• Westworld twists leave fans in a-maze-ment

    Westworld twists leave fans in a-maze-ment
    Warning: Make sure you have seen the finale of Westworld S1 before reading!
    If you saw the finale of Westworld this week chances are you are a crazy mix of emotions: wonderment, shock, very probably still a bit confused, and hungry for much more.
    The finale dropped bombshell twists few saw coming.
    It also attracted plenty of reactions from fans and media.
    Here’s a few samples:
    Mashable:
    Westworld’s finale was a near-perfect end point to a fantastic season of sci-fi television, not t
  • Friday 3 May 2024

    Total People                                                                Total TV Overnight Top 30 Programs
    Fri 3rd May 2024
    Rank                                            Description           
  • Eurovision Song Contest 2024: guide

    Eurovision Song Contest 2024: guide
    Theme:United by Music becomes the slogan for all future events.
    Venue:Malmö Arena, Malmö, Sweden.
    Hosts:Petra Mede, Malin Åkerman (pictured, bottom).
    SBS presenters:Joel CreasyMyf WarhurstCourtney Act (Backstage)
    Semi Final One 
    Live Wednesday 8 May at 5:00am AEST (replay Friday 10 May at 7:30pm AEST)
    1 Cyprus Silia Kapsis “Liar” * (pictured top)2 Serbia Teya Dora “Ramonda”3 Lithuania Silvester Belt “Luktelk”4 Ireland Bambie Thug “Do
  • Gavin & Stacey confirm last ever episode

    Gavin & Stacey confirm last ever episode
    “Some news… It’s official!!! We have finished writing the last ever episode of Gavin and Stacey. See you on Christmas Day, BBC One. Love Ruth and James ”
    So said James Corden and Ruth Jones confirming a Christmas Day farewell for Gavin & Staceyin the UK, five years after the cast last reunited.
    A 2019 Christmas special audience of 18.5m was the biggest BBC TV programme outside of sporting and national events since records began in 2002.
    Earlier reports, which tipped
  • Advertisement

  • TVNZ Midday signs off, barefoot exit.

    TVNZ Midday signs off, barefoot exit.
    TVNZ Midday anchor Indira Stewart farewelled viewers and signed off yesterday, walking barefoot out of the studio wheeling a suitcase behind her.
    “From all the reporters, presenters, camera operators, editors, graphic designers, deskies, soundies, directors, autocue operators and producers who have helped make the midday news over the years, it’s been a privilege to present Midday to you all, we want to thank you for watching,” she said before leaving the desk.
    “Take care
  • Insiders: May 5

    Insiders: May 5
    Guest on Sunday’s Insiders is Finance Minister and Minister for Women, Katy Gallagher.
    David Speers is joined by Tom Crowley, Clare Armstrong and Jennifer Hewett to discuss the crisis of violence against women, renewed pressure on two ministers over released detainees, plus changes to foreign investment rules.
    9am Sunday on ABC.
  • SKY News apologises after teen stitch-up

    SKY News apologises after teen stitch-up
    SKY News has apologised to NT teenager Keegan Payne following a Live interview with presenter Peter Stefanovic.
    Payne, 19, appeared on First Edition on Wednesday morning after winning a $1 million prize in the Northern Territory’s Million Dollar Fish Competition.
    During the interview Stefanovic asked Payne about a 2020 theft of a Polaris Ranger and Polaris Quad from his former employer.
    At the time Payne was a minor and this week struggled for the words to Stefanovic’s grilling.Milli
  • Eurovision 2024: San Marino

    Eurovision 2024: San Marino
    San Marino
    Eurovision: Semi Final TwoMegara: “11:11”
    More than a band, Megara is a concept! Rock, pop, metal, electronic – whatever! These guys play with all kinds of musical genres, forgetting about prejudices and labels. The band embraces inclusivity, and within their act there is space for spikes, headbanging and fire, but also for dancers, unicorns and candy. There’s room for everybody! They released their very first EP Muérase Qué Puede in 2015, and one
  • Advertisement

  • Airdate: Eric

    Airdate: Eric
    Upcoming UK mystery series Eric starring Benedict Cumberbatch, teases that “The Real Monsters aren’t under the bed.”
    The six part series filmed in Budapest and New York. It also features Gaby Hoffmann, McKinley Belcher III, Dan Fogler, Clarke Peters.
    Set in 1980s New York, Eric is a new emotional thriller from Abi Morgan following the desperate search of a father when his nine year old son disappears one morning on the way to school. Vincent, one of New York’s leading pup
  • Star Wars: Tales of the Empire

    Star Wars: Tales of the Empire
    May the 4th be with you, Saturday on Disney+Father Brown
    Charles III: The Coronation Year
    Super Rugby Pacific 2024
    Jeopardy! Australia
    A-League Women Grand Final
  • Director of Seven News Melbourne quits network

