It’s a Knockout

7.30pm Tuesday January 16 on Ten

It’s finale night in the Knockerdome and the air is crackling with anticipation.

The QLD surf-lifesavers and the NSW paramedics each have sweet sweet victory in sight, with just six rounds of grueling competition standing between them and the ultimate prize, the invaluable Billy J Smith Cup.

They have fought long and hard, seen off the other two teams, and worn more fancy dress costumes than they ever thought possible.

7.30pm Sunday January 15 on Ten

It’s ground-hog day for the Victorian Firefighters and the All Stars Team Macca’s as tonight they battle it out to avoid unlucky last place and the wooden spoon.

But no-one goes home a loser in Knockout, they have the memories to carry with them for life, and of course an entire jumpsuit made of shiny lycra. A prize in anyone’s books.

A week of finals on Ten, with Merlin, It’s A Knockout and Terra Nova all concluding in week 3 of 2012. UPDATED: Knockout final moves to Friday night, the season two finale of The Good Wife is replayed on Wednesday night.

Sun Jan 15
06:30 Merlin Season FINAL
07:30 It’s A Knockout
08:30 Terra Nova FINAL
09:30 NCIS
10.30 Medium
11:30 Movie TBA 

Mon Jan 16
07:30 Modren Familly
08:00 Rules Of Engagement
08:30 NCIS: Los Angeles
09:30 The Glades
10:30 Medium

Tue Jan 17
07:30 Modern Family
08:00 Rules Of Engagement
08:30 NCIS
09:30 NCIS
10:30 Medium

Wed Jan 18
07:30 Modern Family
08:00 Rules Of Engagement
08:30 The Good Wife: Season Two Finale (double episode)
10:30 Medium

Thur Jan 19
07:30 Modern Family
08:00 Rules Of Engagement
08:30 Law & Order: Criminal Intent
09:30 Law & Order: Criminal Intent
10:30 Medium

Fri Jan 20 ALL MARKETS
07:30 It’s A Knockout Season Finale
08:30 Movie: My Life In Ruins
10:50 Letterman
11:50 Movie: Friday Night Lights

Plans to air House in VIC, SA and WA have been shelved.

Sat Jan 21
06:30 Movie: Night At The Museum
08:50 The Graham Norton Show
09:50 Movie: Volcano

Sun Jan 22
06:30 Young Talent Time Premiere
07:30 Modern Family NEW
08:00 New Girl Premiere
08:30 Homeland Premiere

And with The Good Wife airing on Wednesday Jan 18, expect NEW The Good Wife to air Wed Jan 25, 8.30pm – which I have to say, will be a poor choice of night, seeing it is the night before a public holiday. Time will tell, but we will make the call that is what is likely to happen.

It’s Knockout, Ten, 7.30pm
It’s here – the revival of the hit 80′s show – It’s a Knock Out, that’s the name, it’s a Knock Out, that’s the game, it’s a Knock Out, that’s the name of the game on Ten over summer.

The ARIA Awards, GO!, 7.30pm
It’s non-ratings – why not just do it on the main channel!!? Well, at least they on free to air live. The 25th ARIA Awards, direct from the Allphones Arena, Sydney Olympic Park. This year, ARIA will be inducting two true icons of the Australian music industry – Kylie Minogue and The Wiggles – into the ARIA Hall of Fame.

HD Movie: The Aviator, GEM, 8.30pm
Winner of five Academy Awards, this biopic depicts the early years of legendary director and aviator Howard Hughes’ career, from the late 1920s to the mid-’40s.

HD Warehouse 13, 7mate, 8.30pm
A bonus for Sci Fi fans with 7mate playing new episodes. Pete goes to Las Vegas with Myka to recover an artefact from a couple of gamblers, unaware that the real Myka is trapped in a mirror at the warehouse.

STV: Kylie Minogue, Bio, 8.30pm AEDT
From a pre-teen role in Neighbours, Kylie Minogue made the improbable leap to being a global music star and pop diva. Renowned for her outlandish behaviour and obsession with fashion, Minogue, whose signature classics include Can’t Get You Out of My Head, just released her 10th album, having sold more than 40 million records over a 20-year recording career. A recent breast cancer survivor, she has bounced back more confident than ever, whether she’s signing to adoring concert audiences, acting in films or returning to television for entertainment and comedy specials.

