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In the second episode of The Assembly, the autistic journalism students mentored by Leigh Sales interview comedian Hamish Blake. Leigh Sales takes on the role of mentor to a group of autistic journalism students in The Assembly. In this episode, the students are excited to learn that their next celebrity guest is none other than […]

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The highest honour of the night, Podcast of The Year, has been awarded to the powerful True Crime podcast The Lawyer, the Sniper & the Nsw Police. A popular podcast, which shares powerful testimonies from two survivors of the Nsw Police workforce, also nabbed the top spot for the Best Interview Podcast.

Selected by the Australian Podcast Awards, Podcast Champion was awarded to APA multi year award winners Laura Byrne and Brittany Hockley’s Life Uncut. Listeners’ Choice went to mum and daughter duo Kat and Latisha Clark’s Basically Besties.

The ever-growing popularity of business, finance and ‘money saving’ audio shows saw multi-nominated ‘She's On The Money’ take the coveted top spot of the Business podcasts. A consistently popular category of True Crime podcasts saw Inside The Tribe take home the win, whilst Sex & Relationships podcast The Hook Up beat out popular listens ‘It...

Sca Chief Content Officer, Dave Cameron, today announced that Australia’s most popular comedy podcasters and much-loved duo, Hamish Blake and Andy Lee, have signed an early long term, multi-year extension to their contract with Sca.

As Hamish and Andy and Sca’s relationship heads into its third decade as part of the Sca family, the stars of Australia’s no.1 comedy podcast* Hamish & Andy, continue to increase their audience every year to dominate Australia’s Podcast Ranker.

In addition, Hamish & Andy’s Remembering Project, now in its fourth season as an exclusive first run on LiSTNR, sees the pair delve into their meticulous archives from 2,500 radio shows across two decades to see if they can recall what was going on behind the scenes at that exact time. Hamish & Andy’s Remembering Project has evolved into a show of often incorrect recollections that make for an irreverent and hilarious trip down memory lane.

Paris Hilton and pop superstar JoJo Siwa are heading to Peacock with new docuseries.

They will be joined by True Story, a U.S. remake of Australian unscripted comedy format with Ed Helms and Randall Park, which was previously set up at NBC.

Hilton, who recently launched her own production company and signed an overall deal with Warner Bros, is starring in 13-part series Paris In Love (w/t).

The series will see Hilton, who starred in The Simple Life, one of the first reality docuseries and last year’s YouTube Originals doc This Is Paris, document her life as she prepares to marry venture capitalist Carter Reum. The series will cover everything from bridal dress shopping and choosing the venue to designing her dream destination wedding and participating in a bachelorette party.

Paris In Love is produced by Warner Bros. Unscripted Television in association with Shed Media, Telepictures and...

Peacock is expanding its unscripted offerings with a 13-part docuseries from Paris Hilton, a new music competition series featuring JoJo Siwa and a hybrid alternative-scripted series hosted by Ed Helms and Randall Park.

Hilton’s docuseries, tentatively titled “Paris In Love,” follows the international influencer as she prepares to get married to venture capitalist Carter Reum. The series will feature everything from Hilton’s bridal dress shopping to choosing her wedding venue and participating in, what the network describes as, “what certainly will be a fun and crazy” bachelorette party. The series will also capture the wedding itself, and promises to showcase a “personal side of Paris that only her closest friends and family get to see.”

The docuseries hails from Warner Bros. Unscripted Television in association with Shed Media, Telepictures and Slivington Manor Entertainment. It is executive produced by Hilton and Bruce Gersh.

Forthcoming music competition series, currently titled “The Siwa Dance Pop Revolution,...

Streaming service is also adapting “True Story with Hamish & Andy,” hosted by Ed Helms and Randall Park

Peacock has picked up three new unscripted shows, including a docuseries following Paris Hilton down the aisle, a pop star competition hosted by Jojo Siwa and her “momager” Jessalynn Siwa, and an adaptation of Australian comedy talk show “True Story With Hamish & Andy” to be hosted by Ed Helms and Randall Park.

This trio of alternative series join Peacock’s previously announced unscripted slate, which includes “Hart to Hart,” “Unidentified with Demi Lovato” (working title), “Ex-Rated,” “The End Is Nye,” and “Frogger.”

Hilton’s show is a 13-part docuseries titled “Paris in Love” (working title) following the “international influencer and one of the world’s most eligible bachelorettes” who is “finally ready to walk down the aisle with the man of her dreams,” venture capitalist Carter Reum.

Per Peacock, “In the 13-episode docuseries,...

‘Lion’. (Photo: Mark Rogers)

What’s your favourite Australian film of the last decade?

That’s one of the questions Aacta is putting to the general public over the coming week as voting opens for its new Audience Choice Awards.

In contention for the film award are: Peter Rabbit, Red Dog, The Sapphires, The Great Gatsby, The Water Diviner, The Dressmaker, Lion, Ride Like A Girl and Mad Max: Fury Road.

