Aussie Ladette To Lady

The network most known for last minute programming changes and crazy schedule re-arrangements is at it again. Yet again, it is the networks’ miserable Tuesday night they are playing with.

Nine have decided to bring forward the final Ladette to Lady episode to next Tuesday November 17, airing after the regular episode at 9.30. That means two hours of Ladette in a row. It also means that Secret Diary of a Call Girl – only recently placed at 10.30 Tuesdays after replacing Moonlight is out of the schedule.

Also airing on Tuesday November 17, is the second Very Best of the Paul Hogan Show Special.

The following Tuesday, November 24, the variation of 20-1 called 50-1 (same thing, only a lot longer) will air with the subject being 50-1 Greatest Movie Quotes. Sounding similar to a 50-1 aired in 2007 called 50-1 Movie One Liners, the new name coupled with a few clip changes means that Nine do not have to call it a repeat even if it is essentially the same as the 2007 show.

Following 50-1 on Tuesday Nov 24, is the movie, the Castle – repeated once again. This will be the third time this year that the Castle will have been played on Nine. Once back in March, the week after the first series of Ladette to Lady finished (sensing the Déjà vu here?), and then again in May in memory of Bud Tingwell in May.

Some of my favourite DVDs don’t even get played this much in a year! Surely Nine could come up with something different?

In reality, Nine will not do well that night against the Packed to the Rafters season finale on Seven and part one of the final of Celebrity Masterchef on Ten as well as NCIS. Only the GO share with Survivor Tocantins nearing the end of its current rushed through season will help Nine from an embarrassing third for that night.

Programming info: Tv Tonight

Tuesday, October 20 9.30pm on Channel Nine

Can the best British teachers of manners and etiquette break a fresh batch of ladettes out of their disgusting habits when the next series of Aussie Ladette to Lady premieres at 9.30pm Tuesday, October 20 on the Nine Network?

In season two of Aussie Ladette to Lady a new group of eight outlandish, out-of-control young women put their hand up and declare themselves in desperate need of help. They want to reform and discover their full potential before their boozing and appalling, foul-mouthed behaviour trashes their live.

· Kerryn (24) – Retail manager, Qld: “I would like to tap into my inner-adult and just see how successful I can be.”
· Kelly (21) – Coffee waitress, Vic: “I want to be respected by my Pop before he dies.”
· Jessica (19) – Stripper, Vic: “I would love to meet a guy who doesn’t tell me I’d be better if I kept my mouth shut.”
· Kaila (18) – Unemployed, NSW: “I need to be pushed into doing things no matter how serious or motivated I am.”
· Letisha (21) – Unemployed, Qld: “I want to be the perfect lady for when it comes to marriage and settling down.”
· Samantha (23) – Retail worker, Qld: “It’s not every day someone like me gets an opportunity to do something like this and fully change your life around.”
· Shari (20) – Construction estimator, WA: “I want to be a chick and stop swearing. For me, clothes just get in the way of a good time.”
· Donnelle (23) – Mine site administration, WA: “I am more like a bloke than a chick. I’m always yelling at people.”

So begins their journey to Hereford Hall finishing school in the United Kingdom where Gill Harbord (principal), Rosemary Shrager (vice-principal) and Liz Brewer (etiquette and behaviour teacher) are about to confront one of the most unruly, vile, rude and insulting groups of women they have ever had the displeasure of meeting.

Each week the three teachers will remove the most unproductive and unresponsive ladette from the group until only three remain. The series finale reveals how far these survivors have come in acquiring some overdue social graces – and announces which ladette has been most successfully transformed into a lady.

Find out who will be crowned the 2009 Lady of Hereford Hall when the second series of Aussie Ladette to Lady premieres 9.30pm Tuesday, October 20, on Channel Nine.

Can the best British teachers of manners and etiquette break a fresh batch of ladettes out of their disgusting habits when the next series of Aussie Ladette to Lady premieres at 9.30pm Tuesday, October 20 on the Nine Network?

In season two of Aussie Ladette to Lady a new group of eight outlandish, out-of-control young women put their hand up and declare themselves in desperate need of help. They want to reform and discover their full potential before their boozing and appalling, foul-mouthed behaviour trashes their lives.

