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Ok, Handmaid’s Tale, you’ve had your fun, no more
She nearly gets away but doesn’t
next season.
Trouble with shows like that is you know they need the basic scenario to stay the same for future seasons, and with eight seasons to go you have to wonder if it's worth sticking with.
 
I can't watch that show, ie Handmaid
Watching the constant raping would make me vomit
I don't need to be repulsed by female torture on TV, I am repulsed enough by the real world female torture

2 sisters and 1 brother, survived attacks, none of them ever fully recovered

So, lighter news......

10's PILOT WEEK........What do you think????

TEN locks on Pilot Week

In one of the more exciting propositions in the TV year, TEN has confirmed its Pilot Week will take place from Sunday August 19.

There are 8 new projects to be screened in primetime across the week, all for audiences to pass judgement on.

Spanning a range of various genres they include the previously-teased Trial by Kyle, Disgrace with Sam Dastiyari, a local Drink History adaptation (as revealed by TV Tonight) and Taboo with Harley Breen.

Newly-confirmed titles are comedies Skit Happens from CJZ Productons, Kinne Tonight with Troy Kinne, Dave with Dave O’Neill and a Rove McManus-variety Bring Back… Saturday Night.

Each screening will by introduced by Grant Denyer and Angela Bishop while audience reaction, social buzz and ratings will help decide what shows will return in 2019.Viewers will be encouraged to participate and share their feedback via tenplay and social media.

Beverley McGarvey, Chief Content Officer, Network TEN said: “We are excited to be broadcasting such a fantastic array of unique and entertaining programs under the banner of Pilot Week.

“Involving Australian audiences in whether or not a program gets the green light via tenplay and other social initiatives provides a fantastic opportunity for Australian audiences to have their say in what they want to see on our screens in 2019.

“Pilot Week for us, represents a substantial investment in unique and local production, and further cements Network Ten’s role as the innovator of Australian commercial television,” she said.

Network TEN’s executive general manager, revenue & client partnerships Rod Prosser said: “We are the first commercial broadcaster to be doing anything like this. Pilot Week is an exciting initiative that propels TEN’s position as an innovator. With Pilot Week, we are actively taking audiences beyond broadcast, creating a path for them to continue their engagement with the programs across our digital and social channels.

“It continues our commitment to offering creative, multi-platform and innovative opportunities for advertisers and brands, and makes up part of our strongest schedule of programming over the coming months. It is a fantastic way for us to be supporting the local industry on and off screen.”

The Pilot Week event is a first for a commercial network, and like ABC’s recent Comedy Showcase, hopes to ignite new hit shows. Absent from the list are recent rumours of Dancing with the Stars (which hardly needs a Pilot) and a local version of Saturday Night Takeaway, whilst social media has noted the list is heavily-male dominated.

TEN is yet to confirm specific timeslots along with how programming will impact regular programming such as Australian Survivor.

SHOWS

Skit Happens
Nothing is safe from a Skit Happens parody, when the nations up-and-coming comedians join forces for Network Ten’s first sketch comedy in 12 years. Skit Happens is produced by CJZ.

Dave
Funny-man Dave O’Neil opens the doors to his crazy life in a half-hour narrative comedy. Expect laughter, tears and the appreciation of not being Dave. Dave is produced by Studio Bento.

Kinne Tonight
Comedian Troy Kinne ditches the stress of modern life, bringing hard-working Australians a fast-paced half-hour of laughter. Kinne Tonight is produced by Kinne Productions and Big Yellow Taxi Productions.

Drunk History
Rhys Darby and Stephen Curry pour themselves a drink in the international hit comedy format that takes Australia’s rich, and often surprising history and re-tells it through the words of our most loved comedians and entertainers. Drunk History is produced by Eureka Productions.

Taboo
Taboo has broken audience records in its country of origin, Belgium. The premise is as confronting as it is simple. The very funny Harley Breen spends five days and nights with members of a disadvantaged group in society and uses the experience to perform a stand-up routine about them – with the subjects sitting in the front row. Taboo is produced by Lune Media.

Trial By Kyle
The toughest cases, biggest celebrities and genuine disputes can only be settled by one man, radio shock jock Kyle Sandilands. As Kyle carefully unravels each case, former The Bachelor Australia star and criminal lawyer Anna Heinrich is on hand to assist in forensically analysing the evidence. Trial By Kyle is produced by Screentime Australia.

Disgrace!
The world is full of disgrace and outrae ge. Shunned politician Sam Dastyari and the team behind Gruen and The Chaser manage the latest outbreak of outrage in a half-hour of opinion, insight and laughs. Disgrace! Is produced by CJZ.