While many of those nominated correspond to the Academy’s own ‘Best Film’ winners over the past 10 years, there are some notable exclusions – 2016’s Hacksaw Ridge, 2018’s Sweet Country and 2019’s The Nightingale.

The Favourite TV Drama of The Decade category sees each broadcaster score two nods – bar Sbs, who were snubbed. They include 10’s Offspring and Neighbours, ABC’s Mystery Road and Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Foxtel’s Top of the Lake and Wentworth, Seven’s Molly and Home and Away,...

‘Lego Masters’ Hamish Blake and Ryan McNaught.

With ITV Studios Australia’s The Voice moving to the Seven Network next year, that has freed up a chunk of money and gaps in the schedule for the Nine Network, which is investing in new reality brands.

At its virtual Upfront today the broadcaster revealed it’s bringing back Warner Bros. Television’s Celebrity Apprentice Australia after six years and it has commissioned Endemol Shine Australia’s Beauty and the Geek, a format which ran for six seasons on the Seven Network until 2014.

Among the other new shows, in-house concept Beach House Escape will follow 10 talented individuals as they compete to give an old home on the beachfront a complete makeover; the production company is yet to be determined.

Based on a Discovery US format, Celebrity Iou Australia will see A-listers work to a tight deadline to transform living spaces, production company to be appointed.

Ed Helms and Randall Park are attached to co-host a hybrid scripted-alternative series titled “True Story” at NBC.

The hour-long show has received a six-episode order. It is based on the Australian series “True Story with Hamish & Andy.” In the series, everyday Americans sit down with Helms and Park to share their most extraordinary and unbelievably true stories for the first time. As the stories unfold, a star-studded cast of comedians and actors will appear in dramatized re-enactments.

“I can’t wait to bring ‘True Story’ to American audiences with my buddy Randall Park,” Helms said. “It’s an incredibly warm, hilarious and kind-spirited show that celebrates the lost art of laughing at ourselves … with a little help from epic reenactments.”

“True Story” is executive produced by Tim Bartley, Hamish Blake, Andy Lee, Ryan Shelton, Helms, Mike Falbo and Nicolle Yaron, who will also serve as showrunner. The series is...

NBC has given a six-episode pickup to the “Drunk History”-style re-enactment series “True Story,” co-hosted by Ed Helms and Randall Park.

Based on the Australian format “True Story with Hamish & Andy,” “True Story” will see everyday Americans sit down with Helms and Park to “share their most extraordinary and unbelievably true stories.” The stories will be brought to life by a star-studded cast of comedians and actors in “heightened, dramatized re-enactments of cinematic proportions.”

“I can’t wait to bring ‘True Story’ to American audiences with my buddy Randall Park,” said Helms, who also serves as executive producer on the show. “It’s an incredibly warm, hilarious and kind-spirited show that celebrates the lost art of laughing at ourselves … with a little help from epic reenactments.”

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“I’m so excited to be a part of a show that combines...

Exclusive: NBC is going to fuse comedy with shocking real-life stories in True Story, a hybrid alternative-scripted series hosted by Ed Helms and Randall Park. The six-episode series, based on the Australian show True Story with Hamish & Andy, hails from Warner Horizon Unscripted Television.

In True Story, everyday Americans sit down with Helms and Park to share their most extraordinary and unbelievably true stories. The stories get heightened, dramatized re-enactments of cinematic proportions by a cast of top comedians and actors. Each hourlong episode will feature two real-life stories.

“I can’t wait to bring True Story to American audiences with my buddy, Randall Park,” said Helms, who also executive produces the series. “It’s an incredibly warm, hilarious and kind-spirited show that celebrates the lost art of laughing at ourselves … with a little help from epic reenactments.

‘Informer 3838.’

With the Nine Network’s primary channel on track to deliver its highest ever commercial shares this year, the broadcaster’s upfronts announcement on Wednesday night predictably contained few surprises.

Among the new offerings will be The Parent Jury, which puts diverse parenting styles to the test; retro variety show Step Back in Time; and observational documentary series Taronga: Who’s Who In the Zoo.

The network also unveiled the cast of Screentime’s drama Informer 3838, which stars Ella Scott Lynch as Melbourne criminal lawyer turned police informant Nicola Gobbo.

In a new agreement with BBC Studios, Nine will get Seven Worlds, One Planet, a landmark wildlife series presented by Sir David Attenborough, which will transport viewers to seven continents as it reveals the survival challenges facing numerous animals.

That deal also encompasses first-run rights to five series under the BBC Planet banner including Perfect Planet, Green Planet, Frozen...