· Kerryn (24) – Retail manager, Qld: “I would like to tap into my inner-adult and just see how successful I can be.”

· Kelly (21) – Coffee waitress, Vic: “I want to be respected by my Pop before he dies.”

· Jessica (19) – Stripper, Vic: “I would love to meet a guy who doesn’t tell me I’d be better if I kept my mouth shut.”

· Kaila (18) – Unemployed, NSW: “I need to be pushed into doing things no matter how serious or motivated I am.”

· Letisha (21) – Unemployed, Qld: “I want to be the perfect lady for when it comes to marriage and settling down.”

· Samantha (23) – Retail worker, Qld: “It’s not every day someone like me gets an opportunity to do something like this and fully change your life around.”

· Shari (20) – Construction estimator, WA: “I want to be a chick and stop swearing. For me, clothes just get in the way of a good time.”

· Donnelle (23) – Mine site administration, WA: “I am more like a bloke than a chick. I’m always yelling at people.”

So begins their journey to Hereford Hall finishing school in the United Kingdom where Gill Harbord (principal), Rosemary Shrager (vice-principal) and Liz Brewer (etiquette and behaviour teacher) are about to confront one of the most unruly, vile, rude and insulting groups of women they have ever had the displeasure of meeting.

Each week the three teachers will remove the most unproductive and unresponsive ladette from the group until only three remain. The series finale reveals how far these survivors have come in acquiring some overdue social graces – and announces which ladette has been most successfully transformed into a lady.

Find out who will be crowned the 2009 Lady of Hereford Hall when the second series of Aussie Ladette to Lady premieres 9.30pm Tuesday, October 20, on Channel Nine.

1. Two and a Half Men. Double Episodes of Two and a Half Men are set to return to Tuesday nights from October 20 with Nine shceduling the new fast tracked episodes of their favourite sitcom at 8.30pm Tuesday nights, followed by a repeat at 9pm. That means they will have an hour of Two and a Half Men up against both Ten’s and Seven’s biggest shows of the week – NCIS and Packed to the rafters respectively.

The return of the Tuesday hour of Two and a Half Men means that we are back to having 10 episodes on per week (or 5 if you are regional): Mon – Fri 7pm, Mon, Wed and Fri 7.30pm and Tue 8.30 and 9pm.

2. Aussie Ladette To Lady. At 9.30 Tuesdays from October 20, the second season of Aussie Ladette to Lady will air. The previous series did not do as well as Nine had hoped yet they were quick to sign up a second series.

3. Spider Man 3. This Tuesday October 13, the movie Spider Man 3 will be seen on Nine.

4. CIA: Crime Investigation Australia: Returns to Nine on Wednesday night 9.30 with the episode about the Norfolk Island killer that saw the small community handle its first murder ever.

Tuesday, March 24 at 9.30pm on Nine

A catch up with the girls back in their home environments, wherethey’re surprised by a visit from the
Headmistress Gill Harbord and Cooking Teacher Rosemary Shraeger.

Tuesday, March 17 at 9.30pm on Nine

Three girls have survived to the final week and the climax of the journey –the graduation ball. But there’s no time to relax. There can be only one winner and the girls will come under greater scrutiny than ever.

Now the girls must put into practice everything they have learned -from constructing a towering cake, to tying a presentation bouquet of fresh flowers, and sewing the final touches to their graduation ball gowns. Finishing School Principal Mrs. Harbordtells them that if they don’t qualify, they’ll be flying home to Australia ahead of time. But if they do, their parents will be flying to England tojoin them.

The glamorous awards ceremony is to be hosted at one of Britain’s finest country houses where the girls are expected to parade their newfound looks, elegance and good manners. Throughout, they will be judged under the exacting standards of the teachers and by others from the ranks of high society. And they will face their toughest challenge yet -to write and deliver a speech about their journey from ladetteto lady.

You can cut the atmosphere with a knife as the teachers retire to decide which one is this years’ winner, and when an unexpected visitor makes a surprise appearance to wish all three of her fellow ladettesthe very best of luck, there is relief and genuine joy. After all the deliberations, the trials and tribulations, Mrs. Harbordfinally emerges to announce the winner and soon there isn’t a dry eye in the house.

