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Jim Parsons Big Bangs Sheldon Cooper Comes Out as Gay

Published on 2012-05-24 04:00:00

People magazine reports that Jim Parsons, who stars as Sheldon Cooper in Channel 9‘s thrice nightly comedy The Big Bang, has come out as gay. Well Derrr! I was almost as surprised as when I found out that the Pope was a Nazi or that bears defecate in woodland areas. We may have hinted at [...] > read more

The Voice – Second Live Elimination Show

Published on 2012-05-22 01:54:24

The Voice Results and Second Live Elimination Before we get into the review of last nights show, it was interesting to see a somewhat subtle plug for The Voice on A Current Affair last night. They did a segment on nasty judges on reality shows. Of course all of the nasty judges were on Channel [...] > read more

Carmen Smith Kicked Off Of The Voice

Published on 2012-05-16 11:00:00

Ninemsn reports that Carmen Smith, one of our favourite competitors on The Voice has been dumped from the show. Carmen sings with Guy Sebastian on his new single Gold, including a solo spot and features prominently in the video. This was considered an unfair advantage by the shows producers. Strangely being Guy Sebastian's brother, or [...] > read more

The Voice First Live Show

Published on 2012-05-15 00:14:40

The Voice – The Public Gets A Vote The first of the live rounds of The Voice aired last night (Monday May 14th 2012) on Channel 9. The show started with another song from the judges, with Keith Urban on guitar and Delta Goodrem on piano and the competitors chimed in with some backing vocals. [...] > read more

The Voice Videos of the Final Battles

Published on 2012-05-10 03:11:34

The Voice Videos – Final Battles and Hidden Gems The last of the Battle Rounds aired this week on The Voice. I don’t think there were that many great battles, so we have added all the video clips that are available and you can pick the ones that you want to view. Of course we [...] > read more

The Voice Final Battle Rounds

Published on 2012-05-07 21:32:00

The Voice Week Four – Final Battle Rounds First up in the last of the battle rounds on Monday night was Joel Madden’s team. Carmen Smith and Michelle Serret-Cursio were given the Rhianna song We Found Love. Not a great song in my opinion, but both girls were good in the high notes. Carmen has [...] > read more

The Voice Australia Videos of the Battle Rounds

Published on 2012-05-03 03:06:33

The Voice Australia Battle Round Videos Rounds One and Two There were some really great battles on The Voice this week. Many were really too close to call and some of the matchings were obviously put together to provide the best entertainment and not to retain the best competitors. The first clip I found was [...] > read more

The Voice Battle Rounds – Round Two

Published on 2012-05-01 19:23:35

The Voice Week 3 – More Battle Rounds The second battle round of The Voice aired on Tuesday night Keith Urban’s team were up first Taga Paa and Cam Tapp Keith asked them to sing Eric Clapton’s hit Change the World. Cam was not phased by the competition, believing he had a stronger voice than [...] > read more

The Voice Battle Rounds – Round One

Published on 2012-05-01 05:31:26

The Voice Week 3 – Battle Rounds This was another very long show, two and quarter hours with eight battle rounds involving 16 contestants, plus an opening number from the coaches. The coaches started the show with their rendition of the U2 song One. Keith Urban and Joel Madden’s parts were fine, but I thought [...] > read more

The Voice Australia Videos – The Best of Week Two

Published on 2012-04-26 18:42:22

The Voice Australia Videos More Highlights and Undiscovered Gems Before I started to write this article my gut feeling was that the second week of The Voice did not unveil quite as much talent as the first. But once I took a look back over my previous reviews and started searching YouTube for the video [...] > read more

The Voice Australia Week Two – Tuesday Blind Auditions

Published on 2012-04-24 19:56:34

The Voice Australia Final Blind Auditions The final set of blind auditions for The Voice aired on Tuesday night. The last bunch of hopeful competitors were:- Prinnie Stevens – Sang Sweet Dreams another Beyonce song. Beyonce seems to have been the favourite artist for source material among the competitors. Seal was first to turn his [...] > read more

