It's been quite a while since we've had reason to check in with Channel Nine's continued Underbelly woes, though it's always a pleasure to do so - and so I can't say I was disappointed to read that Nine has been ordered to pay the legal costs following part of their legal battle to get Underbelly screened in Victoria.

Wow, two-thousand-and-great just gets greater and greater, doesn't it, Team Nine?

A spokesman for the Office of Public Prosecutions yesterday confirmed Nine's failed appeal against Underbelly's ban in Victoria cost tens of thousands of dollars.

Nine has been hit with the expensive bill after already losing million of dollars of advertising revenue and wasted marketing when the 13-part crime drama - starring Kat Stewart and Gyton Grantley as Roberta and Carl Williams - was banned by a Supreme Court judge.

Nine's legal team clashed with the state's Director of Public Prosecutions Jeremy Rapke, QC, during an urgent appeal hearing in March.

The life and times of Nine - once the most impressive ratings beast in Australian network television - becomes more and more farcical every day. At this rate Chris Lilley's next show may as well be called Still The One; he wouldn't even have to write a word - it's all there for him!

 

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