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Changes to ABC1 and ABC2 from May 2.

From Monday May 2, ABC News Breakfast, currently seen on ABC2 and live on ABC News 24, will move to ABC1. The move will enable ABC2 for kids to add extra programming in the morning, from 6am. ABC2 for kids will take on a new look from that day on, and will be providing 13 hours a day, every day of pre-school programming. It also means that there is no longer children’s programming on ABC1 in the mornings.

Leading up to the change, promos in the morning on ABC1 in between pre-school programs are directing views to ABC2 on digital channel 22, pay channel 126 and between programs for school age children to make the move to ABC3 on digital channel 23 and par TV channel 723.

On ABC1, the latest season of Doctor Who premieres Saturday April 30, while Spicks & Specks returns Wednesday May 4.

On May 2, at 8.30am, ABC2 for kids will premiere the new season of Sesame Street.

ABC News Breakfast airs live on ABC News 24, and delayed into markets not on eastern time on ABC1 from May 2 at 6am.

If you can’t wait until May 1 to see the first six episodes of Winners & Losers on 7TWO, then wait no more! Winners & Losers is now live on Plus7. 

Catch up on the first six episodes of Winners & Losers over the Easter Break The first six episodes of Winners & Losers are now live on PLUS 7.

They will be available to watch up until 8.30pm on May 3rd.

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The Nine Network invites viewers to join the celebrations for Prince William and Catherine Middleton with extensive coverage of the Royal Wedding starting on Monday, April 25.
 
The Today Show is LIVE from Buckingham Palace – all week. Join Karl Stefanovic, Lisa Wilkinson and the team with all the latest in royal news.

Kerri-Anne Kennerley is reporting LIVE from London all week and filing stories from various royal locations.

Nine News is LIVE from London all week.

A Current Affair will be LIVE from London all week, with Ita Buttrose and Leila McKinnon joining Tracy Grimshaw and a host of royal watchers.
 
William and Kate: The Royal Countdown, a half-hour special hosted by Karl Stefanovic and Lisa Wilkinson, will go LIVE from Buckingham Palace on Thursday, April 28, at 7.30pm.

After William and Kate: The Royal Countdown it’s a Right Royal Getaway at 8.00pm. Jason Dundas hosts from London as the Getaway team present holidays inspired by the Royal Wedding. Getaway takes a look at the couple’s favourite haunts during their seven-year romance. The Getaway special features Catriona Rowntree’s profile of London’s Goring Hotel where Kate Middleton will spend the night before the big day.

On Friday, April 29, from 4.00pm (check local guides) Karl Stefanovic and Lisa Wilkinson host the lead-up to William and Kate: The Royal Wedding.

At 6.30pm on A Current Affair, Tracey Grimshaw and Ita Buttrose will be LIVE from Westminster Abbey and Leila McKinnon will report LIVE from the royal route, moments before Kate Middleton takes the ride of her life in a royal Rolls-Royce.  

From 7.00pm, William and Kate: The Royal Wedding will be hosted by Karl Stefanovic, Lisa Wilkinson and Dame Edna Everage, accompanied by royal experts and opinion-formers. The coverage will also be simulcast in high definition on GEM. From 8.30pm in NSW and Queensland the wedding coverage will switch to GEM to make way for Friday Night Football.  

It is now confirmed by Nine that the 2011 series of The Block will air at 7pm weeknights instead of once per week at 7.30pm.

Rumours began about the possibility of the Block being striped across 7pm as one solution to Nine’s problems at 7pm mostly driven by falling ratings of Two and a Half Men repeats. The Big Bang Theory has since taken over the 7pm slot, but figures are nothing to get excited about. Channel Nine Adelaide – owned by Win – have been trialling new episodes of Hot Seat at 7pm weeknights this week.

Whatever Nine do at 7pm, they seriously need new content to remain competitive. Sitcom repeats at 7pm may work well on digital channels, but the main channel should be airing new content at that time.

Whether The Block will work as a half hour show five times a week time will tell. It will be interesting to see how they re-jig the format to suit – will there be a room reveal each week on a specific night? How will they make each of the other nights interesting enough to keep the viewers lured?

This year, the couples of the Block will be renovating four houses in Melbourne, as opposed to the usual apartments the previous three series have focussed on.

