We didn’t particularly want to see Kath & Kim remade for a US audience, and it seems American reviewers feel the same way.
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Media briefs: Who is Nancy-Bird? … NRL no longer cool
Who is Nancy-Bird?… NRL no longer cool… Saab busted for fake green cred… Glen Milne on Chatham Rule…
How can the Twenty20 freak show save Test cricket?
Be afraid, be very afraid. That sound of rumbling in the distance is not an approaching thunderstorm, nor the Led Zeppelin reunion concert, but hordes of Visigoths heading our way to plunder and pillage our peaceful cricketing way of life., writes Charles Happell.
Media briefs and TV ratings
Another fallacy of the digital world exposed … Nine joins the battle for NBC contract … Last night’s TV ratings.
Mungo: By polling day the debate will be a distant memory
Labor supporters are understandably chuffed by the not so great debate, so they might as well enjoy it while they can; when people go to the polls in 30 days time it will be at best a distant memory and at worst totally forgotten, writes Mungo MacCallum.
Smith: Debate choices — John & Kev or Kath & Kim?
It is going to be a real struggle for choice on Sunday night. Not between two men in grey suits with striped ties on Sky TV. For ninety per-cent or of Australians or more, the choice will rest between Kath and Kim, Incredible Journeys with Steve Leonard, Australian Idol, Sixty Minutes or Homo Sapiens, writes Ian Smith.
Rundle: Swing seats and social change, Part 2
Continuing an overview of social etc change in the swing seats. This will be on the exam. Guy Rundle writes:
The net turns TV programming on its head
You can call it the democratisation of TV programming. Channel Seven will screen Prison Break tonight and Heroes in the coming weeks - almost at the exact same time as the programs are aired in the US.
Media briefs and TV ratings
Are ads breaks killing Kath and Kim? … So much for live NRL finals coverage … Seven stays strong in the national news battle … And wins another ratings week … Last night’s TV ratings.
It’s over: Kath & Kim hit out at “bloody Howard”
Word has been brewing for months that John Howard’s battlers are turning against him — and here’s the proof. Australia’s ultimate aspirationals, Kath Day-Knight and Kim Craig nee Day hit out at the Prime Minister last night.
