Airdate: The Fall
Irish crime thriller The Fall will air on UKTV in October. The 5 part series stars Gillian Anderson (The X Files), Jamie Dornan (Once Upon A Time), Archie Panjabi (The Good Wife) and John Lynch...
View ArticleBBC dramas “No delay from the UK”
Last night at the Foxtel Upfronts much was made of the new BBC deal for Drama, Comedy and Factual. There was more detail on the titles that will premiere on Foxtel, on the unnamed channel due to launch...
View ArticleBBC First channel to launch on Foxtel in August
BBC Worldwide has announced its new premium drama and comedy channel on Foxtel will be known as BBC First. Boasting the best British scripted content “first, fast and uninterrupted”, BBC First is a new...
View ArticleProgrammer’s Wrap 2014: SBS
TV Tonight launches its annual Programmer’s Wrap today beginning with its first interview with Peter Andrews as Head of Network Programming for SBS. Formerly Network Program Manager at TEN Melbourne...
View ArticleCurtain up on BBC First
Three Musketeers, Peaky Blinders, The Politician’s Husband and Banished are amongst new first-run dramas set to screen on new Pay TV channel BBC First. The titles were revealed at an industry launch...
View ArticleTop of the Lake nominated in BAFTA Awards
Jane Campion’s Top of the Lake has been nominated for a BAFTA Award -but it will have to compete with Broadchurch in the Drama series category. Broadchurch and Channel 4 drama Southcliffe dominate the...
View ArticleLips sealed on more Rake
Last week was lucky enough to I host a forum at the Sydney Writer’s Festival with three television writers: Peter Duncan (Rake), Steven McGregor (Redfern Now) and A.M. Homes (The L Word). It was...
View ArticleBBC First to launch on August 3rd
New subscription channel BBC First will launch on Foxtel at 9.30am on Sunday 3rd August, with a binge “box set” session of all 10 episodes of The Musketeers. It will be followed by a preview of the...
View ArticleBBC First to the rescue
On Sunday BBC First launches in Australia, the first territory in the world to view the channel, comprising premium comedy and drama from the British broadcaster. Launching with an impressive library...
View ArticleAirdate: The Fall
Acclaimed Irish series The Fall will have its Free to Air premiere on SBS later this month. Starring Gillian Anderson (The X Files, Great Expectations), and Jamie Dornan (50 Shades of Grey, Once Upon a...
View ArticleBig 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...
View ArticleBogan comedy beats reality Geeks and Housemates
A little faith is restored in scripted comedy with ABC’s Upper Middle Bogan outranking the lure of reality equivalents in both Beauty and the Geek and Big Brother -for the second week in a row....
View ArticleSolid ratings week for Seven
Last week was a convincing win by Seven after several weeks of tight finishes. Network: Seven: 32.4 Nine: 26.4 ABC: 18.7 TEN: 17.6 SBS: 4.9 As Daylight Saving takes hold, there were only six shows...
View ArticleBBC Drama: trailer
Check out this extraordinary trailer of BBC dramas, with Benedict Cumberbatch referencing Shakespeare’s “All the world’s a stage” for ‘A Lifetime of BBC Drama.’ Admittedly it includes some titles that...
View ArticleUnder a million but soap still buoyant
Another night under a million viewers saw Home and Away as the top entertainment show of the night, just ahead of Dancing with the Stars. Both helped Seven to take victory for the fourth night this...
View ArticleReturning: The Fall
Pay TV viewers are in for a treat this month when BBC First channel begins the anticipated second series of The Fall express from the UK. This will broadcast just an hour after the UK transmission,...
View ArticleUS 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...
View ArticleSeven dips, Nine take Thursday.
It was another night under the magic million, and for Seven it was a night under 900,000, as viewing slides towards the end of the week. Nine network won Thursday with 28.3% then Seven 26.4%, TEN...
View ArticleStan adds BBC titles
Fairfax and Nine video streaming service Stan has announced a deal with BBC Worldwide. From its launch early next year it will feature library dramas such as Sherlock, Ripper Street, Orphan Black, Top...
View ArticleLabyrinth
UK miniseries Labyrinth may be so titled for its elaborate storyline set across two time periods of modern-day and Middle Ages France -but it’s also a labyrinthine plot for the viewer to keep up. This...
View ArticleFOX discusses X Files, Prison Break revivals, mulls future of 24.
At the TCA press tour in the US FOX Television Group chairmen Dana Walden and Gary Newman discussed the idea of reviving The X Files with original stars David Duchovny and Gillian and creator Chris...
View ArticleProgrammer’s Wrap 2015: SBS
Food, sport, international drama, documentaries -they are some of the brands that have come to define SBS. This year Programmer Peter Andrews says SBS has much to celebrate: 40 years of radio, an...
View ArticleRenewed: The Fall
UK crime series The Fall was renewed for a third season last week. Gillian Anderson and Jamie Dornan will both return as Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson and serial killer Paul Spector,...
View ArticleDuchovny, Anderson to return for more X-Files
It’s official. The truth is still out there. David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson have both signed on for a return of The X-Files. FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully will return in a 6 episode...
View ArticleBAFTA TV Awards 2015: Nominees
Nominations have been announced in the 2015 BAFTA TV Awards with The Missing, Line of Duty, Happy Valley and Marvellous lead the nominations with three each. Amongst the nominees are Benedict...
View ArticleAussie dramas nominated at Monte Carlo TV festival
Australian Dramas ANZAC Girls, Secrets and Lies and Love Child have all been nominated in the prestigious Monte Carlo Television Golden Nymph Awards. ANZAC Girls and Secrets and Lies will both compete...
