on the memoirs of writer Benjamin Law features Trystan Go, Fiona Choi and Anthony Brandon Wong. Although the show carries a Queensland backdrop, producers Matchbox Pictures also have a new Adelaide-based office, hence the SA premiere.
  SBS is yet to announce a broadcast date, due later this year.
  Adult content below!
  Everyone’s favourite dysfunctional Chin
  
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• Alan Jones guilty of defamation

  12-09-2018 04:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  SKY News presenter Alan Jones has lost a high profile defamation case in relation to comments he made on Radio 2GB and 4BC.
  Jones and 2GB /4BC have been ordered to pay around $3.75 million in damages (including interest) to Toowoomba-based Wagner family following a series of radio broadcasts between 2014 and 2015.
  The Supreme Court in Brisbane found 2GB and Jones published 27 broadcasts which conveyed “extremely serious” defamatory allegations, including that the Wagner family
  
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• Airdate: Pine Gap

  12-09-2018 03:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  New 6 part drama Pine Gap will premiere on Sunday 14th October with a double episode followed by all episodes available to binge immediately after on ABC iview.
  The Screentime production, made for both ABC and Netflix, set around the secretive joint defence facility in the Northern Territory, stars Parker Sawyers, Jacqueline McKenzie, Tess Haubrich, Stephen Curry, Steve Toussaint, Mark Leonard Winter and Sachin Joab.
  They are joined by Kelton Pell, Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Madeleine Madden, Alice Keo
  
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• Kristen Bell to produce kids’ series for Amazon

  12-09-2018 02:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Kristen Bell will co-executive produce an animated kids’ series for Amazon, Do, Re & Mi.
  Created by Jackie Tohn (American Idol) and Michael Scharf (Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation), the series showcases original tracks performed by Bell, Tohn and other guests. The series follows three birdie best friends named Do, Re & Mi who live in a world filled with rhythm, beats and melodies.
  Every episode of the series starts with an adventure and ends in a song.
  “This serie
  
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• Tuesday under the magic million

  12-09-2018 01:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  No single show managed to tick over the magic million last night, but Nine won the night leading from 7pm.
  The Block topped the night and the demos with 987,000, down slightly on last Tuesday’s 1.03m. Australian Survivor and 7:30 followed then Take Me Out also down slightly on last week, from 513,000 to 504,000. Foreign Correspondent and SBS trains brought up the rear.
  Overruns notwithstanding True Story with Hamish & Andy led at 640,000, but that was down by a hefty 104,000
  
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• Tuesday 11 September 2018

  12-09-2018 01:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  Report:
  Daily Free-to-Air Share
  Channels:
  All Free-to-Air Channels
  Market:
  5 City Metro (aggregate figure)Demographics:
  Total People
  Day-part:
  18:00 – 24:00
  Day:
  Tuesday
  Deliverable:
  Overnight, Consolidated 7 and Consolidated 28Channel
  Overnight
  Consolidated 7
  Consolidated 28
  11/09/2018
  04/09/2018
  14/08/2018
  ABC
  11.1%
  10.7%
  11.5%
  ABC KIDS/COMEDY
  3.4%
  2.8%
  2.6%
  ABC ME
  0.6%
  0.7%
  0.7%
  ABC NEWS
  1.5%
  1.4%
  1.3%
  ABC Network
  16.5%
  15.6%
  16.1%
  Seven
  17.3%
  17.9%
  17.8%
  7TWO
  3.4%
  3.6%
  3.3%
  7mate
  4.0%
  
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