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Sentimental Saturdays (Ignorance of Unreliable Programming and Timeslots on Australian Television)

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Can you tell me a time when you were first introduced to television? I know my first time- it was Sesame Street in around 1991 or 1992. I then outgrew that show, transitioned into programs such as Saturday Disney (Channel 7 around the years of 1995 til about 1999), Round the Twist (on ABC- my family and I watched all four seasons in the early 2000’s), and Monk (I started watching the Channel 10 program in 2005 with season 3 repeats). As most of these shows I was first introduced to I watched on Australian TV, I’d like to briefly talk about the current reliability of the Australian TV guide, in light of the shows I am now currently watching on American TV, online because of review purposes, considering most of what I am in the middle of right now hasn’t come to Australia yet…

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TV Thursdays and Futuristic Fridays- Is Living Forever Really All That’s Cracked Up To Be?

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It’s been a while since my last TV Thursday post, and though my last post a few weeks ago was an introductory post about a new series- about my opinion on international shows and whether they are superior in quality to U.S. shows, I thought I would write a short special blog (combining it with Futuristic Fridays as well) as I delve into the concept of humans wanting to live forever- a theme that has been interwoven time and time again on TV, and more so this year on plenty of shows!

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Sunday News Roundup (13th-21st September 2014)

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Here’s the next instalment of “Sunday News Roundup”, this time from the 13th to the 21st September. Enjoy reading the scoop on the latest news!

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Top 10 ___: Top Ten Activities To Undertake At The Beach!

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Welcome to the latest instalment of our most recent blog series Top Tens, which is posting roughly every Sunday, Australian time. We have been on a break for a couple of weeks, thinking about new topics so that this series doesn’t become stale, and here we are again with a new and fresh perspective. Last time I went very specific, and shared my top 10 new characters I would like to see on one of my favourite TV shows, Once Upon a Time (in the upcoming 4th Season and beyond). Now we’re pulling things back to the more general.

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Sunday News Roundup (8th-12th September 2014)

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I (Joshua) am going on a holiday for a few days, hence I’m posting this week’s roundup two days early. Next week’s roundup will be on Sundays as usual.

Here’s a special instalment of “Sunday News Roundup” (a post on Fridays- we can definitely surprise all of you!), this time from the 8th to the 12th September. Enjoy reading the scoop on the latest news!

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Top 10 ___: Top Ten New Characters I would like to see on “Once Upon a Time” in the 4th Season and Beyond!

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SCOTT MICHAEL FOSTER, GEORGINA HAIG

Welcome to the latest instalment of our most recent blog series Top Tens, which is posting roughly every Sunday night, Australian time (or in this case, early Monday morning. Last week I shared my top 10 favourite movie superheroes; this week I am making the top 10’s a bit more specific- I will be talking about one of my favourite TV shows Once Upon A Time, and my top 10 new characters I would like to see on Once Upon a Time in the 4th Season and beyond.

There are spoilers and speculation ahead so beware!

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Sunday News Roundup (1st-7th September 2014)

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Here’s the next instalment of “Sunday News Roundup”, this time from the 1st to the 7th September. Enjoy reading the scoop on the latest news!

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Sentimental Saturdays (Disney Movies)

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What was your favourite Disney movie growing up? No seriously, close your eyes and think about it. Everyone is a fan of Disney and their movies, whether they admit it or not. Everyone has their special movie that they grew up with, or recent movie that they thoroughly enjoyed even if they were the ones themselves that were reluctant to see the movie in the first place. Not to take away anything from other animation companies (namely Dreamworks), I reckon that Disney and their animation stories and movies have been some of the most influential cartoons and some of the most inspiring, heartfelt and enjoyable movies for children and teenagers in the modern movie and television era.

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Futuristic Friday (The Future- is it all that it is cracked up to be?)

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There comes a point in time when we mustn’t worry about what our own futures, and the future of the world will be like. That’s not to say that we shouldn’t wonder every once in a while and dream about what we’d like to do within a certain time frame, but we must realise that rarely, and I mean rarely, do things ever go to plan. You plan for something, and then life takes you on a detour and you experience something else. You think your life is going to be picture A but then it turns out to be picture B. You start to realise that sometimes thinking about the future can seem futile- because really, why should you plan if things aren’t going to go the way we think?

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TV Thursdays: This TV Show (____) Is American…That Means It’s Great Quality, Right? (International Shows- Introduction)

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It’s been about a couple of weeks or so since I last posted (about Robin Williams’ last show), and in between that time I have had time to think about this next series. We took a break for TV Thursdays one week, and in the other week, my brother Jon wrote a guest post about his favourite 15 shows of 2014, and what he is planning to watch this coming 2014/2015 broadcast TV season. So, what is the topic for today?

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