Welcome to my nightmare! A Country Practice marks its 800th episode with a horrifying leap into the future. In the episodes to screen next week, Lucy Tyler (Georgie Parker, pictured) experiences a nightmare triggered by the arrival of a film crew in Wandin Valley for production of a post-holocaust movie. In the dream, Wandin Valley …
January 2011 archive
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Jan 28 2011
1991: January 26-February 1
Cover: Nicole Kidman Here comes the bride… Many soaps have given their ratings a boost by holding a wedding. The Nine Network’s new series Chances is starting with one! The adults-only drama kicks off with a wedding between David Young (Rodney Bell) and Rebecca Taylor (Natalie McCurry). “Chances has great possibilities,” Bell told TV Week. …
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Jan 23 2011
Ten takes on the News giants
For many years Network Ten’s news offering has been dismissed as a poorer cousin to the brash, high-profile Seven and Nine news portfolios. While Seven and Nine throw money into resources and promotion, each of them keen to get an edge over the other while almost mimicking each other, Ten has kept a somewhat more …
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Jan 15 2011
1991: January 12-18
Will love smile on Alyssa-Jane? 1991 could be a big year for E Street’s Alyssa-Jane Cook (pictured), both on and off screen. Her character Lisa Bennett is enjoying a romance with Michael Sturgess (played by Graham Harvey) after a certain run of tragedy – she had been raped by her stepfather, saw her mother jailed, …
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Jan 10 2011
Eleven: 1 day to go
It’s almost here. Network Ten’s digital channel Eleven makes its debut at 11.00am tomorrow, 11 January. The channel starts with a special daytime screening of its signature late night show, The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson, from America’s CBS network – the network that Ten has partnered with in launching Eleven and from which …
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Jan 08 2011
1991: January 5-11
Baby tragedy for Bobby When Home And Away finished up at the end of 1990, pregnant Bobby Simpson (Nicolle Dickson, pictured) had collapsed in the diner. This week, with the series returning for 1991, she is told that she has miscarried at 22 weeks. “It’s very harrowing,” Dickson tells TV Week. “Fisher (Norman Coburn) comes …
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Jan 07 2011
Obituary: Geoff Raymond
Former Melbourne radio and television newsreader Geoff Raymond has died in England after a sudden illness. Raymond was a copy boy at The Herald newspaper before becoming a news presenter at Melbourne radio station 3DB in the 1940s. After a stint working for the BBC, he came back to Melbourne to read news at 3DB’s …
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Jan 06 2011
TelevisionAU Update 7-Jan-2011
https://www.televisionau.com FLASHBACK #57: In 1981 former The Box actress Judy Nunn made a guest appearance in another Crawford Productions drama, Skyways. Her guest role is as Bessie Langhurst, a World War II pilot who makes a mysterious re-appearance after going missing on a solo war flight in 1944, and looking exactly as she was when …
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Jan 03 2011
40 years at Sesame Street
It is not often that this blog specifically highlights programs from overseas but there is one show that reaches a certain milestone on Australian television this week that it would be remiss not to acknowledge it. Sesame Street, a production of the New York-based Children’s Television Workshop (now the Sesame Workshop), made its US debut …
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