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1000th Deal for AOK
It’s a case of “booyay” for Andrew O’Keefe today as the 1000th episode goes to air on Seven. Since launching the show in 2003, O’Keefe has fronted 500 hours of the show, with 26,000 cases and over $20m...
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Behind the Scenes: Spicks & Specks ’70s special
TV Tonight recently went behind the scenes of Spicks and Specks for their ’70s special, set on a mock Blankety Blanks set. Host Adam Hills wore a cross between Graham Kennedy and a cricketer’s...
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Elusive Grundy disappointed by TV landscape
What an inspiring interview with TV pioneer Reg Grundy on A Current Affair last night. The 87 year old former Producer, who now resides in the Bahamas, didn’t hold back with his thoughts on the state...
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Rumour: Rove to revive Blankety Blanks?
With the game-show genre getting more attention, could Blankety Blanks be next up for a revival? The latest rumour, which comes via Peter Ford on 3AW, speculates that Rove McManus might be set to front...
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Rumour (again): Rove to host Blankety Blanks?
It was back in September that whispers of a Rove-led Blankety Blanks revival for 6pm on TEN first emerged. Then last week the network announced an ‘unnamed 6pm family entertainment show.’ TEN has been...
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The survey says ….rumours of another game show revival?
After that Rove-led Blankety Blanks revival was firmly knocked on the head from several quarters we’ll just have to take this one with a strong cup of cynicism. But there are whispers that Family Feud...
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Stuart Wagstaff under hospital care
Best wishes to veteran entertainer Stuart Wagstaff, 89, who is in Castlecrag Private Hospital battling a lung condition. News Corp reports his friend newsreader John Mangos thanked Russell Crowe and...
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Carol Raye writes to Kerry Stokes in plea for Mavis Bramston DVD
As political satires go, it was a pioneering Australian show. When The Mavis Bramston Show aired on Seven from 1964 – 1968 we’d never seen anything like it: a live, weekly show dealing with storiesthe...
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Vale: Stuart Wagstaff
Veteran entertainer and thespian Stuart Wagstaff, best known for Blankety Blanks, stage musicals and cigarette commercials, has died. He turned 90 last month. He died of emphysema in a Sydney...
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Public memorial for Stuart Wagstaff
A public memorial service will be held to celebrate the life of the late Stuart Wagstaff. It will be held at 1.30pm Tuesday 31st March at the Theatre Royal, MLC Centre, Sydney. A bucket collection...
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Vale: Sir Terry Wogan
Veteran UK broadcaster, Sir Terry Wogan, best known for commentating the Eurovision Song Contest, has died aged 77. “Sir Terry Wogan died today after a short but brave battle with cancer,” a family...
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Vale: Jon English
Performer Jon English, best known for the songs Hollywood Seven, Six Ribbons and his work on stage and screen has died, aged 66. English died after suffering complications while undergoing surgery...
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Instinct put Daryl back in Nine’s room
“It was a gut feel thing, I guess like Dancing with the Stars was for me,” Daryl Somers says of his decision to host Nine’s new entertainment series, You’re Back in the Room. In a career spanning 45...
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Vale: Chelsea Brown
Effervescent entertainer Chelsea Brown, best known for Laugh-In and variety performances across Australia, has died, aged 74. She died in Chicago of pneumonia, and following a battle with dementia...
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Noeline Brown receives Lifetime Achievement Award
Veteran performer Noeline Brown has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Equity Foundation. Brown’s performances hark back to the 1960s with Sydney theatre restaurant The Music Hall. But...
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Nostalgia Week: Greg Evans
EXCLUSIVE: In a 5:30 G-classified 1980s timeslot Perfect Match host Greg Evans could hardly ask returning dates returning from Tangalooma Island Resort or South Stradbroke Island if they had sex! “The...
View ArticleIs it time to revive Blankety Blanks?
With talk of Pointless departing the 6pm timeslot and 10 keen to keep broad entertainment in the slot, might it be time for a Blankety Blanks revival? The classic game show enjoyed a sensational run...
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Mark Humphries: Pointless too condensed
Former Pointless host Mark Humphries says he wanted 10 to move the struggling game show to a later timeslot but that the biggest problem was in condensing is format to 22 minutes for a 6pm timeslot....
View Article60 years since Reg Grundy debuted on Australian TV
1st September 1959 was the first ever television hosting by Reg Grundy on Wheel of Fortune, live on Channel Nine. It would mark the beginning of The Reg Grundy Organisation (founded in 1960), later...
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“I’d never done television in my life. I was petrified.”
Ugly Dave Gray had only been in Sydney for a few months when he got the call Graham Kennedy wanted him on In Melbourne Tonight. It was 1969 and the British comedian and his wife had relocated to...
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