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Modern Family - Ten's hit new comedy series |
 Today's American families come in all shapes and sizes.
The cookie cutter mould of man + wife + 2.5 kids is a thing of the past, as becomes quickly apparent in the bird’s eye view of the new half-hour comedy
Take for example Phil and Claire, two parents who want to have that open, healthy, honest relationship with their three kids. It’s not always easy, especially when you have a teenage
daughter who’s growing up a little fast, a too-smart-for-her-own-good middle daughter and a rambunctious boy. On top of that, Phil wants to be the “cool dad,” while Claire is just trying her best to run a tight ship, determined not to let her kids have the rebellious childhood she had. Then there’s Jay, a true guys’ guy who is having a bit of a mid-life crisis.
Jay has found a much younger wife, Gloria, who has become the center of his world. She’s a passionate and sassy divorcee who comes with an 11-year-old son, Manny. Already taking notice of girls and a hopeless romantic, Manny is as passionate as his mom and spends his time daydreaming and writing poetry. His new stepfather isn’t altogether comfortable with the sensitive stuff and would like to toughen Manny up. But that’s only one of Jay’s challenges. The biggest is that people often mistake him for Gloria’s father, not her husband. And lastly there’s Mitchell and his partner of five years, Cameron. They’ve just taken that amazing ‘next step’ by adopting a child together from Vietnam. Cameron has a wonderfully big personality and maybe a flare for the dramatic, whereas Mitchell is the more serious of the two. But they
balance each other out and are already doting fathers.
Life, it seems, is neither tidy, politically correct or in any way predictable. For these three families, it turns out, are not three but one... one big, blended family, with Jay the patriarch and Claire & Mitchell his grown kids. Yet it’s just such surprises that make things so interesting in this window into the sometimes warm, sometimes twisted embrace of the modern family. MODERN FAMILY stars Ed O’Neill as Jay, Julie Bowen as Claire, Ty Burrell as Phil, Sofia Vergara as Gloria, Jesse Tyler Ferguson as Mitchell, Eric Stonestreet as Cameron, Sarah Hyland as Haley, Nolan Gould as Luke, Ariel Winter as Alex and Rico Rodriguez as Manny.
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Recruits Series 2 - premieres Thursday July 29 |
The Recruits is an observational documentary series that follows a group of police recruits as they embark on the long and gruelling journey towards becoming fully-fledged police officers.
General duties police live on law enforcement’s ragged edge. Every day is unpredictable, and every decision vital. Be it a murder, a car accident, or a drunken brawl, they are the first on the scene. The split second choices they make can be the difference between saving a life, or losing one. In those chaotic first moments, the only things an officer can rely on is their instincts and training. And on Recruits, we learn, what they learn, before they hit the streets.
With unprecedented access to the NSW Police Academy and police on the beat, Recruits follows the fascinating and often confronting journey, from fresh faced, naive civilian, to hardened, skilled, and assertive constable on the street. To make the grade, the students will undergo a personal transformation greater than any other profession. They soon discover policing is more than a job, it’s a calling. Not everybody wants to do it, and not many can.
There are two phases to becoming a cop. The first is intensive training at the NSW Police College. It’s an eight-month job interview for people who think they have what it takes to join the force. People like 19-year-old school leaver Frankie, who has never lived out of home, and Marilyn, a 59-year-old grandmother on her last crack at that dream career. They will be pushed in all the skills required to be a police officer: their fitness, decision-making, communication, discipline, and above all, integrity. They’ll be trained to shoot a gun, and defend themselves hand to hand. They’ll learn how to tell someone their loved one has died. Separated from family and friends for the duration, these student recruits will come to understand the personal and financial sacrifice necessary to become police officers. 30% won’t make it.
Those who graduate from college enter the second phase of their education. They become probationary constables out on the beat. Recruits takes those first steps with people like Michael Jackson, a 21 year old former McDonald’s Manager who has dreamt of this moment since he was a kid, and Karin Parr-Jaeger, who’s making the transformation from stay at home mum, to police officer. Despite their training they soon discover how little they know about real life policing, and in the heat of the moment, how difficult it can be to put theory into practice.
