Garry Williams - TV editor
October 07, 2007 12:00am

SHANE Warne has managed to get himself in hot water
more than once, but what is he doing in the spa with
Kath and Kim?

And what will Kel and Bretty think about their wives
trying to get a closer look at Warnie's flipper?

All will be revealed when the champion cricketer stars
on next week's episode of the hit Seven Network series
Kath & Kim.

Warne admits he was nervous walking on to the set.
"But the girls (Gina Riley, who plays Kim, and Jane
Turner, who plays Kath) made me feel relaxed," he
says.

Executive producer Rick McKenna, who is married to
Riley, jokes he was "a bit edgy" about the leggie's
spa scenes.

"You were getting a bit close there, mate," he says to
Warne, who bursts into laughter.

Warne plays Wayne, a "not very good Shane Warne
impersonator" set to marry loser in love Sharon
Strzelecki (Magda Szubanski).

McKenna expected the script to come back from Warne
with changes, but the cricketer was happy to go along
with several jokes at his expense involving SMS
messages and mobile phones.

"It was funny. You have to be able to laugh at
yourself. Sometimes people take themselves a bit too
seriously," Warne says.

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Saturday October 6, 03:48 PM

The lucky lady will be walking down the aisle on the
small screen with the Aussie cricketer next week.

Warne is a special guest in the October 14 finale of
Kath and Kim, and plays a Shane Warne impersonator,
who woos Magda Szubanski's character Sharon.

Szubanski said she found Warne very charming while he
was on set and could understand his appeal.

"I thought he did a great job; he fit in really well.
He really got the tone of what we were doing. We try
to be as gentle as possible with the newbies. But we
didn't need that many takes - he just got it straight
away, " News.com.au quoted Szubanski, as saying.

She added that fans of the show longed to Sharon,
forever unlucky in life and love, finally meet the man
of her dreams, and Warne's personality made him the
obvious choice.

"We talked about Shane so much in the show it was
really a natural conclusion. He's a fan of the show so
it was really just a matter of timing and whether he
would be available to do it and he was, which was
great," she said.

Szubanski further said that it remains to be seen
whether the marriage will work out with Warne becoming
a regular on the sitcom.

"Who knows what will happen. It's left pretty
open-ended," she said.

In addition to Warne, there have been guest
appearances from Eric Bana, Rob Sitch and Little
Britain star Matt Lucas this season. (ANI)

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Monday October 8, 11:58 AM

Seven Network foxy morons Kath and Kim returned after
a week off to an audience of more than two million
viewers on Sunday night.

The mother-daughter pairing from the fictional suburb
of Fountain Lakes spent a week on the bench last week
and effectively handed an uncontested Sunday win to
Nine's rugby league grand final coverage.

Not even that free kick could win the week for Nine,
making it the first grand final week loss for the
channel since the match was moved to prime time in
2001.

Despite the grand final's week-high audience of 2.4
million viewers, Seven finished well ahead of Nine
with an audience share of 30.5 per cent compared to
Nine's 26.7.

On Sunday night, Seven started the week on the front
foot with a two point win in the five metropolitan
markets ahead of Nine, which managed just two programs
in the night's top 10.

The Singing Bee debuted with its US host Joey Fatone
to an audience of 1.2 million viewers at 6.30pm and
was narrowly defeated by Australia's Best Backyards on
Seven.

The new program proved to be harmless and cheerful
family entertainment but Nine's new Dirty Jobs wasn't
to the dinner-time audience's taste, watched by less
than one million viewers and beaten by even the ABC
news.

Seven dominated prime time, with the top four
programs, and most of the day courtesy of impressive
ratings for the Bathurst 1000 leg of the V8 touring
car championship, which averaged between 1.3 and 1.4
million viewers across the race and post-race
celebrations.

On the ABC, picturesque outback drama Rain Shadow
seduced a strong audience of 1.11 million viewers to
its first episode, winning the timeslot ahead of Rove
on Ten and Nine's Will Smith movie Hitch.

Australian Idol recovered from its thrashing from the
rugby league last week to attract an audience of 1.3
million viewers for its British-themed night.

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By LINDA BURGESS
The Dominion Post NZ
Monday, 8 October 2007

This viewer likes Kath and Kim at home. Their home. No
doubt crew and cast liked a few days spent at what did
look like a very seductive resort, and there's no
doubt that being on holiday gave us the chance to see
Kim behaving badly and Kath coping with disappointment
(a little more waspishly than usual) but this
programme is at its best when it's close to home.

Comedy is about being so close to the real that it
hurts.
The other day a friend and I spoke wistfully,
nostalgically, of that joy among TV programmes past,
Sylvania Waters. There's only a small club now who
remembers it for the utter joy it was. It was a
forerunner of the fly-on-the-wall reality television
that we now see far too much of. It was particularly
funny because its stars – an Australian family (with
one of them, as we were constantly reminded, a New
Zealander) – were just so dreadful, so stereotypically
new-rich, tasteless, self-regarding, self- absorbed,
Sunshine Coast-type Australian – that we could have a
huge smug laugh at their expense.

Their dreadfulness served to minimalise our own
dreadfulness: however crass we might be, we just
couldn't possibly be that crass.
Best of all, Sylvania Waters never went over the top.
When the parents (whose names I have mercifully
forgotten) were being memorably horrendous to their
teenage son on his birthday, they allowed themselves
to be filmed as if they were an outstanding example of
rational parenting.