Can Ralph Breaks the Internet break the box office over the Thanksgiving holiday? In the sequel to 2012's Wreck-It Ralph, best friends Ralph (John C. Reilly) and Vanellope von Schweetz (Sarah Silverman) leave Litwak's Arcade in an attempt to save her game, Sugar Rush, from being unplugged. After they travel to the internet to find a steering wheel on eBay, they infiltrate a game called Slaughter Race and meet a skilled driver named Shank (Gal Gadot). As Vanellope ponders the big questions in life, Ralph worries he may lose the only friend he's got. The rest of the voice cast includes Tim Allen as Buzz Lightyear, Irene Bedard as Pocahontas, Kristen Bell as Anna, Jodi Benson as Ariel, Hamish Blake as Pyro,...

William McInnes and Sigrid Thornton in the ABC’s ‘SeaChange’ (Photo: ABC).

Eighteen years since SeaChange ended its 39-episodes run on the ABC, Sigrid Thornton and John Howard will be back on screen in 2019 in a contemporary version of the show created by Andrew Knight and Deborah Cox.

The Nine Network has commissioned eight one hour episodes as a co-production between ITV Studios Australia and Every Cloud Productions. Shooting starts next year with Every Cloud’s Cox and Fiona Eagger as executive producers alongside Thornton and ITV’s David Mott. ITV owns the format to the show which was produced by Artist Services for the ABC.

Twenty years on, Laura Gibson (Thornton) returns to the beachside paradise of Pearl Bay and this time it seems Pearl Bay needs Laura just as much as she needs it. Howard reprises his role as Bob Jelly, who was the mayor in the original.

Check out a brand-new trailer for Ralph Breaks The Internet, introducing new characters, including the fierce and fun crew of racers from online racing game Slaughter Race. Ali Wong lends her voice to Felony, Timothy Simons voices Butcher Boy, Glozell Green brings Little Debbie to life and Hamish Blake provides the voice of Pyro. Also new to the roster of characters is Double Dan, the proprietor of the dark web’s apothecary. Voiced by Alfred Molina, Double Dan is massive, slimy and decidedly creepy with a second head called Little Dan tucked into his neck folds. “Ralph Breaks the Internet” opens in U.S. theaters on Nov. 21, 2018.

In Ralph Breaks The Internet, video-game bad guy Ralph (voice of John C. Reilly) and best friend Vanellope von Schweetz (voice of Sarah Silverman) leave the comforts of Litwak’s arcade in an attempt to save her game, Sugar Rush. Their quest takes them to the vast,...

Jessica Marais in The Wrong Girl.

Network Ten has announced its new Aussie drama, The Wrong Girl, based on the book by Zoë Foster Blake, will premiere on September 28.

The show follows the life of 29-year old breakfast television producer Lily Woodward, played by Jessica Marais (Love Child, Packed to the Rafters)..

.I.m thrilled to bring the character of Lily Woodward to life. She is fun, confident, determined, quick to react and disarmingly charismatic. I hope audiences love her as much as I do,. said Marais.

.It has been a pleasure working with the exceptional cast and crew, and I.m incredibly proud to be involved in this fresh and exciting new drama..

Marais will be joined by a cast that includes Craig McLachlan, Kerry Armstrong, Madeleine West, Hamish Blake, Doris Younane, Steve Vizard, Rob Collins, Ian Meadows, Hayley Magnus, Kevin Harrington, Leah Vandenberg, Christie Whelan Browne, Hugo Johnstone-Burt,...

Word of mouth could not be stronger for The Dressmaker, judging by its superb second weekend takings in Australian cinemas.

However Wayne Hope.s comedy Now Add Honey misfired, perhaps illustrating the gulf in sensibility between TV and cinema.

Jocelyn Moorhouse.s The Dressmaker scored $3.6 million at 289 locations, a drop of just 3 per cent, which hoists its earnings to $8.26 million.

With that kind of stamina, the dramedy based on the Rosalie Han novel, starring Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Liam Hemsworth and Hugo Weaving, could be headed for $20 million.

The Universal release was a cut above the rest as none of the newcomers made an impression and nationwide receipts dropped by 7 per cent to $9.9 million, according to Rentrak.s estimate.

Ridley Scott.s The Martian advanced to $25.3 million after earning $1.4 million in its sixth orbit (off just 10 per cent), while Steven Spielberg.s Bridge of Spies took $973,000 in its third weekend (down 25 per cent), reaching $5.6 million.

If is offering five double passes to the filmmaker and friends screening of new Australian feature film, Now Add Honey. You and a friend could be be part of the audience in a screening with the filmmakers and their friends on first night of the season on November 5.

To enter:

Just watch the Now Add Honey trailer here then answer the question: .What is the name of Hamish Blake's character in the film? ..

There are five double passes to attend the November 5 screening.

Note: .The film maker and friends screening is in Melbourne. Travel and transport are not provided. .All entrants will have the option of attending the Melbourne screening or seeing the film in another location in Australia where it is screening.

The winners will be drawn on October 26.

Please send answers to [email protected]...

Netflix has bought Us, UK and Ireland rights to Gristmill Productions. mockumentary series Little Lunch.

