Mar 23 2012
Cover: Josephine Byrnes, John Stamos, Georgie Parker Now cop this!The 34th annual TV Week Logie Awards, held at Melbourne’s Radisson President Hotel, gave the audience and viewers some surprises. After the show’s opening production number – a parody of Michael Jackson’s Black Or White, recalling the old days of black and white television, featuring Cathy …
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Jan 25 2012
Jana: ‘I welcome the challenge’ A Current Affair host Jana Wendt (pictured) talks to TV Week about the changing news and current affairs environment taking place – in particular, the launch of Real Life, produced by her former 60 Minutes boss Gerald Stone, going head-to-head with ACA. “I think anything that increases the competition is …
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Dec 28 2010
Summer Bay was never like this! Home And Away’s Mat Stevenson and Emily Symons, who play lovebirds Adam and Marilyn in the series, had a few days at Great Keppel Island during a production break for the Seven Network series. Stevenson is now holidaying in America while Symons is doing a pantomime in the UK …
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Nov 19 2010
Livvy’s Christmas surprise! After a seven-year break from acting, former Aussie star Olivia Newton-John (pictured) is making her dramatic TV debut in a telemovie, A Mom For Christmas. The movie, currently in production in Cincinatti, Ohio, is set to go to air in the US on Christmas Eve. The Seven Network has decided to hold …
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Sep 03 2010
Cover: Mat Stevenson, Emily Symons (Home And Away) Mike Munro: ‘I go home and cry’ 60 Minutes reporter Mike Munro says that for the past five months, working on the story surrounding the ‘Mr Bubbles’ case involving 17 pre-school children, has often reduced him to tears. “I get so bloody depressed. I go home to …
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Aug 07 2010
I won’t be back! The producers of Hey Dad! are about to face a crisis with the departure of one the show’s key cast members. Simone Buchanan, who plays Debbie Kelly in the Seven Network series, is openly telling friends that she is definitely leaving the popular comedy. However, show producer Gary Reilly has told …
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Mar 20 2010
Logies 1990: Who’ll grab the glittering prize? Last year’s TV Week Gold Logie winner Daryl Somers has been nominated for the 1990 TV Week Gold Logie, but has some tough competition – Nine Network colleagues Jana Wendt (A Current Affair) and Ray Martin (Midday), and soapie heart-throb Craig McLachlan (Neighbours). Somers has already won three …
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Jan 26 2010
Cover: Cher Steve lays down the law When Fast Forward’s Steve Vizard threw in a lucrative legal career to go into television comedy, everyone told him he was an idiot. “And I am an idiot,” he says. “You can see what a fundamentally good decision it was to leave a great job in law to …
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Jan 21 2010
It is now 30 years since Melbourne’s ATV0 made history and changed its broadcast frequency to Channel 10. When Reg Ansett was awarded the licence to operate Melbourne’s third commercial channel in 1963, he was given the frequency of Channel 0 – down the low end of the dial, and, being a ‘new’ frequency, most …
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Feb 20 2009
Beginning on 11 February 1979, 60 Minutes marked a new era for current affairs on Australian commercial television. Before then, current affairs on commercial television was limited to early evening programs, such as Willesee At Seven and the original A Current Affair, or low-profile late night programs that attracted few viewers. And Sunday night at …
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