Don't forget to cast your best and worst opinions on television for the Fugly Awards.
All nominations have to be in before Monday April 21.
Official voting will begin the day after.
If you're looking for suggestions, prompt your memory with some of the winners of the 2007 TV Tonight Awards.
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Upcoming reviews for David Stratton and Margaret Pomeranz on At The Movies include Deception, Smart People, Made of Honor, Moliere, Transylvania and the new Aussie flicks Black Water, Broken Sun and the road movie Cactus (pictured).
There are interviews with Robert Downey Jr, Hugh Jackman and director Tony Gatlif.
EP 11 - 23 APRIL
DECEPTION + interview with Hugh Jackman. An accountant (Ewan McGregor) is introduced to a mysterious sex club known as The List by his lawyer friend (Hugh Jackman). But in this new world, he soon becomes the prime suspect in a woman's disappearance and a multi-million dollar heist.
SMART PEOPLE - The darkly comic story of Lawrence Wetherhold, a widowed and unhappy English professor (Dennis Quaid), who has alienated his son and turned his daughter into an over-achieving, friendless teen. He falls for Janet (Sarah Jessica Parker), one of his former students, while at the same time his ne'er-do-well brother ( Thomas Haden Church ) shows up at his door unexpectedly, triggering a series of comic crises, and eventually growth in the family as they learn to reconnect.
UNTRACEABLE - Jennifer Marsh (Diane Lane), one of the FBI’s top cyber-cops is assigned to track a website streaming video of a live, sadistic murder. In doing so she enters a world of madness that will put her tracking skills and life to the ultimate test.
BLACK WATER + interview with director Andrew Traucki. Grace (Diana Glenn), her boyfriend Adam (Andy Rodoreda) and her younger sister Lee (Maeve Dermody) take a fishing trip on a tidal river in tropical Australia . As they drift into a swamp their runabout is suddenly capsized. Realising they’ve been attacked by a crocodile the three find themselves stranded in a mangrove tree.
BROKEN SUN - (TBC) independent Australian film about the Cowra Breakout
EP 12 - 30 APRIL
IRON MAN + i/v with Robert Downey Jnr and director Jon Faveau. When Tony Stark (Downey Jnr) is forced to create a life support suit to keep him alive after an accident he decides to use the technology in his suit to fight crime.
CACTUS - To gain some much needed cash John Kelly (Travis McMahon) accepts a job to kidnap and deliver professional gambler Eli Jones (David Lyons) to his keepers in the Australian outback: No questions asked. The kidnapping is meticulously planned, but the road John chooses takes him on a dark journey where every choice has tragic consequences.
MOLIERE - In 1658, playwright/actor Molière, having been given a theater in the capital by the King, is back in Paris after touring the kingdom of France with his company of players. One day, a young lady asks him to follow her to the deathbed of her mother... Thirteen years earlier, Molière already runs a troupe, but goes broke and is thrown to prison. Fortunately, his debt is covered by Monsieur Jourdain, a rich man who wants him to help him rehearse a one-act play he has written with a view to seducing a beautiful bright young widow, Célimène. As Jourdain is married to Elmire, and is the "respectable" father of two daughters, his design must remain secret, so Molière is introduced into the house as Tartuffe, an austere priest
TRANSYLVANIA + i/v with director Tony Gatlif. The latest film from Tony Gatlif (EXILES, VENGO, SWING, LATCHO DROM, GADJO DILO) and starring the remarkable and charismatic Asia Argento, TRANSYLVANIA is a romantic and vibrant tale of love lost and found. Peppered with a vibrant, authentic gypsy soundtrack, it's a heady road trip through an unknown landscape and an investigation into the meaning of freedom. Zingarina arrives in Transylvania, in the heart of Romania , looking for the man she loves. She had met him in France , but one day he left without a word of explanation. With her friend, Marie, who jealously watches over her, Zingarina throws her body and soul into a romantic quest and gets caught up in a fascinating land. But when she finds her former lover in the midst of a pagan festival, he brutally rejects her. Mad with anguish, she then flees Marie, who reminds her too much of her past, to fully merge into this new land, Transylvania, where she meets Tchangalo, a loner, a man like her, without borders, without ties.
MADE OF HONOR - For Tom (Patrick Dempsey), life is good: he’s sexy, successful, has great luck with the ladies, and knows he can always rely on Hannah (Michelle Monaghan), his delightful best friend and the one constant in his life. It’s the perfect setup until Hannah goes overseas to Scotland on a six-week business trip…and Tom is stunned to realise how empty his life is without her. He resolves that when she gets back, he’ll ask Hannah to marry him – but is floored when he learns that she has become engaged to a handsome and wealthy Scotsman and plans to move overseas. When Hannah asks Tom to be her “maid” of honour, he reluctantly agrees to fill the role…but only so he can attempt to woo Hannah and stop the wedding before it’s too late.
