TV Guide for week ending 01/10/11

TV Guide for week ending 01/10/11

With Week 40, thus begins the first week of lots of fast-tracking. Multiple shows across Channels 9 & 10 getting the fast-tracked treatment, though it means different things to different shows. Glee is being shown in Australia within hours of it airing in the US....
TV Guide for week ending 24/09/11

TV Guide for week ending 24/09/11

The next couple of weeks of television will be very interesting as Ch9 & Ch10 fast track a number of their new international shows/series to air before the end of the ratings year. Lots of good programs lining up, some legitimately deserving of the title...
TV Guide for week ending 17/09/11

TV Guide for week ending 17/09/11

With the run to the end of the year in sight, you’d think the networks have it all worked out. From what we’re seeing… some things are still to fall into place. Not many episodes of Top Gear Australia to go, and Channel 9 and shelved it – and...
At Home With Julia

At Home With Julia

I worried about At Home With Julia when I first read the press release. The premise sounded naff. I need not have worried, as in seeing the first episode – it’s actually quite good. While Amanda Bishop’s Prime Minister Julia Gillard was a little over...
At Home With Julia

At Home With Julia

Hmm… Are we ready for this? While politicians have always (rightly) been fair game in comedy, this gag has been done to death already. Even the 60 Minutes story on Australia’s first couple seemed like a parody except that, sadly, it wasn’t. Still...