Today’s Broadcast News – 15th August 2007
Aug 15
Today’s Broadcast News column by Jacqueline Lee Lewes in The Daily Telegraph.
-Â Remember Gordon Elliott, the former host of Ten’s Good Morning Australia? He has recently been spotted at the ABC’s studios in Ultimo with director of television Kim Dalton, pitching a documentary follow-up to former ABC chairman David Hill’s book The Forgotten Children. No sale has been confirmed as yet. Elliott is now located in New York with his own production company Follow Productions.
- A recent episode of Australian Story, called Down To Earth, has managed to touch the hearts of its viewers, with rural suicide prevention program Aussie Helpers receiving $500,000 in cash donations, $200,000 of in-kind donations and over a thousand emails. The program is now operating in all of the eastern states.
- Seven’s The Force – Behind The Line will move from the west coast to the east, with the New South Wales Police Force coming under the program’s microscope in a first for eastern police forces.
- With casting for the pilot nearly complete, Rebecca Gibney will have a starring role in Seven’s new comedy/drama series Packed To The Rafters, which will be piloted at the end of the month. It will be shot at Seven’s Epping studios by the team behind Always Greener pilot, which include Jo Porter (producer), Anthony Ellis (script) and Bevan Lee, who was behind one of Seven’s few hits earlier in the decade.
- Ten’s hit improvisation show Thank God You’re Here will add an extra episode to its latest series, now with eleven episodes with the finale running in mid-late September. It will run for an extra 15 minutes, with one extra guest pushing the number to five performers instead of the usual four.
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Lepatron August 15th 2007