By Kruti Joshi
“Everyone gets an idea from the Ikea catalogue even though the ideas and the photographs in them mostly come from Sweden. They tailor a Swedish brand to how we live here. Likewise, Real Living takes inspiration from everywhere around the world to help us create our own beautiful homes in Australia,” she told Mediaweek.
Lovelock joined Bauer Media as an intern back when it was ACP Magazines. She has spent her entire career with the company, much of this time working in homes publications.
“I have worked on all the homes titles up until our recent acquisition,” she said. Bauer acquired Inside Out, Country Style and HomeLife.com.au from News Corp in June 2018.
Prior to being named editor of Real Living in April 2018, Lovelock was the deputy editor of the brand under Emma Vidgen.
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See OzTAM launches VOZ: All-screen integrated total TV database
Progressively rolling out from Q1 2019, the new Total TV database, Virtual Australia (VOZ), will bring together audience data for Australians’ broadcast TV viewing on TV sets (OzTAM TV ratings) and streamed TV viewing via connected devices (OzTAM’s VPM service).
The television industry CEOs note that VOZ will allow agencies and advertisers to create media plans for TV inventory on all screens for the metropolitan commercial free-to-air and Foxtel channels, and to manage de-duplicated audience reach and frequency goals in their Total TV campaigns.
VOZ will build on the industry’s ongoing innovation and will ultimately enable audience segments as a currency that advertisers can trade against. Broadcasters will be able to integrate their own data with VOZ’s independent, objective, cross-screen viewing data to enable advanced audience targeting based on viewer behaviours, interests and needs, in addition to fundamental age and gender demographics.
The announcement comes as four CEOs prepare to share a stage for the first time at the inaugural AdWeek Asia-Pacific conference in Sydney at a dinner for Australia’s largest advertisers on July 31.
Patrick Delany, chief executive of Foxtel, said: “TV is the ultimate loud-speaker and continues to hold the crown as the best way to reach the widest possible audience. No other medium captures and holds people’s attention in the same way while at the same time being backed up by transparent performance metrics allowing advertisers to measure audiences, fine-tune messages and amplify the impact of their stories. Today’s news is the next big step in its evolution as the ultimate marketing medium.”
Hugh Marks, chief executive of Nine, said: “The launch of VOZ by OzTAM is an important milestone for television, that will pave the way for advertisers to harness VOZ to better target audience segments, while making the most of broadcast TV’s ability to quickly build reach across their platforms.”
Paul Anderson, chief executive of Network TEN, said: “Television is the only way to reach mass audiences fast – today’s news unlocks the true value of our content and cements television’s position in the marketing mix as the most effective way for advertisers and brands to engage audiences at scale.”
Tim Worner, chief executive of Seven West Media, said: “The true amount of TV being watched, and the level of engagement when it is, has long been underestimated. Today’s announcement gets us much closer to capturing real audience numbers, and will give brands invaluable insights into how audiences engage with premium long-form video across the many different screens now available to them. It is this transparency and accountability, delivered by global leading measurement metrics, that sets TV apart from other mediums, and helps make it the best and most effective platform for advertisers for now and long into the future.”
Australian satirical news brand The Betoota Advocate will embark on a national tour this November and December, TEG Dainty and Nice Events have announced.
Editors Clancy Overell and Errol Parker will treat audiences to a no-holds-barred live show in true Betoota-style, filled with their trademark wit and humour.
The 13-city tour opens in Townsville on November 3, and will pass through every corner of the country before it winds up at the iconic Sydney Opera House on December 1.
The Betoota Advocate is nationally known and loved for its witty take on the zeitgeist of modern Australia, and has developed a fiercely loyal readership since its inception.
The outlet has previously teamed up with the likes of Malcolm Turmbull and Sir Richard Branson, and reports over seven million website hits monthly.
The brand signed with Nova Entertainment’s Acast Australia for a podcast earlier this year.
