I’d say Comedy Inc, was the strongest of the 3 though is it a coincidence all 3 commercials seemed to debut sketch comedy shows in 2003 or is it purely down to the content quota?
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Their Millionaire sketches were top notch and were made to look authentic. Also makes me wonder if those sketches were filmed on the actual set.
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they were.
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I always really liked the Sunrise ones
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I loved that show!
It had so many great characters.
Its a shame it didn’t have a longer run.
If anyone knows if there is a way to watch all the episodes again, it would be greatly appreciated if you could let me know.
I always looked forward to Chris Lillee’s skits and the news skit at the end. Their take-off of The Panel was also hilarious.
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Paul McCarthy was brilliant here as he was back on channel 10’s “Totally Full Frontal”.
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I doubt this would have had any impact…
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Fiona MacDonald’s diagnosis of MND will feature on the next Australian Story. So sad, with any fond memories of Fiona on Brisbane TV and then nationally especially with It’s A Knockout
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I remember the furore when Nine sent its then-Sydney anchor Jim Waley to Baghdad to cover the Iraqi handover, wherein he was instructed to wear a flak jacket while Seven’s Adrian Brown didn’t.
Back in the studio, Mark Ferguson was deputizing in Waley’s chair, but while National Nine News outrated Seven News by 160,000 viewers nationally, pushing the latter to third in the ratings, in Sydney it was beaten by the mob at Epping, anchored by Ian Ross. These two links suggested it happened in the same week (the Crikey ref says Nine won by 160K on 28/6/2004).
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Good little time capsule there.
I wonder where Adrian Brown is these days?
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I believe Adrian Brown left Seven a long time ago, probably either during or just after the Ian Ross era.
He was also a reporter at Nine in the 90s, if my memory serves me well.
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The last I heard… he was Sevens Asia correspondent. Then I think he may have had a stint at CNN.
Class talent.
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He’s also done work for Al Jazeera and SBS
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I think I do remember him covering drug cases involving Australians in Asia in the noughties - most notably Schapelle Corby and the Bali Nine, as well as Van Tuong Nguyen in Singapore.
For a while in the past decade, Nine also had Renae Henry as its Asia correspondent, a role which I think is also discontinued.
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Stumbled across this segment from the Today show in 2003 wherein there was a live birth on air. Wonder if something similar has been repeated since, which I doubt.
On a side note, then-Today newsreader Sharyn Ghidella celebrated her birthday on that day (she would’ve turned 36 I think). Another former Today newsreader, Ian Ross, was only days away from beginning his stint on Seven News in Sydney.
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In 2019 Seven presented Operation: Live, a televised account of a Cesarean section birth — claimed by host Melissa Doyle as a first for Australian television, although the “live” component was taking some artistic licence as the actual procedure took place well before airtime.
Of course, neither was a “first” for TV as back in 1965, ABC presented a film documentary Birth, from ABC producer Jim White who filmed the procedure around the birth of his second child.
This video was an excerpt taken from the 1996 special 40 Years In The Making: ABC TV Melbourne.
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Millennium by Network Music Ensemble. Used in this Channel Seven Gold Coast UHF Notice Promo back in 1989.
Promo
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Anyone else see the 7 logo in there?
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Yes, a squashed one though!
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