Our nominations have tended to go for major productions or companies. The nominations in the various categories aren’t exhaustive and there are some omissions.

In radio we have stayed with commercial radio’s highest rating shows because that is our focus at Mediaweek. We don’t completely ignore ABC radio, but it is not our speciality.

In TV, ABC programs are eligible because many of them are made by outside companies, whereas ABC Radio is largely an internal operation.

We started rather late planning this year. Next year we anticipate there could be more categories depending on reader feedback.

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By James Manning

“Fabulous weirdos”: Christian Wilkins and Andy Kelly on Radical Fashionism

Wilkins is no stranger to the media and is the son on Nine music guru Richard Wilkins. He was one of the cast on the SBS series Filthy Rich And Homeless recently.

Wilkins and Kelly met each other as all good millennials do, according to Kelly: “Over an app on their phone – Instagram,” he explained to Mediaweek. “That is how our generation has chosen to have meaningful interaction. It was a great way to start a wonderful friendship.”

Wilkins chimed in: “Instagram is a lot more than just pictures these days.” He added the two first met 19 months ago and Kelly said the podcast was the culmination of two ideas.

Kelly: “A friend had been suggesting to me I do a podcast and I was like, ‘blah’.

“Christian and I then became such good friends and we had such good chemistry I started thinking we should make a podcast. It was around the time of the same-sex marriage plebiscite and we were getting many young LGBT kids reaching out to us. They found us on social media and they were reaching out as they were having such a tough time.

“We wanted a way of reaching people without having to talk to every single one of them. We wanted to literally share our friendship circle, which is so supportive and empowering to us.”

Wilkins said the podcast focuses on fashion. “We call it a social issues podcast in the conversation of fashion. Fashion is very important for us and when you talk to people that are really into fashion it is about so much more tha

n aesthetics. It is important to people’s lives and it reflects society.”

Kelly: “We found fashion as a way that could relate to other social issues and it is something everybody has a grasp of. It is a very inclusive topic and it means no one would ever be left behind.”

The friends explained fashion helped them focus their ideas after they had tried various approaches to podcasting. Kelly: “Everybody at some point in their day gives a shit about fashion.”

Mainstream media covers fashion but, according to Kelly, that coverage is largely negative. “We set out to make something that is only positive. We are not telling you what is right, what is wrong or what is cool or not cool.”

Wilkins: “We agreed when doing the podcast the only people we would talk about negatively are each other.” [Laughs]

Wilkins said the podcast has been live for a week and there will be a new episode every week until Christmas.

The reception so far has been good, said Wilkins. “We have had really fantastic feedback from people who matter to us.

“I describe us as fabulous weirdos because that is who we are and who we want to connect with.”

Kelly: “The initial reaction has been so much better than I thought it was going to be. The day it was released I was worried it was such a mistake and it was just garbage, but there has been so much positivity around it. People are enjoying it and it has been heartwarming to learn Christian and I aren’t the only two idiots out there talking about this. There are lots of idiots!”

In the first season Wilkins and Kelly speak with Isabella Manfredi of The Preatures on the relationship between fashion and feminism, Boy George on coming out of the closet, Kit Willow on sustainable style, former editor of Harper’s Bazaar Kellie Hush on the plight of the magazine industry, plus other fashion industry icons.

Listen to Radical Fashionism here.

New series offers insights into allergies and food intolerance
• Leading Australian professors Katie Allen and Mimi Tang release new Allergies podcast series

In a new PodcastOne original series, Allergies, professors Mimi Tang and Katie Allen from the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute provide insights into allergies and food intolerance.

The nine-part release explores why allergies and food intolerance occur, the physical response in the body, diagnosis, management and prevention.

Allergy affects approximately 10% of all babies born in Australia, with hospital admissions for food allergy-related illness doubling in the last decade.

“Allergies are incredibly common but, for parents and sufferers, they can be quite confronting,” said Tang.

In their roles at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Tang and Allen meet with thousands of concerned parents each year, seeking advice and intervention for distressing and often debilitating allergies and food intolerance in children.

“People struggle with the perplexing and often inaccurate information that’s out there, so we have created Allergies with PodcastOne to separate fact from fiction to hopefully alleviate some stress and create a healthier community overall,” said Allen.

The nine-part series looks at:

• What an allergy is
• Anaphylaxis and its diagnosis
• Managing allergies and food intolerance in the community
• Prevention and travelling with allergies
• Emerging research and potential cures
• Gut allergies and delayed reactions
• Intolerances and gut health
• Are food allergies on the rise?
• Asthma, eczema and hay fever

Listen to Allergies here.

