7mate is coming

Seven has revealed it’s ‘third channel’: 7mate, which was actually a rumoured name for 7two before they… well.. told us it was called 7two. 7mate will be aimed at males, since apparantly the main channel attracts a lot of women.

I don’t know, I don’t think I will like it personally, but I think that it will be really pretty looking, and I’m always excited for new channels so I’m kind of looking forward to it.

It’ll launch on September 25, but no word on whether it will be launched at the same time in regional areas or whether we’ll have to wait a bit longer like is generally the case with new channels.

According to Seven, the channel will be playing Parks and Recreation, so it’ll be coming back (hooray), and it’ll also have shows such as 30Rock, How I Met Your Mother, American Dad,

Click to see full list straight from Seven

However, It’s going to be replacing 7HD, which I’ve always been in love with for no reason, It’s just going to be gross having to watch normal 7 from now on :(

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Offspring.

Excellent.

So, I’m not going to lie, I did have some good expectation for Offspring, despite knowing like zero about it other than that Asher Keddie was starring in it.

It’s this excellent mix of drama and comedy. The little animated cutaways were ever so slightly annoying, just in a “this is really cheesy” way but the rest of it was great, and I’ve got a feeling they were just sort of an introduction thing and I can’t see them sticking around for every episode.

It’s jumping on the whole bandwagon of “cutting edge” shows by having the characters have sex all the time. Like how disgusting, I don’t want to see that nonsense. Also, I don’t want to know about the main characters dirty sex feelings for new doctor man, it’s almost embarrassing to watch, like that bit in Camp Rock where they find out Demi Lovato has been lying and I actually have to turn away whenever I watch it.

I wasn’t exactly fond of the whole movie length Pilot, it just seems like it’s a better idea to do a movie length finale than pilot, go out with a good long dramatic story when everyone’s already been pulled in, rather than bore them to death and loading them with new information when they’ve just started watching. It was 1hour and 25 minutes, and that’s with the ads cut out – which is the other thing, cutting the ads out (which is something I ritually and religiously do before watching shows I tape) there was about 100 ad breaks, I’m not sure they could have fit any more sets of ads in there, haha.

I’m really stoked about all the new Australian shows starting lately – and I’m suprised at how good these shows actually are, I mean, usually Australia can’t do shows for shit. Which reminds me, Spirited starts next wednesday on W, and I’ll be watching (assuming I don’t forget).

This is something I’ll definitely continue watching. Love it. Love it. Love it. ♥

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offspring, starts this weekend

New Australian Drama. Channel tens new show, starring Asher Keddie (from Love My Way), and I’m not sure what it’s about, but I’m going to watch out of curiosity, so we’ll see how that goes anyway.

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pre-election comedy on abc

I’m loving it. Wednesday’s have 2 new(ish) comedy shows especially for the pre-election fun on ABC1: Gruen Nation, and Yes We CanBerra!

First at TIME is Gruen Nation, a spinoff of The Gruen Transfer – a show about ads. They claim the show has nothing to do with politics and only discusses the effectiveness of the ads that are shown in the election and if it’s good or bad for their party – but to be honest there was one section where I was very certain it was political and didn’t even have anything to do with ads at all. But that didn’t bother me, because the whole thing was absolutely hilarious. Gruen Nation runs in the weeks leading up to the 2010 Election

Yes We CanBERRA! is the new show by The Chasers. It’s set as the ‘warm up’ routine for lateline, who runs immediately after them (they use the same set – except the chasers use it differently, and you can always tell it’s a set and behind the scenes crap). I love the way that they end it, because in place of credits they have the opening titles to lateline. It was hilarious, it’s pretty much everything you expect from The Chasers. So there is really not that much to say about it, if you’ve loved any of their other shows your going to love this too. Yes we CanBERRA! runs in the weeks leading to the 2010 election, with one show the week after the election.

So that’s it, it’s all on ABC1 on Wednesdays, and then repeated slightly earlier on ABC2 on Thursdays.

I’ll be watching.

