Why would anyone want to go through life constantly being negative? It’s soul destroying.
Ha ha ha ha ha. 
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I love Olivia’s grin in some of the old clips… it’s like she knows how cheesy it is, but plays along with it…
The soundtrack debuted at No.4 on the ARIA albums chart yesterday.
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Hopelessly Devoted to You flopped in New Zealand.
Was supposed to air over Sunday and Monday (tonight) at 8:30pm but part two was bumped to 9:30 tonight due to dire ratings. No exact figures (they are not available publicly on tap in NZ like Australia) but Screenscribe.net believes they were bad.
http://www.screenscribe.net/channels/not-so-hopelessly-devoted/
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So, not one of Seven’s finest?
Was poorly written and Delta’s acting was very ordinary. The girl who played young Olivia was spot on!
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Poor casting as far as Delta is concerned. Delta is Delta. It was impossible to see her as anyone else.
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7flix will be repeating the entire 4hr telemovie (7:30pm to 11:30pm) Tueaday 3rd July.
Don’t get why networks continue to do this, unless they’re getting money from an advertiser for it? Seven repeated Molly (whole telemovies) across 7Two on a Saturday night after he won the Gold Logie last year and it crashed hard, scoring one of the channels lowest ever shares (and that had 2.1m in consolidated). So fat chance anyone’s going to give Delta a second chance
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Australian content on multichannels could be one answer.
I finally watched it a couple of weeks ago. Diabolical is being kind.
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Several reasons.
It might be in the commissioning contract that it has a certain number of plays within a window.
The soundtrack I believe has been issued may have a clause that it would have X replays.
Also cost amortisation, if they play it several times then it may not look as bad on the balance sheet. (They can say it cost $ per viewer)
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Spain was the second overseas country to show the mini-series after NZ, with cable channel Cosmopolitan TV airing both episodes on Thursday night local time, with dialogue dubbed in Spanish but songs retained in English. It was also the mini-series’ European premiere. Which means a UK screening should not be too far away.
The mini-series will premiere in the US on Lifetime Network on February 16 next year. It has already screened in NZ, Spain and Latin America (also on Lifetime).
UPDATE 16/2: the show has been condensed into a two-hour telemovie for American broadcast, according to an interview with Delta in New York Post today.
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The condensed two-hour version aired in the US today and reactions on social media have been mostly positive. However I read on Twitter that some storylines had been cut out from the US broadcast, e.g. Olivia and Pat Carroll’s Koala Blue business.
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Entertainment Tonight did a story about it with an interview with Delta Goodrem.
Extra’s Renee Bargh also interviewed Delta (they are best friends) for last Friday’s episode, which aired on Nine yesterday. The full 10-minute interview is on YouTube.
Cable TV ratings for last Saturday were posted overnight. The two-hour ONJ telemovie finished 37th with a 18-49 rating of 0.19 and 1.049 million total viewers. NBA All-Stars coverage easily came on top with more than five million viewers and the demo rating of 2.2.
That sounds good for Lifetime.
The miniseries is being repeated on Seven tonight and tomorrow (August 10), as a tribute to Olivia Newton-John who died in her Californian ranch home yesterday.
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