Hi-ho everyone!! I know what you're going to say. Where have you been, Aussie Club? Well the club's been busy preparing a POLL!!! Woo-hoo! Click and go to vote on your favourites for 2006.

And to make up for the long absence, next week we'll have another quiz for you. And don't worry - there'll be another shiny suprise!!

Nicholas Boot, a reporter from Today Tonight and his crew are in hot water after they supplied the chains a 84 year old grandmother to make it appear she had gone to desperate measure to stay in her nursing home. Apparently, the authorities arrived to investigate if the woman's rights had been violated, only to find the whole thing was a stunt.

Love my way returns this week on Showtime. The series is still going strong as it heads into it's third season. Justine Clarke (The Surgeon) will soon be joining the cast.

The AFL broadcast is back on Seven with the start of the NAB Cup Pre Season Cup. Seven is starting off the year with nearly all the shows worth watching this year, such as Heroes, Ugly Betty and Grey's Anatomy.

That Ad with the kid in nappies crawling out of the crib to steal Mum and Dad's car and take it to the beach has been banned in Australia in the fear that it will encourage toddlers to do the same. Curiously, it's New Zealand's most popular advertisement.

Bridie Carter of McCloud's Daughters has landed a role as host of National Geographic.

John Waters returns to All Saints this week(27/2/2007)

The New Series Sea Patrol has finally dragged Lisa McCune away from the reality / documentary series drudgeons.

The US network NBC has started work on tv Australian rip-off series. Thank God You're Here and Kath and Kim are to be remade for American audiences. If the shows are so good to being with, why change them?

February 11-17, 2007

1. National Nine News Sunday
2. One Day Cricket - Australia v England - 2nd Final Session 2
3. Desperate Housewives
4. RPA
5. One Day Cricket - Australia v England - 2nd Final Session 1
6. Seven News - Sun
7. Today Tonight
8. Border Security - Australia's Front Line (R)
9. Seven News
10. 1 vs 100
11. Heroes
12. Missing Persons Unit
13. Lost
14. SCU: Serious Crash Unit
15. The Biggest Loser (Aus) - The Weigh In

I think it's good to see the Cricket still winning the ratings. Good for sport and national pride and all that. I don't watch it on TV, I'd prefer to see it live. There also seems to be a worrying amount of news, game shows and reality on the list. And why is it that the news is the No. 1 rated show - did something big happen last week?

Any birthdays, weddings, births - please send them in so we can post to let everyone know

Feb B'days

18 Andrew Daddo (1967)
18 Tammy McIntosh (All Saints, Farscape)(1970)
18 Zoe Carrides (1962)
19 Lisa McCune (Blue Heelers) (1971)
25 Libby Tanner (Neighbours) (1970)

DVD Releases
March 05
Ocean Girl - Series 2

March 07
Always Greener - Season 1 (Volume 1)
Always Greener - Season 1 (Volume 2)
Ronnie Johns Half Hour - Season 1 (Complete)
Ronnie Johns Half Hour - Season 2 (Complete)

Welcome to our new members!!

ligth_bringer1
TheUPBTProfile
bigcitygirl5
sirswampthing

Hi-ho everyone!! This week we have put a tricky little quiz togethe to test your knowledge of Aussie TV. All scores are kept track of and the winner (make sure when you register you use the same username as Tv.com so we can track you down) will receive a special shiny suprise to put on your blog or signature or wherever!! So come one and all try out the quiz and battle wits with other club members!! Good luck!

Quiz Name that Show, No. 1 - Click here to do the quiz

P.S. The Shiny Suprise will be presented to the clever winner on Monday the 18th - one week from today's post!! 

THE pilot of Southern Star drama Secretary which was snubbed by the Ten network earlier this year has been illegally uploaded onto a US website - dailymotion.com atleast until it was removed by Ten shortly after it was discovered. The series, starring Pia Miranda, Vince Colosimo, Kimberley Davies, Peter O'Brien and Susie Porter - was supposedly uloaded by a cast member annoyed at Ten's decision.

However, there's a big year ahead for Ten. The network has invested in a number of new programmes recently including Jamie's Kitchen Australia and Tripping Over. New programmes for 2007 include The Con.Test and Celebrity Dog School. Ten will also kick off the strategy by relaunching its main website, www.ten.com.au, with a focus on video streaming, downloads and communities. The site will be supported by more than 50 programme sites and relevant online communities with appropriate versions and extensions of programmes for portable and mobile devices, as well as for broadband users.

