Performer Ally Fowler is returning to Neighbours next week, but not as the character she originally portrayed.

Fowler, who appeared had 9 months on screen in 1986 as “Zoe Davis” former flame of Paul Robinson Zoe Davis, has a guest role as “Nene Williams.”

Ironically, Nene is also a blast from Paul’s past whose short-lived romance resulted in the birth of daughter Amy (Zoe Cramond). Now she returns and sets her sights on one of Ramsay Street’s happily married residents.

TEN Drama Executive, Claire Tonkin, said: “From her first moments on Ramsay Street, this character promises intrigue, secrets and lots of drama. It’s a real treat to welcome Ally Fowler back to Neighbours to bring this complex character to life.”

Executive Producer, Jason Herbison, said: “I’m very excited to bring Ally back to Neighbours. It’s been 30 years since she was a regular on the show. While she is playing a different character this time, I’m sure fans will enjoy her role and the fact that she will again lock horns with Paul Robinson.”

Fowler, who recently revived the Chantoozies as a support act to Bananarama, said: “It’s not difficult to go full circle on Neighbours. The writers are very clever with the way that they can link people together. I love being back with Stefan again, we’re having a lot of fun.”

Fowler recently appeared in Wentworth.

She returns Monday, 29 February at 6.30pm on ELEVEN.

Next month ABC premieres Keeping Australia Alive a 7 part documentary series which takes the temperature of the Australian health system.

The ITV series used 100 cameras to take a snapshot of the health system across a single day.

This series is about us. And it’s about the Australian health system. It’s both.

It’s a snapshot of what happens over a single day in our unique health service, stretched from one end of the continent to the other. How healthy is our health system? What are the challenges of distance, of recurring national problems (like obesity, melanoma, substance abuse and mental health)? These are the human stories (patients and staff), the character, jeopardy, drama and heart. This series is about us and our relationships; about joy, fear, uncertainty and hope.

As individuals our relationship with the health system begins when we are no more than the blue line on the pregnancy test and ends when we are a flat line on the ECG. By looking closely at our health system we also put ourselves under the microscope. How do we live? What do we value? What is the quality of our lives? What are our priorities? How do we want to live and die?

It is also about the future. With advances in medicine, the escalating costs of sophisticated or ongoing treatment, and our ever-aging population – how will we as a nation face the challenges ahead?

This landmark series will confront and surprise the audience with the real stories of what makes up Australia’s massive system of care and service, which we often take for granted. What are the inequities between public and private systems, between east and west, between country and city? What specific challenges do we face with a system that needs to cater for everything from the most remote indigenous community to the busiest city hospital?

What human dramas unfold, every day, within it and what do they tell us about ourselves? What do they tell us about modern Australia?

What do we (staff and patients) feel about our health care system? What does it mean to us collectively, as well as individually?

What do we discover when we dissect the health system– slicing through its layers, its wonder, its horror, its enormity, all on one selected, ordinary day?

Tuesday 15 March at 8.30pm on ABC.

TEN has cleverly cast John Jarratt as the new narrator of Territory Cops.

Jarratt, who starred in Wolf Creek, is readily identified with the dangers of the outback.

Territory Cops also represents an unusual case in local production, originally produced for Foxtel, but now with new episodes commissioned by TEN.

The McAvoy Media series is due soon on TEN.

John Jarratt will also appear in the Wolf Creek series coming to Stan.

From drunken misadventures and serious assaults, drug trafficking, driving offences, property theft and a whole lot of public nuisance, season two showcases the dangerous, bizarre, heart-breaking and humorous moments that come as part of the job when you are a Territory cop.

Combining stunning visuals with non-stop action and compelling characters, the brand new season of Territory Cops promises to be entertaining, unexpected and addictive.

Australian viewers looks set to miss out on next month’s ICC World T20 Cricket tournament following “enormous” broadcasting fees sought by Indian TV network Star Sports.

Neither FOX Sports nor any Free to Air network has snapped up the rights for the five-week event.

FOX Sports and Nine have both broadcast events in previous years but News Corp reports none has done deals this year.

New Zealand broadcasters have also passed on negotiations.

The tournament will be held in India from March 16 to April 6.

Jeremy Clarkson has apologised to Top Gear producer Oisin Tymon and settled a racial discrimination and injury claim.

Oisin Tymon launched the action against the presenter and the BBC after a “fracas” last March that left Tymon with a bloody lip.

“I would like to say sorry, once again, to Oisin Tymon for the incident and its regrettable aftermath,” Clarkson said.

“I want to reiterate that none of this was in any way his fault.

“I would also like to make it clear that the abuse he has suffered since the incident is unwarranted and I am sorry too that he has had to go through that.

“I am pleased that this matter is now resolved. Oisin was always a creatively exciting part of Top Gear and I wish him every success with his future projects.”

Media reports put the settlement in excess of £100,000 ($A194,000), an amount to which both Clarkson and the BBC contributed.

The “fracas” last March at a North Yorkshire hotel led to an internal BBC inquiry and Clarkson’s contract not being renewed by the BBC.