Podcasts channel the pre-Trump era of US political scandals

I thought I had no room left for another Donald Trump-focused podcast. My slate was already full with Pod Save America, Trump Inc and Can He Do That, reported Fairfax Media’s Peter Wells.

But I’ve managed to find the time for one more, KCRW’s All the President’s Lawyers.

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 Headley Thomas wins GQ Award for The Teacher’s Pet

“I’d always held this long… sense of injustice about the case,” says Hedley Thomas, the investigative reporter behind The Australian’s successful The Teacher’s Pet podcast. “It’s always grated on me that it wasn’t dealt with properly in the beginning.”

Thomas was speaking this week after accepting the GQ Award for Outstanding Achievement in Journalism.

Thomas added, “I didn’t know where to start. This time last year I saw Lyn Dawson’s family and told them I wanted to re-investigate what I believed was a clear case of murder, and it had fallen through the cracks and been a terrible travesty of justice. They didn’t know what a podcast was and I didn’t know how to create one. I need to thank The Australian, News Corp, and thank you to everyone in Australia who listened.”

The series has now had over 26m listens!

Wil Anderson’s Wilosophy is back

Prolific podcaster Wil Anderson is back with new episodes of Wilosophy with an ambitious plan of new episodes every Tuesday and Thursday. The show has also undergone a makeover with new cover art. One episode was themed Mental Health with appearances from guests Felicity Ward, Osher Günsberg and John Safran. Another is themed Comedy with Glenn Robbins, Judith Lucy and Meshel Laurie.

By James Manning

On the Monday the News Corp brand then launched its new-look delicious.com.au and its travel content destination.

See also: News Corp celebrates expansion of its most delicious. destination

This weekend delicious. is launching its annual delicious. 100 (which is really a delicious. 400).

McCallum told Mediaweek that when she was building the plan to expand its travel vertical, she asked her celebrity chef writers to contribute. “They have secret travel lists on different cities they give to each other. I approached each of them and asked if I could get their secret lists. They said OK.

“I trust our foodie contributors the most. If I went to Tokyo I would use Andrew McConnell’s list. [McConnell chef at Cumulus.] They seek out things no one will ever tell you about. They have high standards, yet traverse the spectrum from a hole-in-the-wall restaurant to a bar, to street food, to a fine diner or to a hotel, and they have strong opinions on things.”

McCallum admitted that although she is now sharing these lists with readers, she had been peeking at them before she travelled.

“People like Matt Preston and George Calombaris travel all over the world.”

Although delicious. skews to the premium end of the food and travel experience with the affluent traveller in mind, McCallum said: “An affluent traveller likes to find quirky smaller venues and they also love a bargain. The adventurous travellers want the gamut of experiences.”

This week’s expansion of the travel vertical comes three years after delicious. first started offering travellers information. “When we originally built the site, I was only allowed verticals that would have a business case attached. Travel through the lens of food was always an idea. We decided to pursue the Eat Out restaurant review site first because we couldn’t do both at the same time.

“Even when we were just a monthly magazine, travel was still a part of the brand. With the scale of the delicious. brand now and with the News Corp network we can offer so much to clients. We can involve them in digital, video and print and offer partnerships with Escape.”

McCallum said the third consideration for people booking travel is food. The first two – budget and then safety.

The new travel content is being offered online and in print. In the new December-January edition of delicious., McCallum has published a flip cover – one of them devoted to travel. The sponsoring partner is travel company Helloworld.

“When we were rebuilding the travel vertical, we liked the look of it so much we made over the whole site. We realised we needed the site to reflect the breadth of lifestyle content we now have. The bulk of the site used to be recipes, but now we have 10,000 restaurant reviews and the Eat Out business.”

Another new launch this week was the restaurant booking functionality in partnership with Dimmi.

In addition to the enticing new travel offering, what is arguably the single most-anticipated delicious. annual event is launching this weekend – the delicious. 100.

Across Australia on November 18, the brand ranks the top 100 restaurants in New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland. New this year is South Australia where its 100 best have also been ranked.

“We are now in four states meaning there are 400 restaurants being listed this weekend.”

The lists are carried in Stellar in New South Wales and Victoria, the list in The Advertiser will be digital only, while in Queensland it is carried in the magazine U On Sunday.

“Readers can then vote for a Readers’ Choice award where they can combat what the critics say, which is fun. The various newspapers print that result and all the content sits on the delicious. site.”

Delicious. developments – what’s still to come?