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wtf!? (AusNTM)


seriously? how is this chick a model. It’s like they didn’t even bother trying to make her bit nice.

also, i want to know at what point in the competition they record the opening titles and get their promo photos, like… for the website and stuff, because… yeah.. i dunno. it has to be in the first 2 weeks cause the next episode they get their makeovers, but like… they never show it, like… they could totally make that be one of their challenges. some of them are sooo pretty in there and then some (ie: Claire) are so unbelievably ugly i actually cannot believe it. Like.. ugh… that should be one of their tasks and like.. they should be judged on it.

hahah now i’m just annoyed.

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Australia’s Next Top Model + a rant about austar

So, I’m liking Next Top Model, I know it started last week, but I made the decision to wait a week before I posted, since the “chat on” feature was to start this week. Anyway, as it turns out, Austar subscribers don’t get that (yeah.. :| what a surprise) So now I’m pissed. And the post that was meant to be about my opinion on the show is now going to be a rant, have fun:

Click to reveal off-topic rant about Austar Subscribers not getting the same cool stuff Foxtel Subscribers do.

Anyway, back on track, I’m liking Next Top Model, I never had any little bit of like for the American version, but the Australian one is amazing. I love it. There was about 100 hilarious quotes from it, and although it has it’s “this is a serious competition” moments, it also has a whole heap of “yay lighthearted fun” as well, which makes it actually fun to watch.

Also, I read in the Sunday Mail tv guide this week that apparently the contestants are not being bitches like is usually the case and that the show is not about the bitching anymore, and I’m liking it, so…. yeah, good times.

Pretty sure I’m going to religiously watch this for the however many weeks it has left, I’m absolutely lovin it.

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firstlook: hot in cleveland

Hot in Cleveland, yes, okay. So, pretty much, I wanted to watch this show when i first heard about it, on account of Betty White is in it, sort of planned on… totally obtaining it legally and all. But it was easier than I first expected because Channel 9 got it, a lot faster than I ever would have thought, like usually Australian Networks don’t pick up US shows so quickly – not as far as I’m aware of anyway.

It was good, I had a fair few laughs, the acting seemed a bit… crap, but I wasn’t too bothered, because it’s not like it was trying to be really serious. I love that they’ve got that chick out of Just Shoot Me in it too, just sayin. I still love Betty White, but her character was so… lame, it looked like she was playing a stereotypical nana in a sketch show.

I’m hoping the quality goes up further into the series, not that I really care, I’ll probably watch it either way, there doesn’t seem to be much else on as of late.

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totally didn’t see this coming: glee on fox8

I always knew FOX8 would end up showing glee, because of that whole deal they’ve got with channel ten, but i honestly didn’t expect them to play it so soon after it finished on ten. Whatever, I know i taped it all already so I already have copies of all the episodes, but I’ll probably watch it on fox8 anyway. Haha.

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Chuck Season 3 coming to Australia

Can’t wait can’t wait can’t wait.

I really don’t know what else to say, I really love Chuck, and the third season that I haven’t yet seen will be on Fox8 in a just over a week from now.

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speaking of FIX: TVFIX’s been beatificied

I realise that’s not a word, and honestly I don’t even know how I would… pronounce that, even. Anyway, TVFIX has FINALLY done some updating, last night I was thinking about how crap TVFIX was considering it was the only proper tv guide online for australia. Then today I realised that they had JUST made it new.

They’re still testing it, so the old site is still available, even though it doesn’t really… work. Hahah.

It was very fiddly to set back up, and I ran into heaps of problems with missing channels, eventually I just pretended I was a foxtel subscriber and everything worked out.

It’s very pretty, I’ll give it that, and a lot of the new features are ones i’ve been wanting for ages. So it’s really good. You can now highlight certain things instantly like “movies” or “family/kids”, so that you can see the sort of thing you want really quickly.

They’ve added logo’s for all of the freeview networks, but not for Foxtel, they probably just got a bit lazy.

There are still kinks that need to be ironed out, thats for sure, but sadly, I’m not all too certain that they ever will since the old site never really got to a fully usable level, hahah, but we can always have hope.

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