    Director of Seven News Melbourne quits network
    Shaun Menegola as Director of Seven News Melbourne has quit after 5 years in the role, but nearly three decades overall at the network.
    He becomes the latest in a line of top execs to depart.
    “I have decided to call an end to my time here at 7NEWS in Melbourne,” he said.
    “It’s entirely my decision and one I’ve been thinking about for a long time. It’s not one driven by anything else other than the fact that I’m looking to take a break to recharge and reb
  • Friday Flashback: Ailsa sees Bobby’s ghost in the fridge

    Friday Flashback: Ailsa sees Bobby’s ghost in the fridge
    In one of Home & Away‘s more bizarre storylines in 1995, Ailsa (Judy Nunn) suffered a bout of depression and began hallucinating, resulting in the surprising emergence of Bobby’s (Nicolle Dickson) ghost from a fridge door.
    The visions were explained by writers as the result of expired anti-depressants from a post-natal period.
    Ray Meagher recently told TV Tonight, “The thing that was a bit funny that I always used to have a chuckle about with Cornelia Francis, Norman Coburn
  • 7News Spotlight: May 5

    7News Spotlight: May 5
    On Sunday 7NEWS Spotlight reporter Liam Bartlett looks to fake advertisements featuring well-known celebrities travelling to a Philippines headquarters.
    “Everyone from the ACCC to the richest man in Australia has been trying to shut these crooks down without success, so we’ve gone to the source of the problem, the place where these scammers live and work to try to disable their wicked game,” he said.
    With the help of an insider, he turns the tables on the scammers, revealing th
  • Fire Country spinoff Sheriff Country ordered

    Fire Country spinoff Sheriff Country ordered
    Fire Country is getting a spinoff, Sheriff Country, led by Morena Baccarin (V, Homeland, Firefly, Deadpool).
    According to Deadline, Baccarin (who featured in a recent Fire Country episode, pictured) stars as straight-shooting sheriff Mickey Fox, the stepsister of Cal Fire’s division chief Sharon Leone (Diane Farr of Fire Country), who investigates criminal activity as she patrols the streets of small-town Edgewater while contending with her ex-con father and a mysterious incident involving
  • New detective to lead Death in Paradise

    New detective to lead Death in Paradise
    Death in Paradise has its new lead detective in Don Gilet (Sherwood, EastEnders, The Beekeeper, Shetland).
    Making his debut in a feature-length Christmas special, Gilet will play Detective Inspector Mervin Wilson – who arrives on the idyllic island of Saint Marie from London, and isn’t overly pleased with his new surroundings…
    Gilet has recently begun filming in Guadeloupe, alongside returning cast Don Warrington, Shantol Jackson, Ginny Holder, Élizabeth Bourgine and Da
  • Airdate: The GOAT

    Airdate: The GOAT
    To “Celebrate” 25 years of Reality TV, Prime Video has brought together former Reality contestants just to test them on who is the greatest of all time in The GOAT.
    Yeah, nah.
    Fourteen reality superstars – from Bachelorette to Housewives to Survivors to Drag Racers and everyone in between – move into GOAT Manor to face off in a brand new, hilarious competition show, hosted by Daniel Tosh. They will compete in over 20 challenges, earning and breaking one another’s tr
  • Nine scores with ACA, NRL, Seven wins Thursday.

    Nine scores with ACA, NRL, Seven wins Thursday.
    The Chase topped entertainment at 700,000 viewers in National TV Audience on Thursday.
    7:30 drew 635,000 in its slot followed by Jamie’s Air Meal Fryers (442,000) and Foreign Correspondent (438,000).
    Later Martin Clunes: Islands of Australia (which ran some years ago on Seven) was 387,000 then Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly (301,000 in select cities) and Law & Order: SVU (186,000).
    Thursday Night NRL (687,000) outranked Seven’s AFL at 585,000, with Nine having a BVOD rights adva
  • Thursday 2 May 2024

    Total People                                                                Total TV Overnight Top 30 Programs
    Thu 2nd May 2024
    Rank                                            Description           
  • Q+A: May 7

    Q+A: May 7
    Appearing on Q+A next Monday are Arts minister Tony Burke, and former Communications minister Paul Fletcher.
    What’s the future of work? COVID disrupted the office and accelerated the transition to hybrid working. Full-time remote working is a reality for some, but there’s a tension in some corporates who want staff back in the office at least a few days a week. For many Australians, WFH isn’t an option, entrenching social and economic divides between those who can and those who
  • SKY News to launch NZ Edition

    SKY News to launch NZ Edition
    SKY News Australia will premiere a new short-form news program, NZ Edition, hosted by New Zealand Correspondent, Jack Nyhof, tomorrow.
    NZ Edition will broadcast from the SKY News Australia studio in Parliament House, Wellington, each Saturday.
    This week Prime Minister of New Zealand Christopher Luxon, will sit down with Nyhof to discuss the most pressing issues impacting the nation, including New Zealand’s foreign policy and place in the world, its relationships with Australia and China, p
  • First Nations artwork sets the scene for Electric Fields in Malmö

