Thursday, July 10, 2008
Simmone Jade McKinnon Can At Last Walk Down The Street Without Being Accosted By Demented Drover’s Run Fanatics – McLeod’s Daughters Is Coming Back To Our Screens!
3:35PM Jess McGuire | Although I remember random events on Neighbours which occurred back in 1987 with disturbing clarity, sometimes I can’t remember things which happened a few months back.
Thus, I was surprised to learn today that McLeod’s Daughters would be returning to Channel Nine as the last I could recall, stars of the show were selling stuff on eBay and struggling to pay off their mortgages since the show had been axed.
But then I remembered “Ahhh yes, the program was ‘boned’ but the final series hadn’t been televised yet, leaving Simmone Jade McKinnon unable to stroll down to the shops without McLeod’s Daughters fans approaching her and demanding to know when Channel Nine would be broadcasting the remaining 22 episodes… Oh, the tragedy!”
So chin up, Simmone Jade McKinnon – all is right in your world again. Sort of.
McLeod’s Daughters, Australia’s most popular and successful rural drama, promises to go out in a season of great stories when it returns for its eighth and last series on Wednesday, July 23 at the new time of 8.30pm on Channel Nine.
Since its 1996 telemovie debut which produced the Logie Award-winning series, McLeod’s Daughters has captured a unique portrait of life on the land for women, with all its hardship, beauty and romance.
Shot entirely on location in Kingsford, South Australia, the series centres on the vast cattle property Drovers Run and the lives and loves of the women who work it.
And it seems there’s quite a few amazing storylines coming to a small screen near you. Read it all here, but some highlights (for me, because I am a fool) include -
Romance is in the air as new couples hook up and old ones reunite, while a love triangle causes havoc for the women.
An all woman love triangle? Please, say it’s so – Divers Run has much more of a ring to it. I APPROVE.
This series will also feature an all-singing and dancing musical episode, and some familiar characters return to Drovers Run as well.
I would be surprised about this musical turn of events, except Clem assures me she once saw an episode of the show where Jay Laga’aia played the archangel Gabriel, so clearly this program knows no boundaries. More » 
Would You Like To See A New Gabriella Cilmi Clip?
3:30PM Jess McGuire | Perhaps you would. Therefore, here is something that isn’t Sweet About Me – it’s called Save The Lies (Good To Me), and the ever brilliant Pop Justice says:
Anyway as well as sounding quite different from ‘Sweet About Me’ ‘Save The Lies’ comes with a video which is totally not boring (unlike the ‘Sweet About Me’ video which was so tedious that our boringometer exploded and is still awaiting repair).
Warning: contains images of a Newton Faulkner lookalike nature.
Let’s have a peep, shall we?
She looks awesome, but I’m not sure about the song – it seems to be lacking something. But what do I know? I’ve put Phil Collins forward as the man responsible for the greatest song ever written. I am about as relevant to music right now as the sock my dog is chewing as I type. More » 
YouTube Clip Of The Day
3:25PM Jess McGuire | This song won’t leave my head, and I have no idea what they’re saying!
Some background - there’s an Aussie fellow in that there girlgroup…
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Introducing JonBenet Bendy
11:15AM Seth | If you didn’t happen to catch Victoria—one part Cats, one part JonBenét Ramsey, and one part boneless chicken breast—on America’s Got Talent, now’s your chance. Just give this girl the trophy (or whatever it is they give on that show) already! [AGT] The lifeless carcass of Bravo’s Project Runway was discovered inside a giant roll of chenille at the back of Mood Fabrics. [Gawker] Wow! Another original 90210 cast member was able to shuffle things around to accommodate an appearance on the new version. This must be one special spin-off. [Us] Pam Anderson pledges “no stripping” on her three-day stint as Australian Celebrity Big Brother’s “uber special VIP guest.” No matter how hard they ask. Unless they get her drunk. Or ask. [Sun] We’re happy to inform you that http://rim.jobs is totally safe for work. [http://rim.jobs] More »
Limits Of Fanboy Endurance To Be Tested With 6 A.M. Screenings of ‘The Dark Knight’
10:55AM Defamer Hollywood | For all the veins of Dark Knight interest Warner Bros. has opened among stampeding fanboys, late-night talk-show hosts and, er, Michael Bay, at the end of the day nothing succeeds like success. To wit: When your showtimes — midnight to 6 a.m. in some markets — become national news, you can probably just put the campaign on cruise-control and move on to the next film:
BB Producers Surprised To Find That Exceedingly Large Amounts Of Money Will Not Stop Pamela Anderson Fighting For Animal Rights
10:54AM Clem Bastow | Surely they must’ve seen this one coming – Pamela Anderson, in the country to film a stint in the Big Brother house, and apparently paid loads to do so – has continued her animal rights campaigning for PETA while down under, requesting meetings with Kevin Rudd to discuss live exports, and so on.
But, somewhat deliciously, her main target is KFC, otherwise known as one of Big Brother’s major sponsors.
Suddenly BB are wishing they’d gone with Tara Reid.
Less than five hours after arriving in Australia yesterday, the 41-year-old ambassador for animal welfare group PETA announced that tomorrow she would deliver a letter protesting KFC’s treatment of chickens to a Gold Coast KFC outlet.