The Betoota brand has also spawned several other successful ventures including Betoota Bitter, Betoota Outfitters and Betoota’s Australia – a book about contemporary Australia that was launched by the Prime Minister at a press conference in October 2017.
Tickets go on sale at 12pm local time on Wednesday August 1.
• Saturday 3 November – The Civic, Townsville
• Sunday 4 November – Darwin Entertainment Centre, Darwin
• Tuesday 6 November – Empire Theatre, Toowoomba
• Thursday 8 November – Qpac, Brisbane
• Friday 9 November – Nightquarter, Gold Coast
• Sunday 11 November – Anita’s Theatre, Wollongong
• Tuesday 13 November – The Civic, Newcastle
• Friday 16 November – Astor Theatre, Perth
• Saturday 17 November – Hamer Hall, Melbourne
• Sunday 18 November – Odeon Theatre, Hobart
• Thursday 22 November – Aec Theatre, Adelaide
• Friday 30 November – Llewelyn Hall, Canberra
• Saturday 1 December – Sydney Opera House, Sydney
This includes flagship shows such as Raw, SmackDown and WWE’s live pay-per-views events.
Foxtel’s FOX8 will continue to air Raw live at 10am on Tuesdays and SmackDown live at 10am on Wednesdays. For the first time, FOX8 will re-air Raw on Tuesday nights in primetime and SmackDown on Wednesday nights in primetime, and Fox Sports will air one-hour versions of Raw and SmackDown in primetime each week. Both shows will be available On Demand following their broadcast.
“We are delighted to extend our long-standing partnership with one of the biggest brands in entertainment, and increase our WWE offering across both our linear channels and On Demand,” said Stephen Baldwin, Director of Foxtel Networks and On Demand. “WWE has such a passionate fan base in Australia, and Foxtel is pleased to be able to continue bringing this popular content to our customers.”
“Foxtel is a longtime, valued partner that shares our vision and passion for engaging and entertaining our fans,” said Michelle Wilson, WWE Co-President. “This agreement allows us to continue showcasing our unique blend of action-packed, family friendly entertainment across Australia.”
News Corp’s Melbourne daily the Herald Sun has published the results of its annual AFL fan survey.
A central part of the survey each year asks those fans about the highlights from the media that cover one of Australia’s two major winter sports.
Seven’s Bruce McAvaney was voted as the best play-by-play TV commentator with 27% of the vote. Second was Fox Footy’s Anthony Hudson followed by Seven’s Brian Taylor.
Fox Footy’s David King was voted TV’s best tactical analyst, well ahead of Seven’s Leigh Matthews in second spot.
Brian Taylor has taken top spot in the category he probably didn’t want to win – Most Annoying AFL Media Personality. He was well ahead of Nine’s Sam Newman in second place.
Seven’s The Front Bar was easily voted Favourite TV Footy Show, well ahead of Fox Footy’s daily AFL 360. Nine’s Footy Show and Footy Classified just made it into the top five.
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The production reunites Damian Hill and Paul Ireland, the creative team behind the critically acclaimed 2015 feature Pawno. M4M has secured principal production investment from Screen Australia in association with the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) Premiere Fund. Film Victoria provided development and production support.
Hill and Ireland are producing the film and have co-written the script. Ireland will also be taking on directing duties. Ian Kirk, Bryce Menzies, Tony Nagle and Clement Dunn are acting as executive producers. Bankside Films is attached for international sales.
Ireland said: “The script for me is always the most important part of the process, the foundation of everything. Damian and I have spent the last two years pouring a lot of love, laughter, frustration, care and emotion into the writing of M4M, resulting in what I feel is a very relevant emotive story and world that deserves to be shared and shown – a world that is often ignored as people are happy to sit in ignorance and let the sun shine or the rain fall, thinking it doesn’t affect them.”
M4M tells the unlikely love story of a modern Muslim woman Jaiwara and local loner musician Claudio, set amongst the tense background of Melbourne’s housing estates. Looming large is local crime figure Duke (played by Weaving) and his rival Farouk, Jaiwara’s gangster brother.
