2012 Report Card – @SBS, SBS two, @NITV

2012 Report Card – @SBS, SBS two, @NITV

It’s the first report card for SBS and not a bad one at that. For a reasonably underfunded government niche broadcaster it continues to bat well above its weight in quality and variety of content. How else would Australia have learned about South Park?! Food...
TV Guide for week ending 24/12/11

TV Guide for week ending 24/12/11

The special Christmas edition of the TV Guide is here! I love Christmas – so much joy, so many amazed faces on Children, so much hot and cold programming. Still, there’s gold in them thar TV Guide if you hunt for it. Plus there’s always Carols…...
TV Guide for week ending 30/04/11

TV Guide for week ending 30/04/11

The second week in the non-ratings break (Week 18), and if the networks could have shifted the period so that their efforts on the Royal Wedding were included in the ratings… Across the networks there are all forms of coverage (but I’ll save that for a...
TV Guide for week ending 23/04/11

TV Guide for week ending 23/04/11

So it’s Week 17, and the start of the non-ratings period. What does that mean? Normally a wasteland of programming (“So what’s different to now?”, some of you may jest), but this time it means the preparation for some new shows to start in week...
TV Guide for week ending 26/03/11

TV Guide for week ending 26/03/11

Week 13 sees us just far enough into the ratings year to start trend spotting (and ask what really did happen with all these shows we were promised in the glitzy new year promos?). It also opens the door for the start of some shows we’ve been missing or long...