I do vaguely remember they fussed over what had been
edited out, and who could blame them. But I can't help
feeling that what I saw as the true joys in that
programme wouldn't have worried them a jot.
One such joy was their oldest son, who looked well
into his 30s, balding, with a gormlessly joyous face,
who travelled everywhere by skateboard. Often the
off-screen sound of the skateboard heralded his
on-screen arrival. Don't ask me to explain why that is
funny. Just the memory of it though brings a bubble of
mirth to my throat.

Funniness is in the small detail, in the less obvious,
as Ricky Gervais picked up in Extras by parodying the
catch-phrase. His catch- phrase "Are you having a
laugh?" came back to haunt both his character and the
actor – as it was intended to.

"Look at moi" has done the same for Kath and Kim (TV3
Sunday), which is why they use it only when necessary
now – out of a sort of sense of obligation to their
less-subtle fans. Last night they made us wait for it,
and by so doing squeezed the remaining drop of humour
out of it. Like its classy English sister The Royle
Family, Kath and Kim is mockumentary – the wall that
the fly is on has been built in the studio.

It's actually harder to get right than straight- out
cruel reality TV because it depends on such a fine
balance. You have to like the characters enough to
keep laughing. There has to be a level of poignancy,
you have to mind what happens to them.
WORRYINGLY, Kath and Kim may just about have played
out all of its jokes now – though given that the
series is based on human nature and all its foibles,
every episode will furnish a few laughs. Last night
Brett and Kim decided they needed a weekend away alone
to reinvigorate their marriage but within moments Kath
and Kel – sharing an intimate moment in their Jacuzzi
– decided they needed to get away too, and would join
Brett and Kim. And it wasn't long before Sharon was in
the team as well.

Brett more and more plays the straight guy, sensing
the awfulness in Kim that we all see, yet trapped in
his marriage to her. I love Kim's awfulness. Her
callous disregard of Sharon, whose main role is to be
the fatter, plainer devoted servant to Kim, brings to
mind those A-girls at school who had the socially
acceptable but not-so-pretty friend to bolster them.
Kim remains oblivious to the fact that she's not
actually an A-girl (and good on her). Sharon is
getting a little less self-deprecating, a little more
feral. Whereas once her being accused of cheating
would have been clearly unfair, now the viewer is not
so sure.

Kel is a continuous joy. Why his hairstyle and his
walk-shorts remain so funny would be a bit of mystery
if we hadn't all had a boss who looked like that. His
good nature and his love for Kath are endearing – and
that love is not misplaced. Kath may have made a total
mess of bringing up her daughter but she possesses a
kind heart. And their house is perfect – not mocked,
just exactly as it should be. Which empowers the
viewer, when you come to think of it – it's up to you
at home to either laugh at that house or secretly want
to own it.

Last night's gorgeous setting (the Hyatt Coolum Resort
in Queensland – bet the freebies they'd have given to
the cast and crew have paid off handsomely) gave us
the chance to see that Kim is as appalling away from
home as she is at home. Of course she would lie about
whether she'd had a full or continental breakfast. Of
course she'd stuff a swag of croissants into her bag
for her lunch, of course she'd bags the best
sun-lounger (just like she'd put her bag on a table in
a busy cafe even if she were at the tail of the
queue), and of course even Kath is the sort who
couldn't go to a hotel without taking all the
shampoos. To languish stickily forever in that drawer
in the bathroom.

But the funniest, most grotesque moment came at the
end and was definitely for the over-40s. It's going to
stick in the memory, those hideous French fingernails
– that Kim of course sports – hungrily peeling huge
sheets of skin off Sharon's back. The world is divided
into those whose mouth waters at the thought of
peeling off someone else's skin, or cutting someone
else's toenails, and those who gag at the thought. But
ah, those were the days, the good old days, when
summer hadn't truly started till you'd had one really,
really, really good peel.

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October 8, 2007 - 11:51AM

Seven Network foxy morons Kath and Kim returned after
a week off to an audience of more than two million
viewers last night.

The mother-daughter pairing from the fictional suburb
of Fountain Lakes spent a week on the bench last week
and effectively handed an uncontested Sunday win to
Nine's rugby league grand final coverage.

Not even that free kick could win the week for Nine,
making it the first grand final week loss for the
channel since the match was moved to prime time in
2001.

Despite the grand final's week-high audience of 2.4
million viewers, Seven finished well ahead of Nine
with an audience share of 30.5 per cent compared to
Nine's 26.7.

Last night, Seven started the week on the front foot
with a two point win in the five metropolitan markets
ahead of Nine, which managed just two programs in the
night's top 10.

The Singing Bee debuted with its US host Joey Fatone
to an audience of 1.2 million viewers at 6.30pm and
was narrowly defeated by Australia's Best Backyards on
Seven.

The new program proved to be harmless and cheerful
family entertainment but Nine's new Dirty Jobs wasn't
to the dinner-time audience's taste, watched by less
than one million viewers and beaten by even the ABC
news.

Seven dominated prime time, with the top four
programs, and most of the day courtesy of impressive
ratings for the Bathurst 1000 leg of the V8 touring
car championship, which averaged between 1.3 and 1.4
million viewers across the race and post-race
celebrations.

On the ABC, picturesque outback drama Rain Shadow
seduced a strong audience of 1.11 million viewers to
its first episode, winning the timeslot ahead of Rove
on Ten and Nine's Will Smith movie Hitch.

