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• Family first as Hunt keeps options open

  06-12-2016 20:00
  
  Broncos halfback Ben Hunt says the new-found responsibilities of fatherhood will play a major role in deciding whether his future beyond 2017 lies in the NRL.
  
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• “I’ve never seen a lot of men in these conversations about sustainability.”

  24-04-2024 20:58
  
  Sustainable Screens Australia is nearing its first birthday and on the hunt for its first Board members.
  But the Not for Profit body is somewhat perplexed… where are all the men?
  The organisation which was founded by three industry women -Anna Kaplan (Regen Studios), Tanzy Owen (formerly Endemol Shine Australia) and Art Department / Producer Jennifer McAuliffe – with 5 female directors on its interim Board and 3 women of 4 employees.
  “My sense is that women have a sense of car
  
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• Sophie, Troy win Gordon Ramsay’s Food Stars.

  24-04-2024 20:55
  
  Gordon Ramsay’s Food Stars last night awarded NSW’s Sophie Hood and Victorian Troy Benjamin (Team Gordon) with $250,000 each and a year’s worth of business mentorship.
  Troy Benjamin won chef Gordon Ramsay over with his Indigenous tea product Blak Brews, defeating finalist Aaron from South Australia who created cocktails in a bag, MXTology.
  Sophie Hood convinced Janine Allis with her hangover relief Seoul Tonic, edging out WA stepfather Mason and his event-friendly health drinks
  
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• 10 and Lisa Wilkinson apart on legal costs

  24-04-2024 20:50
  
  The likelihood of Lisa Wilkinson returning to 10 seems further out of reach with reports the former Project host and network are unable to agree on costs following the Bruce Lehrmann defamation case.
  Wilkinson hired her own legal defence headed by Sydney defamation silk Sue Chrysanthou, SC, instead of being represented by 10’s team.
  In February Federal Court Justice Michael Lee ruled it was reasonable for her to brief a separate team of lawyers.
  But the amount was left unresolved until the
  
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• Airdate: Tony Armstrong’s Extra-Ordinary Things

  24-04-2024 20:45
  
  Feel-good factual series Tony Armstrong’s Extra-Ordinary Things will premiere on ABC in May.
  In this five-part series, Tony Armstrong hits the road on his bike to learn about the untold history of Australia. He travels the country to meet everyday Aussies with ordinary things that hold extra-ordinary stories.
  Via the seeries he will become a first-time curator and build his own exhibition for the National Museum of Australia in Canberra, displayed from 21 June.
  According to ABC, “Ton
  
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• Australian Story: April 29

  24-04-2024 20:44
  
  Australian Story meets a 2012 Farmer Wants a Wife ‘winner’ and Mrs Australia winner who has turned her talents to writing and starring in a feature film Just a Farmer, alongside Joel Jackson, Robert Taylor, Damian Walshe-Howling and Susan Prior.
  The film directed by Simon Lyndon just earned a shout-out from Hugh Jackman on Instagram.
  Leila McDougall, who has also appeared on Today Extra.
  Off the page, Leila McDougall’s life reads like a blockbuster, full of obstacles, adversity
  
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• Renewed: For All Mankind, new spin-off Star City.

  24-04-2024 20:42
  
  Apple TV+ has renewed space drama series For All Mankind for a fifth season.
  Additionally  creators Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi will expand to a spinoff series, Star City, which will be show run by Nedivi and Wolpert.
  “Our fascination with the Soviet space program has grown with every season of For All Mankind,” said executive producers Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi. “The more we learned about this secret city in the forests outside Moscow where the Soviet c
  
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• Planet America: April 24

  24-04-2024 09:15
  
  Tonight on Planet America…
  ‘Catch and Kill’ – A tabloid king takes the stand in Trump’s hush money trial.Plus Speaker Mike Johnson risks his job to stand up for Ukraine.
  10:05 pm tonight on ABC.
  
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• Gallery: Screen Queensland Studios open in Cairns

  24-04-2024 08:16
  
  Screen Queensland Studios have opened for business today in Portsmith, Cairns, as a significant milestone in Far North Queensland as a vital new hub.
  In attendance were Arts Minister Leeanne Enoch and Curtis Pitt MP alongside Screen Queensland CEO Jacqui Feeney, Screen Queensland Board Member Aaron Fa’Aoso, and local Elders Professor Henrietta Marrie and Teresa Dewars.
  The site comprises a 1,070 sq metre sound stage, production offices, editing suites, a sound recording studio, constructio
  
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• Vale: Terry Carter

  24-04-2024 07:21
  
  US actor Terry Carter, best known for Battlestar Galactica and McCloud, has died aged 95.
  He died on Tuesday at his home in New York City, his son confirmed.
  Carter featured as Sergeant Joe Broadhurst in the detective series McCloud from 1970 to 1977.
  But he is also remembered for Colonel Tigh in the original Battlestar Galactica, second-in-command of the starship fleet across 1978-79. He reprised the role in the 1978 Battlestar Galactica film, written by Glen A. Larson and directed by Richard A
  