Casting for M4M is currently under way, with filming to commence in Melbourne in September.
The popularity of the US sitcom is not easily explained given it has been off-air for some time since it was cancelled in the US by Fox. New episodes from its new home at NBC are not expected until early in 2019. The series was screened in Australia most recently on Viceland, but there are no episodes available on SBS On Demand. Older seasons of the show are available on Netflix, Universal Channel (Australia), and Fetch TV. The show was screened in New Zealand on the TVNZ channel Duke. Older episodes have been available on Lightbox.
Meanwhile Sacha Baron Cohen’s Who Is America? has charted in the top 10 in both countries this week. It is screened in Australia on Stan and doesn’t feature in the top 10 Digital Originals.
The Handmaid’s Tale leads the Digital Originals chart in Australia and New Zealand for a sixth consecutive week.
The winter school holiday period proved to be a good few weeks for cinemas. However, now that is over box office dollars have slowed with revenue down 31% week-on-week to $12.43m.
It wasn’t just the school holiday trade that was good – the past six weekends were all $18m+ plus.
This week it is all about music with ABBA and André Rieu helping ease the post-holiday pain.
Two new releases made the chart this week as cinemas look forward to the new Mission Impossible instalment next weekend.
The second week at #1 for the hit musical with total takings so far close to $13m. Cinemas showing the movie dropped from 587 to 531 while the screen average dropped from just over $10,000 to $7,351. The musical tunes from ABBA, along with the star cast, are a tempting treat for movie fans. And the soundtrack is doing bumper business too, sitting at #1 this week on the ARIA album chart.
Week two of this action thriller with close to 300 cinemas still showing the Denzel Washington film with a screen average of $6,290 with second weekend earnings down close to 40%. Box office after its two weekends sits at $5.75m.
Sub-titled Amore, My Tribute To Love, the concert had a healthy screen average of $9,675 for the lucky 133 screens that got to show the event. This year the Netherland’s concerts (13 this year!) from his hometown were held earlier this month. The Today show’s Richard Wilkins was on the scene for Nine breakfast TV viewers to give them a peek behind the scenes and to grab a few words with the great man André.
The latest Marvel blockbuster remains top five after four weekends with total box office on $17.94m with 291 screens still offering the movie with a weekend average of $3,629.
The first weekend for this New Zealand indie comedy, which is being released by Madman here. The movie launched on 227 screens with a screen average just over $3,000.
Outside the top 5: They might have drifted out of the top five, but these two movies are still doing good business.
Incredibles 2 did $695,000 on the weekend with a total to-date of $44.05m after seven weekends.
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom did $694,000 and has earned a total of $34.46m after six weekends.
By James Manning
Seven
Home and Away started its new week on 724,000 after a week 30 average of 678,000.
House Rules saw the top two teams tasked with making over the exteriors and front yards of their grand final opponents. Toad and Mandy subsequently won House Rules 2018 with a judges’ score of 24/30, just one point ahead of Mel and Dave on 23/30. Their prize – $355,000. Toad and Mandy did a great job on the exterior of the home overlooking the water at Hope Island on the Gold Coast. Mel and Dave also did a great job on the Bega Valley country homestead, but it didn’t impress the judges quite enough to clinch victory. The final episode did 853,000 and climbed to 915,000 for the announcement of the winner.
The audience for the House Rules final last year was 1.02m for the bulk of the episode and then 1.15m for the announcement of the winner.
Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours To Hell And Back did 418,000 followed by Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares on 249,000.
Nine
A Current Affair started its week on 816,000 after a week 30 average of 740,000. The program recalled the Hoddle Street massacre and murderer Julian Knight.
Australian Ninja Warrior started its two-part grand final with 906,000, which trailed MasterChef and the last section of House Rules. As always there was great athleticism on display plus some spectacular fails. The audience for last year’s penultimate episode was 1.54m.
When Celebrity Goes Horribly Wrong was next with 286,000.
The Monday night footy shows followed: 100% Footy was well down the rankings with under 50,000 from Sydney and Brisbane, while Footy Classified was on 103,000 with 74,000 in Melbourne.
