Feb 22 2012

Sports Fever! Now 8:30pm Mondays – With A Catch…

Good news everyone! News for Snato fans!

The crazy antics of sports highlighted by the trio that is Santo Cilauro, Sam Pang and Ed Kavalee will now be shown at an earlier time, instead of the bleary eyed “weekend viewer” late night time slot.

Currently, the show was live on Monday nights around 10:30pm onwards, then replayed on 7Mate the next day, but the old switcheroo has now come into play.

Source: twitter.com/sportsfever7

Santo, Sam & Ed’s Sports Fever! is now moving to the prime-time slot of 8:30pm Mondays, live on, 7Mate. That episode will then be replayed that night on Channel 7, after How I Met Your Mother / Happy Endings.

Happy days!

Feb 21 2012

Sports Fever! S01E04 Ratings

Billy Knight in-cognito. Source: facebook.com/sportsfever7

Well done to Santo Cilauro, Sam Pang and Ed Kavalee for getting to their fourth episode on air at such a premium start of 10:46pm.

With the extra dosage of Channel 9’s cricket coverage, in which we can’t get enough of, and more soccer, we had some extra sports covered. This included tryouts for swimming in the olympics and even *gasp* some rugby league coverage.

There was also a special guest from Brisbane, Billy Knight, who appeared to be a doppleganger of a 1970’s Rob Sitch if he was in the adult business for bogans. An average 188,000 witnessed the runner-up for the Mud Fields Best False Moustache competition go his rants – in true champagne comedy style. The hallmarks of Graham and The Colonel were there, waiting to be shown (stop teasing us and bring them back, at least once! Maybe the final episode?? *nudge nudge*).

If you missed Santo continuously selling himself as an Italian for many a year, watch the replay on Plus7‘s site when it decides to work, or join in the convo on Sports Fever!’s Facebook page and Twitter @sportsfever7.

Feb 15 2012

Judith Lucy on In Gordon Street Tonight

Source: abc.net.au/tv/adamhillsIGST

I may not have published this here in time to give you warning (but if you follow this site on Twitter, it was promoted!) but if you didn’t have your eyes on ABC TV last night, you would’ve missed Judith Lucy having a chat to Adam Hills on In Gordon Street Tonight.

Lucy sat comfortably and chatted to Hills about her new stand-up tour Nothing Fancy, lightly spoke about her show shown on ABC last year, Judith Lucy’s Spiritual Journey and her inspirations on both shows… plus touched a bit on her crush on 80s pop sensation Adam Ant, who appeared on the show.

If you missed it, you can watch the show online via iView, or download it from the site or iTunes.

PS: Also note a tiny Late Show joke that I am sure wasn’t intentional… listen out for “mystifed silence’…

Feb 14 2012

Sports Fever! S01E03 Ratings

Source: au.tv.yahoo.com/plus7/sports-fever

Sancho, Stan and Ted graced an average 182,000 television screens last night at around 10:37pm (probably an extra 1 million viewers on a two minute Optus time delay are missing somewhere). A wonderful show that if you don’t follow any type of sport, Sports Fever! makes it extremely entertaining.

This week, baseball, parts of the cricket, soccer and darts were covered (with Thor’s Hammer), along with special guests former cricketer Damien Flemming and baseballer Daniel MacGrath dropping in for a chinwag. Also, essences of Cup Fever! were seaping in with new segments:

* Are They Gonna Pash? – highlighting if some sporting players about to go in for the tonsil hockey.. or are they? Ed Kavalee gets his jollys…
* We Watched It So You Didn’t Have To – crazy and boring sporting events that the guys watched and try to find the best parts. The Tour of Qatar had Sam Pang sitting on the edge of his seat with anxiety, while Santo Cilauro was puzzled to see how many sponsors could fit on a sports gun for the Bi-athon World Cup in Oslo.

Missed it? Check program guides for repeats on 7Mate, hit up Sports Fever! Facebook page or watch online for the next seven days on Plus7. I’m off to chase down Mr Snuggles.

Feb 08 2012

Mick Molloy in Tropfest Film

Source: Tropfest

It’s that time of the year where the annual Tropfest Film Festival captivates talented and budding film directors and actors to get their name on the big screen.

From the Tropfest site:

Tropfest is Australia’s most prestigious short film festival and one of its most iconic cultural events. It is also the largest short film festival in the world. At home, Tropfest is recognised for its enormous contribution to the development of the Australian film industry by providing unique platforms for emerging filmmakers through its events and initiatives, and new and expanded audiences for their work.

The festival brings out the best in people – celebrities in tow.

The guidelines are:

Your film must be made specifically for Movie Extra Tropfest Australia 2012

The festival must be your film’s first public screening, including online

Your film must be no longer than 7 minutes (including titles and end credits)

Your film must contain the Signature Item for 2012 – LIGHT BULB

This year, Mick Molloy featured in a short film called “Sacrifice The Messenger“. Without explaining what the film is about, watch the footage below:

There’s a few days left to vote for the 16th finalist – so visit the Youtube Tropfest page and read the instructions on how to vote!

Feb 08 2012

Rob Sitch on In Gordon Street Tonight

source: abc.net.au/tv/adamhillsIGST

Former Spicks And Specks host Adam Hills is back with the second season of In Gordon Street Tonight. The first episode was launched tonight (Wednesday 8th February) with the first guests Rob Sitch and Josh Lawson, promoting Any Questions For Ben.

