Monday 5 January 8.30 PM SBS World Movies
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SHOCK HORROR!!! Nine have cut off the end credits of Can’t Stop The Music for the first time ever!!!
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Yes, this year’s copy looked a lot better in 2.35:1 HD. Previously, Nine had an SD copy that was 16:9 pan-and-scan except for the musical numbers. And then Nine spoiled it all by cutting out the end credits and that interminable loop of the title song instrumental, and going straight to the logo of Studio C-Anal (as Spitting Image call it).
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Friday 9 January 12:00 PM Seven
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ABC have received more WB rights, with several titles appearing in their iView library (and no doubt to air on ABC Entertains at some stage in 2026) in recent weeks, some added just a few days ago. Many ran on Seven in recent years and were previously on Nine for many years. Including:
John Q, True Crime, Disclosure, Geostorm, V For Vendetta, Fools Gold, Caddyshack, Semi Pro, to name a few.
Interestingly, some appear to be ex-New Line releases, which despite being a Warners property, was previously a subsidiary in its own right and released their own content (in Australia via Roadshow Films). My Sister’s Keeper is one of them, which was still licenced by Roadshow and airing on Nine until very recently.
And Interstellar has a very short window, it’ll leave the ABC in a few weeks, perhaps considered a more premium/top tier title.
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I spotted Steven Universe has popped up on Entertains in the morning slot, which I will be watching.
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More midday movies on Seven
Monday 12 January 12:00 PM Seven
Tuesday 13 January 12:00 PM Seven
Wednesday 14 January 12:00 PM Seven
Thursday 15 January 12:00 PM Seven
Friday 16 January 12:00 PM Seven
Saturday 17 January 7:30 PM
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10 running another terrible old ‘pan and scan’ master of Double Jeopardy tonight.
I actually get the feeling with that Paramount output they got licenced back around 2003, Ten might’ve actually re-formatted the prints themselves to suit the then still conventional 4:3 standard TV image, rather than being provided that way.
And strange considering their bigger relationship with Paramount today that they wouldn’t get the most pristine, optimal quality for broadcast, bvod and svod.
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I’m think Roadshow still licences out WB (& New Line) television rights here, along with managing digital and physical home media. Theatrical went to Universal a few years ago and SVOD rights by WB themselves. I believe Roadshow also holds their own licensing rights (not via WB) for the movies they co-produced with WB, but that could be gone since Village Roadshow Pictures (the U.S-based cofinancing firm) went bankrupt and is being sold.
Warners have always licenced their content here to TV, vod and streaming and still do, not Roadshow. They also used to do their own home video until about 2012 (when it did go to Roadshow).
Roadshow only used to handle their cinema releases.
New Line used to be a separate company until 2008 (despite being owned by Time Warner) and had separate distribution agreements not under Warner Bros, Roadshow did handle them here. But since that’s nearly 18 years ago now and a lot of distribution agreements run around 20 years before reverting to the copyrighted IP holder, most titles have since gone back to WB here, think Roadshow might only still have rights to a couple of modern NL films, such as Hairspray.
And yes, films where Village Roadshow Pictures were involved are still licenced by Roadshow Films here. But as you mentioned, this may change into the future, as VRP and their IP has been sold to Alcon in the US.
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Roadshow are the ones announcing and running the advertisements for the VOD releases on their socials, and they listed all the WB VOD stuff on their website (when they still had it). Weird they promote it if they don’t have a hand in it, would’ve thought it would be looped in with their physical distribution deal.
Surprised WB do their own FTA rights though. Weird set of businesses they choose to do themselves in Aus.
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It’s because Roadshow distribute WB home entertainment here these days, which would include marketing. Probably the agreement includes vod marketing as well, as that window (tvod - rent/buy digital) is usually done together or in close proximity with DVD/BluRay/4K UHD releases.
But the actual vod distribution is done by Warners themselves back at Burbank, LA. That is who Australia’s FTA and Pay TV networks, Apple, Google, Amazon, Netflix, etc licence with (not Roadshow).
No different to Universal distributing WB in cinemas here today, including marketing (trailers/TV spots/billboards/digital and print ads). But that’s where it ends, theatrical window. Roadshow’s is purely the home entertainment window (DVD, etc and associated marketing). Warners are still the main IP and rights holders at the end of the day.
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Wednesday 21 January 7:30PM Nickelodeon
Thursday 22 January 7:30 PM Nickelodeon
Thursday 22 January 8:30 PM Seven
Friday 23 January 12:00 PM Seven
Saturday 24 January 7:30 PM Nickelodeon
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Three premiere movies on Nickelodeon. Shame to waste them on an SD channel. Could have been better used on the main channel over summer.
Midday movies on Seven, one of which is a premiere.
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3 movie premieres on Nickelodeon. And the average viewer wont know its there - due to the zero promotion That’s 10 for you…
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