Bond Returns To Australian TV

00-Heaven returns to Australian television tonight on Network Ten. With it's 8:30pm timeslot Saturday night this highlights just how popular James Bond is in Australia.

Tonights epic is Roger Moore's 'Moonraker' co-starring Lois Chiles and Michael Lonsdale.

While discussing that I have to thank NJ who is helping me (Daniel Dykes) set up the Southern Hemisphere James Bond fan club. She was also kind enough to tip me off about this news. We're looking at running this site through the Australian section of CommanderBond.net, however, people from any country in the Southern Hemisphere are most welcomed to join (as are all international citizens I guess). You can also get invovled by visiting the all new Australian Forums at CommanderBond.net! Please help us really get this off the ground.

Here's Network 10's own review of the show:

In the 11th installment of the 007 series, director Lewis Gilbert delivers a visually thrilling progression in filmmaking. Roger Moore returns as dashing secret service agent James Bond. This time around Bond must investigate the theft of a space shuttle with help from beautiful CIA agent Dr. Holly Goodhead (Lois Chiles) and sexy Euro supermodel Corrine (Corrine Clery). Agent 007 discovers that genocidal maniac-millionaire Hugo Drax (Michel Lonsdale) plans to poison all of humanity from outer space and repopulate earth with only the most perfectly bred humans. A variety of traps and villains awaits Bond, including the recurring character Jaws (Richard Kiel, also featured in The Spy Who Loved Me).

Filmed in such exotic locations as Southern California, Venice, and the Amazon, Gilbert delivers the formula Bond packet of girls, gadgets, and guns. However, he also goes further, sending Agent 007 into space. Moonraker takes great risks in blending the spy and science fiction genres. In spite of such an unruly coupling, the film rewards viewers with its finale of climactic plot twists and stellar special effects.

Dr No & From Russia With Love On The Big Screen!

Victoria's "The Astor Theatre" will show a Bond double in March comprising of the classics Dr No and From Russia With Love, both starring Sean Connery as James Bond.

The movies will be shown on Sunday the 11th of March (two days before I turn 18!!) at 7:30pm.

The Astor Theatre is located at the corner of Chapel Street & Dandenong Road, Saint Kilda. Phone them on (03) 9510-1414 or visit their web site at http://www.astor-theatre.com for more details.

There is no booking, however, I do recommend you show up a little early as such double showings at The Astor tend to be quite popular.

See you there!

UK James Bond Car Exhibition

It's very brief but it's all I've been e-mailed!

Admission
Adult: £9.25
Child: £6.50 (4-16 inclusive)
Senior Citizen and Students : £8.00
Family Ticket: (2 Adults & up to 3 children or 1 Adult & up to 4 children) £29.50

Address
The National Motor Museum.
Beaulieu,
Hampshire,
S042 7ZN

Telephone
01590-612345

For more information, visit the Museums website at www.beaulieu.co.uk.

Little Nellie on UK's Blue Peter!

British televison programme for children, the famous Blue Peter, showed viewers the man who flew "Little Nellie" the Gyro-copter in "You Only Live Twice".

Also, the presenters, Simon and Konnie looked around the Beaulieu Motor Museum which currently has an exhibition on hosting the James Bond cars from some of the 19 films. Auric Goldfingers, Rolls-Royce Phantom III is on display aswell as 007's Lotus Esprit from "The Spy Who Loved Me".

Visit their webpage on the topic for more information on how and where to visit the exhibition at http://www.bbc.co.uk/bluepeter/articles/article_beaulieujamesbond.shtml.

ABC To Show 13 Bond Films

Reuters has reported that America’s ABC Network, searching for material to show during the upcoming ‘Hollywood Strike’ has bought three runs of each of the first 13 James Bond theatricals from MGM for a total license fee of about $30 million.

Eleven of the Bond titles, in chronological order from ‘Dr. No’ (1962), the first in the cycle, to the 1979 ‘Moonraker,’ are available to ABC immediately, with the two others, ‘For Your Eyes Only’ (1981) and ‘Octopussy’ (1983), still under contract to TBS, which has owned exclusive network rights to the Bond pictures for the last 10 years. TBS has ‘Eyes’ until May 2001 and ‘Octopussy’ through Jan. 31, 2002, according to cable sources.

Not part of the ABC Bond deal because they’re under contract for a few more years to TBS are 1985’s ‘A View to a Kill,’ starring Roger Moore, 1987’s ‘The Living Daylights’ and 1989’s ‘License to Kill,’ both starring Timothy Dalton.

One of the signs that ABC will use the Bond movies to fill its primetime schedule in the event of a writers and actors strike next summer is that the deal runs for an usually short term of less than two years, expiring in September 2002.

ABC hasn’t announced its strategy for scheduling the Bond titles, but sources say the movies will run consecutively in the Saturday-night-movie time slot, at a start date to be determined.

Good news for Bond fans in the US though no exact schedule has been released yet. When we find out though, we’ll let you know. For the full article visit Yahoo News. – Thanks to Andrew for the tip-off.

Tomorrow Never Dies on US Network Television

CBS bought the rights to show Tomorrow Never Dies on television for $20 million and Sunday January the 14th it premiere’s at 8:30 pm E/T.

For those of you in the US, enjoy it!

00 Heaven! All Bond Films on TV

Well almost all Bond films…

Australia's Network Ten will screen all the James Bond films (in no particular order) over the coming weeks from Dr No through to A View To A Kill.

The films will air on Saturday evenings at 8:30 beginning today with "For Your Eyes Only"

For more information visit Network Ten's web site at http://www.ten.com.au!.

For those of you disappointed by not being able to see Brosnan's films it should be known that Channel 7 own the rights to them. However, Tomorrow Never Dies will premiere of Channel 7 later this year. So keep an eye out for it!

Licence To Thrill – UK Bond Convention

Just some details on an upcoming Bond convention in Great Britain:

Licence To Thrill

UK Bond Event

2nd & 3rd December 2000

Posthouse Hotel

Cranes Farm Road

Basildon, Essex, UK

The weekend will include star guest talks on stage, giant screen video, dealers, competitions, autograph sessions, evening party, costume competition and much more!

Further information: Email: [email protected] Web Site: www.scifishows.com