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• Prodigal Son

  11-11-2019 18:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Producer Greg Berlanti’s latest US series, Prodigal Son plays with the tenuous relationship between a former FBI profiler and his convicted serial killer father.
  Tom Payne stars as Malcolm Bright, whose unconventional style sees him fired from the FBI before being hired by NYPD Lieutenant Gil Arroyo (Lou Diamond Phillips). New York is suffering a spate of killings that mirror those of jailed killer Martin Whitly (Michael Sheen), who just happens to be Malcolm’s father.
  Father and so
  
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• ‘Frustrating’ takeover bid falters for Radio / TV broadcaster

  13-05-2024 09:43 via tvtonight.com.au
  
  Anchorage Capital has withdrawn a joint acquisition attempt with the Australian Radio Network to takeover Southern Cross Austereo assets.
  The deal, had it proceeded, would have seen radio and television assets to be separated into independent ownership -with Anchorage to control Southern Cross regional television assets.
  Southern Cross Austereo operates 99 radio stations, LiSTNR and 96 TV signals, and provides national sales representation for 56 other radio stations and 39 TV stations.
  But noti
  
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• BAFTA TV Awards 2024: winners

  13-05-2024 08:13 via tvtonight.com.au
  
  Spoilers:
  Winners have been announced in the annual BAFTA TV Awards:
  Leading actressAnjana Vasan, Demon 79 (Black Mirror) – NetflixAnne Reid, The Sixth Commandment – BBC OneBella Ramsey, The Last of Us – Sky AtlanticHelena Bonham Carter, Nolly – ITVXSarah Lancashire, Happy Valley – BBC OneSharon Horgan, Best Interests – BBC One
  Leading actorBrian Cox, Succession – Sky AtlanticDominic West, The Crown – NetflixKane Robinson, Top Boy – NetflixPa
  
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• Airdate: Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes

  13-05-2024 06:14 via tvtonight.com.au
  
  New documentary Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes, set to have its world premiere at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, wil screen on Binge and Docos in August.
  Directed by Nanette Burstein (Hillary, The Kid Stays in the Picture), it draws upon Taylor’s own voice to narrate her story, accompanied by personal photos, home movies, and clips from her iconic roles that mirror her real-life challenges and triumphs.
  Through newly discovered interviews with Taylor and unprecedented access to the movie
  
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• David Leckie Seven Scholarship recipient 2024

  13-05-2024 05:43 via tvtonight.com.au
  
  L to R: Jeff Howard, Harry Leckie, Alessandro Rosini
  Seven West Media has announced a third recipient of the annual David Leckie Seven Scholarship Program.
  Alessandro Rosini is a recent graduate of Swinburne University of Technology with a Bachelor’s Degree in Media and Communications, majoring in journalism.
  He will initially work in the Sydney digital division of SWM.
  The David Leckie Seven Scholarship Program was set up in late 2012 and offers a 12-month role to a graduate with a passio
  
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• Eurovision 2024 boosts SBS on Sunday

  13-05-2024 03:55 via tvtonight.com.au
  
  The Eurovision Song Contest Final has seen SBS draw a bumper share of  13.4% on Sunday, likely its biggest share so far this year, despite Australia not performing -that’s up on 2023’s 11.4% when Voyager performed.
  While the evening replay averaged 226,000 viewers across a lengthy broadcast, Reach numbers now allow us to see 927,000 watched a minute or more. The Live morning broadcast averaged a further 209,000 with a Reach of 508,000.
  Meanwhile Farmer Wants a Wife led entertain
  
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• Sunday 12 May 2024

  13-05-2024 03:41 via tvtonight.com.au
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• SKY News: Budget 2024

