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We all know Twitter is rife with TV spoilers so wouldn’t it be great if someone came up with something that would eliminate the threat of seeing stuff you don’t want to see?

An American teenager has done just that.

17-year-old Jennie Lamere has designed a plug-in called Twivo that blocks tweets if it detects keywords that may reveal important details.

If one of your shows is about to screen, then you activate the plug-in and designate keywords or tags that tells Twivo what to block. Continue reading »

Here’s another reason why we love Jennifer Lawrence.

The Silver Linings Playbook actress photo-bombs Sarah Jessica Parker at the Met Ball to the amusement of Marion Cotillard and Lena Dunham.

One Australian bloke is in for a hell of a time this year with news that a local version of The Bachelor has been ordered by Ten.

Network Ten is delighted to announce it has commissioned the Australian production of The Bachelor, one of the world’s most successful event television brands.

Produced by Shine Australia, The Bachelor will feature Australia’s most eligible bachelor on a quest to find true love.

The prime-time television event, which has just celebrated its 17th season in the United States, will give one Australian bachelor and a collection of bachelorettes a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to find true love. Continue reading »

Would you watch a reality series set on Mars?

With the Dutch planning the massive interplanetary project Mars One, it can’t be ruled out that one day we could possibly be watching shows that are filmed and set on other planets besides Earth.

If you haven’t heard already, Mars One are planning to send four astronauts to Mars to set up a colony in what they intend will be a global media event available for viewing right from lift-off. Continue reading »

When your first ever words as a news anchor on live TV are “f*ckin’ sh*t”, things can only get better, right?

A.J. Clemente will soon find out after his nerves got the better of him in his first day on the job. Continue reading »

Classic BBC sci-fi series Blake’s 7 is getting rebooted.

The series, which ran from 1978 to 1981, will make a comeback with 13 new episodes thanks to FremantleMedia and American network Syfy.

New Zealand director Martin Campbell (Casino Royale) will direct while Heroes and CSI writer Joe Pokaski will deliver the script. Continue reading »

Just a couple of days after its third season premiere, Game of Thrones has been renewed for a fourth season.

HBO has greenlit another run of the drama series after its premiere on Sunday drew a series high audience in the US.

The material for the fourth season is expected to be drawn from the second half of the third book ‘A Storm of Swords’, as the third season is taken from the first half of the book.

Foxtel is boasting that they will be fast-tracking at least 40 shows from the US and the UK over the next few months.

More and more fantastic Foxtel shows are now delivered Express from the US with a host of new hit shows and returning favourites being fast-tracked to Aussie audiences by Foxtel.

Foxtel’s Express from the US strategy is a major initiative to supply the hottest series to Foxtel customers following the episode screening in the US or the UK and in many cases this is coming down to a matter of hours.

Over the next few months more than 40 series will screen Express from the US on Foxtel. Continue reading »

It’s not exactly the catchiest theme tune of all time (or have any words for that matter) but that hasn’t stopped the cast of Games of Thrones from trying to “sing” it for MTV News.

Today Tonight were duped by the internet troll group Facebeef, who managed to get a fake story about cyber bullying on air.

On Monday night the Channel 7 programme ran the story about a notorious internet troll called Tristan Barker, after being approached by supposed bullying victim Jasmine Vanmiddle.

The 10-minute piece featured Vanmiddle telling reporter David Ecclestone that she was one of Barker’s victims and that she was speaking out because “if you sit in silence, nothing’s going to be done”. Continue reading »