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The Games Series 1 and 2 (ABC TV / DVD) Review

After 10 years of waiting, fans of the show can finally buy the full DVD set of ABC TV’s satirical series The Games Series 1 and The Games Series 2 on DVD from ABC Shop. I personally rate The Games in the top 5 list of best Australian comedy TV series.

The Games charts the [...]

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Dakar Rally Coverage on SBS TV and Website

SBS TV will broadcast daily highlights of one of the toughest races in the world, the Dakar Rally at 6pm from Sunday 3rd January to Monday 18th January 2010 as it returns to Argentina and Chile in what should be an even more challenging and exciting rally than last year.

Dakar Rally Australian motorcycle entrantChristophe [...]

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The Colbert Report review (ABC2 Digital TV)

I have great news for you Nation – the Emmy and Peabody award-winning comedy series Colbert Report hosted by Stephen Colbert is coming to ABC2 TV on January 5th 2010. It will be broadcast at 740pm Tuesdays to Fridays with the global edition highlights package on Mondays.
ABC TV will swiftly download each episode via satellite [...]

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Black Adder The Ultimate Edition Remastered DVD Boxset (Review)

The first Blackadder series was broadcast on BBC TV over 26 years ago yet it’s managed to gain cult classic comedy status by attracting new fans from each following generation and served as a launchpad for the careers of its main actors Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Tim McInnerny, Miranda Richardson, Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry.

Black [...]

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Family Guy: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side (Review)

You know it’s a Family Guy spoof of Star Wars when the opening titles include an animated elephant scampering across the screen to the tune of the Victory March. Fans of Fox’s ever-popular Family Guy franchise have come to expect it to deliver below the belt humour and controversy and this movie delivers in spades.

Something, [...]

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Pixar’s UP – best animated movie of 2009 reviewed (DVD & Bluray)

Last night after a hard days work I sat down with much anticipation to watch a media preview DVD of Pixar’s animated movie “UP”. I didn’t have time to watch UP at the movie theatres but many people had told me that it was the best animated movie of 2009 so I had high hopes [...]

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The Storm Warriors – CGI Fantasy Kung Fu (Movie Review)

For one reason or another I’ve never watched a whole chinese martial arts movie so when my friend Scott invited me to a preview screening of the new CGI “Wuxia” (fantasy kung fu film) Storm Warriors I went along to give this film genre a try.
I’d describe the movie as a combination of martial arts, [...]

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TV exploits of Satirical Documentary Maker John Safran: A Retrospective

I was not surprised at all when I read in the newspaper that Jewish Australian filmmaker John Safran had been crucified in a bizarre Philippines Easter ritual. It turns out that this stunt was for his new ABC TV series “John Safran’s Race Relations” shown on ABC TV Wednesday’s at 930pm. If you’ve missed the [...]

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X-Men Origins: Wolverine DVD & Bluray (Review)

GUEST ARTICLE: I had been dying to watch the Wolverine movie for a long time. However, it came out at the same time as Star Trek. Word of mouth from my friends convinced me that this was a better movie to see.

There were a lot of mixed reviews at the time from die hard [...]

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ONE HD Cricket Coverage 2009 Champions League Twenty20 Australian TV

From October 9th to 24th 2009 the TEN network’s specialist ONE HD sports channel will be broadcasting the Twenty20 Champions League (CLT20) competition for state/territory club teams from India, Australia, England, South Africa, Sri Lanka, New Zealand and West Indies including Australian teams the NSW Blues and Victorian Bushrangers.

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Catchup With Weeks Political Events with Insiders (ABC TV)

Every Sunday morning at 9am I turn the TV on and eat breakfast while catching up with the weeks political events by watching Insiders on ABC1 TV

“The Panel get going at around the 9.30am mark” photo credit: Michael Bowers

Since mid-2001 Insiders has provided a forum for “Insiders” in the Australian media to discuss political [...]

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IMAX Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (Review)

Last week I attended the media preview session of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (HP6) at IMAX Darling Harbour. I was 1st in the queue and got the best seat in the top back row.

It’s definitely worth turning up to queue early because the 540-seat Darling Harbour IMAX is the largest IMAX screen [...]

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SBS TV Coverage of the Ashes Cricket series Australia vs England

SBS TV is the Official Broadcaster of the 2009 Ashes Series in July/August and the 7 match Australia vs England One Day International series.
SBS TV Coverage of the 2009 Ashes Test Series started on Wednesday 8 July from Sophia Gardens, Cardiff at 730pm (AEST) on SBS ONE. All SBS coverage will be live and [...]

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Coraline Movie Review (Australian Red Carpet Premiere 2009)

I recently attended the Australian premiere of the Henry Selick directed animated 3D stop-motion film “Coraline”, starring voice actors Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, John Hodgman and Dawn French.

Asking questions like “which father would you rather?” and “which mom is more fun?” the underlying lesson of the movie to all of us is “be careful [...]

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2009 CH10 IPL 20 Twenty Cricket Indian Premier League Australian TV Schedule

READ INFORMATION ABOUT COVERAGE OF 2010 IPL MATCHES ON NETWORK 10’s ONE HD AND ONE SD CHANNELS TV IN AUSTRALIA

The 2009 IPL 20/20 Tournament runs from April 18th to the final on May 20th. Channel 10 has an exclusive five-year Australian TV deal to broadcast the Indian Premier League (IPL) which consists of eight teams [...]

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