The deal was negotiated by the international distributor, the Australian Children.s Television Foundation, which also sold the 26 x 15. series to Tvo in Canada and Tvb in Hong Kong.

Based on the books written by Danny Katz, the show set in a primary school playground at snack time premiered on ABC3 in May and had 997,000 views on iview.

Director/producer Wayne Hope said, .We.re thrilled that the seemingly small stakes of the playground resonated so widely. Thankfully, the anxieties around having the wrong costume on dress- up-day or a weird snack in your lunch box are universally funny..

Roadshow will launch Hope.s debut feature, Now Add Honey, a comedy starring Robyn Butler, Portia de Rossi and Hamish Blake, on November 5.

Last month Netflix bought comedy series Small Time Gangster , produced by Boilermaker Pty...

Adrian Brody in Backtrack..

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Five Aussie films will vie for the $100,000 CinéfestOZ Film Prize, with two of the entries to have their Australian premiere at the Festival in August.

Backtrack, Now Add Honey, Pawno, Putuparri and the Rainmakers and The Daughter have each been selected out of over 30 submissions to make up the shortlist for the prize, now in its second year.

The winner will be announced at the Festival on Saturday 29th August, 2015.

The Film Prize is awarded to the producer of an Australian feature film (including feature documentaries) and last year was taken out by Robert Connolly for his family feature Paper Planes.

The film, which Connolly also directed, went on to enjoy huge success at the Australian box office and will be released by distribution companies Lionsgate in the UK and in North America by Eone.

The finalists for this year.s prize were determined by five...

Fledgling filmmaker Fergus Grady is planning a movie based on Lonely Planet founders Tony and Maureen Wheeler.s adventures and he has shot the pilot for a half-hour TV comedy/drama.

Grady, whose day job is acquisitions coordinator at Umbrella Entertainment, has bought a 2-year option for the film rights to the Wheelers. story. He.s talking to prospective writers and directors and envisions a road movie set in the 1970s.

English-born Wheeler, a former automotive engineer, and his wife published their first travel guide, Across Asia on the Cheap, after an overland trip from Europe to Asia and then to Australia in 1972.

Grady says the film will look at the Wheelers. experiences in countries such as Afghanistan, Nepal and Bali. Tony Wheeler has agreed to serve as a consultant. Grady will seek development funding from Film Victoria and/or Screen Australia to nurture the project over the next 12 months.

Directing his first feature film, Now Add Honey, Wayne Hope staged a scene in Melbourne on Tuesday in which a character played by his wife Robyn Butler gets so angry she smashes a windscreen.

100 Bloody Acres actor Angus Sampson was on the other side of the windscreen. The glass duly shattered, nobody got hurt and Hope got the shots he wanted.

Asked if anyone was concerned about how his wife would handle the scene, Hope told If, .I wasn.t worried, but other people were.. That.s the kind of easy rapport you would expect between the husband and wife who collaborated on the ABC-tv series The Librarians and Very Small Business.

Butler wrote the screenplay for Now Add Honey, which stars Lucy Fry (who.ll be seen in the upcoming Hollywood film Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters), Portia de Rossi, Hamish Blake, Sampson, Ben Lawson and Lucy Durack.

Fry plays Honey Halloway,...

Portia de Rossi ("Arrested Development"), Lucy Fry ("Vampire Academy"), Angus Sampson ("Insidious"), Ben Lawson ("No Strings Attached"), Robyn Butler (TV's "The Librarians"), stage actress Lucy Durack and acclaimed comedian/actor Hamish Blake are all set to star in the Australian feature comedy "Now Add Honey".

The story follows Honey Halloway (Lucy Fry), a shining Hollywood teen star returns home to Australia for a short trip and finds her life crumbling into chaos when her mother (Portia de Rossi) is suddenly sent away.

She is soon forced to stay with her aunt Caroline (Robyn Butler) in the suburbs of Melbourne, and her once normal existence is turned upside down and discovers her family is not so normal at all.

Butler penned the script and is producing, while her husband Wayne Hope will direct. The six week shoot began in Melbourne, Victoria today. Gristmill is producing the film, while Roadshow Films is set to distribute locally.

Portia de Rossi, Lucy Fry, Robyn Butler, Hamish Blake and Erik Thomson head the cast of feature comedy Now Add Honey, which started shooting in Melbourne today.

It.s the first feature film from Gristmill, producers of ABC- TV.s The Librarians, Very Small Business and Upper Middle Bogan.

Wayne Hope makes his film directing debut. His wife Robyn Butler wrote the script and is producing with Hope and Louisa Kors, as well as playing one of the leads.

Vampire Academy.s Lucy Fry plays Honey Halloway, a Hollywood teen star who returns home to Australia for a short trip and finds her life crumbling into chaos when her mother (de Rossi) is suddenly sent away. Honey is forced to stay with her aunt Caroline (Butler) in the suburbs of Melbourne, and. discovers her family is not so normal at all.