Australian Idol recovered from its thrashing from the
rugby league last week to attract an audience of 1.3
million viewers for its British-themed night.

AAP

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30 September 2007

Almost 2.6 million people watched Saturday's AFL grand
final on television, making it the most-watched
program of the 2007 ratings year.

It narrowly defeated the commercial debut of Kath and
Kim on the Seven Network.

According to figures released by the AFL host
broadcaster Network Ten, about 1.2 million people in
Melbourne watched Geelong defeat Port Adelaide.

An average of 377,000 people watched the game in
Adelaide, 50,000 more than last year, when West Coast
defeated Sydney.

Saturday's game drew an average audience of 385,000 in
Perth, 320,000 in Sydney and 270,000 in Brisbane.

The OzTam figures relate to five mainland capital
cities, and do not include regional viewers or people
watching in pubs.

According to the figures an average 2.56 million
people watched the match, and Ten's audience peaked at
2.9 million.

The grand final has overtaken the record-breaking
commercial TV debut of Kath and Kim on the Seven
Network in August, which was watched by an average
audience of 2.52 million viewers, with a peak of 2.7
million.

Kath and Kim's fourth series premier episode was the
highest-ever series opening audience for Australian
television.

The 2007 AFL Grand Final was the first to be broadcast
in high-definition digital.

Geelong broke a 44-year premiership drought by beating
Port Adelaide by 119 points.

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Source: The Hollywood Reporter
October 3, 2007

Molly Shannon is set to play Kath in NBC's comedy
pilot "Kath and Kim."

"Kath," from Reveille and Universal Media Studios, has
been a high-priority project for NBC's Ben Silverman
and Teri Weinberg.

The two put the adaptation of the hit Australian
comedy on the fast track shortly after they joined NBC
in June as co-chairman and executive vp, respectively.

They commissioned a new script by Michelle Nader in
July, which got a thumbs-up and now will be filmed.

"Kath" centers on a dysfunctional mother-daughter
relationship. Shannon will play the mother; the role
of the daughter is yet to be cast.

Nader is executive producing "Kath" with original
series creators Gina Riley and Jane Turner as well as
Rick McKenna.

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September 29, 2007 12:00am

AS NRL grand final fever hits this weekend, households
across the nation will be fighting for the remote
control in a battle between watching the game, and top
rating shows Kath & Kim and Australian Idol. Where
will your viewing loyalties lie?

Kath and Kim's return to the Seven network has proven
a ratings bonanza regularly snaring over 2 million
viewers each Sunday night.

Network Ten's singing contest, Australian Idol, also
pulls in respectable 1.35 million viewers.

Channel Nine has the NRL grand final clash between
Melbourne Storm and Manly Sea Eagles, which is bound
to divide families.

What will you be watching on the biggest night of NRL?


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Seven - Daily Ratings Report

Author: Seven Network | Sep 24, 2007, 16:12

Seven is up 16% on Ten in total viewers and up 2% on
Nine in all viewers under 55.

Kath & Kim peaks at 2.08 million and nearly matches
the combined audiences of Nine and Ten in total
viewers and all key demographics. My Name Is Earl
peaks at 1.55 million.

In top 10 for 16-39s: Kath & Kim (#1) and My Name Is
Earl (#4). In top 10 for 18-49s: Kath & Kim (#1), My
Name Is Earl (#3) and Hot Property. In top 10 for
25-54s: Kath & Kim (#1), My Name Is Earl (#4) and Hot
Property.

Weekend Sunrise is up 89% on Sunday.

Commercial Shares  All  16-39 18-49 25-54
Australia’s Best Backyards  32  26  30  31
Hot Property  32  28  31  33
Kath & Kim  46  45  47  46
My Name Is Earl  30  34  34  33
Sunday Night At The Movies 27  24  26  26
6:00pm-midnight  33  30  32  32
Weekend Sunrise  61  61  62  62

Weekend Sunrise v Sunday  Weekend Sunrise 441,000
Sunday  233,000

Programme Rankings  Preliminary Oztam Data
‘m
1.  Kath & Kim  Seven  2.050
2.  National Nine News  Nine  1.687
3.  Burke’s Backyard Spring Special  Nine  1.510
4.  CSI: Crime Scene Investigation  Nine  1.495
5.  60 Minutes  Nine  1.480
6.  Seven News  Seven  1.399
7.  Australian Idol  Ten  1.347
8.  My Name Is Earl  Seven  1.312
9.  NRL: Preliminary Final  Nine  1.265
10.  Hot Property  Seven  1.155
11.  Rove  Ten  1.103
12.  Australia’s Best Backyards  Seven  1.047
13.  ABC News  ABC  0.992
14.  Damages  Nine  0.970
15.  America’s Next Top Model  Ten  0.801

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Kath & Kim
Sacha Molitorisz, reviewer
September 21, 2007

Little Britain's Matt Lucas turns up as a long-lost
relative.

Kath & Kim
Sunday September 23
Time: 7:30 PM

Kath and Kim are in the supermarket checkout queue.
"So many Asians here," Kim says. "Where are the
Australians?"

"That's very racist," her mum says. "They are
Australians."

"Well, hardly anybody looks like me."

In an episode titled Roots, origins become an
obsession. Gina Riley, Jane Turner and Glenn Robbins
are fantastic but Magda Szubanski steals the show. At
least until Little Britain's Matt Lucas turns up as a
long-lost relative.

Sharp and funny.

