• Rebel Wilson lodges High Court appeal

    Rebel Wilson will fight on in her legal battle with Bauer Media.
    Her lawyers have lodged a special leave to appeal to the High Court after the Victorian Court of Appeal reduced her $3.917m in special damages to $600,000.
    Bauer has 21 days to file a response.
    “We are considering the issues raised by Ms Wilson and our position in relation to them,” said Bauer general counsel Adrian Goss.
    Last month she tweeted, “Everybody knows I lost money after those maliciously defamatory art
  • Kamahl facing stalking charge

    Kamahl facing stalking charge
    Legendary Australian entertainer Kamahl has been charged with stalking a 38 year old woman after he agreed to loan her money.
    Nine News reports the singer, now aged 89, claims he was responding to a situation without all of his faculties, and forgetting to take medication.
    Kamahl, currently a resident of a Northern Beaches home, is facing one count of stalking with intent to cause fear and due to face Sutherland Court next month.#EXCLUSIVE: Australian entertainer Kamahl is back in the spotlight,
  • Colin from Accounts: trailer

    Colin from Accounts: trailer
    A trailer has dropped for Season Two of Colin From Accounts set to premiere at the end of the month on Binge and Showcase.
    Creators Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer are rejoined by Emma Harvie, Genevieve Hegney, Michael Logo, Helen Thomson, Darren Gilshenan, Annie Maynard, Tai Hara and Glenn Hazeldine.
    New cast members include Celeste Barber (Wellmania, The Letdown), Virginia Gay (Savage River, Safe Home), Justin Rosniak (The Surfer, Mr Inbetween), John Howard (SeaChange, The Merger), Lynne Por
  • ABC unveils new titles for 2024, multichannel overhaul.

    ABC unveils new titles for 2024, multichannel overhaul.
    The ABC has announced a swag of new programs to join its 2024 slate, plus new acquisitions and returning shows in production.
    They include new shows for Leigh Sales, Tony Armstrong, Matt Okine, Sammy J., Myf Warhurst, Guy Montgomery and a spin-off for Tom Gleeson.
    In a programming shift, ABC will also screen new local sitcom Austin in an 8pm Sunday timeslot, paired with the return of Spicks & Specks.
    From June there will no longer be two dedicated children’s TV channels.
    ABC TV Plus ch
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  • ABC multichannels replaced with ABC Family, ABC Entertains.

    ABC multichannels replaced with ABC Family, ABC Entertains.
    From June there will no longer be two dedicated children’s TV channels on ABC.
    ABC TV Plus channel will rebrand as ABC Family, with ABC Kids in the daytime then from 7:30pm family titles aimed at older teens and co-viewing titles.
    ABC ME will end in June to be replaced by ABC Entertains with comedy and entertainment. Although there are children’s titles in the morning, there will be more adult offerings across the day.
    ABC Family / ABC EntertainsThe ABC is introducing two new channel
  • Monte-Carlo TV Festival to honour Morgan Freeman

    Monte-Carlo TV Festival to honour Morgan Freeman
    Morgan Freeman will be lauded at the Monte-Carlo TV Festival in June.
    Prince Albert II of Monaco will present Freeman with Festival’s Crystal Nymph award. Civil war drama The Gray House, which Freeman executive produced with Kevin Costner, Leslie Greif and Lori McCreary, will have its world premiere at Monte-Carlo.
    The Honorary Golden Nymph, the Festival’s highest distinction, will be presented to the French actor and director Olivier Marchal (36 quai des Orfèvres, Braquo), wh
  • Airdate: Lost Luggage

    Airdate: Lost Luggage
    2022 Belgian drama series Lost Luggage gets a late night slot on SBS next week in a double episode premiere.
    After a terrorist attack on Brussels Airport, policewoman Samira Laroussa is missioned to handle and return all baggage and personal belongings that were left behind in the departure hall that day. Every new encounter with a victim or relative unbalances Samira, who is far from ready to deal with the pains of her own troubled past.
    Episode One:Ten days after the bombings of March 22, Sami
  • Aussies behind new US dating show, Love Undercover.

