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Ambience Entertainment: season five comes with an App and a new host
Friday 17 May, 2013 (Australia)

Sydney production company Ambience Entertainment has completed its fifth series of the popular children’s game show Kitchen Whiz. It will premiere on Monday May 20 on the Nine Network’s GO! Channel with new host Alice Zaslavsky, a former high school teacher and star of ‘MasterChef’ 2012.

Hunt for Tucker: loveable eccentric Australian doco maker and servo owner at large in US
The Republic
Friday 17 May, 2013 (U.S.A.)

Brendan Edgerton continues on his merry way, graduating from Thirty Sheds in Thirty Days to "Around the World in 300 Days in Search of the Lost Tuckers. The Tucker being a rare, strange design of American car.

Rebel Wilson: US ABC releases trailer for her new show
Hypable
Friday 17 May, 2013 (Australia)

Super Fun Night is a super fun time for the determined Australian comedian, who now sounds like she was born in Tuscaloosa. Beneath the riot, sound professional skills.

Kevin Spacey: to deliver MacTaggart lecture
BBC
Wednesday 15 May, 2013 (U.K.)

Kevin Spacey will deliver the annual MacTaggart lecture as part of the 2013 Edinburgh International Television Festival.

SBS: new director of News and Current Affairs
Wednesday 15 May, 2013 (Australia)

SBS has appointed Jim Carroll as its new Director of News and Current Affairs. He replaces outgoing Director of News and Current Affairs, Paul Cutler who will retire at the end of June.

Flight of the Conchords: still has pop culture weight in the US
Screen Hub
Wednesday 15 May, 2013 (Australia)

"The collective weight of New Zealand`s international cultural legacy in America is about 70 per cent Tolkien references and 30 per cent Flight of the Conchords."

Rolf Harris: entertainment industry supports Rolf over allegations
The Australian
Monday 13 May, 2013 (Australia)

The ripples are spreading. One key source of allegations are attached to an eight week UK tour in 1986 by Sydney theatre company Shopfront. No-one around that supports the allegations, according to the Murdoch press. BUT Nine has an interview with the accuser...

Reg Grundy: $20 million art collection goes on show
Ninemsn
Wednesday 8 May, 2013 (U.K.)

Reg Grundy`s $20 million art collection has gone on show in London, ahead of its auction in Sydney on June 26.

Coronation Street: actor charged with two counts of rape
ABC
Monday 6 May, 2013 (U.K.)

Actor William Roache, the longest-serving star in the world`s longest-running soap opera, has been charged with two counts of rape of a 15-year-old girl in 1967.

Shareena Clanton: I just want a job where I don`t get beaten up
[Screen Hub Feature]
Screen Hub
Monday 6 May, 2013 (Australia)

Aboriginal actress Shareena Clanton hit screens in Wentworth last week playing Doreen Anderson, a prisoner with a history of drugs, alcohol and abuse. Clanton is already well known from her role as Lilly in Redfern Now, another drug addict, this time with a psychiatric illness.

Rolf Harris: British police interview Sydney woman
ABC
Friday 3 May, 2013 (Australia)

British police have interviewed a Sydney woman as part of their investigation of singer and television personality Rolf Harris.

BBC: Stuart Hall pleads guilty to indecently assaulting 13 girls
ABC
Friday 3 May, 2013 (Australia)

Stuart Hall, BBC sports commentator and presenter of game show It`s A Knockout, has admitted to the indecent assault on 13 girls, one as young as nine.

Sabour Bradley: when documentary filmmaking gets uncomfortable
The Age
Friday 3 May, 2013 (Australia)

Filmmaker Sabour Bradley found himself on the verge of becoming a pimp as he followed the story.

Media Watch: Paul Barry to take over as host
Friday 3 May, 2013 (Australia)

Paul Barry will take over one of the ABC’s most high-profile presenting jobs early in July, when Jonathan Holmes vacates the chair of Media Watch.

Studio: Did nobody think of the pig?
SMH
Thursday 2 May, 2013 (Australia)

The powerful Porn for Porkers lobby has struck back against Foxtel`s fulsome apologies for a billboard suggesting copulation between a man and a pig. "Don`t these wowsers understand that we have needs too?" a distraught spokespig told Screen Hub. "They claim to be doing it for the kiddies, but what decently raised tot would assume an image of a man behind a pig clearly intent on lunch represents a moment of sexual ecstacy?"

Brief: Johnny Lockwood dies in Coffs Harbour at 92
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Screen Hub
Wednesday 1 May, 2013 (Australia)

Johnny Lockwood was best known to the public as Aldo Godolfus in Number 96. And as a guest on The Mavis Bramston Show

Sydney University: bell tower rings out Game of Thrones theme
Ninemsn
Monday 29 April, 2013 (Australia)

The University of Sydney bell ringers seem as enamoured with Game of Thrones as the rest of the population.

Derrick: veteran German actor was SS, re-runs dropped
Washington Post
Monday 29 April, 2013 (Germany)

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung published documents on Friday revealing that the late German actor Horst Tappert, best known for his longtime role as dapper TV sleuth Stefan Derrick, served in the SS during the Second World War.

Documentary: shooting animals just like humans
The Guardian
Friday 26 April, 2013 (U.K.)

A long and fairly delightful look at natural history documentary, and our tendency to anthropomorphism. When we`re not faking the komodo dragons killing a wild boar...

Kids: eat more watching TV than reading books
CTV News
Wednesday 24 April, 2013 (Canada)

A Canadian study has shown that children eat more while watching television or playing computer games than they do while reading books.

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