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Kath & Kim
Michael Idato, reviewer
September 9, 2007

This week, Kath and Kel go green.

Date
Sunday September 9
Time: 7:30 PM

After a mixed launch - a holiday episode that took the
characters out of their suburban milieu - the fourth
series of Kath & Kim seems to be gradually finding its
form in more familiar territory. In subsequent
episodes, Kel (Glenn Robbins) has won retailer of the
year, Kath (Jane Turner) got her yoga diploma and baby
Epponnee-Rae celebrated her first birthday.

This week, Kath and Kel go green, recycling plastic
bottles, installing a new water system and obsessing,
albeit briefly, about environmentalist Al Gore who,
according to Kath, exudes power "in a
non-fossil-fuel-burning way", while Kim (Gina Riley)
frets about the school in which to enrol her daughter.

At about 23 minutes long, excluding advertisements,
the commercial episodes of Kath & Kim are a good five
minutes shorter than the episodes that aired on the
ABC. Rather than feeling tighter for the contraction,
these scripts actually seem looser, with fewer
razor-sharp stings. Part of that can be attributed to
the show's age - three series and a telemovie on the
ABC before switching channels - but the biggest
frustration with the new episodes is that they lack
the jaw-dropping moments that peppered earlier
episodes. So far in series four we have seen only one
- Kim's Burberry bikini scene in the Coolum episode.

An appearance in this episode by Pru and Trude is
always a delight, but turning them into mums of
school-age kids, smacks a little of "retconning" (the
dark art of rewriting the "retrospective continuity"
of a long-running story). A previous episode had
established Trude's daughter was an adult lesbian who
was "married to a great honking dahke". The
introduction of Kath's next-door neighbour, Mandy, of
whom Kath is apparently not fond, is also
disappointingly undeveloped.

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Luke Dennehy
September 04, 2007 12:00am

WHEN Kath & Kim premiered two weeks ago it opened with
a blaze of glory, but in two weeks the show has lost
nearly 750,000 viewers.

The show averaged 2.5 million viewers when it
premiered two weeks ago, a figure that dropped to
1,767,000 on Sunday night.

The show still easily had the most viewers in the
tough 7.30pm timeslot, compared with 1,396,000 for 60
Minutes on Channel 9 and 1,327,000 for Channel 10.

It's set to face stiff competition next week from
Australian Idol, whose semi-final stage is over.

The final three months of Idol traditionally rate much
higher than the semi-final stage.

Workplace Relations Minister Joe Hockey had a shot at
Kath & Kim creators Gina Riley and Jane Turner
yesterday after Kath blamed "bloody Howard" for her
son-in-law Brett being fired for an unscheduled toilet
break.

"WorkChoices has been blamed for ruining Christmas,
church on Sundays, Father's Day, marriage, Anzac Day
and the tourism industry, among other things," he
said.

"It seems oddly fitting that a fictional character's
job should join the list.

"I think most viewers are smart enough to enjoy the
show for what it is and understand the difference
between fact and fiction.

"Sunday night's episode of Kath & Kim was about as
realistic as the union ads, but much more funny."

The other star performer on Sunday night was British
drama Midsomer Murders on the ABC, which is easily
winning a 8.30pm timeslot that includes two movies and
Rove on Ten.

Overall, Channel 7 will easily win the ratings year
over Nine, winning the week yet again. with AAP.

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Kath and Kim – new series
by Stuart McGurk. Monday, 03 September 2007

Like watching Larry David's superb squirm-com Curb Your Enthusiasm for the first
time,
coming late to Kath and Kim – the brilliant Aussie comedy from Gina Riley and
Jane Turner
that's beginning its third series tonight – can be something of a let-down.

Put it this way, if you randomly  switched this on, this is what you'd see:

1, A Neighbours-esque set in the 1980s, lit by day-glo clothing.
2, Residents who are either permed to within an inch of their lives (mother hen
Kath), or
far too large for their bum-skimming skirts (daughter Kim).
3, Aussie speech of the "ohhh, yeaaaaaah?",
I-need-to-speak-the-speed-of-my-brain
variety .
4, Clothing that would scare a goose.

So, this is either for real (so it's Neighbours meets Sunset Beach), or a rather
cruel, not-
very-funny micky-take of dim-wit Aussie housewives everywhere.

But give it time, and you'll soon realise that it's actually Arrested
Development (the
brilliantly surreal US shaky-cam sitcom)  meets, well, Neighbours.

In other words, the laughs rarely come from zinging lines; all the patter is
kept to snicker-
once-you-get-it catchphrase comedy of people  who speak in catchphrases. Instead
, we
get normal – some would say subnormal – people  in frequently  surreal and
ludicrous
situations.

Tonight's episode sees the birthday of Kim, who's recently  had a kid with
husband  Brett.
Except Brett can't stand to be home, so he works so much overtime that they
eventually
ban him from doing­ any more ("Yeah, it's this new family-friendly policy­ at
work").

And then there's her dad, Gary, who is always trying (quite obviously) to scam
Kim. And
her mother, Kath, who thought she was divorced  from Gary, but finds she isn't,
and has
been living in sin with new husband Kel.

But all the predictable high farce that comes from this is wonderfully undercut
by the
mundane. So, when they all go for the birthday dinner in a moving tram (yes, a
diner-
tram), Kel catches up with them in his car.

