Movies on TV

Saturday 11 April has Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on Nine and Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory on Seven, both at 7pm.

While on SBS we have Slow TV The Chocolate Factory: Inside Cadbury Australia

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Willy Wonka and Charlie going head to head? Of course Seven and Nine will copy each other and put the same (or very similar) movie on at the same time.

Chocolate lovers would be happy on the Saturday (with SBS’ special too)

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They wouldn’t have known. Obviously no copying here just a really massive coincidence.

It’s Easter and Easter means chocolate.

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Wonder who’ll budge, if any, first. Nothing wrong with both head-to-head, but far form ideal and weird.

FTA premiere, from Seven’s 20C Fox output. This swept the Academy Awards, including Best Picture in 2018. I saw it at the cinemas and thought it was excellent.

However, some may not enjoy or quite grasp its thematics and plot, probably lean more on Seven’s older audience and those who like period settings and sci-fi / mystery.

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“Batman” (1989) network premiere on 7mate Sunday week at 6pm. From their WB deal. Previously aired to death for 29 years on Nine, after premiering on Sunday July 1991.

The Shape of Water has been taken off Seven’s schedule, making way for Pooch Perfect, which in turn will start late due to the new episode of House Rules.

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As a result of HR commencing tonight rather than last night?

Seven seems to really like changing their schedule, don’t they?

I think even before the virus hit, Seven would tinker with their schedules quite a bit.

Update: TBAs have been filled in for Friday.

Friday 10 April Good Friday
07:00 PM Better Homes And Gardens
08:30 PM House Rules: High Stakes x 3 Rpt

Melbourne
07:00 PM Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal
08:00 PM Better Homes And Gardens
09:30 PM House Rules: High Stakes x 3 Rpt

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I hate it when networks do this. Don’t they go for 90min, so what until 1am (2am in Melbourne)!?


It means movies from the Miramax library including The English Patient and Shakespeare in Love could eventually air on 10, something that the network desperately needs.

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Not to mention a number of Quentin Tarantino movies such as Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, and Kill Bill Vols 1 & 2.

In fact, 9Go! has aired Kill Bill Vol 1 last Thursday, and will air Vol 2 this Thursday, with Pulp Fiction scheduled to air next Thursday. But in the future, they would be a good fit for either 10 Bold or 10 Peach.

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Miramax is currently licenced in Australia by Roadshow, which Nine have a long-term agreement with. That contarct would have to end or be re-negotiated first?

Prior to the mid-2000s, Disney handled Miramax and its then subsidiaries. You may recall many of their movies on Seven before Nine.

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Seen during the opening credits of “The Water Diviner” (2014) on 7mate tonight:

Seven West Media and its major stakeholder Seven Group Holdings were a co-financier of the Australian-Hollywood movie. It was distributed by Warner Bros (co-produced by their Ratpac-Dune) in the US and distributed by Entertainment One elsewhere including Australia (co-produced by their Hopscotch label) and home entertainment/digital/TV distributed by Universal (who have an agreement with E1).

An interesting case obviously, in that Seven as backers of the movie naturally gained rights and will have probably forever, I believe it’s also co-copyright to Seven too (the movie opened with “Ratpac-Dune and Seven Network Australia presents”). Rather than NBC-U licencing it, which they do for this territory, meaning Nine who now have a deal with NBC-U will be unlikely to get rights or even want them (seeing the Seven affiliation). In fact Seven’s program code for this movie in their Advanced Guide (available on TVT) lists the distributor as their own ‘miscellaneous’ code, instead of “NBC-” which is often seen on them, backing all this up.

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“Military Mondays” movie marathon Monday nights on 7mate from tonight, saw a long promo a few days ago.

From Here To Eternity (Oscar winning 50s classic) in its original 4:3 aspect on 9Gem. A rare sight on commercial prime time TV indeed and probably for that very reason (aspect ratio). This has usually been on during day time / late afternoon, but at the moment Nine are running a promotion.

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It is nice to have these classics running on GEM lately. Brings us back to a time until probably the ‘90s when they would actually air in prime time.

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Nine will air The Bourne Identity for the first time Thursday week, from their NBC-U output. Previously aired on both 10 and then Seven (a lot!)

FTA premiere. Licenced to AU/NZ TV territory by Paramount. It was a box office disappointment and critical failure, plagued by a distribution change at the last minute in the US (Disney to Paramount) related to its studio DreamWorks’ distribution arrangement changing, no advance screening to critics nor proper marketing and the lead star going MIA and confusion around the complex sci-fi narrative.

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