Sitch briefly spoke about how they had to alter a park to get the autumn leaves appearing, and also how Lawson and co-star Rachael Taylor hooked up. Further in the show, Sitch also briefly spoke about the history of The D-Generation, as well as some other stories.

If you missed the episode, it’s available to watch on iview for 14 days, on the official site, and podcast on itunes for free. Get it while it’s hot!

Feb 07 2012

Sports Fever! S01E02 Ratings

Source: au.tv.yahoo.com/plus7/sports-fever

With a slightly earlier start of 10:40pm (technically it was 10:43pm as per my watch), the perfectly timed second episode of Sports Fever! with “Santo, Sam and Ted” raked in 200,000 late night viewers. Sure, it’s a little down from their premiere first episode last week, but… well…

I have nothing. It was still entertaining, nonetheless.

Maybe we were all burnt out from so much Superbowl, or we didn’t know much about the game. Either way, after having Yankee comedian Jeff Stilson coming in to explain in simpleton terms the game, and former AFL-cum-NFL player Ben Graham come in to show off his sparkle, it all started to make sense. Another highlight was showing off the swan-lake style failed catches in cricket, and Sam Pang doing his street talk to the kids at the T20 games. Kinda cute.

After reading some backlash about Sports Fever! not covering football/rugby so far – maybe because the game isn’t in season yet and will most likely get reported on closer to date. All about patience, entertainment, and me-no-rikey jokes…

PS: Ed – no more product placement name jokes.

If you missed the show, it’s repeated Tuesdays 8:30pm on 7Mate, and online on Plus7 when available. Don’t forget to see behind the scenes photos and videos on the official Sports Fever! Facebook page.

Feb 05 2012

Remembering: Paradise Beach

Part two of our irregular “Remembering” theme to mark 20 years since The Late Show, does anyone remember the epicly popular (and that term is used loosely) Channel 9 soap drama Paradise Beach from 1993?

Maybe this is a refresher… dare you to watch as much of it as you can.

..or, you can watch the 2 minute sypnosis of the cliche ridden show, as seen through the eyes of The Late Show cast. LOOK! Warner Brothers Movie World! From Season Two.

Feb 04 2012

Any Questions For Ben? Getting Social

Source: Twitter @AnyQsForBen

Have you hopped onto the Twitter and Facebook bandwagon yet?

If not – why are you on the internet?

Social media is a strong, powerful tool which allows the general public to interact with each other and express thoughts, opinions and discussions about anything at all. You can even interact with your favourite actor, musician or any other person you want to (as long as they’re willing to do the same – no stalking!!). Heck, this site, other than the infamous forum, we’re on Facebook and Twitter as well.

The beauty of this is that you can get more information about your favourite TV show and/or film nearly instantly. Even speaking with the staff who work on the set. Working Dog‘s film Any Questions For Ben? have done just that – putting themselves up on Twitter and Facebook. (Click the hyperlink to be directed there). Why not follow / like them so you can see what they’re up to? They’ve been currently posting photos of premieres and interviews, updating every few minutes.

Here’s a few pictures from the @AnyQsForBen account.

Get on it!

Feb 04 2012

Sports Fever! Article: Q&A Santo Cilauro

Source: smh.com.au

We just can’t get enough of Working Dog lately. 2012 seems to be their year of shows and films. Other than Any Questions For Ben (out Feb 9) and Sports Fever! hitting our screens, one more ace Working Dog have up their sleeves is Pictures Of You – a show that loosely touches on This Is Your Life but with photos from the subject’s past, highlighting the good and bad times of their life. (Pictures Of You will be shown on Channel 7 later this year).

More publicity rounds are happening (Bring it on!) and it seems that one of the journalists at Fairfax, Andrew Murfett, is a big D-Generation/The Late Show fan, asking a few questions to subject Santo Cilauro that would usually fly under the radar and not get published. The prominent questions, which would answer a lot for people who have requested on Facebook and the forum, are:

Speaking of The Late Show, will Graham and the Colonel be appearing?

There’ll be no Graham and the Colonel. There are requests … The sad thing about Graham and the Colonel is that Rob [Sitch] genuinely needs a wig and I have grey hair. When we get to that point, you think they’ve had their day on television. But then again, you never know, they might come back. We still have the green jackets somewhere.

The Late Show has never screened again. Have you ever thought about allowing reruns to air?

Things like rerunning stuff, we don’t think much about. We really just look to the future. We get asked on a regular basis if we can make a sequel to The Castle. It almost takes no thought at all. We just don’t want to travel backwards. So repeating The Late Show, there’s almost like a statute of limitations on how far you could go back. We even thought a couple of years ago about whether we’d redo The Panel again. But there’s a certain time you’ve gone forward too far. I suspect The Late Show looks better in DVD bites. If you went back and watched a whole episode, the romance of it might be tarnished just a bit. It’s a long hour.

Santo isn’t wrong about the DVD bites. Having seen all 40 episodes from video, there were a few train wreck sketches and incidents that I personally didn’t remember when they were first screened back in 1992. But seeing them now, it still makes it…. Champagne Comedy!

More indepth Q&A on the Sydney Morning Herald article here.