  13-05-2024 03:15 via tvtonight.com.au
  
  SKY News will deliver live coverage of the Federal Budget through the night featuring political, business and finance experts.
  The Budget will reveal the Albanese Labor Government’s plans and priorities for the year ahead as Australians around the country continue to tackle the burgeoning cost-of-living crisis.
  Budget 2024 coverage begins with The Kenny Report’s Chris Kenny at 5.00pm, discussing the key issues set to impact the Budget outcome.
  From 6:00pm, Peta Credlin will host a sp
  
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• Matt Shirvington visits Summer Bay

  13-05-2024 03:02 via tvtonight.com.au
  
  Sunrise presenters Matt Shirvington and Natalie Barr will play themselves in a guest appearance on Home & Away when Hollywood actor ‘Stevie Marlow’ (Catherine Van-Davies) visits Summer Bay.
  Also this week a new relationship is on the rocks and a shocking turn of events leaves Dana (Ally Harris) and Harper (Jessica Redmayne) reeling.
  Here’s how the Sunrise hosts are woven into the storyline, with Shirvo on set and Natalie Barr in the Sunrise studio.
  Since her arrival in town
  
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• Networks again lock arms over anti-siphoning

  13-05-2024 02:11 via tvtonight.com.au
  
  Free to Air commercial networks have again urged the Federal Government to amend its proposed changes to the anti-siphoning bill with a final marketing campaign across print, online and social media (…oddly they don’t mention TV itself).
  They remain particularly disappointed there are no changes to digital streaming rights, urging events be acquired by a free broadcaster before they can be acquired by a pay TV or subscription streaming provider.
  According to Free TV Australia viewer
  
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• Today show remembers Sam Rubin

  13-05-2024 01:45 via tvtonight.com.au
  
  “Sam spent his life in the bright lights of Hollywood, interviewing stars. Now he’s being remembered by them.”
  The Today show has reflected on legendary entertainment correspondent Sam Rubin, following his death on the weekend.
   We are remembering our entertainment correspondent Sam Rubin, who sadly passed away aged 64. #9Today pic.twitter.com/CoCZGKVNza
  — The Today Show (@TheTodayShow) May 12, 2024
  
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• Airdate: Lady in the Lake

  13-05-2024 01:30 via tvtonight.com.au
  
  Upcoming, seven-part limited series Lady in the Lake starring Natalie Portman and Moses Ingram premieres on Apple TV+ in July.
  The cast also features Y’lan Noel, Brett Gelman, Byron Bowers, Noah Jupe, Josiah Cross, Mikey Madison and Pruitt Taylor Vince.
  When the disappearance of a young girl grips the city of Baltimore on Thanksgiving 1966, the lives of two women converge on a fatal collision course. Maddie Schwartz (Portman), a Jewish housewife seeking to shed a secret past and reinvent h
  
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• The travelling circus of Top Gear Australia

  12-05-2024 20:58 via tvtonight.com.au
  
  As any Top Gear fan knows, you can’t make the show unless you go big.
  In its third iteration for Paramount+ (previously on SBS and Nine), a new-look Top Gear Australia does not hold back on its scale, visiting France, Italy, Colombia, jam-packed into 4-5 months of filming.
  For host Jonathan LaPaglia, match-fit for Survivor in Samoa, it was a very challenging shoot.
  “I found it tough. It really is a travelling circus,” he tells TV Tonight. “I mean you’re literally go
  
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• Electric Fields missed Eurovision Final by just 6 points

  12-05-2024 20:55 via tvtonight.com.au
  
  Electric Fields only missed out on qualifying for the Eurovision Song Festival but a small but crucial 6 points.
  Australia inished 11th in Semi Final One with 41 points with Serbia 10th with 47 points.
  The results were:Croatia – 177 points
  Ukraine – 173
  Ireland – 124
  Lithuania – 119
  Luxembourg – 117
  Cyprus – 67
  Finland – 59
  Portugal – 58
  Slovenia – 51
  Serbia – 47
  Australia – 41
  Poland – 35
  Moldova – 20
  Azerbaijan &ndas
  
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• SBS lifts, Seven wins ratings week.

