Television news

• Can’t touch The Block

  27-10-2019 23:51
  The Block was streets ahead of its competition last night, pulling an audience of 1.09m viewers and topping the demos.
  That was more than twice its rivals, Bride & Prejudice (440,000 -including in an 8:30 slot in Perth), Grand Designs: The Street (413,000 from 7:40pm), The Graham Norton Show (300,000 from 7:30pm) and Secrets Of The Railway (241,000).
  Nine’s lead continued thereafter with 60 Minutes on 610,000 then Total Control (495,000), Sunday Night (376,000, including on 7TWO in Pe
  
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• Sunday 27 October 2019

  27-10-2019 23:36
  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:
  Sunday
  Deliverable:
  Overnight, Consolidated 7 and Consolidated 28Channel
  Overnight
  Consolidated 7
  Consolidated 28
  27/10/2019
  20/10/2019
  29/09/2019
  ABC
  10.6%
  11.8%
  9.8%
  ABC KIDS/COMEDY
  2.9%
  2.8%
  2.4%
  ABC ME
  0.5%
  0.6%
  1.6%
  ABC NEWS
  1.3%
  1.4%
  1.3%
  ABC Network
  15.3%
  16.6%
  15.1%
  Seven
  17.4%
  14.4%
  23.2%
  7TWO
  2.7%
  2.9%
  2.3%
  7mate
  3.6%
  4
  
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• Vale: Anne Phelan

  27-10-2019 18:58
  Veteran Australian actress Anne Phelan, best known for Prisoner and Winners & Losers, has died, aged 71.
  Showbiz colleagues were sharing the news yesterday on social media.
  Phelan enjoyed a long career on stage and screen with TV roles from the 1970s in such shows as Ryan, Homicide, Division 4, Matlock Police and 4 years on Bellbird as Kate Ashwood. Soaps including Skyways, Holiday Island, A Country Practice, Sons & Daughters and Carson’s Law all followed.She received two Televisi
  
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• “I’m pretty familiar with our policy on early mornings”

  27-10-2019 18:55
  Hamish Blake has quashed suggestions that Andy Lee might be headed to the Today show, following a report his sidekick had been sounded out for a role.
  “Someone told me yesterday we were both thrown around as hosts. Far out. I’m answering here an article I have no idea about,” he told TV Tonight.
  The Lego Masters host said he hadn’t heard any news of Lee joining Today “… only in the context of our friends laughing about a newspaper report. I guess people who
  
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• Record $42.6m raised at Perth Telethon

  27-10-2019 18:52
  WA has done it again with a record-breaking $42,596,034 million raised by the annual Perth Telethon.
  Underpinned by multimillion donations from the Federal and State Governments and several other WA businesses and philanthropists, it steamed past 2018’s $38,000,554.
  Seven network personalities joined with new CEO James Warburton for the weekend of fund-raising.
  Seven West Media chairman Kerry Stokes told the West Australian, “There are even premiers from other States who have asked
  
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• Seven “weak, tired” as Nine nabs another week

  27-10-2019 18:50
  Last week at Seven’s Upfronts newly-installed CEO James Warburton gave advertisers a frank admission of the network’s under-performance this year.
  “We have been weak, inward focused, tired and stagnant. Recently we have had a string of poor programs and failures by our own high standards. We have let others take a share of what we have been so good at in the past. We haven’t thrown a punch over the last quarter and, to be frank, it’s been disappointing,” he a
  
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• Have You Been Paying Attention?: Oct 28

  27-10-2019 18:45
  Urzila Carlson, Glenn Robbins & Hayley Sproull are guests tonight on Have You Been Paying Attention? with Chrissie Swan as guest host.
  For one night only, popular radio and TV personality Chrissie Swan will fill Tom Gleisner’s illustrious hosting shoes as she puts Australia’s funniest comedians through their paces to test if they have indeed have been paying attention.
  Chrissie has her work cut out managing the wisecracks and curveballs from series regulars Sam Pang and Ed Kaval
  
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• Airdate: Ivan Milat: Killer in the Forest

  27-10-2019 18:44
  Nine screens a true crime doco tonight Ivan Milat: Killer in the Forest which profiles Australia’s worst serial killer, who died in Sydney’s Long Bay prison hospital yesterday, aged 74.
  A 20 to ONE replay is now out.
  Narrated by Peter Overton, the Nine News special will explore how Milat butchered seven backpackers in the Belanglo State Forest, what it took to catch him, and whether he committed even more murders.
  We hear from Milat’s relatives, his victims’ families, th
  
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• Renewed: Modern Love

  27-10-2019 18:42
  Amazon Prime has renewed anthology series Modern Love for a second season.
  The news comes less than a week after the first season debuted.
  The series is described as an exploration of love in all of its complicated and beautiful forms, with each standalone episode based on some of the most popular stories from the column. Among the stars who appeared are: Anne Hathaway, Jane Alexander, Sofia Boutella, Gary Carr, Olivia Cooke, Brandon Victor Dixon, Tina Fey, Andy Garcia, John Gallagher, Jr., Jul
  
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• Airdate: All Rise

  27-10-2019 18:40
  US legal drama All Rise begins next month on new channel FOX One.
  The series follows judges, prosecutors, and public defenders in a Los Angeles courthouse. It stars Simone Missick, Wilson Bethel, Jessica Camacho, Marg Helgenberger, Ruthie Ann Miles, Lindsay Mendez, and J. Alex Brinson.
  This began a month ago in the US.
  A new courthouse drama that follows the chaotic, hopeful and sometimes absurd lives of its judges, prosecutors and public defenders, as they work with bailiffs, clerks and cops t
  
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• The Amazing Race Australia

  27-10-2019 13:00
  Teams set off from Seoul, South Korea. 7:30pm Monday on 10.Australian Story
  Have You Been Paying Attention?
  The Rookie
  Silicon Valley
  A Very Brady Renovation
  
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• Saturday 26 October 2019

  27-10-2019 01:56
  Report:
  Daily Free-to-Air Share
  Channels:
  All Free-to-Air Channels
  Market:
  5 City Metro (aggregate figure)Demographics:
  Total People (incl. guests)Day-part:
  18:00 – 24:00
  Day:
  Saturday
  Deliverable:
  Overnight and Consolidated
  Overnight
  Consolidated 7
  Consolidated 28
  Channel\Date
  26/10/2019
  19/10/2019
  28/09/2019
  ABC
  9.7%
  11.4%
  10.2%
  ABC KIDS/COMEDY
  3.3%
  3.7%
  2.1%
  ABC ME
  0.6%
  0.6%
  0.7%
  ABC NEWS
  1.7%
  1.9%
  1.8%
  ABC Network
  15.3%
  17.6%
  14.8%
  Seven
  17.6%
  16.6%
  21.9%
  7TWO
  3.3%
  4.3%
  3.5%
  7mate
  3.8
  
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