TEN
Pointless averaged 358,000 across its first week on TEN, after Family Feud’s final week averaged 303,000. Pointless started its second week on 328,000.
MasterChef Australia had to farewell Khanh in its penultimate episode. The MasterChef Australia top two are Ben Borsht and Sashi Cheliah, who will face off against each other in tonight’s grand final. To decide the top two, the remaining cooks had to prepare a main and dessert for 20 previous MasterChef contestants from nine previous seasons. Khanh was in deep trouble from early on with burnt fish. The Monday audience was 961,000, which was the biggest audience for the show this season. The same episode last year did 953,000.
Russell Coight was the first guest quizmaster on Have You Been Paying Attention? and he shuffled on set with a brown snake wrapped around his neck. Dane Simpson made his first appearance on the panel and he was playing the game better than anyone else, which is why he had the lowest score. The episode did 856,000 all people and delivered its biggest 25-54 audience where it ranked #1 for the night.
ABC
Backroads did 568,000 at 8pm.
Four Corners then did 415,000, which is close to half the audience of over 800,000 watching just a fortnight ago.
Media Watch then did 522,000 followed by Q&A on 387,000.
SBS
Inside Windsor Castle had the channel’s biggest audience at 7.30pm with 255,000 watching.
How To Get Fit First followed on 138,000, followed by 24 Hours In Emergency at 9.30pm with 185,000.
MONDAY METRO | |||||||||
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ABC | Seven | Nine | Ten | SBS | |||||
ABC | 11.8% | 7 | 19.4% | 9 | 19.0% | TEN | 18.3% | SBS One | 4.3% |
ABC 2 | 2.5% | 7TWO | 3.3% | GO! | 4.2% | ONE | 2.7% | VICELAND | 1.1% |
ABC ME | 0.6% | 7mate | 3.0% | GEM | 2.7% | ELEVEN | 1.6% | Food Net | 1.0% |
ABC NEWS | 1.1% | 7flix | 2.0% | 9Life | 1.3% | NITV | 0.1% | ||
TOTAL | 16.0% | 27.7% | 27.3% | 22.6% | 6.5% |
MONDAY REGIONAL | |||||||||
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ABC | Seven Affiliates | Nine Affiliates | Ten Affiliates | SBS | |||||
ABC | 12.5% | 7 | 22.3% | 9 | 16.1% | WIN | 13.4% | SBS One | 3.6% |
ABC 2 | 2.6% | 7TWO | 4.3% | GO! | 4.6% | ONE | 3.0% | VICELAND | 0.7% |
ABC ME | 1.1% | 7mate | 4.4% | GEM | 4.6% | ELEVEN | 1.5% | Food Net | 0.9% |
ABC NEWS | 1.2% | 7flix | 1.5% | 9Life | 1.7% | NITV | 0.1% | ||
TOTAL | 17.4% | 32.5% | 27.0% | 17.9% | 5.3% |
MONDAY METRO ALL TV | |||||||||
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FTA | STV | ||||||||
87.3% | 12.7% |
16-39 Top 5
18-49 Top 5
25-54 Top 5
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Source: OzTAM and Regional TAM 2018. The Data may not be reproduced, published or communicated (electronically or in hard copy) without the prior written consent of OzTAM
Despite rising 2.74% yesterday to $2.25, Nine Entertainment shares were still well below the $2.52 price shares were trading at before the free-to-air television company announced its shock bid for the newspaper publisher on Thursday morning.
The fall in the Nine share price has reduced the value of its offer to just 81.6c, nearly 5c above pre-bid price.
Fairfax shares closed at 81c yesterday, up 0.62%, after it was revealed that multi-billion-dollar fund manager Vinva Investment Management became a substantial shareholder in Fairfax Media on the day the takeover was announced. Vinva said it bought a total of 44 million shares over the four months to July 26, lifting its holding to 5.01% stake, or 115.2 million shares.
