TV Guide for week ending 18/02/12

TV Guide for week ending 18/02/12

IT’S RATINGS TIME, BABY!!! We’ve already got one casualty for the year already and there’s sure to be more quickly. Lots of shows that have been sizzled for weeks during sporting fixtures about to drop, and we start to settle into some form or order....
TV Guide for week ending 11/02/12

TV Guide for week ending 11/02/12

Can you tell it’s the last week of the summer non-ratings period? No? Neither can the programmers at the networks, to be fair, though the best indication is that the ABC bring back a host of their regular programming in the week before the ratings season starts...
Portlandia

Portlandia

I’ve heard good things about Portlandia – all of them funny – so this is a great score for ABC2. A little edgy, and pretty funny. From the press release: The US hipster sketch-comedy hit, Portlandia premieres on Thursday, February 23 at 9pm on ABC2....
TV Guide for week ending 28/01/12

TV Guide for week ending 28/01/12

The finals week of the Australian Open. Channel 10’s Super Sunday. Home and Away returns to our screens. I guess two out of three ain’t bad. Welcome to week four of 2012 and still three weeks out from the start of the ratings season proper – with it...
TV Guide for week ending 21/01/12

TV Guide for week ending 21/01/12

Here we are, preparing for a whole raft of new shows to launch 3 weeks ahead of schedule. So this week there’s shows finishing… it feels like television purgatory. What’s better is that in Channel 10 forcing the hands of all the other networks by...