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Rebecca Gibney, INXS, Amazing Race Australia in Seven’s 2014 Upfronts
Rebecca Gibney returns to Seven in a new drama, The Killing Field, announced tonight at Seven’s 2014 Upfronts at The Star in Sydney. Gibney will play the head of an elite police team investigating a...
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Programmer’s Wrap 2014: Seven
If 1.67m for My Kitchen Rules’ return is a sign of things to come, Angus Ross will be a happy man. In its fifth season, the show posted its best ever season premiere this week, two weeks out from the...
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Airdate: Resurrection
Seven has confirmed the airdate for new US drama Resurrection at 8:45pm Tuesday March 25, replacing Winners and Losers. It’s the first time in a long while that Seven hasn’t had an Australian drama in...
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Resurrection
Reading the premise of Resurrection you could be forgiven for thinking this is the American adaptation of the excellent French drama, The Returned, currently screening on SBS 2. But Resurrection is...
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Resurrection rises to 1.91m viewers for Seven
The marketing campaign for Resurrection paid off handsomely for Seven with a huge 1.91m viewers last night. The US drama even topped My Kitchen Rules, also very strong at 1.72m viewers. Together they...
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The Block tops Nine’s night
This year, Thursdays have proven to be among the better-performing nights for Nine and last night was no different, even without The Footy Show (AFL). No doubt it is aided by the absence of a certain...
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Resurrection tops ratings week
The premiere of US drama Resurrection was the top rating show last week, as Seven again won Total People. The show pulled 1.94m viewers in another week that proved to be a two-horse race between Seven...
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Block on high, but TEN hits new low.
Just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse for Channel TEN, it’s primary channel hits another iceberg. TEN’s primary channel sank to a 5.9% share last night, the lowest survey share since the...
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Resurrection vs Big Bang equals big ratings
An interesting battle took place last night at around 8:45pm. Last week Resurrection knocked it out of the park with nearly 2m overnight viewers but, as invariably happens with sci-fi content, it has...
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Dead heat as Seven and Nine tie ratings race
The ratings race between Seven and Nine is as tight as ever with the two networks in a dead heat for first place last week in Total People. Nine fell in front in primary shares and demos. The week was...
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Game on at 5:30
Big numbers were at stake in the 5:30pm timeslot yesterday, as evidence that the lead-up to the 6pm News is still big business. A contestant on Million Dollar Minute walked away with $307,000...
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Second week of Easter non-ratings: Seven
Next week Seven has the return of Suits, the launch of Intelligence and Under the Hammer plus new eps of My Kitchen Rules, Royal Pains, Resurrection, Parenthood and Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD. Sunday:...
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My Kitchen Rules tops 2 million in non-ratings
We may be in non-ratings but it’s hard to look past My Kitchen Rules scoring 2.01m viewers last night. With little competition, the show had 571,000 viewers in Melbourne and 548,000 in Sydney. That led...
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Update: Suits, Revenge, Resurrection
Seven has made a few switcheroos in its schedule next week. House Rules airs Sunday – Wednesday, at varying lengths of 75 – 90 mins. Next Monday night Revenge will be a double episode from 9pm. This...
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US remake of The Returned proceeds to series
Hopefully this will be much better than Resurrection… US cable network A&E has given the green light for a US adaptation of moody French drama The Returned (Les Revenants). A&E has approved a...
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The Voice wins it, but cities divide House Rules v Masterchef.
There are some subtle shifts going on in the three way Reality TV battle. While The Voice is dominating to the point of bettering the audiences of House Rules and MasterChef combined, in Sydney and...
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US finales on Seven
A number of US shows are poised for finales on Seven. Tuesday May 13 9:45pm Parenthood (double ep) Wednesday May 14 9:45pm Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD Tuesday May 20 8:45pm Resurrection Meanwhile next...
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Renewed: Revenge, Grey’s Anatomy, Resurrection, Agents of SHIELD
ABC Studios has renewed a number of high profile dramas, all of which will be music to Seven’s ears. They include Revenge, Grey’s Anatomy, Resurrection, Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD, Scandal, Once Upon a...
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Sarah Ferguson grilling tops ABC1
“I don’t need to teach you Treasurer, what a tax is,” 7:30‘s Sarah Ferguson said to Joe Hockey last night in a grilling interview. And as a result she topped the ABC’s Budget-driven ratings last night...
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The Voice, When Love Comes to Town give Nine the night.
Last night Nine leveraged its launch for When Love Comes to Town off the final Blind Auditions for The Voice. While there was a sizeable drop from 1.71m to 868,000, the new dating show performed well...
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Big shows in the home stretch
We now have airdates for the last batch of big local titles from Seven, Nine and TEN for the ratings year, as networks look to fill out the last 7 weeks of the ratings year. Seven’s The Big Adventure...
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Returning: Resurrection
US fantasy drama Resurrection returns to Seven on Sunday night. It premiered in the US in late September. Michelle Fairley from Game of Thrones guest stars, worlds apart from King’s Landing. Seven’s...
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US seasons win extra episodes
American ABC network has added extra episodes to a number of its current seasons. It has ordered two extra episodes for Grey’s Anatomy, Modern Family and The Middle, plus Black-ish and The Goldbergs...