Top Shows: Nov 26-Dec 03, 2006

Quite a few finals in this week's ratings. Strangely, the 20 to 1 repeats do well against first run shows.

1. Australian Idol - The Winner Announced (2.189m)
2. Australian Idol - The Final Verdict (2.108m)
3. 20 To 1 - Rpt
4. National Nine News Sunday
5. 60 Minutes
6. Dancing With The Stars - Grand Final
7. Australian Idol- - Live From the Opera House
8. CSI: Miami
9. What's Good For You
10. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
11. National Nine News Saturday
12. McLeod's Daughters (1.413m)

Rating courtesy OzTam Announcements

DVD Releases

December 18
Wedge, The - Vol. 4: That's Valid!

January 24
Acropolis Now - Season 1: Collector's Edition (3 Disc Set)Acropolis Now - Season 2: Collector's Edition (3 Disc Set)

February 16
Australian Princess - Complete Season 2 (2 Disc Set)

Yay, another week has gone by and we're another week closer to Christmas!! I don't know about you guys, but this year has been too long!!

To join the Aussie Club, just send in us a PM. It's really easy. Don't forget to let us know when it's you're birthday so we can all celebrate. Also if you have any trivia, news or other noteworthy stuff send it all in via PM. We just love stuff

Jamie Durie, previously of Manpower and Backyard Blitz, has left for New York to take on the American Audience. The Aussie hunk will move to New York after Christmas to start filming his own gardening show for the PBS network. Durie was an instant hit on Oprah last week, with the first lady of US television saying he had sent the show's "cute factor" soaring. He is about to start a new Gardening Show on PBS in the US. He has promised that the move is not permanent.

Great Outdoors presenter Laura Csortan has lashed out at the recent sackings of women over 40 in Autsralian Television. Di Smith (Great Outdoors), Naomi Robson (Today Tonight) and Tracey Spicer (CH. 10 News) have all recently got the boot, Spicer getting the sack a week after returning from Maternity Leave.

It's Official, Channel Nine has won the year's ratings, by a whisker! Although Nine thrashed Seven in Melbourne.

If you have any news you think should be posted here, send it in via PM.

Haha, found them this week thanks to alexlips. Gosh he's a star! Hopefully he'll pop by.

Nov 19-25, 2006

1. Australian Idol (1.731m)
2. Dancing With The Stars
3. National Nine News Saturday
4. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (1.637m)
5. All Saints (1.617m)
6. 60 Minutes
7. Border Security - Wed
8. 20 To 1 - Rpt
9. 20 To 1
10. Police Files - Unlocked
11. Criminal Minds
12. CSI: Miami (1.342m)
13. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Rpt

**Sorce OzTam Phew, that's a lot of CSI!

Oooh and don't worry that there is 13 on this list, it's not cursed or anything (I hope )

DVD's Current and Upcoming

November 27
All Saints - Series 4 (Complete)
Police Rescue - Season 1 (Complete)
Water Rats - Series 7 (Part 1)
Water Rats - Series 7 (Part 1)

December 04
Cybergirl - Complete Series
The Wedge - Thanks For Coming
The Wedge - That's Valid!

December Birthdays

14 Rebecca Gibney turns 42 (Tripping Over)
16 Georgie Parker also turns 42 (All Saints, Clever)
16 Miranda Otto turns 39 (Lord of the Rings)
18 Bridie Carter turns 36 (McLeod's Daughters)
24 Danny Raco turns 27 (Heartbreak High, Home and Away)
28 Alex Dimitriades turns 33 (The Heartbreak Kid)

Everyone welcome our new members;

sirswampthing - SA / VIC
lozza1525 - WA
Fiona_Mac_92
OxGeek_40 - SA
melindakw - QLD

And birthdays

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LONE_SHARK3025 4/12

Well with all the comings and going happening around here, it's hard to catch up! alexlips is sticking around to post on the odd forum and blog every now and then - which is good because I know I would miss him too much if he left forever!! In other community news, aslans has taken a short trip, so everyone who has submitted to the Neighbours Guide - don't fret, the Staff are looking after his fine guides.