The Block airs on Nine later this year.

 Source: yourtv.com

Mysterious sightings have been reported around inner-Sydney over the last week. A door to the past has opened, affording locals a glimpse of one of their city’s most colorful eras…the 1920’s.A time when notorious vice queens, Tilly Devine and Kate Leigh battled for supremacy over a nefarious world built on illegal drugs, gambling, extortion and prostitution. When brothels and sly grog shops flourished and gangs of thugs slashed their opposition into silence until the streets ran with blood. 

Welcome to the compelling world of UNDERBELLY: RAZOR.

Based on the best-selling book RAZOR by Larry Writer, this eagerly anticipated drama will be the fourth installment of the series that has revitalised Australian television drama and will bring to life Australia’s two famed vice queens along with infamous gangsters Norman Bruhn, Guido Calletti, Big Jim Devine, Squizzy Taylor, Phil “the Jew” Jeffs, John “Snowy” Cutmore and Frank “the Little Gunman” Green.

Starring Danielle Cormack as Kate Leigh, Chelsie Preston Crayford as Tilly Devine alongside a stellar cast that includes Jeremy Lindsay Taylor, Jack Campbell, Steve Le Marquand, John Batchelor, Felix Williamson, Khan Chittenden and newcomer Anna McGahan as delectable prostitute, Nellie Cameron, UNDERBELLY: RAZOR commenced filming on 4 April and will shoot on location in Sydney until early August 2011.

The show’s 13 episodes will be directed by Tony Tilse, Cherie Nowlan, Shawn Seet and David Caesar and produced by Elisa Argenzio and Peter Gawler with Des Monaghan, Greg Haddrick and Jo Horsburgh as Executive Producers.  Regular UNDERBELLY Writers Peter Gawler and Felicity Packard will return joined by Michaeley O’Brien and Jeff Truman.

Nine’s Head of Drama, Jo Horsburgh said, “UNDERBELLY: RAZOR is an ambitious and welcomed instalment for Nine, with Screentime, of the UNDERBELLY franchise. It is a fascinating glimpse into back alleys, bedrooms and grog shops, where the good, the bad, and downright naughty, battle it out for supremacy in a post World War 1 Australia. It’s sophisticated and raunchy. Fantastic scripts delivering all that the audience have come to expect from UNDERBELLY, great characters, great stories and great entertainment.”

“UNDERBELLY: RAZOR marks an exciting new development in the UNDERBELLY franchise,” said Des Monaghan, Executive Director of Screentime. “The women who battle for control of the underworld are truly incredible characters whose stories are as fresh today as when they occurred.  And despite legendary criminal figures, Squizzy Taylor and Norman Bruhn, our story is dominated by extraordinary women such as Kate Leigh, Tilly Devine, Nellie Cameron and arguably Australia’s first policewoman, Lillian Armfield. A truly rich tale with larger than life characters.”

Still on Seven and it looks like May 8 is the date for the return of Dancing with the Stars. The schedule for the week May 8-14 shows a two and a half hour TBA from 6.30-9.00pm on Sunday May 8, with another two hours TBA from 9-11pm which could mean new episodes of Bones are about to return as well.

The rest of the week is much the same as May 1-7. Although slated as TBA’s, No Ordinary Family should remain at 7.30 Monday, and Australia’s Got Talent at 7.30 Tuesday and Wednesday. Another double helping of Detroit 1-8-7 on Wednesday May 11 from 9.30pm.

With the US season of The Amazing Race airing on 7mate 7.30pm Wednesdays nearing its finale, 7.30pm Wednesday is very likely to be the timeslot for The Amazing Race Australia once Australia’s Got Talent auditions conclude and the show settles to a regular routine of one episode per week on Tuesdays.

This would put the Amazing Race Australia as a Wednesday May 18 or 25 premiere. Can’t wait.

Seven have revealed timeslots for Australia’s Got Talent and new series No Ordinary Family.

No Ordinary Family will premiere in a double episode at 7.30pm, Monday May 2. As a result, the scheduled Bones repeat at 8.30pm is out.

Australia’s Got Talent will return with a 90 minute episode at 7.30pm Tuesday May 3. As a result, Winners & Losers will start at 9pm, Parenthood at 10pm.

