BB Special on / off / on / off

TEN today pulled a planned Big Brother special originally scheduled for Wednesday June 20 and replaced it with a 1 hr edition of the Daily Show.

It follows an earlier special "The Works" being planned then dumped.

For the next three Wednesdays BB will feature a one hour Daily Show followed by a Simpsons repeat (just for something completely different).

Programming amendments are nothing new in the biz, but they are turning into an art-form with some networks lately!

Meanwhile, teaser ads for Thank God You're Here have begun appearing on TEN.

By the time it eventually arrives, never a truer word will have been said....

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Back to the Street

Actress Kym Valentine is heading back to Ramsay Street.

Valentine, who played Libby Kennedy left Neighbours in 2004 to appear in the stage musical of "Dirty Dancing."

Valentine had hoped to appear in the UK stage version of the production but it did not eventuate.

She is heading back to the show as part of an on-going revamp of the soap which will see changes on-screen from late July.
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Newton on good behaviour bond

Actor Matthew Newton was today given a 12 month good behaviour bond after pleading guilty in a NSW local court today.

Newton was charged with assaulting his former girlfriend, actress Brooke Satchwell after a quarrel last year.

The judge denied a plea by Newton's lawyers to not record a conviction.

Earlier charges against the actor had been dropped.

Newton is due to resume his role in the second series of TV1's Stupid, Stupid Man.

Source: The Age.
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BB US tries Up Late format

The forthcoming American season of Big Brother will add an Up Late-style format to be known as After Dark.

It will air on the ShoToo network, part of the CBS / Showtime brand.

Footage will screen from 12am - 3am live and unedited. An online producer will select the camera views, which are likely to include profanity and nudity. However with time differences, the footage will actually be 9pm - 12am activity in the LA based house.

"That's primetime for the 'Big Brother' house," exec producer Allison Grodner told Variety. "It's when our houseguests are most wide awake and having fun, talking about strategy and playing the game. People are going to see quite a bit."

When CBS launches BB on July 5 it will air three nights a week.

BB Up Late has hosted by Mike Goldman in Australia since 2003.

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Tue June 12

[Seven/7:30pm] It Takes Two.
[Seven/9:30pm] All Saints. THE TRUST GAME. A father goes to extraordinary lengths to protect his daughter. Tempers flare in the ED as relationships are torn apart and accusations are made when drugs go missing. Jack's day in court does not go as planned.

[ABC/8:00pm] Choir Of Hard Knocks. Final. It's show time. Virtually no tickets have been sold, the choir is squabbling, Jonathon's stressed. But in a few weeks they need to take to the stage of Melbourne Town Hall and give the performance of their lives.

[Ten/7:30pm] All New Simpsons. "Yokel Chords"
[Ten/8:30pm] NCIS. "Iceman"
[Ten/9:30pm] Numb3rs. “Nine Wives.” Guest Stars: Kathy Najimy, Teri Polo

[Nine/7:30pm] Crime and Justice. Donna and Corrie butt heads...and it's all over a $20 cigarette lighter. Van is charged with heroin possession but the magistrate wants proof he's not a drug trafficker. Van's future hangs in the balance.
[Nine/8:30pm] CSI NY. “Raising Shane.” Guest: Edward Furlong
[Nine/8:30pm] The Nation.

[Animal Planet/6:30pm] Killer Whales: Up Close and Personal
[Movie One/6:55pm] Movie: Boat Trip (US 2003)
[World Movies/9:40pm] Movie: The Celluloid Closet (France 1995)
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