10pm Wednesdays on ABC1
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Here's Wolverine rocking up to the 2020 Summit today in our nation's capital.
He will join the Towards a Creative Australia panel co chaired by Cate Blanchett, Professor Julianne Schultz and Peter Garrett. There are 100 artists, film-makers, designers, authors, playwrights and performers in this hub.
Some of the notable television names on the list include SBS boss Shaun Brown, Foxtel CEO Kim Williams, ABC execs Sandra Levy and Mark Scott, Mother and Son creator Geoffrey Atherden, The Oasis filmmaker Sascha Ettinger Epstein, Not Quite Art's Marcus Westbury, jazz musician Paul Grabowsky (former musical director of Tonight Live), conductor Richard Gill (judge Operatunity Oz / Spicks and Specks), scriptwriter / TV critic and ABC panellist Marieke Hardy, performers Claudia Karvan, Corrine Grant, Joel Edgerton , Rhys Muldoon and producer Hal McElroy (Sea Patrol).
The full list is below.
Ms Louise Adler VIC
Ms Robyn Archer SA
Mr Stephen Armstrong VIC
Ms Juliet Ashworth NSW
Mr Geoffrey Atherden NSW
Mr James Baker QLD
Ms Geraldine Barlow VIC
Prof Larissa Behrendt NSW
Ms Mara Blazic SA
Mr Shaun Brown NSW
Adjunct Professor Michael Bryce QLD
Ms Jennifer Buckland VIC
Mr Daryl Buckley QLD
Mrs Leticia Caceres VIC
Ms Karen Casey VIC
Ms Kate Champion NSW
Dr John Coetzee SA
Mr Robert Connolly VIC
Ms Alison Croggon VIC
Prof Stuart Duncan Cunningham QLD
Ms Rachel Dixon NSW
Mr Khoa Do NSW
Ms Phoebe Dunn VIC
Ms Jo Dyer NSW
Mr Joel Edgerton NSW
Ms Kristy Edmunds VIC
Miss Tammy Edwards WA
Mr Wesley Enoch VIC
Mr Saul Eslake VIC
Miss Sascha Ettinger Epstein NSW
Assoc Professor Robyn Ewing NSW
Ms Anna Funder NSW
Mr Richard Gill VIC
Dr Peter Goldsworthy SA
Mr David Gonski AC NSW
Mr Michael Gow QLD
Mr Paul Grabowsky VIC
Ms Corinne Grant VIC
Prof Anna Haebich QLD
Mr Nicholas Hansen NSW
Ms Marieke Hardy NSW
Mr Samuel Haren SA
Ms Rachel Healy NSW
Mr Scott Hocknull QLD
Hon William Hodgman TAS
Mr Frank Howarth NSW
Ms Catherine Hunt QLD
Mr Hugh Jackman NSW
Prof Nicholas Jose SA
Ms Claudia Karvan NSW
Mr Andrew Kay VIC
Ms Ana Kokkinos VIC
Ms Ramona Koval VIC
Ms Sandra Levy NSW
Ms Liza Lim QLD
Miss Rachael Lucas VIC
Mr Matthew Lutton WA
Ms Elizabeth Ann Macgregor NSW
Mr Greg Mackie SA
Ms Shelagh Magadza WA
Mr Kram Maher VIC
Ms Anna Malgorzewicz NT
Mr Nicholas Marchand NSW
Ms Susan Maslin VIC
Mr David McAllister VIC
Mr Hal McElroy NSW
Mr Marshall McGuire WA
Prof Marilyn McMeniman QLD
Dr Julian Meyrick VIC
Ms Jan Minchin VIC
Mr Callum Morton VIC
Mr Rhys Muldoon NSW
Mr Rupert Myer VIC
Ms Rosemary Myers SA
Ms Lena Nahlous NSW
Ms Elizabeth Nattrass VIC
Adjunct Prof Margo Neale ACT
Ms Helen O'Neil NSW
Mrs Alison Page NSW
Mr Charles Parkinson TAS
Ms Rachel Perkins NSW
Mr David Pledger VIC
Ms Christina Marion Potts NSW
Dr Ronald Radford ACT
Prof John Redmond VIC
Mr Ian Robertson NSW
Mr Mark Scott NSW
Prof Margaret Seares WA
Ms Katrina Sedgwick SA
Mr Brett Sheehy VIC
Mr Adam Simpson NSW
Mr James Strong NSW
Prof David Throsby NSW
Ms Mary Vallentine NSW
Mr Marcus Westbury VIC
Mr Roger Wilkins NSW
Mr Kimberley Williams NSW
Dr Astrid Wootton TAS
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More cast changes ahead for shows that are popular in Australia.
Further news on the exit of Gary Dourdan from CSI suggests he may have been fired, with speculation it relates to an 'ongoing personal problem.' In 2005 Dourdan pleaded not guilty to domestic violence, and last year a video of him attacking a photographer did the rounds of the net.
