10,000 American TV writers have won a class action worth $4.5m (before legal fees) because they are over forty and are discriminated against. That is about $4,000 each, or about two years supply of incontinence pads.
WIN Television South Australia has been awarded the Lions Clubs International Foundation’s Melvin Jones Fellowship, the Lions highest honour. WIN SA will be added to the list of individuals whose names are honoured in the Lions Club International Foundation Recognition Room at the International Headquarters in Oak Brook, Illinois.
Sydney-based Duke Home Entertainment has acquired the rights to the men''s titles Bikini Destinations and The Extremists from Bennett Media Group. For those who like a travelogue with their semi-nudity.
FremantleMedia Enterprises has picked up the distribution rights to New Wave Entertainment’s (Steve Knapman and Kris Wyld) The Strip. Set on the sun-soaked franchise ghetto that is The Gold Coast, the new crime drama is being made for Nine. Some fictionalisation is bound to occur, as the last time Screen Hub was on the Coast for the SPAA Conference, we noted with some amusement that the strip clubs closed a 9 pm on weeknights. Never happen in the big city.
'Scorched' is set in 2012 in a climate change ravaged world. Sydney has only eight weeks water left and is ringed by bushfires. It hasn't rained for over 200 days. Scorched.tv
Consolidated Media Holding's executive chairman John Alexander said that CMH would consider injecting equity into PBL Media, following investor concern about the joint venture's $4.2 billion debt.
Consolidated Media Holding's investments in Premier Media and Foxtel is making it happy and giving it money. They reckon pay television will continue to grow.
CanWest, majority owner of Network Ten, continues to struggle. This time it is not renewing its lease on one of their main television and film sites in Toronto.
Never quite know when Craig Anderson, Tony Walters, Bryan Moses and Doug Bayne are serious. Sandra Levy decided it was safer not to give them the benefit of the doubt.
NZ On Air will put money into a fifth season of South Pacific Pictures’ comedy-drama Outrageous Fortune. Some of our more reality-challenged spies report that SPP boss John Barnett has been seen dancing in the streets of Auckland.
Retailer Gerry Harvey (Harvey Norman) claims that Seven's TiVo is selling three times better than expected, and HDTV's are selling like iPods as a result of the Olympics. Trivia: the ancient equivalent of streamlined Speedos was a kynodesme, a thin leather strip worn to restrain the penis. It was tied tightly around the part of the foreskin that extended beyond the glans. It was either attached to a waist band to expose the scrotum, or tied to the base of the penis.
