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This just screened on sbs last night

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It is utterly gorgeous feel good TV, if you haven't seen it, do not miss it, lovely.
A lot of the dancing in the earlier bits is atrocious - by the finals, wow, sassy hip swinging kids.

And @Cookies and icecream welcome to the forum, we haven't heard from @Miajahar for 2 years unfortunately, you are addressing the ether if you are trying to connect.
Come back @Miajahar:( please
 
Channel Seven 2015.....

Amongst the announcements are:

Two seasons of House Rules
Restaurant Revolution -a reworked version of My Restaurant Rules combining renovation and food.
Rebecca Gibney drama series Winter (further extending The Killing Field)
Erik Thomson drama 800 Words_, “an international seachange”
History series Australia: The Story of Us
Catching Milat drama
Gallipoli: The Power of Ten profiling Victoria Cross recipients
plus returning seasons of My Kitchen Rules, The X Factor, Dancing with the Stars, Winners and Losers, Home and Away and Better Homes and Gardens.

Seven continues its big focus on Sport and News, including the ability to watch alternative Australian Open events via digital platforms.

International titles include How to Get Away with Murder, Aquarius, Mind Games, Houdini, Heroes Reborn, Red Band Society, State of Affairs and Battle Creek.

http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2014/10...taurant-revolution-gibney-thomson-dramas.html


So 2 seasons of HR.... Interesting, I wonder if 2015 will be the year that renovating shows stop rating well. Nine will have 2 season of the block and now seven have 2 seasons of HR+ the restaurant renovating show....

All up the only thing that I am interested in watching on seven is the Milat drama.....

Can't wait till Ten and Nine reveal their shows for 2015.
 
Nine revealed their shows yesterday.

House Rules is about the only Aussie series I watch in full and easily the best new reality show of recent years but two a year is ridiculous - even if the first is as early as Feb and the second as late at October.

Restaurant Revolution seems like one of those programmes which comes from two TV execs realising cookery competitions and renovation shows are popular, so combining them is a surefire hit. It won't be.

And interesting that 14 years after the BBC started doing it with Wimbledon that Seven will be providing multi-court coverage of the Aussie Open, something that's been available in the UK for years. This is where linking TV up with the net really works though - allows for pop-up channels without the need to have physical channels on standby not being used for much of the year. It would be the ideal way to provide a BB live feed IMO.
 
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Channel Seven 2015.....

Amongst the announcements are:

Two seasons of House Rules
Restaurant Revolution
-a reworked version of My Restaurant Rules combining renovation and food.
Rebecca Gibney drama series Winter (further extending The Killing Field)
Erik Thomson drama 800 Words_, “an international seachange”
History series Australia: The Story of Us
Catching Milat
drama
Gallipoli: The Power of Ten profiling Victoria Cross recipients
plus returning seasons of My Kitchen Rules, The X Factor, Dancing with the Stars, Winners and Losers, Home and Away and Better Homes and Gardens.

Seven continues its big focus on Sport and News, including the ability to watch alternative Australian Open events via digital platforms.

International titles include How to Get Away with Murder, Aquarius, Mind Games, Houdini, Heroes Reborn, Red Band Society, State of Affairs and Battle Creek.

http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2014/10...taurant-revolution-gibney-thomson-dramas.html


So 2 seasons of HR.... Interesting, I wonder if 2015 will be the year that renovating shows stop rating well. Nine will have 2 season of the block and now seven have 2 seasons of HR+ the restaurant renovating show....

All up the only thing that I am interested in watching on seven is the Milat drama.....

Can't wait till Ten and Nine reveal their shows for 2015.

I am looking forward to MKR as a bit of a foodie, X Factor, only because one of my kids has auditioned for 2015, will watch the Malat drama too. Even though I know Better Homes and Gardens is a popular show and some weeks there's awesome tips and tricks, I find it really annoying as near every presenter on the show does a laugh/talking hybrid thing. I just want to slap them around the head.

No mention of Beauty and the Geek? *sigh of relief*

I haven't clicked on your link as yet to see the other International offerings. Will be interesting to see if they have opted to take Revenge.
 
I don't usually watch the show Studio 10, however I did watch the "catchup" Saturday thing they do and saw something that I found disturbing. An interview with the guys who did the Parliament House stunt? Anyone else see that interview?
 
What are these awful new pseudo-poetic ads that Myer and Country Road are running, awful hyper-girly crap being declared in painful dramatic voices about mouse-sized handbags and rings for our fingers and writing our own story etc etc while all the images are as cliched and normative as can be, they are just so terrible.
 