Tuesday, March 10 at 9.30pm on Nine

Eggleston Hall Finishing School is preparing to entertain royalty for the first time in its history, and the teachers want their girls to make a good impression on the visiting Prince – a dashing Italian from Venice.

There’s no margin for error when, after last week’s appalling lapse in standards, Mrs. Harbord announces a zero tolerance policy on bad behaviour. But, when the four surviving ladettes are forced to wear a body harness to improve their deportment, one of them decides that enough is enough. Tough mine-worker, Sarah has fought hard to earn her place as an equal in a man’s world, and she’s not about to curtsey to anyone – not even a Prince.

The show must go on, and the girls have just days to prepare for a wildly ambitious event – a masked ball in honour of their royal visitor. And, as if that weren’t enough, the girls must also contend with some amorous bachelors who will be staying over the night of the ball. Whether it’s the prospect of a genuine Italian prince or of the return of the now familiar bachelors, the sausage-making lesson provokes a very unlady-like response in the girls.

Tuesday, March 3 at 9.30pm

Girl turns on girl in this episode of the series which sees an old-fashioned English finishing school struggling to turn Australia’s worst binge drinking ‘ladettes’ into ladies.

This week they must cook haute cuisine for 20 society guests. But, when Skye is promoted to school prefect, cooking is the last thing on their minds. Furious that this honour has been given to the bad girl of the group, the others decide to make Skye’s life hell. At the pre-dinner wine tasting all decorum flies out of the window and the old habits return. The ladettes don’t taste, they guzzle and, to add insult to injury, they steal more bottles of wine for a secret binge, right under Skye’s nose. Former mistress of mayhem, Skye, does her best to cover for their appalling behaviour, but Principal Mrs. Harbord is not taken in. 

With a punishment to contend with on the morning of the party, the dinner for 20 looks set for disaster. The guests are perplexed and more than a little hungry when dinner is served an hour and a half late. But in spite of the pressures one ladette raises her game by embarking on a mission to stay sober throughout. 

Monday, February 24 at 9.30pm

If the Aussie ladettes thought being transformed into demure young ladies would be a walk in the park, this is the week they learn how wrong they were. “We take them and we break them”, says finishing school principal, Mrs. Harbord. In week three, the ‘tough love’ treatment produces some unexpected results. There are tears as the ladettes emotional defences give way to storms of emotion. But the tables are turned when stripper Nicole tells the story of her troubled past and even stern Mrs. Harbord sheds a tear.

But emotion must be put aside as the ladettes face their weekly challenge – to make and serve afternoon tea to the aristocratic mothers of some of the bachelors. There’s much work to be done before the ladettes have a hope of passing muster under the critical eyes of these society ladies (and prospective mother-in-laws). Starting with appearances, the ladettes are introduced to the hairdressers to the British Royal Family and, as the makeovers begin, it’s out with the highlights and into the bin with the hair extensions. But it’s not all plain sailing under Mrs. Harbord’s supervision, and when Nicole is told she must lose her long hair there are tears of rage. The pressure is on in the kitchen, too. Mrs. Shrager expects high standards and soon the girls are making fondant fancies, delicate pastries, scones and fragile meringue swans. It’s all a long way from bread and vegemite. But the hardest task of all will be to win favour with the terrifying women who will help decide which of the remaining six will be sent home this week.

Monday, February 16 at 9.30pm

As the finishing touches are made to welcome the class of 08 at Eggleston Hall, expectation soon turns to dread. The teachers fear the worst when news arrives that the police have been called to the local airport following complaints of disruptive behaviour onboard. Hearing the raucous chant of ‘Aussie! Aussie! Aussie!’ coming up the drive, their worst fears are confirmed. Vice Principal, Mrs. Shrager, confronts the drunken rabble at the school’s entrance and uses all her authority and volume to shout them down. The stage is set for an epic battle of wills. The Aussie ladettes are stripped down to their ill-fitting undies and it’s soon all too obvious that these are tattooed recruits of the rawest kind. Dispensing with niceties, the staff get to work and, as lessons begin in earnest, it soon becomes clear that the ladettes are up against formidable opposition. Before long rebellion gives way to something approaching co-operation and the painful process of change begins. By week’s end they will host a cocktail party and entertain some of England’s most eligible bachelors.