Got another Community Announcement? Just send it in via PM and we'll post it!

 
Click Here for the Signature Code!

Hello everyone, squishyhippo here. I am sorry to say that alexlips has decided to retire from tv.com, I know we will all miss him. But I think it's a good idea to keep this club open since he put so much work into setting it up!! And while aplourey is also taking a short break (hopefully he'll be back!) I will be updating this blog weekly.

Kath and Kim (Jane Turner and Gina Riley) are no longer contracted to the ABC. As their fourth season approaches, with Guest Stars such as Mark Walliams and Matt Lucas from Little Britain, they may still jump to a Commercial Network if a suitable offer is made.

Channel 9 has lost it's deal with CBS America, losing the rights to shows such as The Late Show David Letterman and Dr Phil (not a great selection anyway). In addition, they have lost the right to air stories from 60 Minutes America, but 60 minutes will remain unchanged. Ironic.

Tripping Over has been approved for a Second Season. This is yet to go into production.

Channel 10 will air the much anticipated Joanna Lees Story in 2007.

Production has just begun in Melbourne on Chris Lilley's new comdey series, Summer Heights High starring Mr. G, the high school drama teacher. It is expected that Chris will be portraying several characters as he did in We Can Be Heroes (Australian of the Year)

The Force (7) has recently been sold to Dutch Network SBS Netherlands. This series pulled in some of the year's highest ratings when it aired in Australia and the Dutch Station are looking forward to the show fitting into thei nightly schedule. The Network also chose to purchase another season of McLeod's Daughters which has been rating well on the Network.

Also there is quite an amusing article about the year of ratings here: Seven Snatches Defeat - Article on Tv(AUS) in 2006 - the year of crap. 

If you have any news you think should be posted here, send it in via PM.

As I don't have any Birthdays or other annoucements to post currently, I have looked up a few celeb Birthdays to keep us entertained.

Birthdays

24/11 - Shane Bourne turns 49 (Thank God You're Here)
28/11 - Ryan Kwanten turns 30 (Summerland, Home and Away)
30/11 - Kate Fischer ?? (Dancing with the Stars)

New Australian TV on DVD

27/11 - All Saints Season 4
27/11 - Bindi - Kidfitness With Steve Irwin And The Crocmen (DVD And CD)

Upcoming Australian TV on DVD

04/12 - CyberGirl - The Complete Series (4 Disc Set)
04/12 - Fast Forward - Complete Season 3 (6 Disc Box Set)
04/12 - Full Frontal (1993) - Series 2: Vol. 2 (3 Disc Set) 04/12 - Wedge, The - Vol. 4: That's Valid!
24/01 - Acropolis Now - Season 1: Collector's Edition (3 Disc Set)
24/01 - Acropolis Now - Season 2: Collector's Edition (3 Disc Set)

As I'm still trying to find the best place to get the TV Ratings, I did find the summary of hits and flops for th year.

Top local shows:

1. Dancing with the Stars 4 (7) 2.18m
2. Border Security - Tuesday (7) 2.11m
3. Thank God You're Here 2 (10) 1.76m
4. Medical Emergency (7) 1.75m
5. Thank God You're Here 1 (10) 1.72m
6. Dancing with the Stars 5 (7) 1.72m
7. National Nine News - Sunday (9) 1.64m
8. Australian Idol - Sunday (10) 1.59m
9. 60 Minutes (9) 1.59m
10. It Takes Two (7) 1.51m

Biggest Flops

Yasmin's Getting Married (10) cancelled after a week

Magda's Funny Bits (9) cancelled

The Master (7) cancelled

You May be Right (7) cancelled

The Great Weight Debate (9) one-off ratings disaster

Overhaul (9) moved out of prime time

The Footy Show Live from Germany (9) an expensive one-off ratings disaster

Family Feud Friday Night All Stars (9) cancelled

Celebrity Survivor (7) struggled

Clever (9) cancelled

Good as Gold (7) only made four episodes

Girlband (10) moved out of prime time

Two Twisted (9) struggled to rate and moved later

So make sure to send in your Birthdays, Annoucements, News Items, Odd Stuff - anything you think needs to be announced and broadcasted.

Keep Safe and Have a Good Week!

