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Saturday November 20, 2010

Shares:
1 Seven 20.3% (nw 28.3%)
2 Nine 19.7% (nw 27.1%)
3 ABC1 19.2% (nw 22.9%)
4 Ten 15.1% (nw 16.0%)
5 GO! 5.5%

6 7TWO 5.2%
7 SBS ONE 4.7% (nw 5.7%)
8 ABC2 2.8%
9 7mate 2.7%
10 GEM 1.9%

11 SBS TWO 1.0%
12 ONE 0.9%
13 ABC News 24 0.6%
14 ABC3 0.4%

Top shows for the day:
1 New Tricks ABC1 1,225,000 325,000 421,000 214,000 119,000 146,000
2 Seven News – Sat Seven 1,105,000 298,000 246,000 244,000 117,000 200,000
3 ABC News-Sa ABC1 1,020,000 264,000 328,000 192,000 99,000 136,000
4 Nine News Saturday Nine 908,000 208,000 288,000 209,000 104,000 100,000
5 Australia’s Funniest Home Videos Nine 751,000 185,000 274,000 150,000 77,000 66,000
6 Spooks ABC1 717,000 199,000 219,000 138,000 68,000 93,000
7 Hey Hey It’s Saturday Nine 679,000 147,000 312,000 112,000 74,000 34,000
8 M-The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion The Witch And The Seven 619,000 156,000 163,000 142,000 65,000 93,000
9 Gardening Australia ABC1 591,000 142,000 163,000 128,000 74,000 85,000
10 ABC News Up-Date ABC1 588,000 210,000 0 169,000 90,000 120,000
11 Ten News At Five Sat Ten 562,000 124,000 139,000 113,000 57,000 129,000
12 True Lies Ten 507,000 155,000 150,000 79,000 54,000 69,000
13 Ice Age: The Meltdown Rpt Ten 452,000 111,000 149,000 92,000 37,000 62,000
14 M-War Of The Worlds Seven 432,000 103,000 136,000 72,000 60,000 63,000
15 Antiques Roadshow Nine 431,000 80,000 157,000 85,000 53,000 57,000
16 Sports Tonight Sat Ten 386,000 97,000 90,000 75,000 42,000 83,000
17 Click Nine 348,000 93,000 135,000 55,000 37,000 27,000
18 Michael Mcintyre’s Comedy Roadshow ABC1 345,000 79,000 108,000 68,000 43,000 48,000
19 Weekend Sunrise – Sat Seven 310,000 67,000 72,000 93,000 38,000 40,000
20 Seven’s V8 Supercars Round 13: Sandown D1 Seven 292,000 74,000 67,000 89,000 37,000 24,000
21 The Simpsons Sat Ten 263,000 67,000 86,000 61,000 30,000 19,000
22 Heartbeat-Sat Ep.2 (R) 7TWO 256,000 49,000 77,000 34,000 47,000 48,000
23 Big, Bigger, Biggest SBS ONE 240,000 89,000 61,000 35,000 22,000 33,000
24 Iron Chef SBS ONE 221,000 61,000 80,000 28,000 19,000 33,000
25 The Graham Norton Show ABC1 218,000 61,000 56,000 45,000 26,000 30,000
26 Weekend Today – Saturday Nine 215,000 89,000 79,000 22,000 19,000 5,000
27 Heartbeat-Sat (R) 7TWO 213,000 44,000 45,000 40,000 38,000 47,000
28 Weekend Today – Early Saturday Nine 202,000 52,000 71,000 47,000 13,000 19,000
29 Dumb And Dumber Go! 199,000 50,000 71,000 51,000 13,000 15,000
30 Weekend Sunrise – Sat – Early Seven 198,000 47,000 50,000 48,000 20,000 33,000

OzTam Five city Live and As Live Preliminary Ratings Figures. Raw data sourced from TV Tonight and/or the various networks. Five Cities are Sydney (S), Brisbane (B), Melbourne (M), Adelaide (A) and Perth (P). Figures are shown in order Total, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth. Shows not aired in certain cities denoted by 0 or n/a (not aired).  Does not take into account overruns or extreme last minute programming changes. Shares are 6pm – Midnight unless otherwise stated. Network abreviated to “nw”.

