Judging by the weekend’s stats, Nine is eating its main channel audiences. No wonder Seven doesn’t want to start a separate digital channel.
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And the Wankley goes to … Fashion Week coverage, belittling the big
For their championing of chubby, several media outlets have this week earned the Wankley.
The Murdoch man on the Fairfax board: a screaming conflict
Fairfax board members are often very close to their competitor’s interests. But, for board member David Evans, his association with Murdoch’s BSkyB puts him in an untenable position.
Navy wishes it could turn back time over Myer stunt?
Sailors are not to be treated as sexual objects — except, it seems, when male sailors can be officially pimped out to promote Myer’s latest summer swimwear range.
Last minute injunction leaves 60 Minutes flat footed
The desperate spiking of last-night’s 60 Minutes “suicide cluster” story had an interesting lead-up, pitting BeyondBlue chief Jeff Kennett and adolescent psychologist Michael Carr-Gregg against Nine chief David Gyngell.
The second coming of John Westacott
All the publicity about how John Westacott will return to save 60 Minutes from its current appalling performance ignores one very salient point: 60 Minutes’ problems are all of his doing.
What’s that terrible smell? Oh, it’s the resurrected corpse of Hey Hey
Our screens have been mercifully free of Hey Hey It’s Saturday for ten years — so why is Nine reanimating its corpse now? Dylan Behan searches for answers.
How Channel Nine fudged their chance to grab MasterChef
In the annals of Australian TV there are a few stories about networks rejecting programs that other networks subsequently picked up and made a hit — but this has to be the biggest doozie…
Hey Hey, it’s a comeback
In good news for lovers of bad puppetry and weak one-liners everywhere, Hey Hey It’s Saturday looks set to return to Australian screens.
Laying down the Law: Nine tightens the belt
Nine have some spare dosh for cheque-book journalism, but not for their own staff, apparently.
Nine Go!es for the yoof
Nine has announced their new multichannel, Go!, with a line-up of shows that could pose a formidable threat to Ten’s teen demographic.
THISafternoon gets the boot
It’s back-to-the-future for The Nine Network, which has canned its quasi-news program, THISafternoon within only three weeks of it starting weekdays at 4.30pm.
My role in Jeff Goldblum’s death
My initial thoughts were to play on the idea of the trifecta of celebrity deaths, Farrah Fawcett having died the day before. The reason for choosing Jeff Goldblum? I don’t know really, he seems like the kind of actor someone would have a strong emotional response to.
Wickie to Nine News Machine: We’re back!
From: Wick, Darren. To: TCN News Department. “When the Jackson story broke, EVERYONE kicked into action — and Sydney saw it FIRST ON NINE. It was just like the promo!!”
Nine set to dance its ass off
What would you get if you crossed The Biggest Loser with So You Think You Can Dance, Dancing With The Stars, the base motives of an American reality TV producer, and a desperate Australian TV network? Nine’s new show Dance Your Ass Off.
Nine gets behind Little Britain — but not too much, and about five years too late
It was a slightly prissy press release from the Nine Network that trumpeted that they will soon be airing Little Britain, after it has been to air at least twice on the ABC and countless times on Foxtel.
Trouble in Paradise for Nine programming
How will Getaway survive being scheduled before Nine’s new show about holidays-gone-wrong?