Although McCallum didn’t want to reveal too much about future plans, it would seem safe to suggest there could very well soon be delicious. food tours. Who wouldn’t want to go on an Athens foodie week with George Calombaris? Or eat their way around New York with Matt Preston, or around England with Rick Stein?

delicious. has already dipped its toe in the food tour space in partnership with News Corp’s other travel brand Escape and Scenic Tours.

“We need to hit our targets with Travel before we start too much work on delicious. Experiences,” said McCallum.

“News Corp Australia executive chairman Michael Miller has given us the challenge to make Australia delicious. So that is what we are going to do!”

Television is also another frontier, with McCallum only wanting to say: “There are some really serious discussions under way about how we do that.” Many of the delicious. contributors are massive TV stars.

“We can only do one thing really good at a time.”

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By James Manning

It’s like Mediaweek’s version of the Festival of Dangerous Ideas. Here is the unedited commentary from Chris Taylor, Charles Firth, Dom Knight and Andrew Hansen.

Media highlight of 2018 and why?

Dom: Charles getting Kerri-Ann to quit Studio 10. We read in New Idea that it was definitely happening and all down to him, so it must be true.

Charles: For me, it was definitely the first few hours of Alan Jones’s radio show when he hadn’t realised we’d projected his number onto the opera house.

Chris Taylor: The Sky News interview with Blair Cottrell. It was really refreshing to see Sky give a platform to someone much more moderate than its own presenters.

Andrew Hansen: On the 19th of June my Wi-Fi dropped out completely, and I was spared having to consume any Australian media at all. Best day of my life!

Best thing about being on Triple M?

Chris: Not having to be on 2Day FM.

Dom: The chance to put most of the group back together, on the station where we did The Chaser’s first ever paid media gig back in 2001. It’s been like a family reunion.

Andrew: Ease of access to advertisements about hardware products.

Charles: I’ve really enjoyed their new digital stations. Triple M Baroque has been my favourite new station. It’s got all the best hits from the 1600s, 1700s and new music from the 1800s.

You enjoying radio?

Charles: No. The strain of working an hour a day is killing me. Never worked this hard in my life.

Dom: No, it’s terrible. We put the group back together without remembering how much we all despise one another.

Chris: Depends which station I’m listening to.

Andrew: Yes, it’s the most athletic and physically demanding job I’ve ever had.

How are you adapting to commercial radio ?

Chris: I’ve come from triple j, where every second mic break is a plug for a music festival or an upcoming tour. So it was quite hard adapting to commercial radio, where there are infinitely fewer blatant ads.

Dom: We’d like to think we’re starting a trend, and expect to see Kyle and Jackie moving to 3pm-4pm weekdays next year.

Charles: We actually started on Triple M back in about 2000, so it’s nice to be back. They’ve added a Foo Fighters song to their playlist since then, so it’s really different.

Is there one thing you think your show lacks?

Dom: A Female ! Obviously, although we are working on that at present. One option we are considering is getting Kerri-Anne!

The Chaser media plans for 2019?

Chris: We’ve had a bit of interest from rival stations. Can’t say too much at this stage. Suffice to say I’m very impressed by the new mix of music they’re playing at Coles Radio – that Down Down song they play never gets tired.

Dom: More radio with Triple M, but what we’re really angling for is as the big one – smoothfm. What would be more relaxing as listeners drift off into their daily coma than Radio Chaser making lots of jokes about Barnaby Joyce, lethal strawberries and the poo jogger?

Charles: We deny that we are merging The Chaser with Nine. But if we do, the new entity, called Nine, would be a “merger of equals”. Besides, the competition regulator would never allow it. Merging the two most satirical media companies in Australia would be simply too much concentration for one market.

Andrew: We’ve done about 19 years of comedy, so we’re hoping to shake things up by doing another year of comedy

Any TV coming up for The Chaser ?

Dom: Maybe an election show as we always like to do them, or maybe we will finally take on the genre that suits us best – Nordic noir. There’s a story we want to tell about a string of murders in IKEA model kitchens. Chilling stuff.

Charles: We’re planning a show that stars only sitting Presidents, Prime Ministers and global bankers. It’s going to be called The Chaser’s Outsiders.

Chris: And we’re in talks to make a sensitive travel series through China. Ross Cameron has signed on to host.

Any fallout from your Opera House stunt?

Charles: The Privacy Commissioner has been in touch. Not sure how they got my number. I’m assuming they’re interested in advertising on the opera house.

Chris: The state government’s still waiting to hear from Alan Jones about what the correct punishment should be. Most likely 300 hours of community service listening to Alan’s show.

Dom: Alan Jones hasn’t invited us on his program since the stunt – or before it. Also, Charles is still getting hundreds of calls and texts after his number was aired on Studio 10 and is wondering about forwarding his phone to Kerri-Anne’s.

