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1 week, 6 days ago The Year Ahead
Each week during the year 2008 we featured the corresponding week from thirty years ago, 1978 , as reported in TV Times magazine. We will continue the theme into 2009 ...
Talking TelevisionAU - 10:29 p.m. Friday 26th December 2008
2008: We Remember...
Some of those that departed us this year: Andrew Harwood Bob McGready Clinton Grybas Heath Ledger Jessica Jacobs Kevin Heinze Mark Priestley Malcolm Searle Michael Pate Peter Leonard Reg Lindsay ...
Talking TelevisionAU - 9:27 p.m. Friday 26th December 2008
2 weeks ago 1978: December 30-January 6
Holden rocks Hollywood Mark Holden burst onto American TV screens in Hollywood's Diamond Jubilee special. Within days the CBS network's Hollywood offices were deluged with fan mail. But, despite his ...
Talking TelevisionAU - 10:13 p.m. Thursday 25th December 2008
2 weeks, 1 day ago Beautiful one day, Logies the next?
The Queensland Government has reportedly made a bid for the Gold Coast to host the TV Week Logie Awards in an attempt to take the awards away from their traditional ...
Talking TelevisionAU - 5:19 p.m. Wednesday 24th December 2008
2 weeks, 2 days ago 1978: December 23-29
Cover: Humphrey B Bear ( Here's Humphrey ) Barber's still a big game hunter Tony Barber has a reputation for stamina, and surviving. Two years ago, the career of the ...
Talking TelevisionAU - 9:27 p.m. Tuesday 23rd December 2008
3 weeks, 2 days ago Barrel girl rings into the High Court
There are plenty of news reports today that Virginia Bell (pictured) has been appointed as a justice of the High Court of Australia , and only the fourth woman ever ...
Talking TelevisionAU - 9:21 p.m. Tuesday 16th December 2008
3 weeks, 5 days ago 1978: December 16-22
Cover: Marlon Brando ( Superman The Movie ) Restless break for June Salter Actress June Salter will take an extended break from The Restless Years to tour with the theatrical ...
Talking TelevisionAU - 7:30 p.m. Saturday 13th December 2008
4 weeks ago 1978: December 9-15
Cover: Ron Howard ( Happy Days ) Where's our wonder woman? The producers of Nine 's upcoming current affairs program 60 Minutes are looking for a female reporter following the ...
Talking TelevisionAU - 11:42 p.m. Thursday 11th December 2008
1 month ago TelevisionAU Update
Due to some personal matters to attend to leading up to Christmas, an upcoming break over Christmas-New Year, and a bit of an IT issue to resolve before then as ...
Talking TelevisionAU - 4:43 p.m. Sunday 7th December 2008
1 month, 1 week ago 1978: December 2-8
The Sullivans' amazing Grace... Actress Lorraine Bayly is made to look considerably older than her 36 years when playing the motherly Grace Sullivan in The Sullivans - with make-up applied ...
Talking TelevisionAU - 9:09 p.m. Sunday 30th November 2008
It's Seven in '08
With the official ratings season over as of last night, the press releases will no doubt come out from all networks over the next few days - each of them ...
Talking TelevisionAU - 3:55 p.m. Sunday 30th November 2008
1 month, 1 week ago Celebrating Mr Grundy
The wife of long-time TV producer Reg Grundy (pictured) is arranging an exclusive celebration in his honour, to be held next week at a Sydney hotel. Grundy turned 85 earlier ...
Talking TelevisionAU - 10:59 a.m. Saturday 29th November 2008
Summer Temptation could be its last
Reports today that Nine's long-running quiz show Temptation is well and truly finished with the show's host Ed Phillips not having his contract renewed by the network. Beginning in 2005, ...
Talking TelevisionAU - 9:38 a.m. Saturday 29th November 2008
1 month, 2 weeks ago Free lovin' among the networks
For most of the time, our free-to-air networks are fighting the battlegrounds of the all-important ratings, defending their territories (ie. audience shares), justifying their existences and, sometimes, sending out smarmy ...
Talking TelevisionAU - 10:33 p.m. Monday 24th November 2008
1 month, 2 weeks ago 1978: November 25-December 1
How Georgiou stays a jump ahead The cops featured in Crawford Productions ' police dramas are used to high-speed car chases, but actor John Orcsik (pictured) from Cop Shop is ...
Talking TelevisionAU - 10:09 p.m. Saturday 22nd November 2008

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