The Voice Week Two – Monday Blind Auditions

Published on 2012-04-23 18:17:01

The Voice More Blind Auditions The judges continue to build their teams on The Voice with more blind auditions. Tonight we saw:- Sam Ludeman – Who sounded a little like James Blunt. He sang a song called I’m not Over You. He went pretty well, but I thought he lacked power and wow factor. Seal [...] > read more

The Voice Week Two Blind Auditions

Published on 2012-04-22 16:30:27

The Voice Sunday – Week Two Blind Auditions The Voice returned on Sunday night with a new batch of contestants. This was a long show at two hours with over 15 contestants appearing. Here�s how we thought that they went. Ben Hazlewood � Sang Breakeven by The Script. Ben is an ex member of a [...] > read more

The Voice Australia Videos – The Best of Week One

Published on 2012-04-18 11:43:29

The Voice Australia Videos Highlights and Undiscovered Gems The first week of blind auditions for The Voice is over, so I thought I would put together what I thought were the highlights of the week. We have already reviewed all of this weeks shows on this site. If you would like to see our thoughts [...] > read more

The Voice Australia More Blind Auditions

Published on 2012-04-17 15:09:55

The Voice Australia Tuesday Blind Auditions This is our review of the Tuesday 18th April episode of The Voice we have previously reviewed:- The Voice Australia Blind Auditions The Voice Australia Premiere The Voice – Does Australia have any more talent? Tuesday’s batch of new contestants on The Voice began with:- Matt Etherington – He [...] > read more

The Voice Australia Blind Auditions

Published on 2012-04-16 19:15:23

The Voice Australia Monday Blind Auditions We will get straight into our reviews of the contestants performances. If you would like to read our preview of the show, or our report on the first set of auditions, please check out The Voice – Does Australia Have Any More Talent and The Voice Australia Premiere. Sarah [...] > read more

The Voice Australia Premiere

Published on 2012-04-15 09:32:13

The Voice Channel 9 I have been well over reality TV and talent shows for some time now. I never watched the last series or two of Australian Idol and have avoided all of the Channel 7 offerings, as they insist on having Vile Sandilands on all of them and that man is the definition [...] > read more

The Voice – Does Australia have any more talent?

Published on 2012-04-10 11:00:00

The Voice – Channel 9 Sundays Channel 9 have been flogging to death their new talent show The Voice, which begins this coming Sunday (15th April). The big scoop / unique feature of this show is that the judges can not initially see the contestants when they select them for their team. So what? Big [...] > read more

British TV Night on the ABC

Published on 2012-04-03 14:20:04

ABC Home of British TV Shows Saturday night on ABC1 is a great night for fans of British TV. After the repeats of New Tricks, there are two great British dramas followed by a fun chat show. Spooks – Final Season The 10th and final season of the British spy drama Spooks (known as MI-5 [...] > read more

Royal Pains

Published on 2012-01-08 00:32:49

Royal Pains is a US medical comedy drama series that currently airs on Channel 7 in Australia late on Sunday and Monday nights. It’s a pity it is tucked away in this spot as I find it very entertaining and it may be missing a much wider audience. The background story to the series is [...] > read more

Upstairs Downstairs 2010

Published on 2011-12-28 13:48:01

The 2010 version of Upstairs Downstairs recently aired on Australian television. This is of course an update of the classic series from the 1970’s that ran for 5 years. The links to the original series are that the new episodes take place in the same house, 165 Eaton Place and the new owners Sir Hallam [...] > read more

Skins Season 5

Published on 2011-11-02 00:55:16

Skins Season 5 Episode 2 – Rich This was a really good episode of Skins, it had a bit of everything, humour, a good story, half hearted romance and great acting from the kids. Where do they keep finding the talent for this series? Skins Season 5, so far, seems to be a lot less [...] > read more

The Return of Two and Half Men

Published on 2011-09-26 04:27:51

Nice to Meet You, Walden Schmidt The long awaited return of Two and a Half Men went to air last week, almost simultaneously in the USA and Australia. In the USA Charlie Sheen went up against his old show with The Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen going to air at the same time. But [...] > read more

