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Foxtel 2015 highlights: iQ3, Deadline Gallipoli, Banished, Gogglebox.
Subscription TV stars from Wentworth, Selling Houses Australia, Australia’s Next Top Model, Real Housewives, Deadline Gallipoli and A Place to Call Home were out in force tonight for Foxtel-MCN 2015...
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Comedy Channel returns to local comedy
One announcement by Foxtel at their Upfronts last week was almost overshadowed, and deserves a little more attention: the Comedy Channel is finally returning to producing some local comedy. Executive...
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Alternate endings all the fun of Paying Attention
Two endings, one winner. It’s a production tactic normally reserved for Reality TV shows trying to keep contestants and crew in the dark about grand final winners until the night of broadcast. But on a...
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Santo, Sam & Ed: “The decision was made for us”
In case you missed it, last week Santo, Sam & Ed’s Total Football confirmed it would not be returning to FOX Sports after 2 seasons. The trio tweeted that they were undecided about returning...
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Working Dog’s secret to finishing on top
If any one group of creatives has a hallowed place in our hearts it must surely be Working Dog. Five of their shows polled significantly on TV Tonight‘s Revivals survey: The Panel, Frontline, Thank...
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What about Gruen, Miss Fisher & Utopia?
Upfronts time invariably raises questions about the shows that don’t make it onto the list of announcements. That usually means decisions have not been finalised. TEN’s TBL Families for instance will...
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Axed in 2015
Whether at the hands of the network, or a creative decision on their own part, here are the shows that confirmed the end in 2015. Australia: Wonderland, Coxy’s Big Break, Reality Check, Financial...
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Programmer’s Wrap 2016: Foxtel
EXCLUSIVE: Interview with Foxtel Director of Television Brian Walsh Big year in NRL New dramas The Kettering Incident and The Secret City. Bevan Lee returns to A Place to Call Home HBO premieres:...
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2016: Still to Come
As we approach the mid-point of the TV year, what’s still to come on Television? There are certainly some big events coming in Drama, Reality and Sport. Everything hinges around the Olympic Games from...
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Working Dog sells Pacific Heat to Netflix for other territories
Working Dog’s upcoming ‘adult’ animation series Pacific Heat has been sold to Netflix, for territories outside Australia. The series will still have its world premiere on Foxtel’s Comedy Channel,...
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Airdate: Pacific Heat
Working Dog’s new animated comedy, Pacific Heat, described as Australia’s first adult animation’, gets its world premiere in late November on The Comedy Channel. Graham Burrells, Head of Premium...
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Airdate: Whose Line Is It Anyway? Australia
In late November the Comedy Channel will launch two new local series, Whose Line Is It Anyway? Australia and Pacific Heat. Tommy Little hosts the local version of the international improvisation show,...
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Returning: Just For Laughs Australia
The Comedy Channel is ramping up the local humour later this month with Whose Line Is It Anyway Australia, Pacific Heat and now Just For Laughs Australia, back for its fourth season. Tommy Little...
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Pacific Heat
It takes a brave -some might even suggest foolhardy- mob to tackle an animated series and to stride into a genre where an audience is anything other than ready for the taking. Behold the Comedy...
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2017 Foxtel highlights
New and returning Australian drama, factual and lifestyle shows will join a suite of HBO and BBC titles and a new NRL channel on Foxtel in 2017. Wentworth and A Place to Call Home return alongside new...
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Update: Whose Line is it Anyway? Australia, Pacific Heat.
Foxtel advises that its new Comedy channel shows Whose Line is it Anyway? Australia and Pacific Heat are taking a two week break over the festive season. Both are returning on Sunday January 8.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql7vWxapK9o Warning: Adult themes Archer‘s 8th season, “Dreamland” is set in 1947 and re-imagines the characters in new-ish roles. Not to be confused with Pacific Heat....
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Airdate: Pacific Heat
TEN will screen Working Dog’s animated cop show Pacific Heat next month. Paired with the return of Have You Been Paying Attention? this was produced for Foxtel’s Comedy Channel, set on the Gold Coast....
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Have You Been Paying Attention?: May 8
First guests for Have You Been Paying Attention? for 2017 are Jane Kennedy, Celia Pacquola and Marty Sheargold joining show regulars Ed Kavalee and Sam Pang. Tina Arena will also swing by as “guest...
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The Voice, Paying Attention score on Monday.
After a bad day in the press MasterChef finished third in its slot last night, despite 861,000 being a good number for TEN. It was beaten by The Voice at 1.11m and House Rules on 874,000, up on last...
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Comedy back in style with networks
It’s been a long time coming, but Comedy is back in fashion with TV networks once again. In the coming weeks viewers will have more scripted Comedy than we have seen in some time, especially on ABC,...
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Utopia tops timeshifted shows so far this year
In a timely reminder that shows can still pull a big crowd after their overnight broadcast, last week’s episode of Utopia is the most Timeshifted show so far this year. While 846,000 watched the...
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Funding doesn’t favour streaming says Netflix
Australia’s funding mechanisms have not yet adapted to reflect how Australians are increasingly watching more content online, Netflix claims. In its submission to the Australian and Children’s Screen...
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Axed in 2018
In 2018 the curtain came down on The NRL Footy Show, The Checkout, Tonightly with Tom Ballard and Roseanne. We bid farewell to dramas such as 800 Words, A Place to Call Home and Rake (some by...
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Regular Old Bogan
Adult themes: Aussie dad Gavin Stubbs is right at home watching the fishing channel, wearing his moccasins, sucking on a tinnie and firing up a few snags on the barbie. Wife Wendy could do with a...
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