The letter and accompanying video – addressed to Albert Baladi, the managing director of KFC’s Australian parent company – claims the fast food chain’s suppliers scald chickens to death in defeathering tanks.
The serial Playboy bunny admitted she had agreed to appear on Ten’s reality TV show because she was being paid “a lot”.
“Much more than I’m worth. I had to come. I can’t believe it,” she said. Asked if her pay cheque of was in excess of $500,000, she replied: “I don’t want to say how much, but it was a lot.”
Awesome, I love Pammy – pocketing the cash, saying she doesn’t care who sponsors the show, and staying true to what she believes in. That’s the spirit!
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This Just In, US ‘Kath & Kim’ Will Suck: Experts
10:30AM Clem Bastow | Let’s hope angry Selma Blair doesn’t read this one, because we all know how much she hates us Colonials dissin’ her country’s version of our successful comedy franchises…
Except this time, even her own countrymen are saying Kath & Kim, US-of-A style, will blow chunks!
Well, at least in a ratings sense.
Each year, New York-based firm Horizon Media analyses the new shows for the all-important American autumn TV season and predict what series will be hits and what will be misses and quickly axed.
NBC’s Kath & Kim was circled as one of the expected weak performers.
The bad press comes as the US TV network begins to promote the series ahead of its October 9 debut.
NBC has invested heavily in the show. It cast Molly Shannon, one of America’s most loved comediennes after a six-year stint on sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, as Kath and big screen actress, Selma Blair, who stars in the new action film Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, as Kim.
NBC also juggled its schedule around to give Kath & Kim the best chance of success. The show will air as the final piece of NBC’s Thursday night comedy block.
I think, if it does suck – and it probably will – we should organise some sort of massive, nationwide protest, like every person in the country InterFlora-ing an “I’m Sorry For Your Loss…” card to Selma Blair, or maybe aerial shots of people on every beach in the country using their bodies to spell out “NER NERNY NER NER! WE MILKED YOU!!”
Or something similarly mature. More » 
George Clooney, Unsexiest Dancer Alive
10:20AM Molly Friedman | That sand-diving, levitating make-out partner Sarah Larson has gone ahead and surprised us again. Ever since those racy photos from her pre-George days pleasantly shocked us a bit, we could always count on the Vegas hostess to say or do something not so intelligent and turn our frowns upside down. From showering Clooney’s home with scented candles to pouting over defamatory voice messages on George’s answering machine, Larson never failed to please. And the bobble-headed minx has done it again. When asked by Hello! what exactly she adored about George, she lists some yawn-worthy traits like humor(!), kindness(!), and famewhore enabling(!), but the one thing Sarah says she loved most about the guy who spent most of their relationship on crutches? His “dance moves.” Of course. Because judging by these photos of Clooney busting a move, those “interpretive” lessons he took a few years ago really paid off.
Amy Winehouse Round-Up: Punch On 2008
9:38AM Clem Bastow | Amy Winehouse blah blah blah taking drugs blah doing bad shit and blah blah not very good live performances blah don’t forget to feed the cat blah and buy milk…
Oh, I’m sorry, I didn’t realise you were reading already! For those of you who are here for Winegums Watch, evidently Amy has been punching on in London pubs and now has been snapped whacking her own bodyguard. And, well, let’s just say this isn’t a great look, Amy:
As the piece says:
[B]y the looks of things he felt the full force of her hand, grimacing in pain as she went in for another blow.
Wearing red shorts and a 1950’s style black shirt, Amy looked glamorous but dishevelled as she entered her North London abode leaving the unlucky minder behind her.
But he can take solace in the knowledge he’s not the only one to have been on the receiving end of Amy’s temper.
She was seen striking a fan outside her Camden flat, claiming he had pinched her bottom.
Prior to this, the singer hit out at another fan after he touched her beehive at Glastonbury.
Good times, eh Amy? I have to say, I don’t usually pay much attention to the comments sections on Daily Mail pieces (which rate just above “primordial ooze” and just below “Andrew Bolt forums” on the ‘moral human beings’ scale), but this one is a corker:
My ten year old son was discussing Amy Winehouse with another friend and said ‘That’s what happens if you take drugs – you die’.
From the mouths of babes… More » 
Attention World: ‘Sunday’ Is Just Not That Weird A Baby Name
9:32AM Clem Bastow | Evidently the world is reeling from the fact that Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban called their baby “Sunday”, after noted Australian art champion and Heide doyenne, Sunday Reed – first the local papers got all “here’s the scoop on Sunday’s mystery name”, now it’s reached the UK and the Mail has looked into the “story”. Sorry, that should read, “revealed” the story.
For real:
The mystery of Nicole Kidman’s unusual name choice for her newborn daughter has been solved.
The Oscar-winner’s father revealed ‘Sunday’ was inspired by an Australian arts patron notorious for her lurid love life.
Antony Kidman said the name was first suggested by him and his wife Janelle, who drew inspiration from prominent Australian Sunday Reed.
The piece goes on to trot out the same tired and sexist “OMG polyamorous relationships! OMG affairs! OMG sordid!” lines as pretty much every other piece on Reed has done over the last few days.
But seriously, it’s just not that mysterious or weird – off the top of my head, I know at least three Sundays. Has it really come to this? More » 