Oz TV Reviews

William Shatner’s new series $#*! My Dad Says (let’s face it, Shit my Dad Says) aired on Channel 9 on Monday night. Obviously the non-ratings period is over, with new series of Bones, Glee and Two and a Half Men also broadcast on the same night. More about those shows later. I’m a big fan [...]

Rumour has it the Australian and New South Wales governments paid millions of dollars to get Oprah to film some of her shows in Australia. Back in September last year Oprah made one of her famous big announcements that all 300 members of her studio audience in Chicago will be coming with her to Australia. [...]

ABC Friday night Drama The Silence, Collision and U Be Dead were three British mystery/drama shows that were shown on the ABC on Fridays at 8:30 in recent weeks. There are in fact a great deal of differences between them, but there are also many similarities, apart from them being British and shown in the [...]

The movie Babel was released in 2006 and was aired on SBS on Saturday night. Babel stars Brad Pitt and Australia‘s own Cate Blanchett. In this case ‘stars’ is kind of the wrong word,  although they play the central characters of the story, they probably have less than a quarter of the running time on [...]

First of all I would like to say that I have every sympathy for the victims of the Queensland floods and I believe everyone that can should donate, or offer any assistance that they are able to to the victims. This is a link to the Queensland Premier’s Flood Relief Appeal. I believe this would [...]

The Eleventh of January 2011 (11/01/11) saw the launch of Australia‘s latest free to air TV station. Channel Eleven is part of the Channel 10 Network, so high hopes for it’s future are not anticipated. Once again the launch seemed to me to go not with a bang, but with a whimper. There were some [...]

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Cancer claims the life of great British actor I was sorry to read about the passing of Pete Postlethwaite. This great British actor was the star of many British and American films, as well as heaps of British TV shows. He was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in the movie of In [...]