Friday November 19, 2010

Shares:
1 Seven 26.3% (nw 24.6%)
2 Nine 23.1% (nw 28.6%)
3 ABC1 14.0% (nw 16.2%)
4 Ten 13.8% (nw 14.6%)
5 SBS ONE 5.4% (nw 6.0%)

6 7TWO 4.8%
7 7mate 3.4%
8 GO! 3.2%
9 GEM 2.3%
10 ABC2 1.4%

11 ONE 0.8%
12 SBS TWO 0.6%
13 ABC3 0.5%
14 ABC News 24 0.3%

Top shows for the day:
1 Better Homes And Gardens Seven 1,254,000 365,000 374,000 247,000 118,000 150,000
2 Seven News Seven 1,148,000 297,000 325,000 230,000 120,000 177,000
3 Today Tonight Seven 1,091,000 329,000 283,000 233,000 101,000 145,000
4 Nine News Nine 1,029,000 300,000 311,000 214,000 106,000 98,000
5 ABC News ABC1 981,000 292,000 322,000 154,000 80,000 134,000
6 A Current Affair Nine 921,000 239,000 307,000 188,000 95,000 93,000
7 Home And Away Seven 867,000 247,000 242,000 192,000 89,000 98,000
8 Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix Nine 768,000 248,000 276,000 106,000 56,000 83,000
9 Two And A Half Men -Rpt Nine 746,000 231,000 244,000 121,000 70,000 79,000
10 Ten News At Five Ten 736,000 181,000 234,000 132,000 86,000 102,000
11 The All New Simpsons Fri Ep 2 Ten 695,000 183,000 240,000 120,000 83,000 69,000
12 Stateline ABC1 692,000 173,000 226,000 128,000 77,000 89,000
13 M-Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade Seven 689,000 179,000 226,000 119,000 90,000 75,000
14 The All New Simpsons Fri Ten 667,000 202,000 186,000 124,000 88,000 66,000
15 RBT Nine 662,000 220,000 216,000 111,000 43,000 73,000
16 Collectors ABC1 656,000 149,000 244,000 120,000 68,000 75,000
17 The 7pm Project Ten 635,000 173,000 181,000 141,000 67,000 73,000
18 Luther ABC1 628,000 179,000 193,000 96,000 71,000 89,000
19 Hot Seat Nine 516,000 125,000 148,000 136,000 53,000 54,000
20 Deal Or No Deal Seven 507,000 104,000 191,000 94,000 52,000 65,000
21 NCIS Fri Rpt Ten 496,000 100,000 170,000 93,000 77,000 56,000
22 Identity ABC1 458,000 137,000 137,000 55,000 57,000 71,000
23 The Simpsons Ten 441,000 143,000 147,000 65,000 45,000 41,000
24 Law And Order: SVU Fri Rpt Ten 440,000 114,000 153,000 67,000 71,000 35,000
25 Neighbours Ten 430,000 134,000 136,000 60,000 58,000 43,000
26 Sunrise Seven 406,000 95,000 101,000 105,000 42,000 63,000
27 The Bold And The Beautiful Ten 402,000 110,000 133,000 75,000 43,000 42,000
28 Can We Help? ABC1 358,000 87,000 127,000 59,000 30,000 56,000
29 M*A*S*H Seven 351,000 118,000 85,000 74,000 36,000 37,000
30 Customs Nine 340,000 222,000 0 118,000 0 0

OzTam Five city Live and As Live Preliminary Ratings Figures. Raw data sourced from TV Tonight and/or the various networks. Five Cities are Sydney (S), Brisbane (B), Melbourne (M), Adelaide (A) and Perth (P). Figures are shown in order Total, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth. Shows not aired in certain cities denoted by 0 or n/a (not aired).  Does not take into account overruns or extreme last minute programming changes. Shares are 6pm – Midnight unless otherwise stated. Network abreviated to “nw”.

