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Series 5 of FOX 8's Australia's Next Top Model auditions are coming soon! If you think you have what it takes, then check out the audition dates and places around Australia during October.

All Saints star Mark Priestley has died after leaping from a building on Wednesday.

In a tribute, Channel Seven's Tim Worner says: "Mark was such a brilliant artist. His work on stage and screen was admired by everybody who knew him. His death is such a sad loss. We at Channel Seven will miss his energy and smile."

Priestley will be seen on another 11 episodes of All Saints.<?p>

Just in case you're wondering, Home and Away is back on August 24 after the Olympics has finished!

Channel Nine's popular and controversial drama Underbelly has been renewed for a second season. The season will be a prequel and will focus on Alphonse Gangitano's life.

If you're wondering what song it was on Home and Away, you might find the information here - we'll be adding songs we hear on the show in here. If you hear another one, please let us know!

Songs during Episode 4663: Wednesday June 18 2008

The song playing when Kirsty and Kane said goodbye and Leah talked about the end of The Den was The Panics - Don't Fight It

The song playing at the end when Belle and Aden kiss and Kirsty was crying while Kane was transferred was The Panics - Ruins

October round in progress! (If you join late, you won't get points for episodes already aired.)

ADD YOUR TEAM HERE

Here's how the game works:

You pick any four current Home and Away characters which you keep for a whole month. (You can pick the same four as other people playing the game.)

Your characters earn you points each episode based on what they do. Compete against your friends to see who will get the most points at the end of the month!

Points: are earned each time your character does one of the following.

100 points if your character: leaves Summer Bay (i.e. leaves the show), marries, divorces, has a baby (mother or father)
90 points if your character: starts a new job

HBO has announced they will screen Chris Lilley's wild hit mocumentary, Summer Heights High in June this year.

The show is destined for a late-night slot on Fridays.

Tomorrow night we're going to the Australian Idol Top 3 Show! It starts about 6:15pm and it'll be great to compare everything to NZ Idol since we've been to heaps of those shows.

Being from New Zealand, I don't really know the contestants too well, saw a few clips on YouTube (Matt Corby seems amazing) so it'll all be pretty fresh but will blog about it for you all afterwards!

Do you remember the classic Aussie soap from the 70s called The Young Doctors? Channel 10 and FremantleMedia are said to be in talks to remake the show next year and run it weeknights at 6pm.

Would you tune in? Do you think it will be better than Neighbours?

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After 20 - can you believe it - years of playing Harold Bishop, Ian Smith has decided to retire from full time work. Harold will be back for some guest appearances in 2008.

Ian Smith will be missed by cast, crew and of course the fans.

If you would like to be in the studio audience to watch Who wants to be a millionaire, call (03) 9517 1824 or fill in the form here.

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Shows are filmed at:

Channel 9 Studios
22 Bendigo St
Richmond 3121.

The DCU Home & Away Society - a fansite based in Dublin - website is back up.

What's extra special about the fansite is the members are all students at the same university so they get together regularly to watch Home and Away, have themed parties and more! (Wonder if they ever go for a mid-winter swim??)

At their next event, they'll be discussing Sally's departure and whether it's a good or bad thing! (Personally I think it's a bad thing but hey...)

Check our their site »

The Australian Communications and Media Authority has found that Channel Seven breached the Commercial Television Industry Code of Practice by incorrectly classifying three episodes of Home and Away as G instead of PG on 21 February, 23 March and 26 March 2007.

The 21 February 2007 episode of Home and Away had a teenage couple’s decision to have sex and the consequences of this decision. ACMA found that verbal references to sex and visual depictions of sexual behaviour contained in the episode were not brief or infrequent. It also considered that the program’s treatment of the theme of teenage sexuality was not very mild in impact.

On 23 March and 26 March 2007, Martha was encouraged by her boyfriend to take up pole-dancing, although she is reluctant to do so. ACMA determined that pole-dancing scenes contained in the programs contained visual depictions of sexual behaviour, that their impact was higher than very mild, and that the episodes were not suitable for children to watch without supervision.

ABC3 - a new children's TV channel to be broadcast between 6am and 9pm with at least 50% of content being Australian-made is expected to be proposed by Prime Minister John Howard.

Do you think it's a good idea? Why or why not?

Hi everyone,

I've been working on a Home and Away Summer Bay map and wanted to know if you could help with any corrections or updates to it. Are any of the locations wrong? Please let me know!

Thanks!