Crownies

Published on 2011-07-31 04:05:16

Crownies ABC1 Thursdays, ABC2 Fridays The ABC‘s new drama series Crownies is causing quite a stir. It is a series about the Crown Prosecution Service and focuses mainly on five young ridiculously attractive solicitors. Most of the stir on the ABC boards is due to the amount of focus on sex. All of the female [...] > read more

Al Murray the Pub Landlord

Published on 2011-07-13 02:06:23

Comedian Al Murray plays the character of a British pub landlord, most famously in two TV series Time Gentlemen Please and Happy Hour. They were both shown on Australian TV some time ago, but were tucked away late at night and suffered the wrath of Australian TV scheduling, being moved around to different times, different [...] > read more

The Kennedys Sundays ABC1

Published on 2011-06-15 03:35:56

The U.S. mini series The Kennedys finished on ABC1 this week. It aired over the last four weeks and included some great performances from all of the lead actors and some great insight on modern history for those of us that were too young to know and > read more

Body of Lies Sunday 12th June Go

Published on 2011-06-12 21:20:31

Body of Lies aired on Go Channel in Australia on Sunday 12th June. I must have missed the promotion for this film when it was released and it must have been released here, as two of Australia‘s favourite sons in the acting game were featured, R > read more

Later with Jools Holland 26th May

Published on 2011-05-29 23:20:36

I made the mistake of tuning in a little late for Later this week, damn the ABC for moving it to Thursday nights. I must set up my PVR to record it automatically, so I don’t miss any of the show again. I think I probably missed the first two, or th > read more

Later with Jools Holland 19th May

Published on 2011-05-23 13:57:44

Duane Eddy, Janelle Monae, Steve Miller Band A great Episode of Later with Jools Holland was shown on Thursday night on ABC2. I am pretty sure these episodes are new to Australia, but were recorded in 2010 in the U.K. I’m sorry to see the show > read more

Being Human – The Wolf-Shaped Bullet

Published on 2011-05-19 12:54:49

The final episode of series three of Being Human The Wolf-Shaped Bullet, could not have been more explosive. Herrick had killed McNair, the Werewolf who intended to kill him, at the end of the previous show and Mitchell had been arrested for the Box > read more

Skins USA

Published on 2011-05-12 00:53:50

I caught the first episode of Skins USA this week on pay TV. As expected it didn’t really stand up against the British version, but I suppose there could be a few reasons for that. I am from the UK, so I probably relate more to the British vers > read more

Dr Who Lands in Oz

Published on 2011-05-04 13:38:44

Dr Who returned to Australian TV at the weekend. He was accompanied by the lovely Amy Pond (Karen Gillan), her husband Rory (Arthur Darvill) and the blond and mysterious River Song (Alex Kingston) The first episode of the new series, Impossible Astro > read more

Farewell John Sullivan RIP

Published on 2011-04-26 05:58:02

Only Fools and Horses creator dies John Sullivan one of British TV‘s most popular and successful comedy writers died this week aged 64. He lost a long battle against viral pneumonia spending the last six weeks in intensive care. Only Fools and > read more

Being Human – The Pack

Published on 2011-04-12 00:57:05

Episode 4 of series 3 The Pack was a much darker Being Human episode than those seen recently. I can not really remember any humour at all in this one. Mitchell continues to come across as a nasty character, underneath the dark and moody exterior. He > read more

Being Human – Type 4

Published on 2011-04-07 22:55:32

Being Human – Series 3 Episode 3 Just a quick update on last weeks episode of Being Human, Type 4. After having new Werewolves show up in episode 1 and a new Vampire in episode 2 what could we have in episode 3 but a new Ghost? Well not quite. > read more

Being Human – Adam’s Family

Published on 2011-03-30 23:40:11

Another great episode of Being Human was shown last Friday on ABC2. Episode 2 of series three, the cleverly titled Adam’s Family, saw a new teenage vampire Adam, show up. He was slovenly and horny and kept hitting on Annie and Nina. His father > read more

City Homicide is it all over ?