    Aussies behind new US dating show, Love Undercover.
    Australia’s Beyond Productions have co-developed a new dating series, Love Undercover, for NBC’s streamer Peacock.
    The ‘modern day fairytale’ brings 5 international footballers to the USA to meet single women who are not familiar with their superstar status.
    They include Premier League star Jamie O’Hara (36 – United Kingdom), Olympic Gold Medalist Marco Fabián (33 – Mexico), mega-star Ryan Babel (36 – Netherlands) and all-stars Lloyd Jones (
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  • Better Homes & Gardens: May 10

    Better Homes & Gardens: May 10
    Better Homes & Gardens this week adopts a Mother’s Day theme.
    Dr Harry – Taronga Zoo’s New Mums And BubsThere’s been a baby boom at the world-famous Taronga Zoo and Dr Harry can’t wait to give you a peep at the four-legged, furry and flippered bubbas. You’ll get insights into how the Zoo not only helps rehabilitate injured animals but is helping breed those that are endangered in the wild. From Pygmy Hippos, Seals, Chimps and Red Pandas, Harry celebrates M
  • Home & Away, Sunrise strong on Wednesday.

    Home & Away, Sunrise strong on Wednesday.
    Seven enjoyed more timeslot wins on Wednesday.
    Home & Away topped entertainment at 864,000 in National TV Audience.
    The 1% Club UK led its slot with 836,000 then Hard Quiz (656,000), MasterChef Australia (645,000), 7:30 (630,000), RBT (536,000) and Alone Australia (298,000).
    Later The Front Bar led at 633,000 while The Weekly with Charlie Pickering wrapped its season strong with 621,000 then Spacey Unmasked (245,000) and FBI: International (224,000).
    Seven News averaged 1.38m for Seven then
  • Wednesday 8 May 2024

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  • Airdate: ABBA in Concert

    Airdate: ABBA in Concert
    SBS will now screen ABBA In Concert on Saturday night in place of the previously schedules Rock Legends: ABBA.
    ABBA in Concert was shot in 1979, mainly at London’s Wembley Arena.
    Featured songs include: Waterloo, Take a Chance on Me, Voulez-Vous, Chiquitita, I Have a Dream, Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!, Knowing Me Knowing You, Summernight City, Dancing Queen, Does Your Mother Know, and Hole in Your Soul.
    10:05pm Saturday on SBS.
    Not forgetting, there is also a 50 year special tonight at 7:30pm, AB
  • Bus Stop Films hosts Disability Employment Summit

    Bus Stop Films hosts Disability Employment Summit
    L to R: Keely Cat-Wells, Tracey Corbin-Matchett OAM, Peter Tonagh.
    The first ever summit to explore disability employment in film, TV and commercial production, will be held at Bondi Beach in November.
    Bus Stop Films is hosting ‘Driving Change: Disability Employment Summit’ which will explore the employment of people with disability across the screen content industries, on both sides of the camera and above and below the line.
    The summit will elevate and celebrate the people behind a
  • Aussie Hoa Xuande to be honoured at Gold Gala

    Aussie Hoa Xuande to be honoured at Gold Gala
    Aussie actor Hoa Xuande (Ronny Chieng: International Student, Hungry Ghosts, Cowboy Bebop) who is starring in The Sympathizer alongside Robert Downey Jr is set to be honoured by Gold House, the nonprofit organisation that celebrates Asian Pacific creatives, companies and communities.
    Xuande will be honoured on May 11 at a gala event in LA alongside the cast of Beef, Cynthia Erivo, Padma Lakshmi, Lucy Liu, Kitty, producer-director Karan Johar, Team USA’s Olympic skating team and more.
    Prese
  • “Bitterly disappointed”: 10 calls on Albanese to save Mildura Digital TV

