And this time it's not just in Australia.
CBS has cancelled Pirate Master - effective immediately.
There are five more episodes of the reality series due to air in the US, but they have been pulled from the schedule entirely.
Now they can only be seen via internet.
In theory TEN could still screen the eps in the lacklustre Sunday afternoon timeslot it has shifted to this week.
In "reality" why would it bother?
Source: Variety.
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Will David say "doh"?
Will Margaret gnash her teeth and moan?
Just what will television's most beloved movie critics think of The Simpsons Movie when it premieres this week?
We'll have to wait until August 1 to find out.
The two won't get to cross swords on the good folk of Springfield until then, clearly being made to wait like the rest of us!
Other films for next week include License To Wed, Farce Of The Penguins, Inside Paris, and a package on the Brisbane International Film Festival.
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Come on down! Drew Carey has been announced as the next host of the US Price is Right.
Carey made the announcement during an appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman.
His appointment follows the departure after longtime host Bob Barker ended 50 years on TV including 35 at the helm of Price.
Rosie O'Donnell was also approached but declined.
Carey will also fron a new CBS game show Power of Ten.
Source: Yahoo
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Rove McManus' next appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno will air in Australia at 11pm Wednesday on the Comedy Channel.
It is the second time the host has been asked to appear, a significant feat for a show full of A list guests.
Also on the same episode is a widely-publicised appearance by Homer Simpson in Jay's opening monologue, and actress Lindsay Lohan.
Rove should get himself a healthy audience from this profile appearance!
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Esteemed actor Sir Ian McKellen will join Kerri-Anne Kennerley this Friday for a live Melbourne shoot of Mornings with Kerri-Anne.
The veteran actor is currently touring Oz as part of a sell-out 'King Lear' production.
And The Choir of Hard Knocks, from the ABC's acclaimed observational series, will perform live in studio. Nine has wasted no time tapping into the popularity of this hit ABC show, previously showcasing the group on 60 Minutes.
Others on one of the KAKster's regular Melbourne visits include Ian Stenlake, Allanah Hill and Dave O'Neil.
Press Release:
Mornings with Kerri-Anne will be LIVE from Melbourne this Friday, July 27 on Channel Nine.
The Queen of Australian daytime television, Kerri-Anne Kennerley, will broadcast a fantastic morning of fashion, food and fun from Channel Nine’s Richmond studios.
The Choir of Hard Knocks, a not-for-profit choir that gives the homeless and disadvantaged a place and reason to enjoy creativity and community, will perform live following their emotive performance on both National Nine News and 60 Minutes in recent weeks.
The No Junk Male segment will feature Nine’s Tony Jones and Billy Brownless, Sea Patrol’s Ian Stenlake and 3AW’s breakfast announcer John Burns who will provide constructive advice and opinions on all sorts of dilemmas at home or work.
Veteran actor of British stage and screen, Sir Ian McKellen, who is touring the world in a production of Shakespeare’s King Lear, will also join Kerri-Anne. McKellen is best known to moviegoers in recent years for his roles as Gandalf and the Lord of the Rings trilogy and Magneto in the X-Men trilogy.
Comedian and radio star Dave O’Neil will be on hand to provide viewers with some of his foolproof cooking tips while Kerri-Anne will enjoy fun and games with a lesson on how to use a hula hoop.
Melbourne’s queen of girly chic, Alannah Hill, will be a special guest, unveiling her spring/summer collection with models showcasing fabulous, feminine frocks. Hill will also share her exciting international fashion expansion plans which include Dubai and Asia .
Kerri-Anne is excited about this week’s Melbourne broadcast.
“The Melbourne shows are always so much fun. Melbourne people have a real sense of style, the shopping and food in Melbourne is fabulous – it’s the real capital of Australia and it’s time we started investigating more of it,” Kerri-Anne said.
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Some interesting results from Monday's viewing.
Neighbours passed the 1m mark with its much-hyped "6.30 change." TEN will be delighted with this.
Australian Story's emotional profile of Belinda Emmett scored a huge 1.4m viewers. Meanwhile Border Security continues to rise, now at 1.9m while Surf Patrol slipped to just under 1.5m viewers, no doubt losing ground to the ABC.
