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ABC renews BBC output deal
Good news, gang. The ABC has renewed a deal with the BBC which gives it a first option on Drama, Light Entertainment (including Comedy), Natural History, Music & Arts and Religion for the next two...
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Airdate: Dirt Game
The next Australian-produced drama, Dirt Game, will be featured in a prime 8:30pm Sunday night slot on the ABC. With a cast including Joel Edgerton, Freya Staford, Gerald Lepkowski, Shane Connor and...
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Returning: Silent Witness
The ABC returns UK thriller Silent Witness to screen this month. There are 6 episodes in the twelfth series, with Emilia Fox, William Gaminara and Tom Ward as the team of forensic pathologists...
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Thank God for laughter
In gloomy times we just want to laugh. On almost every front, it is local content -and especially light entertainment- that continues to resonate with Australians. Week 21 saw another win by the Seven...
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Challengers cook up ratings winners
Week 22 saw Network TEN and the ABC give the usually dominant Seven and Nine a wake up call. Light entertainment shows continue to soar with viewers and TEN’s latest reality show is by now a bonafide...
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Nine scores the week
Week 23 saw all the biffo on Wednesday night. The State of Origin hit a high of 2.28m viewers -a record for the event since OzTAM ratings commenced. It helped Nine win just its third week of ratings...
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Ratings winners upstaged by Nine stoush
Controversy continued to dominate television for the second week in a row, this time as a public stoush between two Nine personalities reached fever pitch. While it saw audiences flock to the coverage,...
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Three way brawl for ratings week
Week 26 was the tightest ratings race all year. TEN was riding high on MasterChef, Nine had the State of Origin and Seven… well, Seven really just had another week of regular programming. By Saturday...
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Returning: Silent Witness
Friday night British dramas on ABC1 get a shot in the arm in February when a new series of Silent Witness returns with forensic pathologists Leo, Harry and Nikki. “Intent” will kick off the 13th season...
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The dark side of Sue Johnston
For over ten years Sue Johnston has been playing psychological profiler Dr Grace Foley in the BBC’s Waking the Dead. Ahead of the Australian premiere of Series 8 on the UKTV Channel, she told TV...
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Vale: Trevor Bannister
UK actor Trevor Bannister, best known as ‘Mr. Lucas’ from Are You Being Served?, has died aged 74. He died of a heart attack at his allotment in Thames Ditton, Surrey. Bannister appeared as the young...
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Susie Porter says show me the money
Susie Porter has a pretty enviable CV with such shows as RAN: Remote Area Nurse, My Place, Love My Way, The Jesters, East of Everything, Silent Witness, Wildside, Sisters of War and East West 101. If...
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Pay TV Ratings: Week 20
Here are averages in the 5 city Metro: 1 Live: NRL Rabbitohs V Wests Tigers Fox Sports 2 214,000 2 Live: NRL Storm V Raiders Fox Sports 2 209,000 3 Live: NRL Sea EPL Eagles V Raiders Fox Sports 2...
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Returning: Silent Witness
A new season of British crime series Silent Witness returns to ABC1 next month. There are 10 episodes in Season 14 which premiered in the UK in January. It kicks off with the first in a two-part story...
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BBC iPlayer launches on iPad
The BBC has now launched an international version of its iPlayer for the iPad in Australia. iPlayer is BBC’s video on demand platform, similar to ABC’s iView. Both have had geo-restrictions allowing...
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Returning: Silent Witness
Long-running UK drama Silent Witness is back for its 15th series on ABC1 soon, set to replace the departing Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries from next week. Forensic pathologists Dr Harry Cunningham (Tom...
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Origin, The Voice gives Nine edge over Seven.
A record State of Origin audience, together with The Voice, has helped Nine win the weekly ratings, now bagging 5 of the last 6 weeks. Nine Network was 30.9% then Seven 28.6%, TEN 19.0%, ABC 15.9% and...
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Seven gets Revenge in Total People, but Nine wins demos.
The ratings tussle between Seven and Nine continues, with Seven stealing back another win over its traditional rival. Seven Network won with 30.1% to Nine 27.7%, TEN 20.1%, ABC 16.3% and SBS 5.9%....
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Just 0.1% separates Seven and Nine for the win
Just 0.1% separated Seven and Nine Networks in Total People last week, with Seven snatching a win from its main rival. After Friday night Nine was in front by 0.7%, but sport became the deciding factor...
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Nine wins week, but TEN beats Seven in two key demos.
Nine and Seven continue to tussle over weekly ratings win, usually determined by event television. Last week Nine won the race sweeping the top 8 rankings, thanks in part to some strategic coding of...
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