The cast also includes 100 Bloody Acres. Angus Sampson, Ben Lawson,...

Here's a key problem with Robert Sarkies' black comedy Two Little Boys: Based on title alone it comes across as something most likely to appeal to either the Disney set or pedophiles. Or both. It is not. Recently nominated for a whopping eleven New Zealand Film Awards, the film stars Bret McKenzie (Flight Of The Conchords) and Hamish Blake (Hamish And Andy) in an adaptation of a novel written by the director's brother, Duncan. And given the presence of McKenzie and Blake it comes as no surprise that things are both funnier and darker than the title implies.Set in Invercargill, New Zealand in the early 1990's, the film follows Nige and his best mate Deano's riotous misadventures as they struggle with their imploding long-term friendship which...

Hamish and Andy

Hamish Blake and Andy Lee will have a daily show again next year.

The Today Network presenters will be hosting a new one-hour morning show from Tuesday to Friday, from 9-10am. They will also be moving their Friday drivetime show to Mondays.

It is likely the daily show will feature pre-recorded links taped just before or after theMonday night show. A spokesman for Southern Cross Austereo told Mumbrella that the logistics for this were still being finalised.

Fifi Box and Jules Lund will now cover the drive slot from Tuesday to Friday instead of Monday to Thursday.

The move comes two years after the duo quit the daily drivetime slot.

The duo announced the news on air, saying: “After two years of Fridays, we are honoured to accept the promotion to Mondays. Hopefully, with a good performance, we can graduate to Tuesdays by the year 2034 with...

The final Twilight takes $12.5m on opening weekend

The final instalment of the The Twilight Saga has had a massive opening weekend at the box office.

Twilight: Breaking Dawn – Part 2, distributed by Hoyts/StudioCanal, took $12.49m, according to the Motion Picture Distributors Association of Australia.

Across a huge 655 screens, the film had a $19,070 screen average.

The film wasn’t a series’ best, however. The Twilight Saga: New Moon, the second film in the series, released three years ago, made $16.109m on its opening weekend to be the second-highest grossing opening film in Australian box office history, behind Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, which made $18.364m in its first weekend.

However, Breaking Dawn is the third-highest opening weekend film in Australia for 2012. Batman film The Dark Knight remains the top opening weekend film for 2012, taking $15m. The Avengers took $13m.

Elsewhere, two Australian films and one New Zealand...

Radio duo Hamish Blake and Andy Lee beat the curse of the absentee Thursday night TV audiences with a strong debut for Hamish & Andy’s Euro Gap Year.

The show averaged a metro audience of 1.413m viewers, top for the night according to preliminary overnight ratings from OzTam.

Next was Seven News with 1.352m, followed by Nine’s The Block with 1.319m.

Ten’s Masterchef was sixth for the night with 1.058m.

In the key advertising demographics of 16-39, 18-49 and 25-54, Hamish & Andy were top, followed by The Block and then Masterchef.

In the breakfast battle, Seven’s Sunrise won with 370,000 to 324,000 for Nine’s Today and 31,000 for Ten’s Breakfast.

Thursday’s top shows:

Hamish and Andy’s Euro Gap Year Nine 1.413 Seven News Seven 1.352 The Block Nine 1.319 Today Tonight Seven 1.148 Nine News Nine 1.127 Masterchef Ten 1.058 A Current Affair Nine 1.037 ABC News ABC 0.899 Modern Family Ten 0.767 Ten News...

Screenshot of Herald Sun website featuring Logies story it says did not appear on website

The Herald Sun has withdrawn its suggestion that its leak of Hamish Blake winning the gold Logie was because Google had accessed an unpublished story.

However, the newspaper has continued to insist that the news story did not appear on its website.

The newspaper last night issued an apology. Meanwhile, today’s Sydney Morning Herald reports that seven Sun Herald staffers were “frogmarched” out of the ceremony after the result leaked.

So far, TV Week, which organises the Logies, has declined to comment,

Last night, the Herald Sun issued a statement saying:

‘The Herald Sun regrets that, due to an internal error involving publishing protocols, we effectively named the Gold Logie winner ahead of time last night.

“We apologise and hope it did not ruin viewers’ overall Logies experience.

“The story was not published on...

Hamish Blake has revealed he was unaware that news of his Gold Logie victory had leaked out before it was officially announced. Blake beat Australian TV stars including comedian Adam Hills, actress Asher Keddie and The Project co-host Carrie Bickmore to be named the most popular personality on Australian television. > Logie Awards 2012: Winners and nominees in full The comedian and broadcaster said that he had no idea that an embargo on the winners had accidentally been broken, leading to the result being shared early across social networking sites and appearing on Google. Blake told reporters after the ceremony: "I have been to many events and I was expecting a slip-up... ultimately all that information was kept from me so it was a genuine surprise. "If you watch it closely when (more)...

