2006 | Boxcutters

In a short statement on his website, Rove McManus has announced that the remaining three episodes of the 2006 season of Rove Live have been cancelled, as he continues to mourn the passing of his wife Belinda Emmett on Saturday from cancer:

At the moment I have no plans for Rove Live for the rest of 2006. This is a very difficult period for all of us and some time away is the best thing for me right now.

In the meantime I want to extend my sincerest thanks for all of your heartfelt messages and condolences. That Belinda meant so much to so many people, genuinely means a lot to me.

-Rove

According to eBroadcast, this week’s episode would have featured Toni Collette, Borat plugging his new movie, house band Burn the City and the latest voted-out Idol finalist. In the programme’s place is a repeat of the special Seriously Funny: The Best Of The Melbourne International Comedy Festival, hosted by Tripod (and produced by confetti cannon lovers GNWTV Productions). TV3 in New Zealand has put an episode of House in its vacant Friday 9:30 slot.

Belinda’s family has requested donations to the McGrath Foundation, via NAB branches or online, instead of sending flowers.

~~And while I’m at the Rove Live website, somebody should take that banner for Toyota Hilux’s “48 Hours To Live” promotion down: it’s coincidentally inappropriate…~~ The promotion’s been cancelled, too.

Apparently Channel is Ten is airing a 5 minute preview for the upcoming Simpsons movie tonight (Monday) at 7:30.

Be interesting.

Thanks to MoBo for the heads up.

The title really says it all.

Loyal Listener Lyndal pointed us to this news item on the E! website.

This is very exciting news for a show that everybody hoped would stay on the air but nobody really thought it would.

I think they’re going to do some wonderful things.

Very, very sad to hear Belinda Emmett has died.

Our condolences to Rove and all their respective families and friends.

10 big reasons to love this week’s show:

Number 10: The best pork in town
Number 9: A great quote from The Office (get on board NOW!!)
Number 8: The second part of the I Don’t Buy It featuring Jericho’s identity crisis
Number 7: All the week’s news
Number 6: The first part of the I Don’t Buy It about gloves and cereals and beaches
Number 5: A review of the Fall Lineup thus far
Number 4: Josh’s Skeet/Giant Ant joke
Number 3: A look at the surprisingly good Friday Night Lights in the Fall Lineup
Number 2: The return of our European correspondant James Talia and an incredible televisual virtual connection
And the Number 1 reason to love this weeks show: Cause it’s rockin’.

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Showtime has given the green light to a second season of crime drama Dexter, just five weeks into its initial run. The second season of twelve episodes goes into production next Spring for premiere later in 2007.

This is good news. I have been thoroughly enjoying Dexter, its unusual and rather dark; yet it is genually intriguing. If you have not caught an episode I highliy recommend it.

In this week’s episode of Boxcutters:

Boxcutters’ special European correspondent, James Talia calls in from the super-secret Boxcutters Fortress of TV Goodness
We speculate on the possible reasons why the ABC would decide to drop a well performing show like The Glasshouse
Ross‘ friends have all been telling him how full of preservatives he is and he’s sick of it. That’s why he has special reason to go the latest McDonalds campaign in I Don’t Buy It
We take a look at a couple of new shows from the US Fall season – this time it’s Shark and The Class
And with all the TV news and more Pork on your fork, every single minute of this show is gold

So what are you waiting for? Start sucking it down here:

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To answer a question from last week’s show: When I click the “TV” button on my bookmarks toolbar it takes me to e-broadcast. More specifically it takes me to the Melbourne night-time schedule.

So channel 10 didn’t have the guts to run with Celebrity Joker Poker for another week or two. If you were watching on Tuesday night, you’ll have noticed the triple helping of Futurama…

Interesting looking at some of 10’s figures from last night: Futurama – 8:30pm 0.70 million, The Wedge 0.69 million, Rove 0.75 million – all of which didn’t get near: ABC News, The Simpsons, The Bill or Ten News (I’m not sure if that’s late news or afternoon bulletin). You’d think they got the feeling they were going to lose at least another 100k on Joker Poker to pull it and I’d be curious to see if it fit their demographic.

This was posted yesterday on Wil Anderson’s blog:

Before you read it in the papers over the next couple of the days, I just wanted you guys to know that the ABC have decided the final ever episode of the Glass House will go to air November 29.

This decision was made some time ago so it can’t be blamed on the whole “ABC Bias” kerfuffle that’s been around recently.

I’ve remained fairly ambivalent about the show. Some shows would be killer and some would just die in the arse. Still, I’d sit and watch it to kill half an hour and I think it will be missed because it was a rare combination of political opinion and comedy.

What’s been your take on the GH for the past 5 years?

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