Published on 2011-03-30 01:28:29

The recent long running saga on City Homicide almost all got resolved last week. We found out that the Cricketer falsely jailed for killing his wife, went on a killing spree, once he was sprung. But I don’t think he could have killed the journa > read more

Being Human is back

Published on 2011-03-19 00:36:27

Being Human is back on Australian TV, it made a triumphant return to ABC2 last night. All our old friends were back Annie (Leonora Critchlow), Mitchell (Aidan Turner), George (Russell Tovey) and Nina (Sinead Keenan) and so was the dark humour, in abu > read more

The Graham Norton Show

Published on 2011-03-11 09:35:05

ABC2 Thursdays The Graham Norton Show has been shown on ABC2 for some time now. In recent times we have caught up with the UK and episodes are aired only 6 days after they are shown in Britain. It’s a very good chat show, with some differences. > read more

Mike and Molly

Published on 2011-02-14 12:33:39

Channel 9‘s latest US sitcom began last week. Mike and Molly is the story of an overweight couple who meet at an Overeaters Anonymous meeting. The show apparently comes from the makers of Two and a Half Men and Big Bang Theory, according to the > read more

$#*! My Dad Says

Published on 2011-01-31 09:32:00

William Shatner’s new series $#*! My Dad Says (let’s face it, Shit my Dad Says) aired on Channel 9 on Monday night. Obviously the non-ratings period is over, with new series of Bones, Glee and Two and a Half Men also broadcast on the same night. > read more

Oprah in Australia

Published on 2011-01-24 23:25:36

Rumour has it the Australian and New South Wales governments paid millions of dollars to get Oprah to film some of her shows in Australia. Back in September last year Oprah made one of her famous big announcements that all 300 members of her studio a > read more

Oprah in Australia

Published on 2011-01-23 10:40:16

Rumour has it the Australian and New South Wales governments paid millions of dollars to get Oprah to film some of her shows in Australia. Back in September last year Oprah made one of her famous big anouncements that all 300 members of her studio au > read more

The Silence, Collision, U Be Dead. Spot the difference

Published on 2011-01-22 05:02:49

ABC Friday night Drama The Silence, Collision and U Be Dead were three British mystery/drama shows that were shown on the ABC on Fridays at 8:30 in recent weeks. There are in fact a great deal of differences between them, but there are also many simi > read more

Babel 2006

Published on 2011-01-17 02:56:44

The movie Babel was released in 2006 and was aired on SBS on Saturday night. Babel stars Brad Pitt and Australia‘s own Cate Blanchett. In this case ‘stars’ is kind of the wrong word,  although they play the central characters of th > read more

The Queensland Flood Disaster

Published on 2011-01-16 21:56:45

First of all I would like to say that I have every sympathy for the victims of the Queensland floods and I believe everyone that can should donate, or offer any assistance that they are able to to the victims. This is a link to the Queensland Premier > read more

Channel Eleven Australia

Published on 2011-01-14 01:04:32

The Eleventh of January 2011 (11/01/11) saw the launch of Australia‘s latest free to air TV station. Channel Eleven is part of the Channel 10 Network, so high hopes for it’s future are not anticipated. Once again the launch seemed to me t > read more

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Sad passing of Pete Postlethwaite

Published on 2011-01-04 16:36:33

Cancer claims the life of great British actor I was sorry to read about the passing of Pete Postlethwaite. This great British actor was the star of many British and American films, as well as heaps of British TV shows. He was nominated for an Oscar f > read more

Merry Christmas

Published on 2010-12-23 22:17:25

Thanks to everyone who has read my Blog this year. I hope that you have found it useful and interesting. There will be some changes in the new year and hopefully a bunch more readers who would like to add their opinion. In the meantime have a very Me > read more

Dreamcatcher 2003

Published on 2010-12-21 23:52:46

Dreamcatcher was released in cinemas in 2003 and was aired on Australian TV in the very early hours of Sunday morning. And to be honest this was where it belonged. Dreamcatcher has to be one of the strangest films I have ever seen. The film is based > read more