SUNDAY night, TV's biggest battlefield, is about to get a lot more interesting with the debut of reality series The Lost Tribes.
Three Aussie families sign up for a surprise travel challenge, expecting something five-star - but instead find themselves having to live in some of the world's most remote places.
One Sydney clan forced to do it rough are the Poveys.
Dad is a fireman and Mum, a former Miss South West Suburbs, reveals in the first episode that one of her daughters has developed her sense of style from part-time work at Supre.
Wonder what fashion tips she'll pick up from the natives?
The Lost Tribes premieres on Nine in two weeks.
It's having a splashy debut as a lead-in for the Logies, but will have to face off against the new Where Are They Now on Seven.
BEAUTIFUL Sunday wasn't looking too beautiful last week, and Seven may want to rethink its policy of resting hit shows over Easter (it seems schoolkids and their parents still watch telly on holidays, and they're one fickle bunch).
AND, from tonight, throw Big Brother 7 into the mix (although Live Eviction shows don't begin until May 6).
How will BB survive without an Uncut or Adults Only?
Helen Coonan had better clear her schedule for the next 13 weeks, because she's got a lot of BB to monitor. (And while she's Up Late, how about legislating against those tacky phone-sex ads in the breaks, instead?
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THE Biggest Loser 2 crowns its weight-loss champ on Thursday (will it be Marty, Chris or Pati?), with former contestant Damien returning to sing.
It will also announce that TBL 3 is a definite goer so, if you're thinking of having a go in 2008, watch for details.
WITH the BBC now in talks to re-sign Neighbours, rival networks ITV and Five are keen to poach the show, which is still a lucrative lunchtime institution in the UK.
But would they ever resort to such desperate measures as Ten? A recent tagline for Neighbours was: Lock up your Sons and Daughters - Pat the Rat is back!
Really?
It's Rowena Wallace who is back, but she's playing a new character called Scary Mary.
And though that could be a disguise for Patricia Hamilton (she did once fly to Rio for plastic surgery), isn't it odd for Ten to be claiming to resurrect that bitch from Seven's big soap of the '80s?
Rosie repents
THE 10th season of The View has never been livelier since Rosie O'Donnell joined, but she reckons she's going to quit railing against President Bush.
After 67,000 viewers voted online to boycott the chat show because of her political views, O'Donnell responded on her own website that she was sick of talking about the US Administration anyway and would now focus on other issues. I give her two weeks.
LAST week, CSI: NY was in trouble for dubiously claiming it was a historical series because of 9/11.
This week, the show is buying footage of its own city from Nine.
The hit US show has licensed some footage from the travel show Getaway.
For a preview, check out Natalie in New York when Getaway Goes To The Movies on May 3 so she can re-enact Night At The Museum.
AMERICA'S TV Guide Channel has axed Joan and Melissa Rivers from its red-carpet shows, replacing them with Melrose Place's Lisa Rinna.
Rose Byrne has joined Glenn Close and Ted Danson on Damages, a new US legal drama.
How much more of this boring garbage must we put up with? Reality shows??
They should be called un-reality shows. Or better still, give me a job as a programmer, I can do a lot better than the idiots who are currently employed at it.
Posted by: Robyn of sydney 6:28pm April 22, 2007 The sooner shows like big brother and the like are removed from tv, the better.
Enough is enough. As far as I m aware, voyeurism isn t legal. I m also curious as to why networks keep throwing repeats in, right in the middle of the season.
CSI is good for that, as is law and order.
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