Loving the underdog is what Aussies are all about, and this was proved again last night at the 54th Annual Logies Awards Ceremony held at Crown Palladium in Melbourne.

Despite Carrie Bickmore of Channel 10.s highly successful The Project being the favourite to take out the major gong, the Gold Logie for most popular personality on TV went instead to comedian Hamish Blake of Hamish and Andy.s Gap Year.

In a minor controversy leading up to this unexpected win, while testing its new IPad application the Herald Sun experienced a technical glitch, leading to the publishing of a link to an embargoed press release containing Logies winners an hour prior to the Gold Logie being officially announced during Channel Nine.s coverage.

The link was killed immediately, but not before Google picked it up. In the split second it was available, lucky net-trawlers picked it up and leaked it onto Facebook and Twitter,...

Sandilands: Labelled a misogynist by Pickering

Radio presenter Kyle Sandilands has been labelled a misogynist in an attack broadcast on his own network. The swipe at Sandilands was aired on the Today Network’s national Hamish & Andy drivetime show during a pre-Logies special.

After pointing out that Australia’s Got Talent was up for a Logie TV award, Ten’s Charlie Pickering was challenged by hosts Hamish Blake and Andy Lee to demonstrate an impression of Sandilands, who is a judge on Agt.

Pickering began his mock Sandilands acceptance speech saying: “Mate, I hated it. Mate, Australia doesn’t have talent.”

After pausing, he drew laughs from Blake and Lee when he told them: “Sorry, every word coming into my head is literally too misogynistic to say on the radio.”

Returning to the Sandilands impression Pickering went on: “Governor General: Don’t like you, you’re a woman… anyone noticed...

Nine comedian Hamish Blake has won the Gold Logie for Most Popular Personality at the 54th TV Week Logie Awards.

However, public broadcaster the ABC won the most awards, followed by Nine, Seven and Ten.

Blake pipped fellow nominees Adam Hills, Asher Keddie, Karl Stevanovic, Carrie Bickmore and Esther Anderson to the top gong.

Blake’s win was leaked online by The Herald Sun about an hour before the presentation of the Gold Logie and was a spoiler for the room. However Ten’s Breakfast reports Blake maintained he didn’t know before the announcement was made.

Across the networks, the ABC came out on top with six and a shared award – the shared coming from Asher Keddie’s Most Popular Actress win for her work in both the ABC’s Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo and Ten’s Offspring.

The ABC also won the most outstanding drama series,...

The Herald Sun has attacked both Google and ninemsn after it accidentally published online that Hamish Blake had won last night’s Gold Logie.

Simon Pristel, editor of The Melbourne based News Limited tabloid, claimed this morning that Google had accessed internal systems to get hold of an “unpublished” story. Google denies this.

Speaking on Triple M’s Melbourne breakfast show, Pristel claimed that Google had been able to search the company’s systems and “found” an unpublished story. Newspapers were given the results under a midnight embargo.

Meanwhile, in an official statement, the Herald Sun claimed that “at no time” was the story on its website.

The comments from the newspaper and Pristel appear to be at odds with a number of screengrabs of the Herald Sun around 90 minutes before the winner announcement.

The screengrab below appears to have been taken at 10.29pm, although it has a publish time within the story of midnight.

Comedian Hamish Blake's big win at the 2012 Logie Awards was spoiled on Sunday after the news leaked online just hours before the ceremony.

The funnyman was the toast of the Australian TV prizegiving in Melbourne after receiving the evening's highest honour, the Gold Logie, which is presented to the country's most popular personality.

News of his win was posted online before the stars had even walked the red carpet, but Blake was unaware of his triumph, insisting, "Ultimately all that information was kept from me so it was a genuine surprise. I'm glad too because I am not a great actor."

Also receiving major accolades were Ben Rafter's Hugh Sheridan and Offspring's Asher Keddie, who both walked away with Silver Logies for Most Popular Actor and Actress, respectively.

The Slap star Melissa George took home the prize for Outstanding Actress and Rob Carloton of the Paper Giants took home the same award in the male category.

Rapper Flo Rida and singer Seal provided the entertainment for the evening, while Sir Elton John and Delta Goodrem took the stage to pay tribute to music personality Ian 'Molly' Meldrum, who suffered a severe head injury during a fall in December.

The Rocket Man said, "I know I speak for many artists and music lovers around world when I say thank you, there's no one like you," while Goodrem added, "I refer to Molly as the Godfather, he always watches over me and many other artists."

British boy band One Direction closed out the ceremony with a rendition of One Thing.