View ArticleCatching Milat
The challenge for crime dramas is that the bar has lifted so high of late. UK dramas such as The Fall and The Missing are dark psychological portraits of flawed characters, with dense plots full of...
View ArticleGlue
If Skins took us into the urban world of Bristol teens, now writer Jack Thorne (This is England, The Fades) takes us deep into the lives of rural British youth in his latest drama, Glue. Set in the...
View ArticleSafe House
When you want intensity, Christopher Eccleston is your man. Whether as Doctor Who‘s Time Lord or HBO’s The Leftovers, he turns on the frown and the introspection, with a touch of action. All of which...
View ArticleJulianna Margulies denies feud with Archie Panjabi -but wait…
Hands up who really believes this story? The Good Wife‘s Julianna Margulies says there is no feud with her former co-star Archie Panjabi. At least not on her side there isn’t. Speaking at the New...
View ArticleReturning: The Fall
Great news for fans of UK thriller The Fall, which will return to SBS next month. The drama starring Gillian Anderson and Jamie Dornan screened its second season on Pay TV last year. It returns...
View ArticleThe Returned, The Missing on SBS in January.
Some top notch Euro-dramas are on the way to SBS. As previously noted, The Fall‘s second season returns 9:30pm Thursday November 17, with Gillian Anderson and Jamie Dornan. TV Tonight can confirm the...
View ArticleBBC Drama: trailer
A very cool BBC Drama trailer was released this week with new footage of Sherlock, Luther, Peaky Blinders, The Fall, Happy Valley and more…
View ArticleThursday ratings rinse and repeat…
Exactly a week ago, the headline for Thursday night’s ratings wrap was “Gogglebox tops for TEN, multichannels help Nine nab quiet Thursday.” And it’s exactly the same result this week. No show managed...
View ArticleArchie Panjabi to star in US drama
Former Good Wife star Archie Panjabi has been cast in upcoming anthology series The Jury. The series, described as 12 Angry Men meets podcast Serial follows a single murder trial as seen through the...
View ArticleThe Good Wife producers rule out Archie Panjabi return for finale
Former Good Wife cast members are expected to return to the show for its last-ever episodes. Gary Cole, who plays Diane’s (Christine Baranski) husband Kurt McVeigh and possibly Jess Weixler, who...
View ArticleNetflix rates best binge titles
Netflix has measured the amount of time that users spent watching more than 100 different titles to work out which shows we Devour in binge sessions, and which are ones we “Savor” (US spelling!) Devour...
View ArticleArchie Panjabi heads to Blindspot
Former Good Wife star Archie Panjabi will have major recurring role in season 2 of Blindspot. She will play the head of a secret division of the NSA that has been tracking the Jane Doe (Jaimie...
View ArticleReturning: The Fall
The third and final season of The Fall will screen on BBC First next month. The cast this season features Gillian Anderson, Jamie Dornan, Krister Henriksson, Aidan McArdle, Ruth Bradley, Aisling Bea...
View ArticleWhich shows are getting fast-tracked?
The Emmys tomorrow generally marks the traditional start of the Fall season, which sees a slew of favourite shows returning in the US. So when can Australian viewers expect them here? A select few...
View ArticleBBC First: upcoming highlights
BBC First has announced a number of its upcoming premium dramas including the anticipated Nazi drama SS-GB, the very dark Taboo and local drama Top of the Lake: China Girl with Elisabeth Moss,...
View ArticleABC News Breakfast: “We don’t do silly interviews”
While some Breakfast TV shows attract plenty of media coverage, sometimes for nudie runs, wigging-up TV parodies or petty ratings wars, ABC News Breakfast has chalked up its 8th year as a quiet...
View ArticleCasting: Shemar Moore, Archie Panjabi.
Former Criminal Minds star Shemar Moore will feature in the rebooted cop series S.W.A.T. The series is based on the 2003 feature film of the same name which itself was inspired by the 1975 series...
View ArticleHBO’s dinner with Hervé Villechaize
Game of Thrones star Peter Dinklage and Jamie Dornan (The Fall, Fifty Shades of Grey) are teaming up for an HBO telemovie built around actor Hervé Villechaize (Fantasy Island). My Dinner With Hervé...
View ArticleNo breach! The eclectic world of ACMA’s complaints dept
Studio 10, Outlander, Nine News and a Hannibal movie -just some of the colourful TV offerings that have one thing in common: they have all been the target of complaints to the media watchdog. But...
View ArticleGenevieve O’Reilly on her brilliant career
Take one look at the IMDb credits of Genevieve O’Reilly and it’s hard not to be impressed; New Tricks, Waking the Dead, Episodes, Midsomer Murders, The Honourable Woman, The Fall, The State Within,...
View ArticleDublin Murders
Slow-burn crime dramas are everywhere in Europe and the latest emerges from Ireland in the form of Dublin Murders. Set in 2006, this is based on two books by Tana French, and hauntingly adapted by...
View ArticleAirdate: Guilt
UK series Guilt (which is variously described as a crime thriller / dark comedy) is coming to BBC First in April. The 4 part series features Mark Bonnar (Shetland, Line of Duty, Unforgotten), Jamie...
View Article“We’ve got other ideas, not just Halifax”
The return of Jane Halifax to Nine next week will herald the reprise of a character who left our screens in 2002. But for star Rebecca Gibney, it’s also just part of a wider relationship she has with...
View ArticleArchie Panjabi joins Snowpiercer
British actress Archie Panjabi (The Good Wife, Blindspot, The Fall, Departure) is joining US drama Snowpiercer‘s third season. She will portray Asha but details of her character are being kept under...
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