Australia’s Got Talent continues at 7.30pm Wednesday May 4. Both episodes feature auditions. Criminal Minds remains at 8.30pm, and Detroit 1-8-7 will air in a double episode featuring episodes 4 and 5 of the series.

Moving to Thursday, and Airways is back with a new series, offering unprecedented access to the day-to-day running of a budget airline in Australia. It airs at 7.30pm. A new episode of How I Met Your Mother follows at 8.00pm.

The Friday night movie for May 6 in markets not airing AFL is Confessions of a Shopaholic, a first run movie. At 6.30pm Saturday May 7, is the free to air premiere of High School Musical 3, followed by Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead man’s Chest.

The 7TWO big Winners & Losers Catch up Marathon.

On Sunday May 1, from 10.30am, 7TWO will play all six episodes that have aired so far of Winners & Losers in a row.

So if you’ve missed any, would like to see any again, or haven’t yet got into Winners & Losers, here is your chance!

The next new episode – the shows seventh – called “Like a Virgin” airs at 8.30pm Tuesday May 3 on Seven.

Kicking off the night is AFL Winners hosted by Dwayne Russell at the special time of 6.30pm AEST. Dwayne will review the results and highlights of all seven matches in the 60-minute show.

At 7.30pm AEST, Jason Dunstall, Alastair Lynch and current North Melbourne coach Brad Scott will host AFL Insider as they take a look at the inner workings of AFL clubs including all latest in innovations and tactics.

The On the Couch team will be LIVE at 8.30pm as Gerard Healy, Mike Sheahan and Paul Roos look at all the news, views and drama surrounding round 5. Special guest on the couch will be Hawthorn Premiership coach, Alastair Clarkson who will be fresh from his team’s blockbuster clash with Geelong at the MCG. 

Following On the Couch, Mike Sheahan will be going one-on-one with Adelaide Crows legend Andrew McLeod in a 30-minute Open Mike special at 9.30pm.

FOX SPORTS’ extensive coverage of round 5 of the Toyota AFL Premiership Season is available to FOXTEL and AUSTAR subscribers.

Madagascar, a three-part series exploring the extraordinary wildlife and dramatic landscape of one of the world’s most fascinating islands, premieres Wednesday, May 4, at 7.30pm on Channel Nine.

Narrated by Sir David Attenborough, Madagascar is an ambitious and intimate portrait of a fragile place unlike anywhere else on Earth.

Lying just off the south-eastern coast of Africa, Madagascar is a land of misty mountains, tropical rainforests and weird, spiny desert scrub. Its wildlife has evolved in splendid isolation to become bizarre and totally unique. The great mystery of Madagascar is why it has such a unique and varied assortment of flora and fauna. What is it that makes Madagascar so different from the rest of the world?

Island of Marvels

Part one finds clues from Madagascar’s extraordinary animals, plants and landscape to discover how the island’s remarkable past has produced its intriguing present. Like the Tsingy, a series of jagged limestone peaks which have cut animals off in isolated gorges, forcing them to evolve into unique species.

Lost Worlds

On the east side of the island, rugged mountains rise dramatically from the palm-fringed Indian Ocean. These uplands catch drenching rains almost all year round – steep and inaccessible, they form the most diverse part of Madagascar. In part two we travel down from the highest mountains, where trees are few and far between, through lush, cloaking rainforests to the tropical coast. Along the way we discover ringtailed lemurs, jewelled geckos and predatory wasps.

Land of Heat and Dust

The southern part of Madagascar is marked by an amazing landscape – from forests of “upside down” trees to alien “spiny deserts”. In stark contrast to the east, the south is bone-dry for most of the year, yet incredibly rich in wildlife. Here only the toughest and most opportunistic species survive – and some of the strategies for survival are ingenious.

Madagascar is a land that has never been filmed in such detail before. It’s one of the few places left on the planet where there are still wildlife mysteries. This enthralling Attenborough series brings the weird and wonderful, the beautiful and unique qualities of this special island to television for the first time.

Madagascar: Wednesday, May 4, at 7.30pm

RPA: Wednesday, May 4 at 8.30pm

BIG – Extreme Makeover: Wednesday, May 4 at 9.30pm