Digital Spy presents a list of winners and nominees from the TV Week Logie Awards 2012, which took place at Crown Towers on Sunday April 15, 2012: 'Most Popular' Awards: TV Week Gold Logie - Most Popular Personality on TV

Adam Hills (Spicks and Specks and Adam Hills in Gordon St Tonight)

Asher Keddie (Offspring and Paper Giants: The Birth Of Cleo)

Carrie Bickmore (The Project)

Esther Anderson (Home and Away)

Hamish Blake (Hamish and Andy's Gap Year) - Winner

Karl Stefanovic (Today) TV Week Silver Logie - Most Popular Actor

Daniel MacPherson (Wild Boys)

Eddie Perfect (Offspring)

Erik Thomson (Packed to the Rafters)

Hugh Sheridan (Packed to the Rafters) - Winner

Ray Meagher (Home and Away) TV Week Silver Logie - Most Popular Actress

Asher (more)...

Carrie Bickmore has revealed that she still cannot believe that she has been nominated for a Gold Logie award. The Australian television presenter, who fronts The Project alongside Dave Hughes and Charlie Pickering, admitted that it feels "surreal" to receive a nod for the prestigious prize because she never thought she would be considered. Bickmore told the Sunday Herald Sun: "I used to sit next to [former colleague] Rove [McManus] and he would get up and get the Gold and I used to think that was such an honour. I never thought I'd ever get a nomination, so I'm just enjoying it." Other nominees for the Gold Logie include comedian Hamish Blake, breakfast TV presenter Karl Stefanovic, Spicks and Specks host Adam Hills, actress Asher Keddie and Home and Away's Esther Anderson. (more)...

Hamish Blake has admitted that he would like to get married at the Logies. The Australian comedian, who announced his engagement to writer Zoe Foster in January, said that it would be great to coincide the annual television awards ceremony with his big day in order to save some money. Blake joked to the Herald Sun that he is thinking about bringing a priest with him to the event so that he could marry him and Foster on the red carpet. He added: "There's free photographers, free food, free flowers, the more I think about it, the more sense it makes. We could perhaps do the wedding on the stairs on the way up and then get a free reception." Blake is nominated for the prestigious Gold Logie award at this year's ceremony, but blamed "donkey voting" on him (more)...

The nominations for the 2012 TV Week Logies were announced on Sunday, with long-running soap Home and Away and Nine.s Underbelly: Razor leading the pool with seven nominations each.

Home and Away, which has been on air since 1988, received its nominations in the public-voted categories. It is up against Offspring, Packed To The Rafters, Winners And Losers and Underbelly: Razor for most popular drama series.

Esther Anderson (who plays Charlie Buckton) is nominated for both the gold logie for most popular TV personality and the silver logie for most popular actress. Veteran Ray Meagher (aka Alf Stewart) will compete against stars from Wild Boys, Packed to the Rafters and Offspring for most popular actor, while Dan Ewing, Steve Peacocke and Demi Harman are nominated in the most popular new talent categories.

Underbelly: Razor was acknowledged by both the public and industry peers. It earned nods for most popular series, actress...

The nominations for this year's Logie Awards have been announced. Stars up for the prestigious Gold Logie gong at the annual Aussie TV awards due to be held on April 15 include breakfast television host Karl Stefanovic, Home and Away's Esther Anderson, comedian Adam Hills, Offspring actress Asher Keddie, The Project presenter Carrie Bickmore and radio funnyman Hamish Blake. The editor of TV Week magazine, which sponsors the event, said: "We have such a strong list of contenders after fans voted in record numbers this year. The race to see who will win the TV Week Gold Logie is going to be the toughest one yet!" Celebrities in the running for the Silver Logie 'Best Actress' prize are Keddie and Anderson again, plus Underbelly's Danielle Cormack and Packed to (more)...

TV heavyweights Karl Stefanovic, Adam Hills and Asher Keddie are among the main contenders for the top prize at the 2012 TV Week Logie Awards.

For the second year in a row, the Today presenter, the Spicks and Specks host and the Paper Giants actress look likely to claim the top award – the viewer-voted Gold Logie – which last year was claimed by Stefanovic.

They will be challenged by Ten’s Carrie Bickmore, Hamish Blake from Hamish & Andy’s Gap Year and Seven’s Esther Anderson.

The list of contenders in full:

TV Week Gold Logie – Most Popular Personality on TV

Adam Hills (Spicks And Specks, ABC1/Adam Hills In Gordon St Tonight, ABC1) Asher Keddie (Nina Proudman, Offspring, Network Ten /Ita Buttrose, Paper Giants: The Birth Of Cleo, ABC1) Carrie Bickmore (The Project, Network Ten) Esther Anderson (Charlie Buckton, Home And Away, Channel Seven) Hamish Blake (Hamish & Andy’s Gap Year,...

Hamish Blake and Andy Lee are reportedly going to host an Olympics-related TV show. The Australian comedy duo, who last year relocated to New York for their Gap Year show, will front an Olympics build-up show based in a London pub. Nine Network managing director Jeff Browne told The Daily Telegraph: "I'm not giving too much away, but they will base themselves at some little pub in London and bring us a whole lot of stories on the way to the games." Browne did not reveal whether Blake and Lee's programme will come in the form of a series or just a few specials. (more)...