To the superbly OTT tune of Run To You by Bryan Adams, he confronts Gary – who
he
thinks is trying to get Kath back – before  throwing him off in mock heroic
fashion . He
discovers Gary has already  signed the divorce  papers  once the tram is off
again.

"Oh, er, sorry about that Gary mate," he shouts in a classic downbeat moment as
the
moving restaurant (for some reason, that's the funniest  bit) slowly trundles
off, leaving
Gary on the road, watching them become breadsticks in the distance.

The opener of series four recently got the highest Australian  television
audience  of the
year when it debuted on Channel  Seven. And, on this evidence , you can see why.

Kath and Kim, BBC2, 10pm

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This is from a blog on the Sydney Morning Herald 31st August 2007:

Blame it on the Boomers

While Kath and Kel live it up on a butcher's income and no mortgage,
Kim and Brett struggle to get by. This says more about the fortunes of
baby boomers than it says about a butcher's income I suspect. The big
question is what happens when baby boomers sell their properties in
droves in approximately 20 to 30 years?

You see, the 4 million-odd baby boomers by shere numbers have stumbled
upon great prosperity. Their bulk has driven up house prices at a rate
that is not likely to be repeated. They will have amassed the kind of
wealth in their lifetime that most generation X and Y-ers will only
achieve through winning Lotto.

Born between 1946 and 1961, baby boomers paid off most of the mortgage
just in time to invest in property in the late 90s, right before the
last property boom of course. Their insatiable appetite for investment
property is probably the starkest difference between them and the more
frugal generation of their parents.

The boomers, now mums and dads of would-be homeowners, are coming to
terms with the grim lifestyle legacy they will leave future
generations. Their sons and daughters will slavishly work to save
deposits and struggle to pay off mortgages throughout their lives. To
add insult to injury, baby boomers are expected to live much longer
than any other generation before them, so X-ers can forget about
receiving an inheritance until they are retired themselves.

Boomers had free education, cheap housing and flexible family
structures. X-ers on the other hand will try hard to not feel
resentful that their anxious lives with two incomes, imposing HECS
bills and unaffordable housing will hardly rank in the same league as
their now affluent parents.

Whilst baby boomers prop up house prices, generation Y may well
discard the label of home ownership as 'The Great Australian Dream'.
Whereas previous generations held home ownership as bordering on
sacred, a right even, generation Y will take it or leave it. If it's
not near the city, it's not worth living in apparently.

Baby boomers created a huge surge in property prices in their
lifetimes but what happens when they sell? Is a global house price
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--- Kath & Kim <kk@...> wrote:

> Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:37:07 +1000
> From: "Kath & Kim" <kk@...>
> To: Karen Wilson
> Subject: Kath & Kel's Secret Emission
>
> LOOK OUT PEOPLES!
>
> Kath & Kel are going green and grey (water that is)
> -
> on this week's Kath & Kim.
>
> Video Preview:
>
[http://au.tv.yahoo.com/kath-and-kim/video/index.html]
>
> Sunday 7.30pm Channel 7
>
> -----
>
> KATH & KEL'S TOP PLANET SAVING TIPS
>
> 1. Shower together and kill two birds literally
>
> 2. After unpacking your shopping put your green bags
> straight back in the
> boot of the Smartcar.
>
> 3. Power walk to "Crutons on the Bay"
>
> 4. Pop your smalls on the line and not in the
> clothes dryer
>
> 5. Cut down on the take-away padmatmawang and
> fungais
>
> 6. Think mental/ shop local
>
> 7. Turn down the abducted heating and pop on a nice
> Coogi instead
>
> 8. Buy recycled toot paper /buy recycled everything
>
> 9. Less is more
>
> 10. My top tip of the week is say "no" to glad wrap
> and store things in
> the fridge with a plate on the top ( wow - up there
> for thinking!)
>
> ----
>
> WATCH KATH & KIM
> Sundays 7.30pm Channel 7
>
> [http://www.kathandkim.com]
>
>
> Send to Friend:
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--- Kath & Kim <kk@...> wrote:

> Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:57:09 +1000
> From: "Kath & Kim" <kk@...>
> To: <Karen Wilson>
> Subject: Kath & Kim starts this Sunday at 7.30pm on
Channel 7
>
> Hello Karen;
>
> We are having fun in the sun (Kim is cleaning out
the bain maries at
> the buffet breakfast). Wish you were here and you
can be - join us
> this Sunday at 7.30pm on Channel 7 for Series 4 of
Kath & Kim.
>
> Ta ta,
>
> Kath & Kim
>
> Starts this Sunday 19th August at 7.30pm on Channel
7
>
> Series 4 Preview:
> http://au.blogs.yahoo.com/kath-and-kim
> Visit: http://www.kathandkim.com (it's just been
> updated - big time!)
>
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By popular demand, the legendary Aussie duo ‘Kath and
Kim’ are back to headline this years Toast Australia,
July 22nd in Fulham, London, United Kingdom.

The foxy ladies are poised to sample their fair share
of ‘beaut Aussie cardonnay’, taste some great tucker
and generally bring a slice of Fountain Lakes to
Fulham Palace!

Think the best of Australia and New Zealand –
indigenous tastes captured by world class chefs,
award-winning wines top entertainment set against the
beautiful backdrop of Fulham Palace. This is Toast.

Don’t miss this unique trip down under on the 21st
(Toast NZ) and (Toast Australia) 22nd of July 2007.

If your interested you must buy tickets in advance -
there are no tickets for sale at the venue (or so I
have been told). Kath & Kim will only be appearing at
Toast Australia.