  12-05-2024 20:50 via tvtonight.com.au
  
  Seven continues its successive ratings weeks, last week drawing a share of 32.25% to Nine’s 24.83%.
  Seven News (Sunday) was the top show of the week at 1.39m viewers in National TV Audience with Farmer Wants a Wife topping entertainment at 1.07m.
  Best for Nine was Nine News on Sunday at 1.25m.
  ABC also bettered 10 at 17.55% to 10’s 13.83%.
  SBS enjoyed a lift to 10.64% with the Eurovision Song Contest drawing up to 221,000 for Semi Final 2 replayed on Saturday night (the Final tips in
  
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• Airdate: This Town

  12-05-2024 20:45 via tvtonight.com.au
  
  This Town, a new thriller-drama from British screenwriter Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders, Rogue Heroes) debuts next week on SBS.
  The 6 part series tells a story of family ties, teenage kicks, and redemption as an extended family fights to choose their own paths amidst an iconic music scene in 80s Coventry and Birmingham.
  Opening in 1981, at a moment of huge social unrest, one conflicted family must navigate dangerous odds to stay together. There’s the young dreamer, Dante, whose eyes are op
  
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• ABC: Budget 2024

  12-05-2024 20:44 via tvtonight.com.au
  
  The Federal Budget of 2024 will be handed down on Tuesday.
  Treasurer Jim Chalmers will deliver his third budget as the government weighs ongoing concern about inflation against calls for it to provide more cost-of-living relief to struggling households.
  ABC offers extensive coverage and analysis of the budget and what it means for you.
  Tuesday May 147:30pm Budget 2024: Treasurer’s Speech.8pm: Budget 2024: A 7:30 special8:30pm Insiders Budget Special
  ABC will also broadcast Opposition Leade
  
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• Axed: Constellation

  12-05-2024 20:40 via tvtonight.com.au
  
  Apple TV+ has cancelled Constellation after just one season, which only launched in February.
  The ambitious sci-fi starred Noomi Rapace as Jo, an astronaut who discovered that key pieces of her life seemed to be missing upon returning to Earth after a disaster in space.
  It also featured James D’Arcy as Magnus, Julian Looman as Frederic, William Catlett as Paul, Barbara Sukowa as Irena and Rosie and Davina Coleman as Alice.
  While viewing numbers are not available, the series drew a 71% scor
  
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• Saturday 11 May 2024

  12-05-2024 06:42 via tvtonight.com.au
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• Mix Tape drama now filming in Sydney

  12-05-2024 01:00 via tvtonight.com.au
  
  Production has commenced in Sydney on Irish-Australian co-production Mix Tape, a new series starring Teresa Palmer (The Clearing, The Fall Guy) and British actor Jim Sturgess (Across The Universe, Cloud Atlas).
  The Binge / Foxtel drama will be filmed across Sydney and Ireland.
  Ben Lawson (Bombshell, Designated Survivor) returns to Australia for his first major role in an local television drama in many years. He is joined for the Australian portion of the shoot by Julia Savage (The Clearing, Blaz
  
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• Switzerland wins Eurovision Song Contest 2024

  12-05-2024 00:51 via tvtonight.com.au
  
  Switzerland’s Nemo has won the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 with their song “The Code.”
  Nemo drew 591 points to take out the glass trophy in Malmo.
  “Thank you so much I hope this contest can live up to its promise for peace and dignity for every person,” an elated Nemo said.
  Croatia drew second place with 547 points and in third place was Ukraine on 453 points.Australia’s own Silia Kapsis turned on an energetic, sexy performance with her song “Liar&rdquo
  
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• Neale Whittaker quits The Block

  11-05-2024 20:55 via tvtonight.com.au
  
  Earlier this week, long-standing Block judge Neale Whitaker (pictured left) announced he was departing after 13 years.
  “It’s no secret that The Block is currently filming on Victoria’s Phillip Island and lots of people have been asking me if I’m back on the show this year. I thought now was a good time to answer those questions,” he posted online.
  “In 2023 – as many of you will know – I took a break from The Block to spend more time with my partner
  