Hamish Blake and Zoe Foster have revealed that they are considering eloping for their wedding. The Australian comedian and writer Foster, who announced their engagement in January this year, are reportedly struggling to make decisions about the kind of ceremony that they want. Foster told the Herald Sun: "We had a weekend where we consciously said, 'Let's work on this guest list' and then failed. I think once we decide big or small, it will be better. "We've got a big trip to London coming up first and we leave soon, so I've kind of got my head in that space first. A summer wedding (more)...

New Zealander Bret McKenzie has won best song at the Oscars for his song Man or Muppet from feature film The Muppets.

McKenzie’s song beat out song Real in Rio from animate feature Rio, composed by Sergio Mendes and Carlinhos Brown with lyrics by Siedah Garrett.

McKenzie is one half of musical comedy act Flight of the Conchords.

The actor/musician will be seen next in Two Little Boys, alongside Australia’s Hamish Blake.

Hopscotch Films will distribute the film locally, directed by Robert Sarkies, produced by Vicky Pope and Tim White.

Hamish Blake and Andy Lee have revealed that they want to film a show in Europe. The Australian comedy duo, who relocated to New York last year for their Gap Year show, said that they would like to film the next series while doing a road trip across Europe. Lee told the Herald Sun that he hoped it would be a journey similar to their 'Caravan of Courage' tour across the Us, but he also revealed that Blake wanted to cross the continent in a Ferrari. "Somehow, I don't think that will happen but we can only ask," he joked. The pair are scheduled to leave for their overseas trip in May. The new show will air on the Nine Network in the build-up to this summer's Olympics, allowing Blake and Lee to broadcast one of their radio shows live from the Games in London. Blake and Lee (more)...

Those crazy New Zealanders, they do love their mullets, quirky comedies and jokes about sheep. Two of the three are very present in this trailer (although there is a shot of a herd of sheep, so something tells me there will be sheep jokes) for Two Little Boys. The movie features Brett Mackenzie from Flight of the Conchords and Hamish Blake. I’ve never heard of him before.

The synopsis of the film breaks down like this:...

Trailer for 'Two Little Boys' directed by Robert Sarkies and based on the book by Duncan Sarkies, starring Bret McKenzie, Hamish Blake and Maaka Pohatu.

'Two Little Boys' is an irreverent comedy about Nige (Bret McKenzie -- Flight of the Concords) and his recently estranged best mate Deano (Hamish Blake). The film follows Nige and Deano's riotous misadventures as they struggle with their imploding long-term friendship which has been put under pressure by an unfortunate incident involving a hot meat pie, a ginger cat and the untimely death of a Scandinavian soccer star.

It opens 15 March 2012 in New Zealand, no word yet on a international release.

Bret McKenzie has come a very long way -- after proving he was worth his elf salt in "Lord of the Rings," he went onto become one half of the most popular New Zealand folk comedy duo and is up for an Oscar for his catchy tune, "Man or Muppet." He's also the lead in a feature film, but... this one feels a bit off the path of success. In his next project, McKenzie is sporting a mullet and manning the immature comedy "Two Little Boys." Here he and his childhood bff (Hamish Blake) try to correct an initial blunder (killing someone) and end up getting into even more trouble. The film seems like New Zealand's take on "Dumb and Dumber," let's just hope it steers clear of (shudder) "Dumb and Dumberer." Sound off in the comments field below. "Two Little Boys"hits theaters in New Zealand March 15; there is no set American release date.

Hamish Blake has revealed that he wants to achieve Pippa Middleton's "ass" in his upcoming wedding. The Australian comedian and television star, who announced his engagement to writer Zoe Foster earlier this month, said that he is working very hard to improve his physical appearance before they get married. Blake told the Herald Sun that he and Foster have decided to have "mini burgers" at their reception, adding: "That's all we've got down, although I'm working furiously to make my ass as good as Pippa Middleton's." He also said that he and Foster have "no idea" when it comes to wedding planning, saying: "They seem very difficult to organise." When announcing their (more)...

Comes a Bright Day

"With another twelve world premieres and three international premieres, Generation’s feature-length film program is now complete," the Berlinale's announced today. "A total of 58 short and full-length films from 32 countries have been selected for the Generation Kplus and Generation 14plus competitions." Straight from the release, then, with descriptions from the festival:

Generation 14plus

Comes a Bright Day (Great Britain, by Simon Aboud) – Against the backdrop of an armed robbery at a London jewellers, much more is at stake than money. Where diamonds are involved, love is not far. Cast: Craig Roberts, Imogen Poots, Kevin McKidd, Timothy Spall and others. World Premiere. Site.

Lal Gece (Night of Silence, Turkey, by Reis Çelik) – When the groom lifts the bride’s veil, he is looking into the face of a 14-year-old girl. As tradition has it, a night in the bridal chamber seals the marriage. Cast: Ilyas Salman, Dilan Aksüt and others.