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• Airdate: Elsbeth

  24-04-2024 07:00
  
  Paramount+ has suddenly confirmed it will screen US drama Elsbeth from Friday.
  The spin-off of The Good Wife and The Good Fight, stars Carrie Preston as Elsbeth Tascioni, an astute but unconventional attorney who uses her singular point of view to make unique observations and corner brilliant criminals alongside the NYPD.
  After leaving her legal career for a new investigative role, Elsbeth finds herself jockeying with NYPD Captain C.W. Wagner (Wendell Pierce).
  The series by Robert & Michelle
  
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• Better Homes & Gardens: April 26

  24-04-2024 06:21
  
  This week on Better Homes & Gardens Johanna and Colin continue their visit to the Red Centre, while Charlie mounts a mount a staghorn (!) or elkhorn fern.
  Johanna + Colin – Exploring UluruFrom any distance Uluru is a sight to behold, but walking around the base is truly awe inspiring. In this the second week of their trip to the red centre, Johanna and Colin get a tour of the world’s most famous rock, learning history, geology and even a bit of zoology. But this being Better Home
  
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• Airdate: Goodbye Earth

  24-04-2024 05:10
  
  Korean disaster drama series Goodbye Earth premieres on Netflix on Friday.
  The 12 part series centres around the 200 days left until an asteroid collides with Earth on the Korean Peninsula.
  After it is reported that an asteroid will collide with Earth and that the Korean Peninsula lies in the area of impact, martial law goes into effect and utter chaos ensues. Conflicts rise between those who believe in the catastrophic collision and those who do not, incarcerated criminals escape from prison, c
  
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• Vera confirms final season

  24-04-2024 04:29
  
  Brenda Blethyn will play the role of Vera Stanhope for one final series, bringing the hit UK detective series to a close.
  ITV have commissioned 54 episodes to date before recently confirming a further 2 x 120min which will be the drama’s 14th and final series.
  Brenda Blethyn “Working on Vera has been a joy from beginning to end and I’m sad to be saying ‘Cheerio.’ But I am so proud of our achievements over the last fourteen years. I’ll be forever grateful to th
  
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• Farmer Wants a Wife leads entertainment on Tuesday

  24-04-2024 03:59
  
  Farmer Wants a Wife lifted on Tuesday to 1.01m in National TV Audience and topped entertainment.
  Locked in a three-way tussle were 7:30 (691,000), Lego Masters (689,000) and MasterChef Australia (649,000),
  Later The Front Bar averaged 525,000 then Miriam Margolyes: Impossibly Australian (520,000), Clarkson’s Farm (383,000) and NCIS (325,000 / 151,000).
  Seven News was #1 at 1.4m then Home & Away (891,000) which was second highest in entertaionment, and The Chase (665,000). Talking Footy
  
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• Tuesday 23 April 2024

  24-04-2024 03:36
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• Eurovision 2024: Latvia

  24-04-2024 03:25
  
  Latvia
  Eurovision: Semi Final TwoDons: “Hollow”
  Dons is a renowned Latvian pop/rock icon and one of the nation’s most-awarded artists of the last decade. The soulful power-ballad Hollow was composed with Irish songwriter and producer Liam Geddes and American songwriter Kate Northrop, and was initially released in Latvian. The singer draws profound inspiration from compelling, soul-stirring melodies, and during the song’s creation, all collaborators shared a unanimous sens
  
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• 7News Spotlight: April 28

  24-04-2024 03:11
  
  On Sunday 7News Spotlight‘s Sarah Greenhalgh investigates the dark underbelly of social media sextortion impacting teenagers and hears from the family of Rohan Cosgriff, who took his own life at the age of just 17.
  Sarah said: “The importance of this story can’t be overstated. Sextortion is one of the fastest growing crimes against children in our country, with families across Australia and the world left devastated by its impact.”
  “All the parents we interviewed wh
  
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• The Sign breaks ABC iview records

  24-04-2024 02:34
  
  Bluey episode “The Sign” has become the top ABC program of 2024 so far (ranked on Total Audience)*, and the highest ABC program of all time on ABC iview.*
  To date the average iview audience is 2,642,920.
  It delivered a massive metro TV share of 54% on broadcast* and drove record numbers of daily viewing minutes for ABC Kids channel on ABC iview, with 50.3 million minutes viewed on premiere day.
  The three episodes currently hold an Average Total Audience of 4.8 million* including repl
  
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• Charlotte Crosby joins Aussie Shore

  24-04-2024 01:40
  
  UK reality star Charlotte Crosby, whose roles in Geordie Shore and British television led to an appearance in I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here Australia in 2020, has joined the cast of Aussie Shore.
  In the role of ‘House Boss’ she will be joined by 10 Australian singles as one big dysfunctional reality family.
  According to Paramount+, “The House Boss is like the lifeguard of beachside chaos, the referee of the sandy battleground. Her job? To ensure that the house stays
  
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• Hard Quiz: April 24

  24-04-2024 01:31
  
  Tonight on Hard Quiz, Tom Gleeson tests four more so-called experts…
  They are Helen, a fan of When Harry Met Sally; Patrick, who loves The Real Housewives of Melbourne, Melinda, who’s really into Sir Douglas Mawson, and Wayne, perhaps the only Australian who understands the sport of curling!
  Which of them will walk away with the big brass mug?8pm tonight on ABC.
  
