18/05/2012

TV Guide for week ending 19/05/12

Gigi Edgley & Kip Gamblin - Tricky Business

What a week we'll see... the start of the live shows for The Voice Australia (will it maintain it's ratings dominance?); Ch9's much promoted/prematurely-maligned Tricky Business goes to air on Monday (after what feels like an eternity of promotion and Rafters comparisons); Once Upon A Time magically appears on our screens for Channel 7 (after at least as much promotion as Tricky Business, though a little more risk at 7:35pm); Survivor: One World premieres in Australia five days before it ends in the United States (finally!); & The Celebrity Apprentice Australia matches Nathan Jolliffe against Ian "Dicko" Dickson for a finale sure to cause … [Read more...]

TV Guide for week ending 12/05/12

Gary Mehigan & George Calombaris - MasterChef Australia 2012

BAM! Like that - MasterChef was back and The Biggest Loser Australia was on the way out. It's a massive week ahead for Ch10, though it's Ch7 & Ch9's weeks with Australia's Got Talent and The Voice Australia both flipping back to one show only. Who is running these networks?! MOLK PICKS Dancing With The Stars - Sun 6:30pm, Ch7 The Biggest Loser Australia - Sun 6:30pm, Ch10 The Block - Sun 6:30pm/Mon-Fri 7pm, Ch9 MasterChef (series return) - Sun 7:30pm/Mon-Fri 7pm, Ch10 60 Minutes - Sun 7:35pm, Ch9 Touch - Sun 8:30pm, Ch10 The Mentalist - Sun 8:35pm, Ch9 Louis Theroux's Wild Weekends (rpt) - Sun 10:10pm/Mon 8:30pm, … [Read more...]

TV Guide for week ending 05/05/12

Andrew Denton

Surprise! There's a whole new line up on Wednesday night on ABC1 - and one you better tune in for (totes worth it). For some reason Ch9 pull The Voice back to two nights a week and give Dancing with the Stars a free kick on Sunday nights again (crazy), and Ch7 are fighting back by dropping two eps of Revenge this week - sure to give Celebrity Apprentice Australia a kick in the arse. It's a strange, confusing, entertaining world when you start to dissect programming... NOTE: Ch9 have advised season 24 of Survivor (One World) is starting Tuesday night at 10:30pm, but the guide is still TBA, possibly even having it move elsewhere. They really … [Read more...]

TV Guide for week ending 28/04/12

Keifer Sutherland - Touch

Who would have thought that The Voice Australia would be the massive hit it has been (apart from Channel 9 executives who sold their first borns to ensure it did at least one million viewers)? This week looks to continue what started last week with 3 more blind audition episodes that will mean The Voice continues to lead the pack this week, with the battle rounds in the weeks following as the teams cut from 12 down to 6 in six episodes. At least there's other things of you're interested... MOLK PICKS Dancing With The Stars - Sun 6:30pm, Ch7 The Voice Australia - Sun 6:30pm/Mon 8pm/Tue 7:35pm, Ch9 Modern Family - Sun 7:30pm, … [Read more...]

TV Guide for week ending 21/04/12

David Duchovny - Californication

WTF is this!? All the things?! AT ONCE?! Ratings are all go again and don't the commercial networks know it. There's SEVEN new shows starting this week they've all been plugging to death over the past months and now, all at the same time, they release them into the wild. There's still another 10 coming! Time to buy that 16 tuner PVR you've been putting off for... because as far as the commercial channels are concerned, it's game on bitches. MOLK PICKS Auction Room (series premiere) - Sun 6pm, ABC1 Dancing With The Stars (series return) - Sun 6:30pm, Ch7 The Voice Australia (series premiere) - Sun 6:30pm/Mon 8pm/Tue 7:30pm, … [Read more...]

TV Guide for week ending 14/04/12

Melissa George - Who Do You Think You Are?

Welcome to Repeatsville - population: all of us. At least we know this is the last week for it as next week it ALL kicks off... The Voice Australia, Dancing With The Stars, The Block, Celebrity Apprentice, Australia's Got Talent, Offspring, etc. If you don't like reality TV you're screwed. There is some new programming available, and it's certainly worth watching - Woodley, Country Town Rescue, Who Do You Think You Are, Adam Hills In Gordon Street Tonight, Agony Uncles & Seven Dwarves, but to name a few. MOLK PICKS Sunday Night - Sun 6:30pm, Ch7 60 Minutes - Sun 7:30pm, Ch9 Border Security - Sun 7:30pm, Ch7 Modern Family - Sun … [Read more...]

TV Guide for week ending 07/04/12

McDonald's Gets Grilled

Ahhh, the televisual wasteland that is the Easter ratings break, allowing all of us to catch up on TV we've recorded but not seen or get ahead of the curve via methods legitimate and nefarious. Break out the DVD's folks - there's not a lot happening. Or is there? Pretty much everything moves into repeats, but in a sign there's movement at the station 7TWO will screen the entire first season of Downton Abbey Sun-Wed this week. Some repeats can't be all bad. MOLK PICKS Sunday Night - Sun 6:30pm, Ch7 60 Minutes - Sun 7:30pm, Ch9 Border Security - Sun 7:30pm, Ch7 Modern Family - Sun 7:30pm, Ch10 The Force - Sun 8pm, Ch7 New Girl … [Read more...]

TV Guide for week ending 31/03/12

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With Easter but a week away (I KNOW, RIGHT??!!) it means the only break in the ratings year is just about upon us. Lots of shows finishing up this week and next, and even some kicking off to run through the break (do we really need it anymore?). At least one network is decidedly cagey as to when some "hit" shows it has been scheduling will be seen on our TVs and you'd have to question why... surely they'd want to be promoting the shows to us so that we can all get excited about them? Unless they're not that excited about them ("Class Of..." anyone?). MOLK PICKS Sunday Night - Sun 6:30pm, Ch7 Great Barrier Reef - Sun 6:30pm, … [Read more...]

TV Guide for week ending 24/03/12

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The AFL season returns and you know it's autumn, and the schedule starts to show winter is coming. Football and subsidiary shows, series in mid-run or nearly at the end of their run. Homeland and Adam Hills In Gordon Street Tonight are both nearly over, and My Kitchen Rules isn't far behind it... but April 15 looms large as the vortex of free-to-air television, with the first episodes of Dancing With The Stars and MasterChef facing off against the 2012 Logie Awards. Don't say I didn't warn you! Two milestones should be noted for Channel 10 shows this week - NCIS celebrates 200 episodes, and The Simpsons celebrates 500 episodes, featuring … [Read more...]

TV Guide for week ending 17/03/12

Fry's Planet Word

Free and clear of the Cricket, now it's time for the real ratings battle to start. Channel 9 are straight out of the blocks with the amazing doco Great Barrier Reef, the return of 60 Minutes and the very good Great Mint Swindle. Still Channel 7 counter by moving My Kitchen Rules to Sundays additionally so that it now runs 5 nights a week - look for telltale massive ratings and the halo effect extending to at least the show afterwards. MOLK PICKS Sunday Night - Sun 6:30pm, Ch7 Great Barrier Reef - Sun 6:30pm, Ch9 Young Talent Time - Sun 6:30pm, Ch10 Great Expectations - Sun 7:30pm, ABC1 My Kitchen Rules - Sun 7:30pm/Mon-Thu … [Read more...]