Fulham Palace and how to get there:

Fulham Palace
  Fulham SW6 6EA

Saturday, 21st July - New Zealand Day

Sunday, 22nd July - Australia 11am - 6pm

By Underground: The nearest tube station is Putney
Bridge (District Line). From the station it’s a 5
minute walk to the festival at Fulham Palace. Watch
for the Toast signposts to guide you.

By Bus:
  No’s 74, 220 & 430 via Fulham Palace Rd

For details on planning your journey see the Transport
for London website www.tfl.gov.uk or contact National
Rail Enquiries on 08457 484950.

By Car:
  We would not recommend driving to the event as car
parking around Fulham Palace is limited.
Click here to view street map.

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can you please send me some cool behind the senes sites

is there a new series and how many sereis have there been

Anyone know where I can download any?!

The commercial world beckons for Kath & Kim as Seven
seeks to affirm its ratings dominance with a strong
anchor for its program slate later this year, writes
Michael Bodey
------------------------------------------------------

April 09, 2007

KATH & Kim's move from the ABC to Seven, at least
publicly, was cordial and not unexpected.
The comedy series' executive producer, Rick McKenna,
is full of praise for the ABC's head of television,
Kim Dalton, and business supervisor Chris
Oliver-Taylor, and of Seven's chief David Leckie and
programming director Tim Worner.
All agree the ABC did their best to keep the comedy
but commercial constraints hindered it from stumping
up a budget of $5-$7 million.

"It's sort of a natural progression for them to go
commercial but that doesn't mean it doesn't still
hurt," says one ABC insider.

But their competitors and ABC underlings are still
seething at Seven's swoop, with one commercial rival
adamant as late as last Saturday that Australia's most
successful TV comedy was remaining at the ABC.

Some ABC staffers are sniffing about continued, but
failed, pillaging of ABC talent, including Ten's
Mother & Son and Good News Week and Seven's Heartbeat
and The Fat.

Even worse, The Chaser's future at the ABC will now be
questioned given its very commercial 1.236 million
viewers on Wednesday and the group's quiet off-screen
relationship with Seven.

Others have questioned how one of ABC Commercial's
most lucrative brands was allowed to walk away
unencumbered, particularly after the show's latter
programming seemed to favour Kath & Kim's DVD releases
and not the ABC's ratings purposes (Da Kath & Kim Code
was programmed out of the survey in 2005).

And all this after Kath & Kim's writers and stars,
Jane Turner and Gina Riley, took a huge risk in
beginning production of their new series before a
broadcast deal had been stitched up. "That breaks
every rule of TV production," one senior TV executive
noted.

As it happened, on-set images of guest stars Shane
Warne and Little Britain's Matt Lucas published on
front pages Australia-wide only increased the
program's value.

The fractious history between the public broadcaster
and Kath & Kim was fated to play out in a contentious
commercial arena. It's surprising the relationship
didn't end sooner.

Thankfully for Dalton and the ABC, most of the ABC TV
and Enterprises management who had dealt with Riley
Turner Productions through the years had left the
organisation. Otherwise they wouldn't have been in
contention for a new series; even so, the ABC entered
negotiations expecting the worst.

In 2000, Riley Turner Productions funded their first
pilot, which went to the ABC during managing director
Jonathan Shier's dark reign, a time when then ABC head
of comedy Geoff Portmann repeatedly rejected it until
the ABC drama department inexplicably championed it.

Yet three days before production in 2001, ABC
executives closed it down, saying they didn't like the
scripts and arguing that they, not Riley and Turner,
held rights to the show. A settlement was reached, the
program went into series and became a ratings and
cultural blockbuster.

The fact that the ABC took the majority of revenues
from the series' ancillary products and merchandise
remains a sore point for Riley and Turner. Kath & Kim
became a rare beast for the ABC, a revenue-positive
program that made its entire licence fee back on
series one and two in two years from merchandise and
DVDs.

"The show walked into the ABC as a package on a
commercial deal with some of TV's biggest brand names
involved and they still didn't get it," says a source
close to the production.

"The notion that the ABC should now own the creation
is absurd. If they want to scare off every creative in
the country from knocking on their door, keep running
that line."

Last July, Riley and Turner decided to "get the band
back together" in either a Christmas special or
series. Despite copious column inches suggesting so, a
Kath & Kim film was not an option.

Their success allowed a unique, if inordinately risky,
production process - they could develop a series and
even begin production with their own money before
shopping it around to the networks, all of whom were
keen.

Their creative concept would be unsullied by budgets
or network interference and work purely for the
characters.

And the obvious next step for Kath, Kel, Kim, Brett
and Epponnee Rae - as it had been for Barry McKenzie,
Crocodile Dundee and even Dad and Dave - was a trip
away.

Clearly, the budget for series four would increase
with Riley and Turner adamant that not one of their 44
cast and crew would change. And that's before
factoring in any "commercial expectations" they could
rightfully expect after creating the most successful
Australian TV comedy ever, says one insider.

The ABC had contractual rights to make the first
offer. Dalton was blunt about his limited budgets but
he and McKenna worked hard for eight weeks trying to
fashion a workable outcome. The public broadcaster's
inability to manufacture commercial deals with an
airline or Queensland holiday resort to defray costs
hurt though.

Turner and Riley also realised that if they stayed,
other ABC programs might be axed. The door opened for
Seven, Nine and Ten after the ABC's second offer fell
short late last year.

