News: An Idiot Abroad Season 2 to Premiere in September

Everyone's favourite "idiot" Karl Pilkington will be back on UK screens this September ...

Upcoming AFL Guests: Round 15

Here is a guide to the upcoming AFL guests on Free to Air TV this week (Round 15 of the 2011 AFL Premiership Season) ...

Analysis: Some Breaking Bad S4 Questions

Breaking Bad is in that rare position that most shows never find themselves in. It has built itself up for three multi-layered, multi-faceted seasons. All episodes are plot-heavy, character-driven masterpieces in their own way ...

News: Hung Season 3 To Premiere in October

HBO has finally released a trailer for Season 3 of Hung, starring Thomas Jane. Check it out above. It is typically raunchy and suggestive, but features no new footage. And "ready for more"? Could HBO be any more vague? Anyway, it's something, and at least there's some information about when it will premiere; sometime in October, according to HBO in this recent tweet ...

Review: Wilfred (US): Episode One

Wilfred recently premiered in Australia on Ten's digital channel Eleven. It premiered in America last week on FX ...

Analysis: Can of Worms: Will Denton open a Can of Beast, Tench or Gruen?

Another month, another "Zapruder's Other Films" program premieres. In recent times, Andrew Denton and Anita Jacoby's production company has churned out shows including Hungry Beast, AFP, The Gruen Transfer and Gruen Nation, all to varying degrees of success. On the whole, there is a consensus that shows that they formulate are new and inventive, if nothing else. Before their respective ...

Opinion: Can Nine Reclaim Some Glory?

Channel Nine is currently undergoing a resurgence of sorts, after a very lacklustre start to the year.After heavily promoting the fourth series of The Block in its new 7PM timeslot, it has proven a decent new alternative in its first week on air.Of course, its strong first week figures will be slightly inflated due to the massive publicity push, but it has arguably begun to turn around Nine's ...

News: James Spader closing in on The Office boss job

The long and arduous process of deciding who should replace Steve Carell in the hit NBC comedy The Office, and it's firming as James Spader, who appeared as Robert California in the season finale. More after the jump ...

News: Sting, Steve Carrell to appear on Life's Too Short

Today Ricky Gervais announced on his blog that his upcoming show for BBC2 and HBO "Life's Too Short" will feature Sting and Steve Carrell ...

News: Breaking Bad S04E01 Title, Synopsis revealed!

With less than a month to go until the Season 4 premiere of Breaking Bad, the details for the first episode have been revealed. The first episode will be called "Box Cutter", not "El Topo", as it was previously rumoured to be (it could possibly be the name of a later episode). More after the jump ...

Analysis: Before the Game to be handballed?

Today network Ten stated that they would not buy any games off Channel Seven for the 2012 season. This leaves a number of shows and network personalities up in the air. ...

UPDATED: The Amazing Race Australia Bending the Truth... CONFIRMED!

UPDATE: CONFIRMED: Check out Sam and Renae's Facebook page to see them admit that the sisters didn't "complete the task" on Monday June 20's episode of The Amazing Race Australia in which it was made out as if Alana landed an arrow and completed the roadblock task. It turns out she didn't, hence they didn't actually complete the task. More after the jump ...

News: "Life's Too Short" Teaser Trailer Released (New Gervais Sitcom)

Here's the teaser trailer for the latest Ricky Gervais/Stephen Merchant project entitled Life's Too Short.Of course, as the series is still being filmed, there is no actual footage of the show, however you do get to see series star Warwick Davis along with the two comic geniuses in Gervais and Merchant.[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyrOr24hdEY&w=560&h=349]The show itself tells the story of Warwick Davis, a short statured man who runs a talent agency for other short statured actors... ...

News: Breaking Bad S4 "gets darker and deeper", No Minisodes: Cranston

Bryan Cranston gave an exclusive interview with Collider which should be a must-read for any Breaking Bad fan. I maintain that there is no-one better at summing up the mood and plot direction of a show that the actual actors themselves. Here is what he has to say about the overall arc of the show; More after the jump ...

TV News Wrap: Wednesday June 22

[caption id="attachment_783" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Source: The Hollywood Reporter"][/caption] Desperate Housewives will be adding another male regular to the cast in Season 8 (on top of the already great addition of Jonathon Cake as Bree's new love interest). Hawaii Five-O will also bag another Lost alumnus in the form of Terry O'Quinn (who played John Locke in the hit ABC ...

Opinion: How Offspring got it so right, so quickly

It’s easy to see why Offspring isn’t pulling huge numbers.Not bad numbers, by any stretch, as anything which can consistently pull figures around the 1m mark is valuable to any network.And this dramatic shift has only been validated by its recent third season renewal after its first five episodes have scored 927,000, 760,000 (in a later timeslot), 905,000 and 953,000 and 954,000, 982,000 ...

TV News Wrap: Wednesday June 15

Showtime's new drama House of Lies is shaping up to be a pretty interesting little show, especially when you consider it stars Australia's Josh Lawson (Thank God You're Here). I also hope, for Ben Schwartz's (Parks and Recreation) sake, that he is able to shed his "Jean-Ralphio" tag. Unfortunately, the Hollywood Reporter had misspelt Josh Lawson's name in this edit- so it's fair to say ...

The Sweetest Plum bumped to 9PM Weekdays

One of the great new shows on radio this year has been the Sweetest Plum on Triple M radio.Declan Fay and Nick Maxwell started off doing the "Sweetest Plum" podcast in 2010, which rapidly shot up the iTunes charts. This led to them getting a gig on Triple M 104.9 Sydney in the 4-6PM Monday to Thursday "drive" shift (with Roy and HG doing their show on Fridays). They also assembled a show of the week's best bits for Melbourne's Triple M 105.1 on Fridays.Unfortunately, since starting the show early ...

Angry Boys Episode Four Review: An Improvement, But Where To From Here?

I was reluctant to review another episode of Angry Boys.First of all because it meant that I would have to sit through another episode, and I'm sorry, but so far the series hasn't really done anything for me.Secondly, from what I had seen in the "next week on Angry Boys" preview, it seemed like things weren't going to get much better; we were told that Nathan likes to look at his mum in ...

TV News Wrap: Wednesday June 1

Anticipation for the fourth season of Breaking Bad is building slowly but surely. The premiere, titled "El Topo" is still a month and a half away, but there have been hints as to what the season might entail. Here is the trailer that was released today. It is the version from YouTube for Australian viewers, as other sites contain geographic restrictions[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alFsfEUtDmQ] There's also a nifty little interview with series creator Vince Gilligan over at EW. Here are ...