Network Ten is pleased to announce that award winning journalist Sheryl Taylor is joining TEN’s Sydney news team as Health Editor.

With a media career spanning 25 years across print, radio and TV, Sheryl Taylor is an outstanding addition to TEN’s growing news team.

Sheryl has broken numerous health and medical stories, won a myriad of awards in her profession and set up, and executive produced some Australian television’s best medical programs, notably the Logie award-winning medical reality program, RPA.

Ross Dagan, TEN’s Sydney News Director said Sheryl Taylor is without doubt one of the most respected journalists in her field. “We’re delighted to welcome Sheryl to TEN’s already outstanding news team. She will bring decades of experience to covering the health issues that intimately affect all our viewers.

Sheryl Taylor said of her joining TEN’s news team, “I am thrilled to be back reporting on the medical and health matters that affect millions of Australians and it’s such an exciting time to be joining Ten’s expanded commitment to news and public affairs”.

Hailing from Perth and originally trained as a Registered Nurse, Sheryl’s work took her across the continent, before returning home to study journalism. She started her reporting career at ABC Radio, filing for the prestigious current affairs programs AM, PM and The World Today, covering breaking political events and interviewing leading business and political figures, before moving into TV.

Sheryl will be based in Sydney with a roving brief to cover significant health and medical news. She will be reporting across TEN’s news programs, with a particular focus on Sydney’s Ten News at Five and Ten Evening News at 6:30pm.

TEN is confident that ratings juggernaut MasterChef will stay theirs for many years to come.

Chief Executive of television Grant Blackley has said that talks are underway currently with production house Shine for the rights to extend beyond next year.

Blackley says that although Seven And Nine may be tempted to push the bidding up, he is confident that Ten will retain the rights.

“We are confident that . . . we will come up with an arrangement on MasterChef,” he told The Australian.

“I think we have to be careful not to concentrate on price too much. At the end of the day we have an excellent relationship with Shine. We do a lot of business with Shine. We’ve developed a relationship with Shine that is based around mutual respect and mutual success.”

Blackley was quick to point out that some shows failed once they shifted network.

“Thank God You’re Here is a classic recent example where it left Ten (for Seven) and its audience dropped by about 40 per cent,” he said.

“In a world of convergence, I think there is a lot more to do with MasterChef to make it a big part of everybody’s daily life all year round. All we’ve done, really, is make it a broadcast vehicle for a number of weeks.”

TEN’s current deal expires at the end of 2011 which coincides with the end of Shine’s license deal with FremantleMedia.

From then on, Shine will take over production.

Source: The Australian

ABC TV has named sleek geek Adam Spencer, and super sport Amanda Shalala, captains of the two celebrity teams on its new sports quiz show – The Trophy Room.

Hosted by comedian, Peter Helliar, The Trophy Room is a fun-filled, fast-paced quiz show that combines classic and current sports trivia with parlour games and physical challenges.

Adam Spencer says he‘s thrilled to be involved in a panel show where he can interact with some of his sporting heroes.

“I haven’t been this excited since that John Aloisi penalty against Uruguay which sent the Socceroos to the 2006 World Cup,” he says. “I haven’t been this energised since I watched Garry Kasparov clinch his 1990 World Chess Championship over Anatoly Karpov.”

The “ubernerd” says he looking forward to working with The Trophy Room host, Peter Helliar.

“Pete’s the perfect host for a sports quiz show – he could well be the love child of Larry Emdur and Shane Warne…or Stephen Hawking and Flo-Jo!”

Adam will not be underestimating his opposing captain – ABC sports presenter Amanda Shalala.

“She’ll be a ferocious adversary – don’t let the melodic, gently lilting surname hypnotise you into falling for her charms – she’s an encyclopaedia of sporting knowledge – with attitude to match!”