Remember that Aussie Club website I posted the banners on? Well I am just in the process of expanding it and soon there will be polls relating to Aussie TV and the club and more. I will still keep all of the features on this site but I will post them there as well along with other stuff.

Squishyhippo made an Aussie Club user-bar which we both have in our signatures and if you want it, go to the website, here, scroll to the bottom of the page and copy that code into your sig.

Channel Seven and Nine have announced there 2007 line up of new US shows which are all due to beggin around February.

Channel Seven: Brothers & Sisters, Heroes, Shark, Six Degrees and Ugly Betty.

Channel Nine: Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.

Channel Nine hasn't had much luck because they were going to show Smith, Runaway and Kidnapped but they were all cancelled. On the other hand Channel Seven has got some brilliant shows including the no.1 show, Heroes, which will join Lost, Prison Break, Desperate Housewives, 24 and Grey's Anatomy.

1) Grey's Anatomy (7)                          -    1.96m
2) CSI Sunday (9)                                 -    1.84m
3) 60 Minutes (9)                                   -    1.69m
4) Dancing With The Stars (7)              -    1.67m
5) Thank God You're Here (10)            -    1.56m
6) Border Security (7)                            -    1.43m
7) 20 to 1 (9)                                          -    1.45m
8 ) CSI repeat (9)                                   -    1.39m
9) Australian Idol Sunday (10)              -    1.38m
10) Police Files Unlocked (7)                 -    1.33m

We have a birthday on our hands! Just recently Dalilone celebrated her birthday! Even though it isn't today, we can still celebrate so pick up your glasses and let's party!

We have a winner! The fabulous banner 1 wins which was made by Squishyhippo! Congrats! Thanks to everyone who made one, they were all great but there had to be a winner. Thanks to everyone who voted to. There will be similar competitions in the near future so get ready!

1) Grey's Anatomy (7)                              -    1.85m
2) Thank God You're Here (10)                -    1.81m
3) Australian Idol Sunday (10)                 -    1.78m
4) Dancing With The Stars (7)                  -    1.68m
5) 60 Minutes (9)                                       -    1.67m
6) CSI (9)                                                    -    1.57m
7) Movie - The Bourne Supremacy (10)  -    1.47m
8 ) Australian Idol Monday (10)                -    1.45m
9) Midsomer Murders (ABC)                    -    1.43m
10) 20 to 1 (9)                                             -    1.41m

Channel Ten's hot new drama Tripping Over, which premiered at 8.30pm last Wednesday, scored an average 1.29m viewers Australia wide. Considering how heavily advertised it was and all the rage about it, this was under the expectations of the network. As quoted by the Sydney Morning Herald, "Tripping Over is between the hit and the flop." If Tripping over gradually loses viewers, all is to blame for the English co-producers who, "failed to understand Australian tastes." If it continues this way, it could join The Alice, Headland and Last Man Standing, some of Australia's 'could have beens.' (alexlips)

Seven has earned the rights to hit American shows Ugly Betty, Heroes (Tv.com's #1 show) and Brothers and Sisters. These will join there long list of hit shows like Lost, Prison Break, 24 and Desperate Housewives. (aplourey)

People excited about the Sci-Fi I mentioned in the comments of the last blog, you'll be happy to know that you can get a sneak peak. If you have Foxtel that is! (aplourey)

The launch of The OC is definetely November 7th at 8:30pm. The first episode is called The Avengers. I'v seen half of it (it got leaked briefly), and it is brilliant. Season 1 quality. (aplourey)

I have been posted 5 great banners and now it is up to you to chose which one deserves to take the lead as the official Aussie Club banner! I have uploaded them to a website because they couldn't fit here and to make this fair, no one will know who's banner is which. Simply check them out, send me a PM telling me which number banner you vote for and I will tell you the winner shortly!  Here is the website!

Kindly enough, our fellow member aplourey has agreed to write up some of the latest Aussie TV news and here are some of the latest pieces of TV news:

Grey's Anatomy is coming to a close on 30th October. Seeing as though I've seen the season finale I can tell you it will be breathtakingly heartbreaking.

NCIS's finale is set to air tonight (October 25th). It is called Hiatus Pt 2. It is supposedly great. But don't worry NCIS fans, re-runs start next week.

The ARIA Awards are on October 29th. On Channel Ten as usual. If, like me, you are a muso then check this out.