Taylor said while Nine did produce some “good journalism”, Australia’s contraction in media diversity spoke to a larger issue of “a problem with civic journalism”.
She said news that held the powerful to account was “really essential for our society and our democracy”, and that consumers of media had to actively support public interest journalism.
As Street Talk previously revealed, Sydney-based firm Allegro Funds was among parties to show their hand when first round offers were submitted to News Corp’s adviser Citi in June.
And sources said the turnaround private equity firm is still front and centre in the auction, and is working its way through due diligence materials in the second round data room.
It’s believed the Pacific Magazines owner Seven and the Australian arm of the German publishing giant have spoken about shared merchandising services and subscriptions services as a way to reduce costs.
While industry sources said the talks were currently on ice, it’s understood the way things were left means there’s potential for Seven and Bauer to return to the table.
The company said in a statement, “its Board of Directors is in the process of selecting outside counsel to conduct an independent investigation. No other action was taken on this matter at today’s board meeting. Additionally, the Board determined to postpone CBS Corporation’s 2018 annual meeting of stockholders that was previously scheduled to be held on August 10, 2018.”
First, Facebook shares plummeted on Thursday, wiping more than $US120 billion off its market capitalisation. Then, on Friday, Twitter lost 15.5% of its market value.
While Facebook’s earnings numbers were stellar – up 31% for the quarter relative to the same period last year – it warned of slower revenue growth in the second half of this year and operating margin declines for the next several years. It also reported flat user numbers and the loss of one million European users in the June quarter.
Twitter also posted good financial numbers, with revenue up 24%, but lost a million users from the first quarter.
And it appears his instructions will be followed to the letter on Friday morning at The Capitol Theatre with an all-star cast gracing the stage to remember Miller, who died on July 4, aged 84, after a long battle with dementia.
Speakers lined up to pay tribute include Miller’s “great mate” Maggie Tabberer, Miller’s former partner and client Deborah Hutton, broadcaster Alan Jones, former High Court judge Michael Kirby, respected theatrical director Jim Sharman and set designer Brian Thomson.
Over the weekend, the e-commerce site-turned-streaming giant announced it had hired two showrunners, JD Payne and Patrick McKay, to develop the series. Payne and McKay have worked together for more than two decades, most recently writing the big-budget script for Star Trek Beyond.
“The rich world that JRR Tolkien created is filled with majesty and heart, wisdom and complexity,” they said in a statement. “We are absolutely thrilled to be partnering with Amazon to bring it to life anew. We feel like Frodo, setting out from the Shire, with a great responsibility in our care.”
Discussions with Peter Jackson are said to be ongoing. However, it’s expected that the award-winning director won’t have a hands-on role in the forthcoming TV series.
Instead, showrunners hope to film the show in New Zealand and gain Jackson’s permission to use his sets to create a similar atmosphere to the film trilogy.
Vice president of original series Cindy Holland rebutted the claims from fans and defended the streaming giant’s series against petitioners during the 2018 Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour at The Beverly Hilton.
“Lauren Goose, who is the creator, felt very strongly about exploring these issues based on her own experiences, but in a satirical, over-the-top way,” she told reporters.
“Ultimately, the message of the show is that what is most important is that you feel comfortable in your own self. Fat-shaming itself, that criticism, is embedded in the DNA of the show.”
Speaking to The Courier-Mail yesterday after revealing on-air that her beau had popped the question during a family day out at Movie World last week, the Triple M breakfast presenter said the big day would be all about their blended family.
“The kids will all be in the bridal party and very much involved,” she said.
Bailey has three sons – Fin, 18, Lewin, 16, and Piper, 14 – from her marriage to late husband Tony Smart, who took his own life in 2014, while Pickwell has daughter Ally, 25, and son Jamie, 21, from a previous relationship.
“We have taken things super slowly – there is a lot of pain in my family that needed to be respected,” Bailey said.
She said Pickwell, 55, who moved up from Sydney and into their Brisbane home in May, had asked her sons for their permission three weeks before proposing.