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".
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.
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.
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.
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.
Just to prove that the Culcha of our Great Nation doesn't have to be serious like Kokoda and stuff, Skippy has won a contest as our favourite iconic animal.
Jonathan Smith, the Executive Producer and Director of ‘The Family’, a highly successful BBC TV documentary series gave a two hour master-class on the last day at the AIDC. It was an entertaining and intriguing insight into an entertaining and intriguing doco-reality experiment.
Eddie McGuire and Mick Molloy will be investigated for their allegedly homophobic comments during the Winter Olympics. Off to re-education camp like Sam Newman, who has subsequently become more sensitive? Now there's a reality television boot camp series I want to watch!
BBC Worldwide Australia has sold Hartswood Films production 3 x 90-minute rework of Sherlock Holmes to the Nine Network. The drugs trade was legal, back then.
The fallout from Mick Molloy and Eddie McGuire's inappropriate comments during the Olympic ice skating continues with a complaint made to the NSW Anti-Discrimination Board.
chocolatemousecake91 is very unhappy with MKR. The "Chocolate Mousse Cake recipe is a disaster... I just made the Blob... Its oozing down the street...I am in my pantry crying... I had a dinner party here tonight and everyone has been commenting on the slop I have served!" Yahoo7 has confirmed that "cooking method, cooling time and pan size as advised in the (MKR online) recipe were all incorrect."
Cameron Patterson wanted to make a tv series. He wrote the script and shopped it around the networks with no luck although the scripts were widely praised as being very funny. Undeterred, he and his friends decided to save up the money and make it anyway – not just the pilot but all six episodes.
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