"Kim and Chris worked very hard and creatively to work
out a way we could stay but in the end they couldn't
come up with the resources and budget to allow the
series to be produced the way we saw it," says
McKenna, who was unwilling to talk deal specifics.

"We had five great years there, they were happy, we
were happy and the notion that anyone should be bonded
into slavery by doing a show with the ABC is silly."

Seven and Ten assembled detailed offers while Nine
vacillated, believing the ABC to still hold the box
seat.

Seven was always the most viable option because of
Riley's and Turner's beginnings there on Fast Forward
and Big Girl's Blouse.

That Seven introduced them to Ben Silverman, the
executive who packaged The Office for NBC and Ugly
Betty for ABC and will oversee the American version of
Kath & Kim, also helped immeasurably.

Nevertheless, it appears Riley and Turner leaned
towards the ABC after the commercial networks
continued to insist on creative input.

Seven's Tim Worner baulks at the suggestion they would
interfere. "Why would we? It's the most successful
Australian comedy ever. I don't think we can tell them
how to improve it."

Ten's offer wasn't competitive and Riley and Turner
were ultimately persuaded by a marketing and promotion
plan presented by Leckie and his team.

"The understanding and fit with our brand was
fantastic," says a source involved in negotiations for
Riley and Turner.

"The show is like the network - a little bit cheeky,
irreverent and doesn't take itself too seriously,"
adds Worner.

Strangely, the Seven deal was only closed quickly last
week as the show was in its third week of production.

Worner says specific advertising packages will be sold
for the program "and any prospective advertiser will
need to be quick".

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From Sydney Confidential
March 27, 2007 12:00am

HE'S bowled a few maidens over in his colourful
cricketing career, and now Shane Warne has managed to
bag himself a new bride - just for laughs, that is.

With the sun barely setting on his summer of love with
former wife Simone, the spin king has tied the knot
for a cameo role on hit Aussie comedy Kath & Kim.

Warnie weds sporting tragic Sharon Strezlecki, played
by Magda Szubanski,  in the next series and filmed his
romantic turn at St Kilda's Luna Park in Melbourne
yesterday.

The cricket legend has been referred to as Sharon's
"unrequited love'' in previous episodes, but in a plot
twist, Strezlecki is forced to wrestle her "dream man"
from best friend Kim Craig.

While the happy couple wore matching bridal whites
during the hilarious ceremony, Kimmy, aka actor Gina
Riley, told The Daily Telegraph the marriage was "a
dream come true - for Shane, that is."

"He's really lucky to have met a couple of foxymorons
like us,'' she said.

Following in the stilleto footsteps of Kylie Minogue,
who walked down the aisle in the last series, Warne
bowls Strezlecki over, throwing her an engagement ring
instead of a cricket ball.

Producers had teased fans on the show's website with
the promise of more wedding bells in the new series
("or was that the callipers from Sharon's clicky
hips?''), but had hoped to keep Warne's appearance a
secret.

However, as filming began locals were quickly in on
the joke and a show spokesman confirmed the happy
news.

Warne joins Little Britain stars Matt Lucas and David
Walliams who filmed their own celebrity spots at
Fountain Lakes in January, before the self-confessed
UK fans began their own national comedy tour earlier
this year.

Meanwhile, Kath & Kim's plans to launch a US version
have been sidelined, after casting problems forced the
delay of a pilot for US TV giant NBC last month.

The show's creators Gina Riley and Jane Turner will
continue to consult with network executives on the US
series and are preparing to fly over in July when
production is expected to begin.

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Not noice: How did ABC let Kath & Kim go?
Apr 3, 2007, 13:00

It was a coup for the Seven Network; hiring Kath and
Kim away from its commercial rivals and the ABC for a
sum not disclosed but said to be 'considerably' higher
than the $3 million mentioned in news stories on
Sunday.

For some TV viewers, especially those who are 'rusted'
on to the ABC the reports looked either like an April
Fools day joke of the highest class, or were yet
another example of the national broadcaster's finest
being lured away by the 'commercial dollar'.

In fact it would seem the joke is on the ABC, not for
losing Kath and Kim to Seven but for the still
unexplained way a 100 per cent owned in-house
production ended up in someone else’s hands for no
apparent gain to the national broadcaster, or
reasonable explanation.

It is a multi-million dollar question which is being
asked inside the ABC and needs answering.

Seven was quick to point out where the series idea
started, in the short run sketch show, Big Girls
Blouse which was a follow on from Fast Forward where
Riley and Turner (and Steve Vizard and Peter Moon and
Magda Szubanski came to prominence).

There was much talking about the 'girls coming home'.

"Channel Seven today proudly announced *KATH & KIM*
are coming home. The much-loved characters were first
born on Seven in 1994. Since then Australia’s
favourite foxy ladies have taken the world by storm.
And now the pair will return to the network where it
all began.**

"The fourth series of the hugely successful comedy
series will screen on Seven soon. It’s a welcome
return home for the show’s creators, Jane Turner and
Gina Riley, who began their commercial television
careers on Seven on the ground-breaking Fast Forward
./ /**

"Filming is currently underway in Melbourne for series
four - some of the high-profile guest stars will
include /Little// Britain's/ Matt Lucas and cricket
great Shane Warne."

Competition was intense and I think that Seven would
not have stood a chance if it hadn't been for the pick
up in its audience last year and probably the storming
start to the front part of the 2007 ratings year.