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Big Adventure dips but Seven wins Sunday
Sunday evening saw a staggered line-up on Seven due to Telethon airing until 8:30pm in Perth. This saw The Big Adventure air at 8:30pm, Sunday Night was on 7TWO and Resurrection did not air in that...
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Gone: Castle
New episodes of Castle have been removed from Seven’s Sunday night schedules, effectively immediately. Instead Seven is airing double episodes of Resurrection as from 9pm this Sunday. Perth viewers who...
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ABC holds the middle ground on Wednesday
Daylight Saving continues to impact on viewing patterns with no shows over a million viewers once again. Seven’s Criminal Minds managed to win its timeslot despite playing in 4 markets, while Perth...
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Soft start for the week but 60 Minutes beats The Big Adventure
We begin the week with just one network and two shows over the million viewer mark, while debate rages about whether Daylight Saving or a lack of enticing shows are more to blame for a drop in...
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Update: Resurrection, Castle.
Some time changes advised by Seven for Resurrection and Castle. This Sunday’s Big Adventure will run for 90 minutes (we know, we know) meaning Resurrection will air from 10pm. A Castle repeat follows...
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US dramas top Timeshifted shows
Scripted US shows may not top the TV ratings in Overnight figures, but they continue to dominate what we are viewing via our PVRs. US shows comprised 14 of the top 20 titles in the last full week of...
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Nine bowls the competition over on Sunday
It was no contest last night as Nine’s cricket coverage knocked Seven for a six, with nearly a 10% share over its rival for the night. Seven was competitive until 8:30pm but things fell apart as The...
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Countdown special a hit for ABC
Countdown returned to the top of the charts on Sunday nights once again, with the first of 2 specials winning its timeslot at 965,000 viewers for the ABC. Part 2 follows next Sunday looking at the...
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Nine scores runs on Sunday
Nine Network has easily won Sunday thanks to its News and Cricket combo. The cricket’s 1.17m was the highest rating session of the 2014/15 season to date. Sunday Night did well for Seven and Countdown:...
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Sunday Night: Dec 14
It’s the final Sunday Night edition for the year, as guest reporter James Thomas visits the world’s largest civilian hospital ship in Africa. The ship was also the subject of the doco Surgery Ship...
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Soon on Seven…
Seven has been plugging away at promos for its “After the Tennis” programming. My Kitchen Rules, Home and Away and Million Dollar Minute are all locked in for February 2nd, the week preceding ratings...
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Returning: Resurrection, Parenthood.
Two US dramas return to Seven next week with Resurrection and the final season for Parenthood. Resurrection is back on Sunday night and Parenthood returns with a double episode next Monday night....
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Room reveal takes Block to the top
The Block‘s Room Reveal episode has finally secured a win for Nine, topping the night with 1.11m viewers -its best result this season. After some under-performing numbers this year with Nine stretching...
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Cricket, Sharks, Mardi Gras & news score on Sunday
Sunday night viewing was a little varied from the usual because Nine screened the ICC Cricket World Cup and it was a long weekend in Melbourne and Adelaide. Long weekends traditionally see softer...
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Axed: Forever, Resurrection. Renewed: Modern Family, Castle, Secrets & Lies.
US network ABC has been handing out the good and bad news ahead of its Upfronts next week. It’s bad news for Forever and Resurrection, seen in Australia on Nine and Seven respectively. Also ending is...
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Glitch
There are two endorsements straight off the bat I can make about Glitch. The first: as soon as Episode 1 was over I wanted to get stuck into Episode 2. The second: we generally don’t tackle this genre...
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Patrick Brammall: Glitch “really hooks you in quickly”
“When I read the first script, you know from the get-go what you’re in for. You see people coming out of graves. I thought ‘Here we go!’ It really hooks you in quickly,” says Patrick Brammall. “Six...
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Writer worried The Returned would kill off Glitch
When she first saw The Returned and Resurrection, Louise Fox -co-creator of Glitch– feared it would mean the end of the project she had been developing with Tony Ayres. “To be frank, I felt that once...
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Axed in 2015
Whether at the hands of the network, or a creative decision on their own part, here are the shows that confirmed the end in 2015. Australia: Wonderland, Coxy’s Big Break, Reality Check, Financial...
View ArticleFortitude: sneak peek
This week a clip was released for the second season of Fortitude, which sees Dennis Quaid (Innerspace, Far From Heaven) and Michelle Fairley (Game of Thrones, Resurrection) joining the cast of the...
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Good Doctor helps Seven win the week, Nine tops demos.
The Good Doctor has proven to be a surprise hit in the final stages of the 2017 ratings year. At 1.06m viewers, it was the first time a US drama hit hit #1 since Resurrection in 2014. Together with...
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The Crossing
If I was from the future, looking to time-travel to the present I could think of a lot more hospitable places to surface than a Canadian coast. Sure it is picturesque, but it looks positively freezing...
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Manifest
If by any chance you still remember Resurrection, FlashForward, or The Event then there is a good chance you will remember Manifest in two years time. Nobody else will. Somewhere in the Hollywood...
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