Now CSI: Miami is to lose Khandi Alexander (medical examiner Alexx Woods) at the end of the season. TV Guide's Michael Ausiello reports, "I'm not 100 percent certain, but, from what I gather, it wasn't one of those mutual deals we've been hearing about so much lately. Let's just say Alexander had some, um, issues with a certain aspect of the show and leave it at that, K?"
Law and Order SVU's Diane Neal (Casey Novak 2003-2008) will be leaving the show at the end of season 9. There are again rumours of a firing. Ausiello says, "Asked if she was blindsided by the news, Neal, choosing her words carefully, responds, 'I don't know if blindsided is the right word.... I've lasted longer – by several years – than almost any other ADA (in the Law & Order universe). So every year I've been like, 'Is this going to be the one when I leave?' Dick Wolf is known for replacing his cast regularly. And the truth is, I'm really looking forward to the future.'"
Adam Beach (Det. Chester Lake) is also departing Law & Order: SVU at the end of the current season. Producers and Beach have decided not to exercise a renewal option.
Meanwhile in Back To You, weather girl Montana (played by Ayda Field) will disappear after shooting one more episode. Producers and the network decided the character had run its course.
They also decided to go in a "different direction" and recast Gracie, daughter of Kelly Carr (Patricia Heaton). Lily Jackson takes over the role from Laura Marano from episode ten. The first new ep after the extensive writer's strike, which we should see in a few weeks.
Source: TV Guide, Hollywood Reporter, Pittsburgh Post Gazette
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Mary Wilson, one of the original Supremes, will guest star on the grand final of It Takes Two this Tuesday night.
She will perform River Deep Mountain High with Human Nature. Wilson, who was the longest-standing member of The Supremes until it disbanded in 1977, will open the show.
Dannii Minogue, judge from Australia's Got Talent, will also feature, singing Xanadu. Minogue has just joined Olivia Newton John, the song's hitmaker, on her Great Wall of China charity walk.
It Takes Two will be fought between Julia Morris and footballer Russell Robertson, hoping to be the first male to win the show's title. All the cast will reunite when the eight past couples return to sing a medley of their best song performed during the series.
Press Release:
In an action-packed It Takes Two grand final, Melbourne footballer Russell Robertson and comedian Julia Morris will battle it out for the title of It Takes Two series three champion on Tuesday night at 7.30pm on Seven.
The race is wide open with Russell only securing a three point edge over Julia in last week’s semi final, finishing with a score of 72. On the field Russell plays to his strengths and he is taking the same approach on Tuesday night. “Julia and Hobbo are very funny people and they’ve been using that. I just have to be the straight guy, you can’t try to compete because there’s only room for one comic star – and we have her – but there’s only room for one rocker – and we have him,” said Russell. If Russell takes line honours on Tuesday, he will be the first male winner in the show’s three year history, but stiff competition from Julia on the night could end the footballer’s dream run.
“Australia , I think it time that a nearly 40-year-old, overweight woman wins something in this country,” said Julia.
In an It Takes Two exclusive, the original and longest serving member of The Supremes, Mary Wilson, is flying in from the US especially to open the show, performing “River Deep Mountain High” with Australia ’s own Human Nature.
Showbiz veteran and Australia’s Got Talent judge Dannii Minogue returns to It Takes Two to perform “Xanadu”.
All the cast will reunite when the eight past couples return to sing a medley of their best song performed during the series.
The final two couples, Julia and David Hobson and Russell and Kate Ceberano, step up to the microphone one last time to be judged on three performances – a fast and a slow song that they have performed before and a new song that reflects their time on the series.
“I reckon we’ve all already won,” said Julia.
It Takes Two is a BBC format, and is a co-production between BBC Worldwide and Seven.
For more on It Takes Two, check out www.yahoo7.com.au/ittakestwo
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Sorry Lara, seems the audition was bungled.
Now it's Holly Brisley who is the fave to join Tim Campbell on Nine's new wheel, dubbed Million Dollar Wheel.
"We are doing callbacks over the next few weeks and Lara will not be one of the girls coming back for a second audition," a Nine spokeswoman told news.com.au
More than 700 starlets have reportedly applied for the role (really?) including It Takes Two performer Chloe Maxwell, radio gal Lizzy Lovette, model Ali Mutch and one-time lipgloss queen Gemma Gawned.
Holly Brisley is said to have on-screen chemistry with Tim Campbell, no doubt due to their experience on Home and Away.
Source: news.com.au
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This is it. Best episode of the season this year as a tornado hits Wisteria Lane. We're not in Kansas anymore. 8:30pm Monday on Seven.
"Mmmmmmmm I think there's something in that for all of us." Mike Moore acknowledging the pointless current affairs outtro quip, circa 1994.