Amanda Shalala lives by the motto “Sport is life, the rest mere detail.” She’s “incredibly excited” her “unnatural obsession” with sporting trivia is actually being put to good use.

“I can’t believe I’ve found a legitimate outlet to share the many random and useless sports factoids that fill my head,” she says. “Now my friends no longer have to politely pretend they care when I tell them about the Wallabies’ historic 1984 grand slam winning team, or recount the entire history of the St George rugby league club – I can share it with Australia instead!”

It’s the hottest ticket in Australia, and now Network Ten have joined forces with Austereo’s Today Network to give fans in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth the chance to secure a coveted place in the audience at “The Oprah Winfrey Show” at the Sydney Opera House on December 14th.

Network Ten viewers should tune in to their local Today Network for their chance to win tickets to the Sydney Opera House tapings.

Northern Territory and ACT residents will also have the chance to win tickets, and should keep watching “Oprah” 1pm week days on Network TEN for details.

Then, ‘The Network Ten Oprah Show Ticket Giveaway’ will take place from Monday 22nd November on 104.1 2Day FM in Sydney, 101.9 and from Monday 29th November in Fox FM in Melbourne, 105.3 B105 FM in Sydney, 107.1 SAFM in Adelaide and 92.9 FM in Perth.

Australians can tune into their local Today Network radio station for the opportunity to be part of one of the most exciting events our country has ever seen.

TEN is Australia’s top network in daytime TV and #1, for the under 50 year olds.

Austereo’s Today Network is Australia’s number one radio network and reaches five million Australians on-air and online.

“The Oprah Winfrey Show” screens in 145 countries and is watched by an estimated 40 million people in the United States each week.

Screening 1pm Monday to Friday on TEN, “The Oprah Winfrey Show” is celebrating its 25th and farewell season on-air when these Australia episodes hit Aussies screens in 2011.

New Spartacus trailer

The trailer for Spartacus: Gods of the Arena has been released. The new season will act as a mini-series prequel to the popular Spartacus: Blood and Sand.

Hatcher to leave DH

Desperate Housewives actress Teri Hatcher has reportedly told colleagues that she is planning on ending her stint on the show following its next season. The news comes in the wake of creator Mark Cherry’s comments that beyond its ninth season, he has no further plans for the show.

Former Batman signs on for Cartoon Network series

Former TV Batman actor Adam West has joined the voice cast of Cartoon Network series The Super Hero Squad. West will portray the character Nighthawk alongside former Seinfeld actor John O’Hurley who voices The Grandmaster.

Glee reach number two on singles list

The cast of Glee have reached second on the all-time Billboard Hot Digital Songs chart with the number of singles charted. Glee is second to only Elvis Presley in the number of singles to hit the chart following the show’s cover of Katy Perry’s Teenage Dream on the recent episode in the US.

Grammer pilot picked up

A new Kelsey Grammer pilot has been picked up by American network Starz which will focus on the life of the Mayor of Chicago. Grammer is believed to have landed the lead role in the pilot which will be directed by Gus Van Sant.

THE X FACTOR grand finalist’s Sally Chatfield, Altiyan Childs and Andrew Lawson turned it up to 11 last night as they took to the stage and belted out duets with Jamiroquai, INXS and James Blunt. 

Sally joined Jamiroquai on their huge dance hit, Canned Heat, Andrew swooned alongside James Blunt with Beautiful and while Altiyan lived the dream, joining INXS on Don’t Change, he was also pulled up by Kyle for forgetting the opening lyrics.  But Kyle acknowledged that ultimately it didn’t matter as Altiyan’s performance was world class.

The top three also performed their version of the winner’s single “Somewhere in the World”, Kyle believed Sally and Altiyan’s version would get commercial radio play but that song wasn’t ideal for Andrew’s vocal style. 

Last night the finalists went back to their respective audition songs – Altiyan not only remembered the words to Kings of Leon’s Sex on Fire, but made it his own.  Sally reminded the nation why Kyle branded her a ‘supreme vocalist’ at her audition when she returned to Christina Aguilera’s Hurt.  Andrew went back to his roots with an impressive performance of Frank Sinatra’s Fly Me To The Moon.

