Come Dine With Me

Foxtel Programming from Sunday December 30th

Sunday December 30th
REHAB: PARTY AT THE HARD ROCK HOTEL
Season 2
11.00pm on FOX8 – Australian Premiere
Go behind the scenes of Rehab, the hottest party in the world’s sexiest city, Las Vegas. Get an inside look at how security security and staff indulge big and staff indulge big-spending spending customers but still keep the chaos under control. customers but still keep the chaos under control. Continue reading »

Come Dine with Me Australia Series 4 kicks off in 2012 with a wacky celebrity special on The Lifestyle Channel on Tuesday, 11 December 8:30pm. PR guru Prue MacSween, comedian Josh Thomas, model /actress Chloe Maxwell and former English footballer/turned model Kris Smith all vie to win the prestigious top host of the week (as voted by each other) and to grab the $2,000 prize money for their chosen charity.  Continue reading »

Foxtel’s The LifeStyle Channel today announced the commissioning of a fourth season of the successful, mouth-watering, culinary extravaganza Come Dine With Me Australia. This made for Foxtel local production of the hot international format, will again be produced by Granada Media Australia for The LifeStyle Channel. Continue reading »

If you’re one of the 90,000 or so watching The Block NZ, and also one of the many who have also watched any of the Come Dine With Me franchise (there are a few now!) – so probably a handful of people – then you would have seen how The Block NZ did their own version of Come Dine With Me for the one and only week 3 challenge. Continue reading »

This week Foxtel will show favourites such as LA Law, Privete Practice Season 2 and Law & Order Season 20, while premiering America’s Next Top Model All Stars and Come Dine With Me Canada. Here are this week’s premieres on Foxtel. Continue reading »

The Royal Wedding.

Coverage starts at various times on numerous channels from the afternoon onwards looking at the lead up to the Wedding. If you only want to see the wedding itself, the Ceremony starts at 8pm eastern (7.30 SA & NT, 6.00 WA) and continues for an hour and a half. After that, is the procession to Buckingham Palace, which will culminate with the all important and ceremonial kiss on the balcony.

On free to air, its on ABC1, Seven (7TWO Vic & SA), Nine (not NSW & QLD who have NRL on), GEM and Ten and Pay TV coverage can be seen on UKTV, Sky News, CNN and E!. HD coverage is available free to air on GEM, on Sky News HD (Ch 201) for iQHD subscribers and UK TV HD for those with the appropriate package.

Click here for detailed Royal Wedding Programming.

The Chaser’s War on Everything, ABC2, 8.30pm

The Chaser boys may have lost the war against the Royal Wedding, so for those craving some Chaser action, feeling a little left out by the lack of the Chaser Royal Wedding Commentary, this two hours on ABC2 could just be what you need. Ricky Gervais Live: Politics follows at 10.27pm.

Come Dine With Me: Greece, SBS TWO, 6.30pm.

From the something different and a little out there department comes the Greek version of Come Dine with Me, where 4 or 5 complete strangers must prepare and cook a dinner party for each other often with hilarious results. You may have seen the Australian or the UK version on the Lifestyle channel – if you haven’t the concept used in My Kitchen Rules Instant Restaurant rounds is very similar. In Come Dine With me though, the contestants judge each other at the end of each night, and the winner of each round take away a cash prize usually of around AUD$2,000.

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, ELEVEN, 10.40pm.

Always good for a late night laugh as everybody’s favourite American-Scotsman, Craig Ferguson, takes late-night comedy to new and hilarious heights! Tonight’s guests include: Actor Tom Selleck; actress Odette Annable.

Movie: Left Bank, SBS ONE, 10.35pm.

Horror movie. When 22-year-old Marie discovers that the previous tenant of her boyfriend’s apartment had mysteriously vanished without trace, she begins to investigate the circumstances. Becoming completely obsessed, she eventually discovers that her new neighbourhood may be a dangerous, satanic place and that some mysteries should be left alone. In English, made in Belgium. Stars: Eline Kuppens, Matthias Schoenaerts, Sien Eggers

Movie: Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, GO!, 9.15pm

Heeey dudes, those awesome dudes Bill & Ted get another play on GO! Totally! Bill and Ted, with guidance from Rufus, must win the Battle of the Bands to save the future – and heavy metal. Killed by their evil Cyborg doubles, Bill and Ted must journey to hell and back in order to win the contest and, of course, the babes. Stars: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, William Sadler, Pam Grier

Movie: The Fog, GO!, 11.15pm

A thriller about a Northern California town that’s forced to contend with a thick fog. As the fog seeps through the town, the residents meet gruesome ends. Stars Tom Welling, Maggie Grace, Selma Blair, David Deray, Kenneth Welsh, Adrian Hough

5 Aussies, 5 Dinner parties, 1 winner! Things are going to get messy

Back with a brand new series, Come Dine With Me Australia sees everyday Australians battling it out for the title of the ultimate dinner party host with narrator James Valentine overseeing the parties with his witty observations.

Each week over five nights, five total strangers take it in turns to cook up their idea of the perfect evening for the other four. Each believes they can cook up the perfect evening and hopes their unique style will clinch them the title of best host & the cash prize.

As well as cooking, there’s also a large helping of reality on the menu as the rival hosts snoop around each others’ houses and go to great lengths to win the competition.

1. Brothers and Sisters will now air twice a week from Mon Feb 22. The show will be on both Mondays and Tuesdays at 9.30pm.

2. NBC Today which airs on Seven at 4am, is off during the winter Olympics. In its place is repeats of Room For Improvement and NBC Dateline.

3. Seven are fast becoming the home of encores in the sense that they heavily encore all of their new shows. Whilst it is not uncommon for networks to encore new shows to try and pick up new viewers, between Seven and 7TWO, My Kitchen Rules has been repeated something like four times in one week!

The latest encore is The White Room and Cougar Town – both will air on 7TWO Sunday Feb 14 from 8.30pm, with Cougar Town First. At 10pm, Lost will be replayed. Both of the new episodes.

4. Come Dine With Me UK version was to air on Seven at 3pm weekdays. Not anymore! Instead, 10 Years Younger in 10 Days NZ will be n. For those who have not seen any of the versions of Come Dine With Me, Seven’s My Kitchen Rules is incredibly similar in format, and the move to bump Come Dine With Me UK may be to avoid over exposing the audience to the concept.

Programming info: TV Tonight