Any plans for more of your trademark stunts ?

Chris: We’ve actually got plans to bring down 2GB altogether. It’s quite easy – we’re just going to install Michelle Guthrie and Justin Milne to run it.

Dom: Our stunt of installing Scott Morrison as PM is going really well. It’s a slow build, but we think you’ll agree, every new set of poll numbers is funnier. We are really proud of the bus he doesn’t travel on – that took a lot of brainstorming.

Andrew: As part of their commercial remit, Triple M are keen for us to do a stunt where we go into a hardware store and enthuse about the high quality and value of the tools available. I think it’s shaping up to be The Chaser’s biggest moment yet.

Charles: You don’t happen to know Rupert Murdoch’s mobile number? No reason.

What good could come from the Nine-Fairfax merger?

Charles: If Karl Stevanovic is made editor-in-chief of The Sydney Morning Herald then at least he won’t have time to host Today any more.

Andrew: Yes, seeing more media exposure for Karl Stefanovic. It’d be great to see him back in the spotlight again.

Chris: Well, since the Daily Mail blatantly copies everything that Fairfax does, I’m looking forward to the Daily Mail’s announcement that they’re merging with Nine as well.

Next year is the 20th anniversary of Chaser. How have you stayed together that long ?

Charles: Passive aggression.

Chris: Our policy of “no office romances” has worked wonders.

Dom: The line is somewhere between our deep personal affection for one another and a lack of solo work.

Andrew: Through a fortunate lack of opportunities elsewhere.

See yourselves doing any live work as a group again sometime?

Chris: Does busking count as live work?

Dom: We like the idea of a 20th Anniversary Tour, but at this rate it’ll be our 30th anniversary before we organise it.

Charles: I hope so. What this country needs is more white, middle-aged male performers.

Andrew: We’ve been talking about a potential tour for a couple of years. We’re now thinking of taking our talks about a potential tour on the road, as a tour.

Advice to young people getting into radio ?

Charles: Back off. We were here first.

Dom: In our experience, the best way to get a gig in radio is to start an unsuccessful satirical newspaper, do TV for 18 years, all as a precursor to doing a one-hour daily radio show that’s only on in Sydney.

Andrew: Do what most radio bosses advise – sound different from everyone else, and also sound the same as everyone else.

Chris: It might seem really hard at first, but if you stick at radio for long enough, you too can one day enjoy the lofty heights of doing the 2SM breakfast shift like John Laws.

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Top Photo: The Chaser’s Chris Taylor, Charles Firth, Dom Knight and Andrew Hansen

The Deal editor Helen Trinca said: “Women have achieved so much, even if there is more to do, and there is a great appetite among young women to hear the stories of the trail blazers and to really understand their journeys.

“The emerging women leaders we aim to reach with this issue would be astonished to know how workplaces operated decades ago. Earlier generations of women faced a level of unconscious bias that often frustrated their hopes early in their lives.

“The challenges for women continue even as the #MeToo exercise calls out harassment and other poor behaviour. Sometimes those challenges have nothing to do with the boss and everything to do with a system that simply does not support both parents working full-time.

The Deal editor Helen Trinca said: “Women have achieved so much, even if there is more to do, and there is a great appetite among young women to hear the stories of the trailblazers and to really understand their journeys.

“The emerging women leaders we aim to reach with this issue would be astonished to know how workplaces operated decades ago. Earlier generations of women faced a level of unconscious bias that often frustrated their hopes early in their lives.

“The challenges for women continue even as the #MeToo exercise calls out harassment and other poor behaviour. Sometimes those challenges have nothing to do with the boss and everything to do with a system that simply does not support both parents working full-time.

“Our cover story, So You’ve Got to the Top. Now What? by Caroline Overington, asks just how much women at the top are obliged to promote the careers of other women, while Sarah-Jane Tasker looks at the recruitment of women to the top of Australia Post. These are questions women debate as they carve out their space. But how telling that we don’t need to ask them of a male boss.

“Our emerging leaders issue is one of The Deal’s signature issues and we are delighted by the support of the CEW again this year. The CEW runs a terrific scholarship program for emerging leaders and we are very pleased to contribute a share of the revenue from each annual issue. So far we have contributed more than $80,000.”

The Deal women’s special issue is supported by leading corporations who are driving fundamental changes that encourage and support current and emerging female leaders including Harvey Norman, Australia Post, Coca-Cola Amatil, Commonwealth Bank, AGL, BHP, King & Wood Mallesons and Wenona School.