Nine and Ten had both been trying (Ten boasting of its
exposure to the younger demos) but the competition in
the end was between the ABC and Seven with Nine trying
very hard and probably offering more money in the end.

The Kath and Kim management marketed the program well
to all networks and setting up a bidding war.

Nine was trying hard at snapping them up two years
ago.

It was in there beavering away trying get its hands on
series three by hiring Rick McKenna, the executive
producer, along with wife Gina Riley and the other
star, Jane Turner. He lasted at GTV 9 in Melbourne for
less than a year where he was head of production. He
was previously at Foxtel where he was head of AFL
Operations for a while.

Seven isn't saying where Kath and Kim will go in its
rich schedule or when.

But I reckon the best bet will be Sunday evenings at
either 7.30 pm or 8.30 pm over the last seven or eight
weeks of 2007 ratings, just as Ten's Australian Idol
is gathering pace towards its finale in the last week
of ratings.

Kath and Kim not only would appeal to the 18 to 49
group that Idol is now aimed at, it would have appeal
in younger and older demographics and prove a potent
way for Seven to end the year.

It’s claimed in some of the news reports that one of
the reasons the programs switched broadcasters was to
enjoy higher audiences: well, not really.

The Kath and Kim programs topped the two million mark
on the ABC at the end of series and certainly rated as
well for the ABC as they will for Seven.

Seven's audiences will be bigger because more people
are watching the Network these days and are staying
with it.

When Seven was having a miserable time of it in 2003
and 2004 the ABC's ratings picked up: when Seven
rebounded in 2006 and last year, the ABC's audiences
fell. Analysts claim there seems to be a certain
interchangeability between the Seven and ABC TV
viewer.

But that argument is undermined by the performance so
far in the first seven weeks of official TV ratings:
Seven's audience is up, the ABC's is up a lot and Nine
is suffering.

No, I reckon the answer why Kath and Kim left the ABC
is international exposure and bigger budgets. There
were comments in the Sunday news reports that the
program's budget would now allow programs to be done
overseas in this series. That's where the commercial
network always comes to the fore, or does it?

………………………

But there are some people wondering just who were the
April Fools in the Kath and Kim saga?

There are some people at the ABC who reckon there
should be an accounting for the broadcaster's handling
of Kath and Kim and the accounting for all the
associated merchandising revenues.

The Kath and Kim series started in house at the ABC
but was then allowed to be produced by Turner and
Riley and their associates.

There are claims the ABC owned the copyright 100 per
cent and kept all income from sales less residuals.
How did the copyright move from the ABC to the
Turner/Riley cam and for how much?

The questions now being asked is how did the ABC give
away or sell (and at what price) the copyright and IP
rights over the series?

Was there any agreement on revenue splits and what
sort of agreements were there? Were they a share of
gross revenue, of profits, internet, DVD, books?

What were the carve ups on the various revenue
streams? And were there were revenue/ profit carve-ups
and what did Turner and Riley and others pay for those
and what did they agree to with the ABC for each
series?

Even if the program was brought to the ABC by
Turner/Riley the first series was produced in house so
how did the ABC protect its legal position on
copyright, or didn’t it?. And finally what did the
board agree to and what did ABC management put to the
board?

There may be perfectly reasonable answers for all of
these questions but they have to be asked and the next
Senate Estimates hearing in May is the best place that
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April 01, 2007 12:15pm

KATH & Kim will move to commercial TV after selling
their new series to Channel Seven for $3 million.

The deal ends months of rival networks battling to woo
the Fountain Lakes "foxy morons" away from the ABC.
Seven was not the highest bidder in the cash war but
was chosen because the sought-after comedians wanted
the biggest audience.

The new series, screening later this year, will see
the suburban divas take a holiday to warmer climes and
search for a school for Kim's "gifted" toddler Epony
Rae.

Kath and Kim said they were looking forward to
returning to Seven as its canteen food was far
superior.

"Seven's promised us we're going to be in the stable
and Kim belongs in a stable," said Kath.

"We schmoozed. We did our fair share of schmoozing. We
were just entertaining CEOs with chardonnay and
nibbles.

"I think when we got Kerry Stokes in the spa and he
was legless – literally – that was the clincher," she
said.

"They're paying us literally hundreds of dollars an
episode. The ABC could only afford $10."

The multi-million dollar deal will get Seven at least
eight episodes of the hit comedy with possible further
series to follow. It also gives Seven a flagship
program in its ratings battle with Nine.

Seven programming director Tim Warner said it would be
the network's most heavily promoted show.

"These characters were born at Seven (on Big Girl's
Blouse) and Seven's going reasonably well at the
moment," he said.

"This will add to the momentum and obviously we're
stoked about it."

Confirmed guests include Shane Warne and Little
Britain's Matt Lucas. Other big names are being
chased.

"We couldn't let Sharon near Warney basically because
she just wanted to see his flipper and he didn't want
to expose it," said Kath.

The would-be empty-nester said the dream celebrity she
would most love to meet would be Chris de Burgh.

"He won't return my calls, she said. "Maybe it's
because I called him Chris de Bird. Maybe he was
offended by it."

Regulars Magda Subanszki, Glenn Robbins and Peter
Rowsthorn will return for the fourth series.

Rick McKenna, a producer with Jane Turner and Gina
Riley, said the move to a commercial station meant
they could make the fourth series bigger and bolder
and film off-location.

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