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• Swift Street

  23-04-2024 20:58
  
  Buckle up for the energetic, driving style of SBS’s latest drama, Swift Street.
  The 8×30 minute drama is a force from emerging writer and director Tig Terera, a Zimbabwe-born, Aussie-raised creative determined to switch up our perceptions of how local drama can look on screen and about how black and brown characters can be portrayed.
  Set in the northern Melbourne suburbs of Preston, Brunswick and Coburg, this is indeed a melting pot of communities, focussed here on Afrikan characters
  
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• Orpheus Pledger allegedly absconds court-ordered medical assessment

  23-04-2024 20:55
  
  Former Home & Away and Neighbours actor Orpheus Pledger is at large after allegedly absconding from a hospital the night before he was due in court on serious assault charges.
  Pledger, 30, faces serious charges related to an alleged assault and causing injury. He has been on remand since March 27th and appeared via video link last week when his matter was mentioned briefly.
  Yesterday Pledger was sent under police escort to Royal Melbourne Hospital about 3.30am to undergo a mental health asse
  
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• AFTRS Alumni & Industry Scholarship 2024 awarded

  23-04-2024 20:50
  
  L-R: Pariya Taherzadeh-Desovski, Sarah Chahine and Rachel Perkins
  The Australian Film Television and Radio School has announced the inaugural recipient of the AFTRS Alumni & Industry Scholarship is screenwriter Sarah Chahine.
  Sarah is a graduate of AFTRS’ Bachelor of Screen: Production (2021) and is currently enrolled in the Master of Screen Arts: Screenwriting program.
  She migrated to Australia from Lebanon with her parents when she was 7. At the age of 16 she won a writing competitio
  
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• SBS annual Les Murray Award for Refugee Recognition awarded

  23-04-2024 20:49
  United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Australia has awarded its annual SBS Les Murray Award for Refugee Recognition to Hedayat Osyan, founder of a leading social enterprise that employs refugees in the construction industry.
  Mr Osyan, a former refugee from Afghanistan, founded CommUnity Construction seven years ago to support refugees struggling to find work or facing exploitation in the construction industry because they don’t speak English.
  The annual Les Murray award is named af
  
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• Airdate: Jamie’s Air-Fryer Meals

  23-04-2024 20:44
  
  Can’t say I’m especially enthused about Jamie’s Air-Fryer Meals coming to 10 on Thursdays.
  Thankfully it’s only a two part series. Knock yourself out.
  Jamie cooks prosciutto-baked fish, scones, then a whole roast chicken and crispy pork noodles. Jamie invites Poppy Cooks to show us a potato dish. Then whips up an air-fried peach Alaska.
  7:30pm Thursday May 2 on 10.
  
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• Airdate: After the Flood

  23-04-2024 20:40
  
  UK ‘disaster thriller’ After the Flood screens on BritBox in May.
  The 6 part series stars Sophie Rundle (Peaky Blinders, Call the Midwife), Matt Stokoe (Misfits, Bodyguard), and Jonas Armstrong (Robin Hood, Edge of Tomorrow)
  This premiered to strong reviews in the UK in January.
  After a devastating flood, an unidentified man is found dead in a carpark. Police conclude he became stuck and drowned. However, main character Joanna Marshall thinks there could be much more to the story. Wh
  
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• Returning: Harry Wild

  23-04-2024 20:39
  
  Season 3 of crime mystery series Harry Wild starring Jane Seymour and Rohan Nedd screens on Acorn TV / AMC+ in May.
  The series also stars Kevin Ryan (Guilt, Copper) as Harry’s son and senior police detective; Amy Huberman (Finding Joy, Striking Out) as Harry’s daughter-in-law; as well as Paul Tylak (Kin), and Rose O’Neill.
  Harry (Jane Seymour) and Fergus (Rohan Nedd) are hired to prove the lead singer of Ireland’s hottest boy band didn’t kill himself, find out who d
  
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• Vale: David Tiley

  23-04-2024 08:35
  
  Writer and industry colleague David Tiley, best known as a former ScreenHub Editor and documentary screenwriter, has died.
  He died in hospital last night, where he was in palliative care, attended by friends and family.
  Tiley was Editor of online trade site ScreenHub from 2005 until he became Content Lead for Film in 2021, with a special interest in policy.
  He had previously written scripts for documentary films Trial by Fire, Win Some Lose Some, and later Lionel, Strange Birds in Paradise: A We
  
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• Eurovision 2024: Italy

  23-04-2024 08:20
  
  Italy
  Eurovision: FinalAngelina Mango: “La noia”
  With 4 platinum records, two gold records, and a completely sold-out tour, Angelina Mango was one of the break-out stars of 2023 in Italy. Her music is a mix that brings together different influences, including Italian and American rap, R&B and instrumental music. In her songs, the singer-songwriter addresses issues and themes that are relevant to her, such as the anxieties of GenZ, love, the need for freedom and the value of famil
  
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