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2010: SBS looks beyond Top Gear
Next Monday night SBS bids farewell to Top Gear for the final time. The show drives off to Nine after a ferocious acquisition battle last year that SBS lost due to being outbid. But the network is keen...
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SBS puts The Family under the camera microscope
Move over Sylvania Waters and Big Brother, SBS is about to put an Australian family under 24hr surveillance. The Family is a fly-on-the-wall series which sees a family filmed by cameras in their home...
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My Place wins second season
ABC children’s drama My Place has won a second season, with funding approved from Screen Australia. The second season based on the book by Nadia Wheatley and Donna Rawlins will tell the story of...
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Auditions: The Family
SBS and Shine Australia are looking for families to take part in the first series of The Family. The Family is a fly-on-the-wall series which sees a family filmed by cameras in their home for 3 months....
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SBS: Summer / Autumn
SBS yesterday launched its highlights across Summer and Autumn for 2010 / 2011. Personalities including Don Hany, Jenny Brockie, Julia Zemiro, Lee Lin Chin, Anton Enus, Janice Petersen, Silvio Riviera,...
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Trends of 2010
In this final retrospective of 2010, I am listing my take on the top news and trends of the year, in no particular order. SPIN-OFFS, CLONES AND REVIVALS: Where were all the new shows? Instead we had My...
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SBS handpicks from across the globe
Today SBS Network Programmer Jane Roscoe talks to TV Tonight about some of the broadcaster’s highlights for 2011. While Australian commissionings are the focus for SBS, Roscoe can’t hide her enthusiasm...
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News Corp acquires Shine group
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation will acquire 100% of the Shine Group, helmed by daughter Elisabeth Murdoch, in a deal worth £415 million ($A667m. Shine, which also owns Kudos Film and Television,...
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SBS appoints new Head of Production and Development
Peter Newman, SBS Commissioning Editor, Documentaries, has now been appointed Head of Production and Development and will oversee the entire commissioning, production and development slate for the...
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It’s the final countdown
With less than 8 weeks to go until the end of the ratings year, are we still likely to see some of those shows we were promised? It’s getting awfully late to be starting marketing campaigns for some...
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SBS: Summer / Autumn highlights
A second season of Go Back to Where You Came From, more Who Do You Think You Are?, kitsch spy comedy Danger 5 and a documentary series on the Vietnamese community Once Upon A Time in Cabramatta are...
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SBS loses another key executive
Just a day after their Summer / Autumn programming launch, SBS has lost one of its key executives in Peter Newman, Head of Production and Development. Newman will become Head of Production and...
View Articlethe family: sneak peek
Yesterday I met the Cardamones, dad Angelo, mum Josie and sons David 20, Stefan 18 and Adrian 14 -an unassuming family from Donvale, in eastern Melbourne. The five feature in SBS new observational...
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New Director of Television for SBS “by the end of the year”
SBS is hoping to announce its new Director of Television and Content by the end of the year. The key role has been vacant since July with new Managing Director Michael Ebeid overseeing the recruitment...
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SBS hearts ‘the family’
SBS and Shine Australia have partnered with Relationships Australia and Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Councils of Australia to support migrant Australian families by releasing a booklet draws on...
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Finale week is full of highlights
It’s the final week of ratings for 2011. Enjoy the first-run shows while they last because next week it will be slim pickings (or at least time to explore multichannels and DVDs). This week marks the...
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Snapshot of Family life
What on earth would possess an ordinary family to allow cameras into their home to film them for three months? The Cardamones seem like a pretty ordinary bunch to me. Sure, they have a 1 acre block...
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the family: Dec 1
To coincide with the broadcast of an episode of the family tomorrow night, SBS conducted an online survey that claims 1 in 5 Australian parents don’t believe it’s acceptable for young people to have...
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We’re not Sylvania Waters
Josie Cardamone, mother of three boys in SBS reality series the family, was worried that allowing cameras to film her family 24 / 7 might lead to a new version of Sylvania Waters. That 1990s series...
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Programmers Wrap 2012: SBS
Network Programmer Jane Roscoe is very open about what 2012 represents for the multicultural broadcaster: a year in which it must secure a funding increase from the Gillard Government in the May...
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Who missed out on a Logie nod?
There were plenty of stars and shows who missed out on gaining a nomination at yesterday’s Logie Awards. But amongst the high profile omissions was Angry Boys, after ABC “forgot” to submit the show for...
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The Shire: “Characters you love & characters you love to hate.”
The Shire has built quite a reputation. It’s created headlines, controversy, local council brouhahas, production headaches, network denials, parodies and online chatter. And that’s before an episode...
View ArticleABC (US) 2015 Upfronts: trailers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfGjWB17hRQ ABC is reviving after more than 30 years off television (yes, really). New titles include Shonda Rhimes’ The Catch, The Real O’Neals, The Family, Wicked...
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Kebab Kings: Fixed rig cameras …and the very grey area of Consent.
EXCLUSIVE: If you bought yourself a kebab in inner Sydney or Collingwood last December you might want to check that your private conversation isn’t being broadcast as primetime entertainment in the...
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Big Bang spin-off Young Sheldon proceeds to series
No surprises here. The Big Bang Theory spinoff Young Sheldon is going to series -if there is any surprise it is that CBS will skip a Pilot entirely. Iain Armitage, currently appearing on Big Little...
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SBS on Demand: You Shall Not Lie, A French Case, The Family.
A Spanish thriller, French true-crime drama and Serbian political thriller all premiere this week at SBS On Demand. Thursday, 16 June 2022. You Shall Not Lie All six episodes available to stream.I n...
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