In Series 2 the recruits are posted to diverse locations, from rural Parkes, to the challenging social melting pot of Mount Druitt, and the inner city, where anything can and does happen. Viewers will witness the landmark events in any officer’s career: their first arrest, negotiating heated domestics, dealing with alcohol fuelled street violence and the moment every officer dreads, their first fatality.
Recruits is as action packed and enthralling as any young police officer’s career. The road towards becoming an officer in uniform is a long and bumpy one, and our cameras are there to capture every moment of drama, disappointment, and elation.
Recruits 2 … how to make a cop.
Premiers Thursday July 29 at 8pm |
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Applications open for Masterchef Series 3! |
Australia's biggest television show ever is looking for new talent... and you might just fit the bill!
The much-anticipated MasterChef Australia Season Three is coming and it's going to be bigger and more delicious than ever before.
It’s been described as a television phenomenon, inspiring millions of Australian families to try their hand at mastering a culinary feast fit for a king. And now, MasterChef Australia is back to exhilarate and entertain like never before.
As a record-breaking 4.1 million viewers watched Julie Goodwin crowned as the country’s first MasterChef last year, thousands of budding cooks from around Australia applied for this second series for their chance to emulate Julie’s fairytale win.
Season Two was even bigger than the first with bigger audiences tuning in every night of the week to follow their favourite cooks until the finale between Adam Liaw and Callum Hann which saw Adam take out the title of Australia's Next Masterchef.
From university students, farmers, tradespeople, teachers and stay-at-home mums and dads to doctors, lawyers, engineers and accountants, they all applied with one common ingredient – their love of food.
From 8000 applications, they were eventually whittled down to just 50 people. This group of gourmands battled it out to take a place in the final 24, up from last year’s group of 20 people. Over 14 gruelling weeks of cooking challenges, one person will eventually be named as Australia’s new MasterChef.
Among all the new faces, however, remain three iconic figures; men, who were catapulted to household names – award-winning and respected chefs and restaurateurs Gary Mehigan and George Calombaris, and one of the world’s most acclaimed food critics Matt Preston.
Individually, the judges’ successes are astounding. As a group, their experience, advice and mentoring to a group of home cooks determined to be up there with the world’s best chefs, is nothing short of inspirational. A cheeky smile from Gary, an uplifting comment from Matt, and a second spoonful of a dish from George means everything to a MasterChef Australia contestant.
The MasterChef dream is one where ordinary Australians can have their cake and the icing too. The judges are putting their own reputations on the line to mould the best chefs they can, but make no mistake, the pressure to achieve that dream can reach boiling point.
In Season Three of MasterChef Australia, the challenges will be bigger, the expectations higher and the competition more intense.
For the love of food, let the MasterChef Australia Season Three competition begin... but not without your application!
Click here to start filling out the application form now!
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7PM has been TEN’s pet Project
- By David Knox on April 21, 2010
TEN Programming Chief David Mott has been the biggest advocate of The 7PM Project since its inception.
Mott has stuck with the show despite dismal numbers, middling reviews and online criticism. But the move is beginning to pay off.
On Monday it enjoyed its biggest audience all year with 974,000 viewers. With the end of Daylight Saving and the introduction of MasterChef Australia, the signs are finally encouraging.
“We have always been committed to this style of program as a refreshing change to the way current affairs programs are produced,” he wrote to TV Tonight.
“Early evening is all about habit, and habit does take time and we are now seeing evidence of that.
“The demographic performance is now getting stronger and stronger regulary winning in 16-39 and now very strong in 18-49. In fact on Thursday 7pm was number one in 16-54.”
On Monday it featured stories on Carl Williams and a social debate asking ‘Is Australia racist?’ Recently the show also advertised for a News Editor, to step up the show’s News content. Mott seemed to agree there was still some room for improvement.
“The editorial content is now 80% there and market research says there are now more committed viewers to watching every night or at least 3 out of 5,” he said.
The news, but not as you usually view it. This light hearted look at the days news and events is headed up by Dave Hughes and Charlies Pickering with news anchor Carrie Bickmore. Daily special guests are seen and live crosses all over the country are a regular part of the show. So tune in Monday to Friday at 7pm.
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