Ten’s guide for the first week of Summer TV 2011/2012 includes the new revival of It’s A knockout while Merlin, Terra Nova and Ringer also continue with new episodes on Sunday November 27. Offspring is replayed from the start, 9.30 Monday – Thursday

Sunday Nov 27
6.30 Merlin new
7.30 It’s A Knockout
8.30 Terra Nova new
9.30 Ringer new
10.30 NCIA: LA rpt
11.30 Mr Brooks – movie

Monday Nov 28
6.30 The Project continues weeknights
7.30 Tour of Duty: Australia’s Secret War – Special
8.30 The Glades – new to Ten. Crime Prcoedural, premiered on STV Channel W last summer
9.30 Offspring – Replay of series from the start
11.30 Letterman – continues weeknights

Tuesday Nov 29
7.30 Modern Family rpt
8.00 Rules Of Engagement new
8.30 NCIS: LA
9.30 Offspring
10.30 Good News World – Final

Wednesday Nov 30
7.30 Glee rpt
8.30 Hawaii Five-O rpt S1E05
9.30 Offspring
10.30 Go Girls new

Thursday Dec 1
7.30 Recruits Paramedics new
8.00 Keeping Up With the Joneses new
8.30 Law & Order: SVU rpt
9.30 Offspring

Friday Dec 2
7.30 Jamie’s Great Britain – premiere
8.30 Movie: TBA

Saturday Dec 3
6.30 Movies: TBA

Subject to change. Correct at November 20.

HG Nelson will return to television to front Channel 10′s family-friendly reboot of It’s A Knockout this summer.

The comic said the arena games showdown, famed for its ridiculous sporting challenges in the 1980s, would be embraced by viewers as “the people’s Olympics” and fill “the yawning hole in Ten’s sports schedule now that it has moved on from its top-rating AFL coverage”.

Nelson will host the series with former Hi-5 star Charli Robinson and Sports Tonight host Brad McEwan. Filming starts next month.

The eight one-hour episodes will include a state versus state “smackdown” where teams of 15 compete in physical, but kooky, challenges.

Nelson encouraged “contestants with no real athletic ablities to have a crack at events that should be starters on London’s gold medal agenda”.

McEwan will anchor the shows, with Robinson offering crowd commentary.

Ten’s programming boss David Mott said the trio would “bring the right mix of social commentary, humour and dare I say sporting acumen to this contemporary take on TV’s ultimate arena showdown”.

Source Courier Mail

Channel 10 is planning a big-budget breakfast show for 2012 to take on Today and Sunrise. Dr. Andrew Rochford, a regular on the 7pm project, and former Block contestant, is tipped to host.

The move is believed to be part of Ten’s bid to revamp its program mix and appeal to more advertisers.

Channel 10 did not confirm details of the show, but they will be up against Gold Logie winner Karl Stefanovic and Lisa Wilkinson on Nine’s Today and Melissa Doyle and David “Kochie” Koch on Seven’s Sunrise.

Ten is also rumoured to be planning revamped versions of old hits It’s A Knockout (family game show, similar to Wipeout) and Young Talent Time (kid’s variety show – Where The X Factors Dannii Minogue started).

It will also screen the six-part Australian drama series Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms, from the makers of Underbelly.

Ten will reveal its 2012 schedule this week as it tries to prop up its big-budget DIY show The Renovators.

Friday’s How To show attracted 405,000 viewers nationally – a complete ratings failure, considering the show’s reported $25 million cost.

“What a programming and marketing disaster,” Fusion Strategy’s Steve Allen said yesterday.

One rival network executive has described The Renovators as “terminal”, but a Ten spokesperson said: “The Renovators is performing well in key demos and we have absolute faith in the format.”

The good news for Ten and The Renovators is that Nine’s renovation show The Block, which regularly attracts about 1.4 million viewers, ends next Sunday.

But Maxus Media executive Mark McCraith said a ratings bounce for The Renovators was unlikely.

“The casting has been terrible, the challenges are unrealistic and sandwiching it on Sunday night was an appalling programming decision,” he said.

The fate of 6.30 with George Negus next year is unclear. The show languished, with just 371,000 viewers on Friday.

Source Adelaide Now