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Home and Away: back to character and comedy roots
The Age
Friday 19 March, 2010 (Australia)

Emily Symons back to a steady earner. Only the price of housing has changed.

Tour de France: SBS has rights for a whole new generation of drugs
SBS
Friday 19 March, 2010 (France)

That is mean, isn't it? We love le Tour, and we love the sheer brute honesty of SBS covering its screens every July with a sport which is small in Australia and thrilling if you understand what is going on. They have it until 2017, when the TV landscape could be completely different.

Bliss: Platinum Fund funds bonnet drama
Screen Hub
Friday 19 March, 2010 (New Zealand)

NZ On Air has announced a new period drama for TV One's Sunday Theatre, supported by the Platinum Fund. Bliss will tell the story of Katherine Mansfield in her early 20s. Bliss is written and directed by Fiona Samuel (Piece of My Heart, Outrageous Fortune), produced by Michael Fantl (Piece of My Heart, 50 Was of Saying Fabulous).

Matty Johns: eats dictionary but it doesn't help
Herald Sun
Tuesday 16 March, 2010 (Australia)

The Matty Johns show is in peril, due to a lack of good writers and a competent star. Mind you, the tattle tales saying this might be a tad frustrated.

Logies: Bert Newton to take event forward into future
Courier Mail
Tuesday 16 March, 2010 (Australia)

Bert Newton derided as incompetent; may be an accurate reflection of the audience. Besides, a talking fossil is oddly fascinating.

Gourmet Farmer: not just a TV show but a book as well
The Age
Tuesday 16 March, 2010 (Australia)

Matthew Evans consoles us with the news that television might be in trouble, but the food industry is wagging its curly tail like a pig in truffles.

Cooking Shows: reflections provoked by Mr Evans
Independent Weekly
Tuesday 16 March, 2010 (Australia)

Who better to assess the impact of television chefs than a food writer from Adelaide?

Suing A Current Affair: Peter Anthony Haertsch wins $268k
The Age
Tuesday 16 March, 2010 (Australia)

Small consolation for having his reputation trashed in the way he suggested in the case.

Seven: g'day Michael, hope you can't spell defenestration
Sydney Morning Herald
Monday 15 March, 2010 (Australia)

The great unwashed gets a chance to see the rarified sanctums of cricket as Seven pursues Michael Clarke in business class across the Tasman. It seems they forgot life to size blow up photos of Lara in the partial nuddy to provoke some response from a man learning the power of a stone face real fast.

Reg Watson: Australia's great soap creator
ATV
Monday 15 March, 2010 (Australia)

International adulation for a secret national hero. Provoked by 25 years of Neighbours, and not his ascent to the great soap dish in the sky. Whew.

Sylvania Waters: reflections from director Brian Hill
The Age
Thursday 11 March, 2010 (Australia)

Concentrating on the yesterday side of the story.. giving Paul Kalimna a chance to come back to the contemporary Family story later.

SBS Gardening: starts with the face
The Age
Thursday 11 March, 2010 (Australia)

SBS is busily selling cooking shows OS; do you think Costa's Garden Odyssey has a place on networks outside Australia?

TVNZ: Samoan BSA complaint partially upheld
Screen Hub
Wednesday 10 March, 2010 (New Zealand)

TVNZ is considering an appeal against the Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) order to pay the Samoan government $5,000 in legal costs. Complaints were laid by Samoa's Attorney General after an April 2009 One News/Tagata Pasifika item which suggested Samoa was "awash with guns and drugs".

Hungry Beast: it works
The Age
Friday 5 March, 2010 (Australia)

It works. It works. We are glad too.

Killing Time: Wenham captured by TV1
The Age
Friday 5 March, 2010 (Australia)

Will it be his charming persona or his truly terrifying persona that they want?

Chinese Idol: to launch contest in US and Australia
Xinhua
Friday 5 March, 2010 (China)

Called Happy Boys, as opposed to American Idol, will at least not be cruel - "anchors and judges must "act and speak decently."

NHNZ: back from the dead
Screen Hub
Friday 5 March, 2010 (New Zealand)

Dunedin's NHNZ has had a busy start to the year, greenlighting around 25 hours of programming since the beginning of the year. Top of the list is a further 10 hours of BIO’s ratings hit I Survived..., currently in its fourth season.

Rugby: World Cup free-to-air confirmed
Screen Hub
Wednesday 3 March, 2010 (New Zealand)

The consortium of broadcasters – Maori Television, TVNZ and MediaWorks TV (TV3) – has welcomed RWCL’s announcement today confirming the free-to-air television broadcast rights deal for Rugby World Cup 2011.

BBC Presenter: death in unexplained circumstances
Telegraph
Tuesday 2 March, 2010 (U.K.)

Kristian Digby, most known to his British public as a front on real estate shows, has died unexpectedly at home. Before he was famous, he won Best Student Film at the Melbourne International Film Festival in 1997, for Last Train to Demise.

Weather: Aussie reporter sports cold front
Screen Hub
Monday 1 March, 2010 (New Zealand)

A Seedney weather reporter found himself with nothing between his rocks and a hard place when reporting yesterday's, um, climatic events. Some people will do anything in the name of art.

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