Bring Back…Saturday Night
Rove McManus is on a mission to bring back Saturday night entertainment. A chance to reflect on what Saturday night means to Australia – then and now. Young performers will bring back the best of the past and performers of the past are challenged with reinvention. Sketches, guests, music and nothing but feel good moments as Rove finds the comedy and laughs by breaking down the conventions of entertainment and variety television. Join his quest to reunite Australia’s greatest acts, bands, and television faces in a generation bending live television show. Bring Back…Saturday Night is produced by Roving Enterprises.

I love Kinne's magic basket, so hope his show is good

And Rhys Darby is fantastic, NZ comic from Flight of the Concords

VOTING AGAINST
Kyle and Dastyari....sight unseen repulsive both of them, and the shows sound STUPID

I have a strange fondness for 10, it seemed like my local, we spent our teenybopper years stalking pop stars at 10, and they were nice to us as long as we behaved inside the cafeteria .....just accosting them outside
10 was fun and more in tune with us, and just a bus ride away in the suburbs
Other old TV stations were all inner city based, and we were suburban kids a bit afraid of those exotic places
 
Beats me why they even try with Kyle....or Jackie
Both have proven they can kill any TV show, no matter what the premise.....TV poison

And, there happen to be plenty of quite entertaining old judges and lawyers around they could tap into
 
I will be following this, as I am a huge fan of anything dance related and this sounds fun
But it clashes with Survivor so catching up later....

Dance Boss

Seven, 7:30pm, Mon, 6 Aug 2018, 75 minutes
(and tuesday)
NEW SHOW


Host Dannii Minogue is taking amateur to the next level as ten workplace formed dance troupes are put through their paces by internationally famous choreographers, in a bid to win the competition and pocket a hefty $100,000 prize. The performances are judged by Adam Garcia, Timomatic and Sharni Vinson.

Dannii Minogue, Adam Garcia, Timomatic, Sharni Vinson

Series, Australia, English, Real Life, Dance
 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...e-Survivor-shows-facing-axe-CBS-steps-in.html

Bachelor/Bachelorette franchise and Survivor under review... CBS apparently wanted to give the shows a year to see how they go.

Could be axed soon.

Keep Survivor, axe one of the other two. I would even say The Bachelor if this season is a complete dud, but I think they'd be more likely to axe The Bachelorette.[DOUBLEPOST=1533448588][/DOUBLEPOST]
I will be following this, as I am a huge fan of anything dance related and this sounds fun
But it clashes with Survivor so catching up later....

Dance Boss

Seven, 7:30pm, Mon, 6 Aug 2018, 75 minutes
(and tuesday)
NEW SHOW


Host Dannii Minogue is taking amateur to the next level as ten workplace formed dance troupes are put through their paces by internationally famous choreographers, in a bid to win the competition and pocket a hefty $100,000 prize. The performances are judged by Adam Garcia, Timomatic and Sharni Vinson.

Dannii Minogue, Adam Garcia, Timomatic, Sharni Vinson

Series, Australia, English, Real Life, Dance

Adam Garcia *swoon*
He was in Doctor Who, too.
 
Keep Survivor, axe one of the other two. I would even say The Bachelor if this season is a complete dud, but I think they'd be more likely to axe The Bachelorette.[DOUBLEPOST=1533448588][/DOUBLEPOST]
Get rid of anything but Survivor Aus.....screen it in the USA, it is widely regarded as THE BEST version currently produced, anywhere

Adam Garcia *swoon*
He was in Doctor Who, too.
And very cute in Bootmen:)
 
Trouble with shows like that is you know they need the basic scenario to stay the same for future seasons, and with eight seasons to go you have to wonder if it's worth sticking with.

Yeah, and they have to distort character and motive and premise to keep to show going, rather than letting the story evolve out from those things.

If Elizabeth Moss wasn’t so very good I might have already called it on this show.
 
I can't watch that show, ie Handmaid
Watching the constant raping would make me vomit
I don't need to be repulsed by female torture on TV, I am repulsed enough by the real world female torture

2 sisters and 1 brother, survived attacks, none of them ever fully recovered

Understandable. There was less of it this season. It’s kind of difficult really to mentally switch between the ‘normal drama’ and darker aspects of what’s going on, but I guess it’s often the case in real life too: dark things operate alongside ‘business as usual’.
 
...I cannot fathom on how ANY show with Kyle Sandilands could be considered to be in the running as a new show at all... I so hope that the shithead goes down in flames big time but on the other hand I so hope that Roves new show is a runaway hit on a mega scale... we so need an entertainment and variety show on Australian TV... fuck off Sandilands and go Rove!... cheers.
 
Bachelor in Paradise and I'm a Celeb Get Me Out....both confirmed new seasons coming

Oooo they have some juicy ideas for the Jungle,
 
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