The OC is set to premiere on Tuesday 7th November. I'll keep you updated next article.

Kath and Kim are set to return next year with the Little Britain cast as a one off.

Coming soon to the Aussie Club is the "Community Shout." All you have to do is PM me a sentence or whatever about special events like your birthday, a holiday, getting braces on/off, broken a bone, going to hospital and things like that. It should be up and running soon!

For the last few blogs I have said that the banners will be posted in the next blog and I am sorry to delay you once more it's just that I am still waiting for a banner which hasn't been sent to me yet due to "technical difficulties." I will post them next blog, it's a promise.

The results are in from last weeks TV and it looks like Channel Ten is the clear winner again with there season 2 finale of House!

1) House (10)                                 -    2.13m
2) Australian Idol Sunday (10)      -    1.92m
3) Grey's Anatomy (7)                   -    1.87m
4) Thank God You're Here (10)    -    1.83m
5) Australian Idol Monday (10)     -    1.54m
6) Dancing With The Stars (7)      -    1.53m
7) NCIS Repeat (10)                      -    1.45m
8 ) 60 Minutes (9)                           -    1.45m
9) Seven News Sunday (7)             -    1.43m
10) Midomer Murders (ABC)       -    1.42m

Channel Ten does it again! First with Jericho which was seen in Australian hours after the US and now The OC is coming back with it's 4th season which will be seen in Australia right after as well!

As you can hopefully see, the new Aussie Club blogs have a new design all thanks to our excellent member squishyhippo! Thanks for making everything in your spare time!

Unfortunately I can't get my hands on last weeks top 10 watched programs because it wasn't in todays paper and I can't find it anywhere else. It did have a list of "What Americans & Australians Watch." I will put the list in and it is of the shows that Americans watch that Aussies watch from last years ratings.

# -  Show (Channel) - US Viewers - Aus Viewers

Here is the new list of members, sorted between "guys" and "gals:"

Guys:

alexlips                     *******      New South Wales
aplourey                   *******      Victoria
aslans                       *******      Queensland
bubble_buddy           *******     New South Wales
Cank_les                  *******      NSW (New)
Darth_Dave              *******      South Australia
exc3ss2000              *******
El_Lechero              *******       NSW   (New)
freddyjasonmyer       *******     Victoria
grimface_87             *******     Victoria
jbeauchamp17          *******     New South Wales
jimbo_001                *******     Queensland
lone_shark3025        *******    Queensland
ThreeHeadJester       *******    New Sotuh Wales
ozziefan                    *******     ACT
SteveT-AU               *******     NSW (New)
Tom-lost                  *******     New South Wales
Will732                    *******

Gals:

abby_lover                 *******     Queensland
Avster                       *******    Victoria
blondeybabe              *******    NSW  (New)
bree-ross                   *******     Western Australia
Catatonicc                 *******      NSW (New)
dalilone                      *******      Western Australia
DE1979                    *******      Western Australia
Ebs_73                     *******      Victoria
hewey89                   *******      NSW (New)
iluvFriends                 *******      NSW (New)
jhurley1                     *******     New South Wales
kathcous                    *******     New South Wales
Kathedral                  *******     
lexkatz                       *******     New South Wales
lisaandperry               *******      South Australia
Miss Box                   *******      Victoria  (New)
MuteTroubadouR      *******     New Souh Wales
pisces_t                     *******        
rkmcd                        *******     Victoria
sassy_eggs                *******     Victoria
Scrubs_away             *******      
sez01                         *******     Victoria
Spikemaniac              *******     New South Wales
squishyhippo              *******    Victoria
uendi99                     *******     NSW (New)

I have an idea for the club, how about a small list of users who are not Aussie but want to become friends with one?

Hey Aussie's, how great is this! Before I give you some details, there are some tech. errors and it is not possible to change to size of any of this...

Competition:

We need a banner for this profile so who ever makes the best banner will be (publicly) judged and will be used! The banner should say "The Aussie Club" and be Australian themed. The rest is up to your imagination! Good luck!

Also if anyone finds or makes a good "about me" picture...

Current Aussie Shows:

The latest feature to the club is that all currently airing Australian shows listed at Tv.com will be tracked by this profile in the "Favourites" section! If there are any which should or shouldn't be listed , please PM me.