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• Fears Australia-US free trade agreement may jeopardise quotas on streaming platforms

  11-05-2024 20:53 via tvtonight.com.au
  
  Screen Producers Australia has raised concerns that the Australia-US free trade agreemeny is being weaponised to constrict the Federal Government introducing comprehensive local content quotas on streaming platforms.An Interim Report of the Senate Environment and Communications References Committee Inquiry into Australia’s National Cultural Policy recommended the government prioritise the introduction of its legislative reforms for local content requirements for streaming services.
  But the
  
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• Renewed: The Conners confirms final season

  11-05-2024 20:50 via tvtonight.com.au
  
  The Conners has been renewed for Season 7 which will also be the show’s last.
  The final season will reportedly be shorter than past seasons, with media sources saying it will run for just six episodes.
  The Conners originally debuted in 2018. It began as a revival of Roseanne, but following Roseanne Barr’s tweets about former Obama administration aide Valerie Jarrett, the revival was cancelled. Not long after, it was announced the show would continue as The Conners without Barr, with
  
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• Airdate: Britain by Book

  11-05-2024 20:45 via tvtonight.com.au
  
  Another Martin Clunes special Britain by Book visits scenery and iconic locations made famous by some of Britain’s favourite books and films.
  Inspired by her passion for books, Mel Giedroyc hooks up with her friend and Dorset local, Martin Clunes, to explore the spectacular scenery and iconic locations made famous by some of Britain’s favourite books and films.
  In this funny, revealing and heart-warming travelogue, the two friends walk in the footsteps of Meryl Streep’s French
  
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• Eurovision Song Contest 2024

  11-05-2024 14:00 via tvtonight.com.au
  
  Petra Mede and Malin Åkerman host the Final at Malmö Arena. Live 5am AEST on SBS (replay 7:30pm). TV Tonight publishing Live results Sunday morning.Interview with the Vampire
  After the Party
  The Summit
  MasterChef Australia
  Farmer Wants a Wife
  
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• Friday 10 May 2024

  11-05-2024 08:33 via tvtonight.com.au
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• Vale: Sam Rubin

  11-05-2024 01:32 via tvtonight.com.au
  
  US entertainment reporter, Sam Rubin, who featured on the Today show for some 20 years, has died aged 64.
  A source close to KTLA confirmed that Rubin died at his home of a heart attack after doing his regular Hollywood news segments on KTLA’s Morning News program on Friday.
  Rubin was a fixture in Hollywood who enjoyed rare longevity with a single station throughout his career. On camera, Rubin was unfailingly jocular and warm, often talking about his off-air activities with his wife and fo
  
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• The Summit 2024: meet the cast

  10-05-2024 20:58 via tvtonight.com.au
  
  In Season Two of The Summit 14 strangers will embark carrying an equal share of one million dollars, must reach the 2400 metre peak of a distant NZ mountain in just 15 days to win the cash they’re carrying.
  Along the journey they’ll need to work as a team as they tackle dangerous terrain, wild conditions, and overcome adrenaline-charged challenges blocking their path to the mountain.
  But ill they reach the top in time, or vote each other off the mountain, and who will walk away with
  
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• Would SBS ever cast celebrities on Alone Australia?

  10-05-2024 20:55 via tvtonight.com.au
  
  Alone has seen format variations in international versions but so far it has resisted a celebrity edition.
  Joseph Maxwell, Head of Unscripted at SBS tells TV Tonight he has already been approached by well-known Australians interested in applying for the show.
  “I said ‘Yes, absolutely. Go ahead,” he said. “But the reality is it’s a pretty tough challenge to do. The US format had various twists, a 50-day challenge, another where they went in as pairs, so there’s
  
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