Throng

Wednesday night on TV2 has already become the best night of the week, and continues this trend by playing Supernatural after Lost.

Well done TV2.

How would you like to see the glory days of Ted West in a new drama spinoff from South Pacific Pictures' Outrageous Fortune?  A prequel if you like.

When a show such as Outrageous Fortune comes to an end, as it will with its sixth and final season on TV3 in 2010, they leave enormous holes in the television landscape.  Characters who have become so loved and, in many cases, identified with are taken like a close relative and the mourning that ensues can be heart wrenching.  Thankfully though, writers and producers seem to becoming more and more adept at reinventing the stories and giving charatcters an extended lease on life.

Being able to take a highly successful and award winning show and develop a new series based on back story would immediately have a fanbase, and particularly with New Zealand, the reason to fund a pilot and first season.

World Flight are offering the chance to spend an hour with a New Zealand celebrity at the controls of a Boeing 737 flight simulator as part of a fundraising exercise for the Westpac Rescue Helicopter.

The stars:
Beth Allen, Ido Drent, Dai Henwood, Renee Wright, Toni Street, Pippa Wetzell, Mike Puru, Andrew Mulligan, Jeremy Corbett, Paul Ego, Rodney Hide, Jono Pryor, Miriama Kamo, Neil Waka and Clinton Randall.

The auctions are live on Sella.  Check out World Flight NZ for more info.

Inadvertently, TV3's target has revealed the address of the house used for many hidden camera challenges.

Look familiar?

I'd like to take the time to wish TVNZ a happy 30th birthday and to thank them for 30 years of delivering quality programming into our living rooms.

After all the rumor and speculation of the last few weeks, Alison Mau has called for an end to the creepy guy in the Toyota Corolla station wagon stalking her.

HT: Dan News

A new season of "The Big Bang Theory", Sci-fi esque "Flashforward" (Including an appearance by
"Family Guy" creator Seth McFarlane (that gives the show a big thumbs up in my books) and few of JJ Abrams' favourite recurring actors and then the final season premiere of LOST, does it get any better than this? I think not.

What did you think?

If we needed any reason to think Neil Patrick Harris - and How I Met Your Mother was any cooler - the stunt the HIMYM team pulled at the Super Bowl this week was awesome!

Neil Patrick Harris turned up to the Super Bowl this week in character as womanizer Barney Stinson - holding up a sign that read "Hey Ladies, Call Barney Stinson" with a phone number.  During the Super Bowl - a quick shot into the crowd showed 'Barney' holding the sign and the announcer asks "do you think it's his real phone number?"  When you called the phone number (and thousands of fans did) callers heard a message from Barney asking to get to know them more.