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  Tipping Point and Home & Away were best in entertainment. Published by  David Knox on   July 5, 2024 0 Leave a comment Filed under  News On a day when new sports broadcasting rules were passed, Thusday viewing was heavy with sport content. Thursday Night NRL  drew 628,000 viewers in National TV Audience with  Wimbledon  365,000 / 202,000 helping Nine to a winning night. Meanwhile  Tour de France  on SBS averaged 209,000. Tipping Point  led entertainment with 761,000 an extended  Home and Away  next at 711,000. 7:30  drew 624,000 then  Grand Designs Revisted  (458,000) and  Taskmaster Australia  (430,000). Nine News  averaged 1.16m with  A Current Affair  leading on 1.02m. g Seven News  was #1 at 1.3m viewers,  The Chase  scored 665,000.  Britain’s Got Talent  managed 334,000 / 243,000. ABC News  drew 820,000 then  Hard Quiz  (403,000), ...

  Let’s get a little American penance going. f I’m not on Twitter (are you really going to make me call it X?) anymore because I have shit to do, but periodically I like to check my mentions. The latest tweet I received came from a fellow Canadian (according to their user bio) irked by a recent piece I wrote about  Hillary Clinton : “For a CND looking in you have some tough opinions and protected tweets … How about participating in a real democracy in the lower 50?” Good point! As a Canadian with permanent residence in New York, I often find myself in the role of outsider, trying to make sense of whatever you lot are doing down here. College? As expensive as possible. Deductible? A word—and concept—that never should have come into common parlance. Taxes? Higher than in Ontario, and yet with even fewer services provided. Treading on me? Don’t. This year will be my fifth Fourth of July on record. I never participate in the festivities—because the beauty of America is that you ...