Published February 23, 2021
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There’s a brand new mansion for season nine of
The Bachelor and folks, we’ve seen it before: it’s the former home of
Beauty And The Geek.
The mansion, dubbed ‘Le Chateau’, is the new home of
Bachie, writes The Wash. It’s a European manor-style estate in Dural in Sydney’s Hills District, 36 kilometres NW of the CBD. And it’s ritzy! In a lots of white carpet kind of way!
February 8th, 2021 By David Knox 18 commentsFiled under: News,
While 10 BOLD finishes another week as the top multichannel, new kid on the block 10 Shake has some way to go for Network 10.
The channel launched in September targeting kids to 6pm followed by viewers under 40 in primetime, built around ViacomCBS titles:
The Late Late Show with James Corden, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, South Park, Teen Mom Australia and more.
Last week its share was 0.7% -the lowest of all commercial multichannels.
10 Head of Programming Daniel Monaghan tells
TV Tonight there’s still some work to do in Primetime.
“Clearly, the daytime has been really solid with kids products, especially titles like Paw Patrol. There will be some minor schedules on Shake in the coming weeks and months. But we will get there. We got there with BOLD to become the number one multichannel. Peach is having an exceptional time. So we’ll get there with Shake.”
February 7th, 2021 By David Knox Make a commentFiled under: News,
10’s Pilot Week is unlikely to return in 2021.
10’s Director of Programming Daniel Monaghan tells
TV Tonight, “We haven’t ruled out yet but it’s a hard year for it.
“We’d really like to return to Pilot Week this year, but given the difficulties with production at the moment.”
Pilot Week was due in 2020 until the pandemic threw those plans out. It was previously staged in 2018 and 2019 with shows such as
Taboo, Trial by Kyle,
February 3rd, 2021 By David Knox 9 commentsFiled under: News,
10 has confirmed the fate for a number of shows which were in limbo, including WAGs drama
Playing for Keeps, which last aired in 2019.
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TV Tonight.
But there is some hope for more of
My Life is Murder, starring Lucy Lawless. The production is moving to New Zealand with 10 to have a second window after an Acorn TV premiere.
“We will still broadcast
My Life is Murder. I don’t think it will be this year but if it is, it wouldn’t be much before the end of this year.”
There’s also no more for