ABC 'disappointed' after Foxtel strikes deal with BBC
Michael Idato The British Broadcasting Corporation and Foxtel have signed a deal to deliver a premium BBC channel to the pay TV platform.
Ricky Gervais
Courage to be able to laugh
Michael Idato Ricky Gervais challenges assuptions in his brilliant new comedy, Derek.
Watch out ABC
Foxtel ties up BBC shows for new channel
Michael Idato The British Broadcasting Corporation and Foxtel have signed a deal to deliver a premium BBC channel to the pay TV platform.
Time's up
Nine to dump Days of our Lives after 45 years
Michael Idato Like sands through the hourglass, so is Channel Nine's commitment to a decades-old audience.
Bid to hit emotional highs strains Voice
Michael Idato Proving nothing touches an audience more than a story of courage against the odds, 19-year-old Harrison Craig's performance of Broken Vow on the TV talent show The Voice is leading the show's online...
Enough: Andrew Denton may quit firm he founded
Michael Idato Speculation is mounting that television producer Andrew Denton will walk away from the production company he built on the success of hits such as Enough Rope and The Gruen Transfer.
Viral video
'You're just not Australian': actor's audition spoof wins audience
Michael Idato It's now the oldest, and least funny, joke in Hollywood: an Australian walks into the casting room... .
Logies
Untimely Logies are letting down the players and the public
Michael Idato When iconic music journalist Molly Meldrum walked onto the stage at the 55th annual TV Week Logie Awards at a quarter to ten last Sunday night, 1.463 million people were tuned.
Networking
Subscribers hold all the cards
Michael Idato Foxtel will launch all 13 episodes of the critically acclaimed US drama House of Cards simultaneously.
Colonial drama
BBC to make convict drama
Michael Idato The British Broadcasting Corporation will produce an eight-part television drama about the foundation of the first British penal colony in Australia, written by iconic British screenwriter Jimmy...
First Look
Windsorish knots for the high-tea set
Michael Idato There is more to Seven's new period drama A Place to Call Home than meets the eye.
Deafening MKR
'The Voice' widens gap in ratings race
Michael Idato Channel Nine's singing competition enjoys still more viewers than Seven's My Kitchen Rules.
Punked
'Sexist, misogynist pig': Project interview takes Rotten turn
Michael Idato It started out as a perfectly ordinary interview but then John Lydon lived up to his nickname.
Power games
Howzat! star to return as Sir Frank
Michael Idato Howzat! star Lachy Hulme, who stunned TV audiences with his portrayal of media tycoon Kerry Packer, is poised to play Packer's father, the iconic Nine Network founder Sir Frank Packer.
Sexual series
LaPaglia's been landed with a Love Child
Michael Idato Channel Nine has signed Underbelly star Jonathan LaPaglia to star in a new drama from the producers of its hit series, House Husbands.
Golden Girls
Little gold man's crush on Australian 'sweethearts'
Michael Idato Logie loves an actress. No two ways about it.
Ratings war
MKR fails to conquer Voice in Sunday showdown
Michael Idato The stage was set for a showdown between two old, bitter rival networks.
Keddie wins as Nine is back to Logies top spot
Michael Idato Channel Nine, the television network that first broadcast the TV Week Logie Awards more than five decades ago, has stormed home to reclaim its heritage.
Networking
Michael Idato Foxtel has secured the Australian rights to the critically acclaimed US drama House of Cards.
Logies
Asher takes gold but Nine shines
Michael Idato Channel Nine, the television network that first broadcast the TV Week Logie Awards more than five decades ago, has stormed home to reclaim its heritage.
