Ten Newsnight, according to News Director Anthony Flannery, will not be “a traditional news bulletin”:
“It will cover the staples of news bulletins, such as headlines of the day, breaking news, sport, weather and finance. But Ten Newsnight will also include features such as live interviews, entertainment, and segments that use social media to reveal what people are talking about and what will be the next day’s big stories.”
“It will be contemporary and at times it will be provocative. We will tackle challenging topics and issues. We will give a different perspective to big stories and big issues.”
Starting his career at regional network WIN, Macdonald then went abroad where he worked at Channel 4 in the United Kingdom and at Qatar-based news channel Al Jazeera English. He joined Ten at the end of 2010 primarily for the role of senior foreign correspondent for George Negus’ evening current affairs program but also for other reporting and presenting roles at the network, including guest-hosting The Project and The Circle and compiling the recent Ten News special report Bikie Wars: Here And Now.
Earlier this year Macdonald was a nominee for the Graham Kennedy Award for Most Outstanding New Talent at the TV Week Logie Awards. He has also been nominated for prestigious Walkley and Quill awards.
Ten Newsnight, with Macdonald and sports presenter Brad McEwan, will screen Monday to Thursday nights at 10.30pm from Monday, 4 June.
Network Ten’s new breakfast news program, creatively titled Breakfast, is set to debut on Monday, 27 February at 6.00am.
It was a morning of farewells as two of TV’s golden girls signed off from their respective shows today.
Meanwhile, over at the Nine Network, there was a farewell for Kerri-Anne Kennerley whose morning show comes to an end after nine years on air. 
The Ten Network is reported to be looking at reworking its early morning timeslot with plans to launch a breakfast news program.
The network is believed to have Today co-host and TV Week Gold Logie winner Karl Stefanovic (pictured) at the top of its wish list for hosting the new program, though this is unlikely to come to fruition given his apparent desire to move away from breakfast television and the prime-time exposure he has gained at Nine – through A Current Affair, 60 Minutes and Nine News coverage.
Good Morning Australia continued until it was axed at the end of 1992 and the name was then re-assigned to Bert Newton’s mid-morning chat show. 
Tonight (Australian time), an estimated two billion viewers worldwide will be watching the long-awaited wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton at London’s Westminster Abbey.
The Australian media’s hysteria surrounding the wedding of William and Kate is not entirely unlike that of the wedding of William’s parents, Prince Charles and Princess Diana, at London’s St Paul’s Cathedral in July 1981.
Nine’s A Current Affair continues to tap the well of classic TV shows for a bit of nostalgia. While TV shows featured to date have mostly been from the last century – including 
Over 100 housemates passed through the various Big Brother houses over eight seasons, but A Current Affair reporter Ben McCormack gathered together a group of thirteen former housemates – Pete Timbs, Sara-Marie Fedele, Jemma Gawned, Peter Corbett, Jessica Hardy, Tim Brunero, David Graham, Trevor Butler, Bree Amer, Camilla Severi, Aleisha Cowcher, Reggie Bird and one of the ‘Logan’ twins – and narrator and part-time presenter Mike Goldman to talk about the show, the impact it had on their lives and some of the controversies that the show created, including the silent protest by evicted housemate Merlin Luck (pictured).
TV Week has announced the nominations for the upcoming 53rd annual TV Week Logie Awards.
GOLD LOGIE 
Most Popular Actress 
Most Outstanding Drama Series, Miniseries or Telemovie 
LOGIE AWARDS 
Most Popular New Female Talent 
It is not often that this blog specifically highlights programs from overseas but there is one show that reaches a certain milestone on Australian television this week that it would be remiss not to acknowledge it.
The program made its Australian debut on ABC on Monday, 4 January 1971 at 8.00am – with a repeat at 4.30pm. By the time the show had debuted in Australia Sesame Street was already showing in 50 other countries. For the next 15 years, ABC’s broadcast day was started each weekday by Sesame Street.
The popularity of Sesame Street led to the 7-foot-tall Big Bird visiting Australia in 1980 for the TV Week Logie Awards (pictured, with host Bert Newton), and in more recent years the character of Elmo has made numerous appearances on programs including Rove, The 7PM Project and The Circle, either in the studio or via satellite. As well as Big Bird and Elmo, Sesame Street has featured a long list of one-off and recurring Muppet characters – with such characters as flatmates Bert and Ernie, Kermit the Frog, Oscar the Grouch, the Cookie Monster, Grover and The Count among some of the show’s most familiar and long-serving characters.
The Sesame Street concept has being franchised widely around the world, with versions produced in Brazil (Vila S̩samo), Egypt (Alam Simsim), India (Galli Galli Sim Sim), South Africa (Takalani Sesame), Northern Ireland (Sesame Tree) and Germany (Sesamstrasse) amongst many others, and an Australian version РOpen Sesame Рwas produced by pay-TV channel Nick Jr and introduced the first ever Australian Muppet, Ollie (pictured).
Their career paths have crossed numerous times in the years that followed, including several years co-hosting the Nine Network’s In Melbourne Today and sister program In Sydney Today, before both programs were amalgamated into Ernie And Denise.
