Alex Trebek looked genuinely downcast on todayâs show when Jeopardy Jamesâs 32 game winning streak finally came to an end just shy of the $2.52 million record set by Ken Jennings fifteen years ago during his 74 game run.
Gray Television is set to reinstate the playing of The Star Spangled Banner on its stations in 93 markets.
I wonder if thatâll mean theyâll bring back the sign-on/off message too?
Netflix streams new episodes of the comedy in Australia, while ABC Comedy showed the first two seasons earlier this year.
Trailer for Reef Break which premieres on ABC at 10:00pm on Thursday 20 June.
Fox News Channel runs The Star Spangled Banner daily. It usually airs between the end of overnight encores and the start of live programming. Itâs a bit of tradition I like to see.
What about that old sign off though? The rattling off of callsigns of every microwave affiliate is something else. Modern US radio hourly IDs have to be read in super-speed to fit all of the translator and digital simulcast callsigns in to 10 seconds. Itâs almost surreal hearing someone actually take the time to read them out carefully.
CBS has announced its 2019 fall premiere dates, around one month ahead of its rivals. It will have 12 scripted series returning in the first week of the new season and 5 new series making their debuts the same week.
September 23: The Neighborhood, Bob Hearts Abishola (new), All Rise (new), Bull
September 24: NCIS, FBI, NCIS: New Orleans
September 25: Survivor: Island of the Idols (90 minutes)
September 26: Young Sheldon, The Unicorn (new), Mom, Carolâs Second Act (new), Evil (new)
September 27: Hawaii Five-0, Magnum P.I., Blue Bloods
September 29: God Friended Me, NCIS: Los Angeles
October 2: SEAL Team, S.W.A.T.
October 6: Madam Secretary
The CW has announced its 2019 fall premiere dates. Batwoman, starring Ruby Rose, will be the first show to kick off, debuting on October 6, followed by another new series Nancy Drew three days later.
NBC also revealed its fall premiere timetable. Only three shows will debut in September-October period. Of interest to Aussie fans is New Amsterdam, whose second season starts on September 24, giving Nine the option to fasttrack it here.
Looking forward to âThe Good Placeâ (Final Season).
Reef Break premiered tonight on ABC in the US. The interest for Australia being that the ABC Studios and Franceâs M6 co-production is shot on the Gold Coast and features many familiar backdrops and Australian actors including lead Poppy Montgomery.
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Nine could get Reef Break under its current deal with Disney and show it over next summer.
But would they want to?
Always good for a game of spot the car with the driver on the left or in this case Queensland number plate 
Who remembers how well it worked out for Nine the last time they set a drama against the crashing waves, sandy beaches and beautifully bronzed bodies of the Gold Coast?
I think they even tried to sell that turkey to the US.
It ran for two seasons and 260 episodes so wasnât a complete flop.
It actually sold to a lot of countries overseas. Wikipedia lists 13 countries but there were a lot more. I remember travelling through Europe in the 90s and seeing it broadcast in Italy, Greece and France.
Fox has announced its fall premiere dates. Of interest to Australian viewers is the screening of Primetime Emmy Awards on September 22 (September 23 Australian time on Foxtelâs Fox8 channel), the season premiere of 9-1-1 on September 23 and the return of The Resident on September 24. Seven may fasttrack either or both dramas during the AFL Grand Final week.
The Beverly Hills 90210 reboot is coming to Australia!
They were always going to pick this up given its distributed by CBS television studios. The only other place it wouldâve potentially shown up is All Access.
I don;t think itâs as simple as that. Wasnât there a big court case years ago because a US company was doing special discounts for a company it owned and the producers who got some of the backend went to court because they werenât making as much money as they could have been. I think itâs a full bidding process.