    “Bitterly disappointed”: 10 calls on Albanese to save Mildura Digital TV
    Network 10 has called on PM Anthony Albanese to intervene following the announcement yesterday by the board of Mildura Digital TV to shut down the channel on June 30, stating its financial position is no longer tenable.
    Mildura Digital TV is a joint venture by Seven West Media and WIN Corporation, which screens 10, 10 Peach and 10 BOLD programming.
    TV Tonight understands WIN was no longer interested in maintaining the joint venture.
    “We’re bitterly disappointed that regional TV opera
  • Vale: Ignatius Jones

    Vale: Ignatius Jones
    Ignatius Jones, who had a performing career spanning stage, screen and pop music, has died aged 66.
    Sister Monica Trapaga revealed online he had been battling a “short illness” before his death.
    “He died peacefully at 9.30pm, Sydney time, last night (7 May) at Iloilo City, the Philippines,” a statement read.
    Jones, who became an Australian citizen in 1971, fronted Sydney based Jimmy and the Boys with covers of The Kinks I’m Not Like Everybody Else in 1979 and They W
  • Vale: Ian Gelder

    Vale: Ian Gelder
    UK actor Ian Gelder, best known for Game of Thrones, and Torchwood has died, aged 74.
    He died of complications from bile duct cancer.
    “It is with huge huge sadness and a heavy heart broken into a million pieces that I’m leaving this post to announce the passing of my darling husband and life partner Ian Gelder,” Ben Daniels wrote online. “Ian was diagnosed with bile duct cancer in December and yesterday he passed at 13.07. I’d stopped all work to be his carer but ne
  • Airdate: Ski Rescue Down Under

    Airdate: Ski Rescue Down Under
    2023 New Zealand drama Ski Rescue Down Under (retitled from Mt Hutt Rescue) will screen on Nine.
    Stories unfold at New Zealand’s Number 1 ski destination through a cast of ski patrollers, medics, and mountain rescue crews, whose job it is to keep families and holiday-makers safe from all sorts of mishaps, misadventures, emergencies, and wild winter weather.
    Episode 1:The start of the season brings thousands of excitable guests to Mt Hutt. Opening day celebrations are cut short by a series
  • 200% Wolf to premiere at Sydney Film Festival

    200% Wolf to premiere at Sydney Film Festival
    200% Wolf, the film version of ABC ME series 100% Wolf, will have its world premiere at the Sydney Film Festival on June 9.
    The film was written by Fin Edquist, directed by Alexs Stadermann and produced by Flying Bark Productions together with Atlantika Films and WA production company, Siamese.
    The film opens in cinemas on 8 August with a TV broadcast yet to be announced.
    In 200% Wolf, Freddy Lupin (Ilai Swindels) thinks he has everything it takes to lead his werewolf pack, but earning the respe
  • Father Brown: May 11

    Father Brown: May 11
    This week’s episode of Father Brown is S10 Episode 4: “The Beast of Wedlock”
    When Father Brown (Mark Williams) visits an old friend Rev Duncan (Scott Hendy) in the village of Wedlock he is delighted to discover that his church warden is none other than Sam Wadey (Clifford Barry) who served with him in the trenches of World War 1. Sam’s son, Gabriel (Paul Forman), has gone missing whilst taking a skinny dip in the local lake amidst rumours of an ancient legend involving a
  • Kendall Gilding reports on Today show

    Kendall Gilding reports on Today show
    Former Seven News presenter and reporter Kendall Gilding featured on the Today show this week, in a freelance capacity.The Queenslander read her last Seven News bulletin in December last year, but appearedin a live cross from Brisbane yesterday in a story about a teen crime spree in Toowoomba.
    “I’m just doing a week of freelance work – filling in while their usual journalist takes some holidays,” she told the Courier-Mail.
    “I’ve always loved brekky TV and it&r
  • Airdate: Hotel Cocaine

    Airdate: Hotel Cocaine
    Upcoming crime thriller Hotel Cocaine, co-produced by MGM Studios and Stan, will premiere in June on Stan.
    The 8 part series is executive produced by Chris Brancato (Godfather of Harlem, Narcos) and Guillermo Navarro (Pan’s Labyrinth).
    Hotel Cocaine is the story of Roman Compte (Danny Pino), Cuban exile and general manager of the Mutiny Hotel, the glamorous epicentre of the Miami cocaine scene of late ‘70s and early ‘80s. The Mutiny Hotel was Casablanca on cocaine; a glitzy nig
  • Ian Smith: “I’m back on May 28th”