And as Top Gear (829,000) enjoys alternative audiences, it was a slim 1,000 viewers behind Nine's 20 to 1 (830,000) which was a big loser on the night. The SBS show is having its best ever season as viewers illustrate a frustration with commercial offerings. If not for Australian Story SBS probably would have beaten Nine.
Ratings Week 30
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Dashing sports presenter Ryan Phelan has suddenly quit his US based position with ESPN network, according to Sydney Confidential.
The former TEN presenter left Australia last December to take up the position with the role, but has now quit the cable network for 'personal reasons.'
According to sources he is now looking for another role in US broadcasting.
Source: Daily Telegraph.
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[Seven/7:30pm] RSPCA Animal Rescue.
[Seven/8:00pm] Medical Emergency
[Seven/8:30pm] All Saints. "Bad Blood / Push Me Pull You". A man's relatively minor injuries are seriously compounded by a rare blood disease. Dan is starting to worry that his ability to be a good nurse has been compromised by his recent injury. Gabrielle fears that the situation between Charlotte and Zoe is set to explode, and Frank is forced to intervene. And in tonight’s second episode a twenty-year feud between two brothers lands them in the ED impacting on Zoe who has her own feud with Charlotte to deal with. At the same time, Charlotte learns how difficult choices can be when she deals with a transsexual whose life threatening blood clot becomes a no- win situation for either her or her wife.
[Nine/12:00pm] Movie: Love Letter (US 1999) Tom Selleck, Blythe Danner and Ellen DeGeneres. Some Coarse Language [L] Sex Scenes [S]
[Nine/7:30pm] Things to Try Before You Die. Livinia and Jules bring you all the adventures from New Zealand. Livinia swims with dolphins and learns to sail an America's cup yacht with SailNZ. Jules learns the Haka and tells us the traditional story of the Haka and also visits New Zealand's only geothermal mud bath and spa facility.
[Nine/9:30pm] CSI: NY “Tri-Borough”
[Ten/7:30pm] All New Simpsons. 'Sleeping with the Enemy'
[Ten/8:30pm] NCIS rpt.
[Ten/9:30pm] Numb3rs. "Contenders"
[SBS/7:30pm] Insight reports on the 'National Emergency' in the Northern Territory, involving the sexual abuse of Indigenous children in remote communities.
[SBS/8:30pm] Cutting Edge: Kidnapped To Order - An exposé of a new phase in America’s war on al Qaeda: the detention of women and children. Last year, President Bush confirmed the existence of a CIA secret detention program, but refused to give details and said it was over. The program reveals new evidence confirming fiercely-denied reports that many of the CIA captives were held and interrogated in Europe. Those prisons may now be closed, but the program is by no means over, it's just changed. A new front has opened up in the Horn of Africa and America has outsourced its renditions to its allies. (From the UK, in English) (Documentary) M CC WS
[SBS/10:00pm] Hot Docs: Wide Awake - Filmmaker Alan Berliner, examines his struggle with insomnia in this personal documentary. The film takes aim at a debilitating affliction that affects many people at some point in their lives. According to the American National Sleep Foundation, 70 million Americans suffer from some form of sleep problem, and 50 percent of the adults who responded to their poll claimed they don't sleep as well as they'd like to. Berliner reveals his secret life as a ‘night owl’, and how he has turned the very obsessive energy that keeps him up at night into a source of fuel and inspiration for his creative work. (From the US, in English) (Documentary) M (L) CC
[ABC/8:00pm] Carbon Cops : The Lane Family. Mum, dad and four grown-up children live in a sprawling weatherboard with every conceivable 'mod con'. Dad is a climate change sceptic - but Mum wants the cops to help her get her family thinking about the subject.
[ABC/8:30pm] The Bill. With her undercover mission blown, and her associate missing, DC Jo Masters goes against the DCI's orders. CAST: Sally Rogers, Graham Cole.
[ABC/9:20pm] Foreign Correspondent. It's extremely dangerous, there's more than half a million people living just below here and they could all be killed. Professor Benedetto De Vivo told reporter Anne Maria Nicholson as they stood looking down on Naples from the summit of Mt Vesuvius.
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