8.30pm tonight

Twilight th emovie series begins on ABC

Dusk to Dawn, the original movie,
Directed by Robert Rodriguez. George Clooney, Harvey Keitel, Juliette Lewis, Quentin Tarantino, Salma Hayek
Do not miss if you haven't seen this - amazing movie that freaked me out first time, totally unexpected twists.


Chasers new show

And a documentary about fires.

Plus a whole lot of regular popular show shit, crime and stuff.

All of this, that is what BB is up against. No hope.

I have been addicted to the real BB in the past, I continue with this crap, but shit I'm watching Dusk to Dawn, BB is repeated
 
What are these awful new pseudo-poetic ads that Myer and Country Road are running, awful hyper-girly crap being declared in painful dramatic voices about mouse-sized handbags and rings for our fingers and writing our own story etc etc while all the images are as cliched and normative as can be, they are just so terrible.


It's an advertisement for impracticality in totality. I was WTF?? about it too.
 
Friday night TV is horrendous, yuck - shitheads could fit in hours of prime BB, just streaming edited.
Horrible teen movies - god they are the worst.
 
Not much to shout about programme wise here in the UK at the moment other than the return of the excellent serial killer series The Fall, which I believe is airing in Australia an hour after the UK broadcast.

I'm a Celebrity dominates the schedules now for the next three weeks meaning nothing on ITV and their rivals pretty much folding. Personally haven't really watched it now for a decade - pisses me off really how a format which uses exactly the same twists and challenges year in year out still gets 10m viewers a night.

The highlights on TV at the moment are the adverts - the Christmas ad campaigns seem to have really upped their game in recent years and John Lewis ads have quickly become a big thing, despite their first ad only airing in 2007. (Hoping you can see these outside of the UK)


(Worth checking out the 2011 and 2013 one as well)

This year though they've been topped by a timely ad from Sainsburys marking 100 years since the Christmas truce.

 
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I don't usually watch the show Studio 10, however I did watch the "catchup" Saturday thing they do and saw something that I found disturbing. An interview with the guys who did the Parliament House stunt? Anyone else see that interview?

That entire show is disturbing - I am utterly bewildered it is still screening, a more repulsive group of people it would be difficult to find, especially the oily guy.

Better - OMG Junior Eurovision, is on SBS2, right now:)
 
Don't bother it is boring.
I just watched to see what the kids wear.

Well, all look pretty.
Not even a pinch of skin on display. Other than arms & normal stuff of course.
Clearly being very careful not to sex the kiddies up at all. :)
Kids voices can be shrill can't they.........I like them singing in groups, solos tend to squeek.

This, looks interesting -

Cilla

'Part 1'

ABC, 8:35pm, Sun, 16 Nov 2014, 45 minutes

NEW SHOW

The young and unknown Priscilla White works in the typing pool of a local company in the city, but dreams of stardom. Through her association with The Beatles she becomes Cilla Black.

Sheridan Smith, Aneurin Barnard, Ed Stoppard, John Henshaw, Melanie Hill

Series, United Kingdom, English, Drama, Music, Biography
 
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This is being repeated, and is great
Stephen Hawking's Grand Design

'Did God Create the Universe?'

SBS HD, 7:30pm, Mon, 17 Nov 2014, 55 minutes

REPEAT

In this remarkable series the world's most famous physicist attempts to unravel the truths behind humanity's most enduring questions. In episode one, Hawking asks the biggest question of all: Is there a god who created and controls the universe in which we live? To answer this controversial, age-old conundrum, Hawking takes us on a journey through humanity's history of speculation about the place of human life in the universe - from Vikings and eclipses to the laws of modern cosmology.

Stephen Hawking, Benedict Cumberbatch
 
This has to be a joke right?

Nine will pit contestants from The Block against contestants from House Rules in a new renovation series, Renovation Rumble in 2015.
The series, to be produced by Julian Cress and David Barbour, is one of two new formats on Nine’s 2015 schedule.

Seven CEO Tim Worner revealed the show at the Screen Forever conference in Melbourne today.

2015 will be a big year of renovation on Free to Air TV including 2 x House Rules, 2 x The Block and Restaurant Revolution.

http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2014/11/renovation-rumble-reality-coming-to-nine-in-2015.html

So that is 6 different renovating shows next year. I really hope that they all kill each others ratings, kind of like this year with the overkill of Talent shows....

2015 the year of 6 reno shows and NO BB..... smh.
 
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