    Ian Smith: “I’m back on May 28th”
    Minor Spoilers.
    Ian Smith will return to Neighbours on May 28.
    According to press reports, Harold Bishop will move into Eirini Rising, the new retirement complex which Terese Willis (Rebekah Elmaloglou) has been planning.
    Terese and Jane Harris (Annie Jones) have been working together on the Eirini Rising project, as the retirement centre has taken over some space at Erinsborough High. The plan is for the school and Eirini Rising to co-exist, as students build relationships with some of the olde
  • Mildura Digital Television to shut down on June 30

    Mildura Digital Television to shut down on June 30
    Mildura residents will no longer be able to watch Channel 10 or its BOLD and Peach channels on free to-air television from June 30th.
    Mildura Digital Television will shut down on June 30 according to local radio station River 1467.com.
    The Network 10 affiliate is owned by Seven West Media and WIN Corporation and began broadcasting in 2006.
    “Mildura has been put in The Dog House by the SevenWest – WIN joint venture, effectively telling local residents I’m an Australian Operation
  • Farmer Wants a Wife, Cheap Seats win Tuesday timeslots

    Farmer Wants a Wife, Cheap Seats win Tuesday timeslots
    Farmer Wants a Wife managed to upstage Nine’s reality finale last night, drawing 1.02m viewers in National TV Audience.
    Lego Masters (848,000), MasterChef Australia (646,000), 7:30 (612,000), and  Who Do You Think You Are? (293,000) all followed.
    The Cheap Seats led with 465,000 then  The Marlow Murder Club (450,000), Clarkson’s Farm (421,000), Creative Types with Virginia Trioli (346,000) which grew ahead of This is Going to Be Big (281,000).
    Seven News topped the night at
  • Tuesday 7 May 2024

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  • Airdate: Ashley Madison: Sex, Lies & Scandal

    Airdate: Ashley Madison: Sex, Lies & Scandal
    UK documentary Ashley Madison: Sex, Lies & Scandal is the story of the most appallingly intimate internet leak of the modern age, and what happened when people’s darkest desires, shameful betrayals and sexual secrets were exposed for the whole world to see…
    When Ashley Madison, a dating site for people seeking adulterous affairs, is hacked, millions of users’ intimate data is exposed, wrecking marriages and destroying lives.This three episode documentary series from Minnow
  • ABC apologises for showing graphic live vision

    ABC apologises for showing graphic live vision
    ABC has apologised to the family of Jade Young, a victim in the Bondi Junction Westfield attacks, following graphic vision which went to air.
    ” On April 13, the night of the tragic stabbing at Bondi Junction in Sydney ABC News channel inadvertently broadcast images of one of the victims – Jade Young – taken at the scene,” ABC said in an apology.
    “We acknowledge those images were graphic and inappropriate. ABC News is deeply sorry about that. A decision had been made
  • Silent Witness: May 10

    Silent Witness: May 10
    Episode 3 os Silent Witness S26 this week is “Familiar Faces, Part 1.”
    The Lyell team work together to find out why the lorry was found with bodies inside and a dead driver at the wheel, and are truly shocked to discover where it leads them. Gabriel becomes emotionally invested and is presented with an ethical dilemma, and Jack gets a surprise visit.8:30pm Friday on ABC.
  • Airdate: Little Bird

    Airdate: Little Bird
    Six part 2023 US drama Little Bird, starring Darla Contois and Lisa Edelstein (House) premieres next week on Stan.
    Little Bird follows the life of Bezhig Little Bird, a victim of the Sixties Scoop in Saskatchewan wherein First Nations children were abducted and placed in foster homes before being put up for adoption by white families. Told in parallel timelines, the series contrasts Bezhig’s childhood with her engagement party – only this time as Esther Rosenblum, a woman in her 20s

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