This is pretty awesome. Check out the crowd! youtu.be/2XF_xFujFjo

Maybe because the launch of Love Island Australia was in the mix (452,000 viewers nationally) but Big Brother premiere (542,000) was well down on last year’s 774,000.

Nine launching new Love Island Australia at the same time Ten launching Big Brother. Game on.

After a slowish start The Terminal List 2 really hits its stride. A good watch - though after watching episode six I will never look at piano wire in quite the same way again. 😬

Haven’t seen a Netflix true crime doco in quite a while but stumbled on A Toxic Love Story and it was pretty gripping.

At 6.30pm if it is a choice between Hard Quiz repeats and Deal or No Deal usually repeats which are you going to pick?

Was a bit weird this week seeing the actor who plays Coe in Slow Horses (Tom Brooke) turn up as John Dashwood in the new Sense and Sensibility movie.

New ABC dramas - Fortitude Valley (crime), The Great White (legal), Rural Crime Unit (crime), Pilli Sisters P.I. (crime), Help Me! (crime), John Bailey: The Enemy Within (crime) plus Pray Harder documentary (crime) and Mark of a Murder (true crime). I detect a theme. 🤔

Interesting hosting combo for Seven’s iteration of I’m A Celebrity. Not sure how these two will click. Hopefully they’ll have chemistry.

What to make of Channel 10’s prime time programming of late? 🤔 They have been shunting in anything - all sorts of bibs and bobs - to fill space before Big Brother returns. Why bother launching Shaun Micallef’s Parents’ Evening if you are going to pause it after four episodes?

Can it get any closer? The Block averaged 1.085 million viewers nationally last night. My Kitchen Rules 1.084 million. Ten’s Sydney Harbour Cops a dismal 245,000.

I never expected to say this but my go-to streaming service at the moment is Paramount+. FBI, Lioness, Marshals, Boston Blue, and the occasional CIA. Apple for Slow Horses. Prime for Reacher and Neagley.

My Kitchen Rules (1.137 million viewers nationally) pipped The Block (1.112 million) last night.

First season of Lioness (Paramount +) was patchy. Couldn’t be bothered watching season two. Had heard good things about season 3 so gave it a try. Riveting.

I loved “Boy” and”Hunt For the Wilderpeople”. Didn’t mind “Thor: Ragnarok” but at some point Taika Waititi lost his mojo. variety.com/2026/film/news/k…

I have to say - I haven’t watched anything on Netflix for months. Used to be my go-to. Not anymore. variety.com/2026/tv/news/net…

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After two weeks Digger has completely disappeared from my local Village cinema. The movie that still seems to be going strong is Heart of the Beast.

The rapport between LL Cool J and Scott Caan is the highlight of NCIS: New York (Paramount+). Great to see Jennifer Beals (Flashdance) part of the cast. Storytelling in the first episode pretty dodgy but will hopefully improve.

That poor lead-in figure for Sydney Harbour Cops (274,000 viewers nationally) last night certainly did The Cheap Seats (369,000) no favours.