The issue features articles from leading women in business on:

• How the #MeToo movement is panning out in the office.
• Not every woman wants to be an activist or a mentor, some just want to get on with their careers.
• When women get to the top, they are often expected to promote other women – but is that fair?
• When Christine Holgate took over at Australia Post, she decided that there were not enough women in senior roles. This is what she did about it.
• Vogue Australia’s Edwina McCann writes for The Deal about work wear and how women can now choose their clothing from a much broader range.
• Why are women so keen on exclamation marks? We look at the email phenomenon that sees women bosses using punctuation to prove they are kind and collegial.

By Andrew Mercado

It’s from an opioid overdose, a storyline that started in the reboot series, but was unseen in Australia because 10 yanked it after that vile Twitter racist rant.

Roseanne Barr’s tweet deserved some punishment, but instead she has been obliterated from TV history. Her groundbreaking sitcom doesn’t air or stream anywhere any more and it could even be locked away with Hey Dad and The Cosby Show in some vault. No great loss with those others, but Roseanne was a great show. And that’s why The Conners can continue because it has a legacy of socially relevant stories and keeps doing them today, whether it’s Darlene’s (Sara Gilbert) cross-dressing son or Becky’s battle with the bottle.

The Conners will survive without Roseanne because Jackie (Laurie Metcalf) and Dan (John Goodman) are still there, and so is the entire original cast. Wonder if it’s a one-off that Mary Steenburgen is a guest star because, although there is some grieving to do, Dan, like all great sitcom widows, will be paired with various women while gauging audience reaction.

Other guest stars like Matthew Broderick, Justin Long, and Johnny Galecki (perfectly timed with The Big Bang Theory ending) are around for romantic interest, but this show is still driven by its female characters. Roseanne might be gone, but her rage and madness still live on in the other Lanford women.

My Brilliant Friend, starting Tuesday on Fox Showcase, is another female-centric story, but this is a sumptuous sweeping saga over several decades. The small village, near Naples, Italy, is described as having “men that were always getting furious, but then they calmed down whereas the women flew into a rage that had no limit and no end” leaving them as “angry as starving dogs”.

Although that could be any episode synopsis of Roseanne, this HBO drama, its first European commission, is another saga soaked in family and friendship. It’s based on a bestselling novel and once upon a time that would have made it a must-see miniseries event over successive nights. Today, there is a must-see drama to watch every week and frankly, I’m exhausted. I’d still find some time to watch those missing episodes of Roseanne though.

By James Manning

Seven

Home And Away drifted just below 500,000 for its final night of the week after pulling 676,000 on Monday.

The second episode of Orange Is The New Brown was on 264,000 after launching on 422,000 a week ago.

A new episode of Modern Family then did 198,000.

Nine

A Current Affair was just nudging 650,000 on its fourth episode of the week, which included a story about the new way to rent or sell a car – “the Netflix for cars”.

The Thursday ob doc triple play followed with Driving Test on 206,000 (Sydney and Brisbane only), RBT on 470,000 and then Paramedics on 584,000 after 562,000 last week.

10

It was Carrie Bickmore’s final night on The Project until she returns from maternity leave in 2019. Throughout the show different team members handed over gifts. Regular Fifi Box, a favourite of the women’s weekly magazines, made up a parody cover of her own publication and called it No Idea. The show also managed another lengthy plug for How To Stay Married. Maybe 10 sales boss Rod Prosser should be invoicing Pete Helliar for help with the marketing campaign for his book and now TV series? The Thursday episode did 444,000.

It was time then for the finale of The Bachelorette. The regular part of the final instalment did 766,000 after 605,000 last Thursday. As a nervous and worried Taite waited for Ali in a magical setting in the Northern Territory (NT Tourism should definitely be invoiced) the crowd surged to 926,000 metro and 1.21m across metro and regional markets. The numbers haven’t gotten close to what Sophie Monk managed to attract last year. That series of The Bachelorette ended with 1.31m for the final episode and then 1.64m for Sophie’s Final Decision.

The 2018 final was, however, enough for 10 to lead the night in the key demos as The Bachelorette also cleaned up in its timeslot.

The second episode of How To Stay Married was as much fun as the first with 507,000 last night after 512,000 for the launch.

Law & Order: SVU then did 208,000.

ABC

Grand Designs Australia was back in the 8pm slot last night after the Q&A Malcolm Turnbull special a week ago. The builders attracted 448,000 after 445,000 a fortnight ago.

A repeat episode of Endeavour then did 289,000.

SBS

The Australia Says Yes documentary did under 100,000 at 7.30pm.

The numbers then lifted to 139,000 for the premiere of Waco.