    First Nations artwork sets the scene for Electric Fields in Malmö
    This week, South Australia’s powerful, ethereal duo Electric Fields began rehearsals in Malmö, Sweden, for their Eurovision Song Contest performance.
    Vocalist Zaachariaha Fielding and keyboardist Michael Ross, will be joined on stage by vocalists Brendan Maclean, Alyson Joyce, and Simi Vuata, with Fred Leone on the Yidaki (aka didgeridoo).
    Their staging is also illuminated by one of Zaachariaha’s artworks – a painting titled ‘Paraulpi’ which inspired and create
  • Airdate: 2024 BAFTA Television Awards

    Airdate: 2024 BAFTA Television Awards
    The 2024 BAFTA Television Awards hosted by Romesh Ranganathan & Rob Beckett will be fastracked on UKTV.
    The Crown and Black Mirror are among the TV series leading nominations at this year’s awards, earning eight and seven nominations respectively. They are followed by Happy Valley, Slow Horses, and The Sixth Commandment with six each. Getting five nominations each were The Last of Us, The Long Shadow, and Succession. Other shows featuring among the nominees include Good Omens and Extra
  • “Are you representing Tassie in a bad light?”

    “Are you representing Tassie in a bad light?”
    Production on Bay of Fires Season Two begins next week in Tasmania, with star, co-creator and executive producer Marta Dusseldorp hoping the locals are a little more chilled second time.
    During filming of Season One, there were plenty of questions about what the ABC series might do to reputations.
    “I was getting quite a lot of flack. ‘Are you representing Tassie in a bad light?'” Dusseldorp recalls.
    “And I’m going, ‘They’re not Tasmanians!’ But I c
  • Nightly News 7 Tasmania in breach over poor captions

    Nightly News 7 Tasmania in breach over poor captions
    Nightly News 7 Tasmania broadcast by Southern Cross Television has been given a breach by the Australian Communications and Media Authority for poor captioning for deaf and hearing impaired viewers.
    ACMA assessed a bulletin which screened on 9 November 2023, with local content produced by the Licensee and national and international news sourced from their Seven Network affiliate.
    A complainant told ACMA, “I have previously complained by email to this provider. On watching the news service
  • A Survivor meltdown of epic proportions

    A Survivor meltdown of epic proportions
    Viewers of Survivor were witness to a contestant meltdown of epic proportions last night when Liz screamed in desperation after missing out on a food reward.
    It was very uncomfortable viewing.
    Liz, who it turns out is allergic to coconuts and most island foods, hadn’t eaten properly in weeks. Just to load the situation more, the reward of Applebees burgers and fries is a weekly treat she shares with her daughter back home.
    So when contestant Q did not choose her, her emotions unleashed for
  • Silent Witness: May 3

    Silent Witness: May 3
    Tonight on Silent Witness, Nikki’s crisis deepens as she becomes more entwined with the deadly Ndrangheta.
    Dr Nikki Alexander (Emilia Fox) and the team of forensic pathologists and scientists investigate intriguing new cases: a body falling from the top of a skyscraper, a people trafficking operation, a suspicious death at a festival, a train crash, and corrupt police officers.
    The cases that end up at the Lyell Centre are rarely straightforward. Initial suspicions are challenged as the ev
  • Airdate: Unfrosted

    Airdate: Unfrosted
    Unfrosted, which is Jerry Seinfeld’s feature directorial debut, is loosely based on the true story of the creation of Pop-Tarts toaster pastries.
    The film stars Seinfeld, Melissa McCarthy, Jim Gaffigan, Hugh Grant, Amy Schumer. Christopher Beck and also features Max Greenfield, Peter Dinklage, Christian Slater, Dan LevyJames Marsden and Jack McBrayer.
    Michigan, 1963. Kellogg’s and Post, sworn cereal rivals, race to create a pastry that will change the face of breakfast forever. A tal
  • Eurovision 2024: Portugal

    Eurovision 2024: Portugal
    Portugal
    Eurovision: Semi Final Twoiolanda: “Grito”
    A promising singer and songwriter, iolanda released her debut EP ‘Cura’ in March 2023.Born in São Pedro de Cova Gala, in Figueira da Foz, the artist moved to Lisbon at the age of 17, but already at 14 she took her first steps in writing. Not long afterwards, she started performing in bars and national talent competitions as an even greater gateway into music. Later, she moved to the UK, where she studied Songwriti
  • Unfrosted

    Unfrosted
    Jerry Seinfeld leads a star-studded cast in a tale of breakfast cereal wars. Friday on Netflix.Hacks
    Paul O’Grady’s Great Elephant Adventure
    Silent Witness
    Ready Steady Cook
    Welcome to Wrexham
  • Eurovision 2024: Poland

    Eurovision 2024: Poland
    Poland
    Eurovision: Semi Final OneLuna: “The Tower”
    An accomplished singer, Luna has been involved in the music industry since her youth, singing and dancing in a folk band, as well as performing in musical theatre and the Grand Theatre-National Opera in Warsaw. She can play the violin and the piano, is a songwriter (in both English and Polish) and a composer, and she is also a yoga teacher. Art, philosophy and fashion are Luna’s playground, but she’s also fascinated with

Follow @TelevisionNewsl on Twitter!