The judges selected their favourite performance from their charges across the series – with Natalie Imbruglia voting for Sally’s version of Queen’s Don’t Stop Me Now, Kyle had Andrew revisit Michael Buble’s Heartache Tonight and Ronan reminded Australia why they fell in love with Altiyan by having him belt out Bon Jovi’s Livin’ On a Prayer.

The voting lines are open and close 12.00pm AEDT Monday www.xfactortv.com.au for more information. 

All three acts have proven that they have the X Factor – but who will take home the winner’s title and score a recording contract with Sony Music tonight?

Will it be powerful diva Sally, rockstar Altiyan or the swinging crooner Andrew? 

Tonight THE X FACTOR judge Guy Sebastian will take to the stage to perform his brand new single, Who’s That Girl, with controversial American rapper Eve.  

THE X FACTOR top 12 will also return for a special group performance as will Jamiroquai and James Blunt performing their new songs White Knuckle Ride and Stay the Night and INXS will be joined by Baby Animals front woman Suze DeMarchi.  Hollywood superstar Jack Black will also pop by.

THE X FACTOR GRAND FINAL DECIDER tonight at 7.30pm on Seven.

Seven have filled in the blanks now in their schedule for the first week of summer, commencing Sunday November 28.

Here’s the summary:

Sunday Nov 28
6.30 The Vicar of Dibley special
7.30 Border Patrol
8.00 Coastwatch
8.30 Bones rpt
9.30 Castle rpt

Monday Nov 29
7.00 How I met Your Mother rpt(Mon – Fri)
7.30 Animal Squad
8.00 ICU
8.30 Criminal Minds rpt
9.30 Outlaw
10.30 The Event (note: final will be the following Monday, Dec 6)

Tuesday Nov 30
7.30 Minute to Win It (US version)
8.30 I Shouldn’t Be Alive
9.30 Most Shocking Top 20

Wednesday Dec 1
7.30 Medical Emergency
8.00 Under the Hammer
8.30 Criminal Minds rpt
9.30 City Homicide rpt (double)

Thursday Dec 2
7.30 The Amazing Race
8.30 Movie: Meet The Parents
10.50 30 Rock rpt

Friday Dec 3
7.30 Better Homes and Gardens summer edition
8.30 Movie: The Santa Clause
10.35 Movie: The Tattooist

Saturday Dec 4
6.30 No Leave No Life
7.00 High Road, Low Road
7.30 Movie: Anne of Green Gables

Aussie pop outfit AMY MEREDITH will open another fun-packed, monster episode of Hey Hey It’s Saturday tomorrow night at 7.30pm on Channel Nine.

The Sydney quintet will treat viewers to their latest single, Faded White Dress, from their Top 10 album, Restless.

The home-grown theme will continue when hip-hop dance troupe JUSTICE CREW perform their debut single, And Then We Dance, especially adapted for Hey Hey.

Everyone’s favourite children’s entertainers and one of Australia’s biggest exports, THE WIGGLES, will showcase a potential new member of their team in a big surprise for Daryl. And RUSSELL GILBERT will pay tribute to our skivvy-wearing national treasures in a way that only he can.

Academy Award winner ADAM ELLIOT will announce the winner of The John West Canned Film Festival, which has garnered the most incredibly creative response in years.

Radio personality JO STANLEY will swap her microphone for scorecards when she lines up on the judging panel of Red Faces.

You’ll be amazed at the awesome talent of violinist SALLY COOPER, taking centre stage with the Hey Hey It’s Saturday orchestra.

OSSIE OSTRICH has collected some very Phunny Photos, plus a Ducati riding SUZE RAYMOND is back from her whirlwind overseas mission to launch the new and exciting Harry Potter computer game.

All this and oh, so much more.

HEY HEY IT’S SATURDAY: Tomorrow night at 7.30pm on Channel Nine