Most Australians don’t know that remote areas have only had access to television services since satellite television came into being in the late 1980s. Until then it was impossible to receive a television signal in remote areas, regardless of how high the aerial. Even today, most of regional Australia can receive a signal from one ABC radio […]
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October 24th, 2010Keeping up with the Joneses of Coolibah Station, and farm safety
October 18th, 2010Interesting to observe discussion about Milton Jones driving the ute with ‘young Milton’ (4 years old) starting to learn to drive, sitting on his lap, on the first episode of ‘Keeping up with the Joneses’. Travelling along a straight, private road on Coolibah Station, with his son just steering (not as if he was working the brake […]
Keeping up with the Joneses of Coolibah Station, Channel 10
October 15th, 2010The television series ‘Keeping up with the Joneses’ has just started screening on Thursday nights at 8pm to 8.30pm on Channel 10. The first episode ran for 60 minutes and the other 15 episodes are 30 minutes long. This ‘reality’ documentary features Milton Jones and his second wife Cristina, their four year old son ‘young Milton’ […]
Horsepower with Martin Clunes
September 23rd, 2010Great to see Martin Clunes (Men Behaving Badly, Doc Martin) doing a lap around the world featuring different types of horses, horse history, horse training etc. Horselover heaven with the ideal host – funny, humble & sensitive. The only pity was that such great material was squeezed into just two episodes – it could have easily been expanded into […]
Outback 8 Television Programme – ABC 3
September 2nd, 2010The ‘Outback 8’ television series has inspired many kids to dream about living and working in the bush
FOOD,INC film – let’s hope the vegetarian barrow-pushers don’t overshadow the important message
May 10th, 2010The film (movie) Food,Inc was produced in the U.S.A. and released in 2009, and is about to be released in Australia (next week – 20th May). Food,Inc. is especially relevant in the U.S.A. – the home of rubbish takeaway foodchains and an obesity epidemic (though not to suggest that we’re all Olive Oils here in […]
Troy Dann’s ‘My Outback TV’ online
November 24th, 2009Troy Dann’s ‘My Outback TV’ website is online now, and at long last the complete ‘Outback Adventure’ TV series is available, on a set of 6 DVDs. The website includes a kid’s club and classified ad section (buy, sell & employment) and plenty of typical action pics. This is a major project Troy Dann has […]
Rural Television Programmes
September 6th, 2009Australian Country Television Programmes ABC television — Landline 12noon to 1pm on Sundays. Landline Extra – 6pm Mondays. The ‘Best of Landline’ runs during December and January. A first class quality, unique programme, that features rural business and environmental stories and news, including weekly weather and market summaries. Despite the midday time slot and lack […]
The ‘Australia’ film – why did some people hate it and so many people love it?
April 17th, 2009The huge gulf between those who loved & those who hated Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Australia’ is best explained by reading the comments from the general public on some of the film forums, such as Nine MSN’s ‘Your Movies’. The comments on this blog illustrate two great things – a) most Australians think for themselves rather than […]
Baz Luhrmann’s Australia Movie sales figures
April 7th, 2009Baz Luhrmann’s Australia film grossed $206 million USD at theatre box offices in the first five months. In just one month, in the U.S., 2 million ‘Australia’ DVDs sold – which is 80% of what 20th Century Fox expected to sell in total. It’s good to see the public making their own minds up, rather […]