Source: BBC

He’s the world’s greatest secret agent mouse with a hamster sidekick and he’s back for more action.

But while the 2015 reboot of Danger Mouse, which originally aired from 1981 – 1982, comes with changes they aren’t readily recognised by fans of the show. As Head Writer Ben Ward explains, it sort of raises the question, how much does our memory of a show differ from what actually transpired?

In the case of it’s a quite a lot.

“It’s surprising how many people tell me we haven’t changed it,” he says.

“We had a round table where we asked everybody to describe the show and everything they said we kept in. So there’s anarchy, it constantly breaks the fourth wall, the humour is sophisticated, and it’s multi-layered.

“I’ve tried to write the show I remember, rather than the show that happened. I have a very clear memory of it but when I actually watched it, it wasn’t quite how I remembered it.

“So we sort of wrote that show. Which is why when people watch it, they think it’s the same show. But we’ve actually changed enormous things.

“The original is set mainly in a world of humans. Danger Mouse is a mouse living in a human world, whereas ours is a world populated by animals.”

Danger Mouse (voiced by Alexander Armstrong) still has a mission to protect the world from the villainous machinations of the evil Baron Greenback (Ed Gaughan). With his ever-faithful but always fearful sidekick Penfold (Kevin Eldon), they take on all manner of mind-blowing missions aided by tech-defying gadgets, under the watch of Colonel K (Stephen Fry).

“The new Danger Mouse is James Bond meets The Simpsons. It’s an action-spy show set in an animated world where each character has their own comedy schtick. It’s a very fast paced world with high comedy jokes, but still has the strong spy adventure,” Ward explains.

It’s also carefully aimed at children but with grown-ups in mind.

“We wrote it for a children’s audience but very much with the idea that parents would watch it too,” he continues.

“There are also nods to the original but we’ve always put in things for the younger audience.”

Ward has written for Spitting Image, Saturday Live, Smack the Pony, and is best known for Horrible Histories.

“I was speaking to the BBC about a pilot that was tonally very similar to what they were looking for with Danger Mouse. So when it came up I was lucky enough to already be speaking to the BBC,” he recalls.

“People had been talking about it off and on since it stopped happening. The boring answer is that as money gets tighter, and budgets go down people are looking for things they can be sure will work. So reboots with actors people know happen more often.

“But everybody in my generation were huge fans of it. So the 45 year olds are all now the commissioners. If you look at shows being brought back there’s always a 30 year lag and people remember the shows they had as kids.”

Each episode runs for 11 minutes at “breakneck speed”, and there are 2 longer specials. The original ran anywhere from 5 – 22 minutes, depending on the season.

Such is the reputation of Danger Mouse that it attracted profile guests for the reboot including John Oliver, Miranda Richardson, Richard Ayoade and Lena Headey. This season even introduces an Australian character, an antelope called The Australian Tour Guide, played by Morwenna Banks. For the record the topsy-turvy universe of Danger Mouse includes a koala from Cornwall, a camel from America a hippo from Peckham.

With not even half the 52 episodes having aired in the UK, Ward is optimistic of a renewal by the BBC.

“The response has been extraordinary so I’d be surprised if that conversation didn’t go well. Fingers crossed.”

Danger Mouse airs 4:45pm weekdays from Monday February 29 on ABC3.

Mindy Kaling attends the 18th Costume Designers Guild Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.

It’s kind of a shame there’s so little coverage of her wearing this on a red carpet, because these aren’t the best pics in the world. On the other hand, maybe this is a dress meant to be seen on a stage.

Mindy’s always been very loyal to her costume designer Salvador Perez, and wears him every year to the CDG Awards. We haven’t always loved the results, but that’s not the case this year. Love this on her. It’s not going to win any design awards or land on the cover of any magazines, but it’s perfect Hollywood glam in the old school tradition. She looks fabulous.

Style Credits:
Custom Salvador Perez Embellished Dress

[Photo Credit: Getty Images]

• Awards
• Costume Designers Guild Awards
• Mindy Kaling
• Salvador Perez

[Photo Credit: IMAXTree]

• Burberry
• Burberry Prorsum
• Fall 2016 Collections
• New York Fashion Week
• NYFW
• NYFW Fall 2016
• Runway

“Scream Queens” actress Lea Michele attends the Vanity Fair and FIAT Toast to ‘Young Hollywood’ at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles, California.

The posing causes us to say “Of course,” but we can’t say the ensemble is entirely expected.

Mind you, it’s not good either, but it is a bit of a surprise to see her on the red carpet in giant pants. Normally she’s in a skirt about as large as a hand towel. Unforch, these satiny pants are fairly hiddy and worse, she paired them with a matte top, which is a total amateur move. We expect better of you, Miss Lady. We don’t necessarily expect more stylish or more tasteful, but we figured you at least knew not to wear clashing blacks for pictures.

Of course this all ignores the fact that even if the top and pants were a perfect match this would all be kind of tacky.

Style Credits:
Solace London Black One-Shoulder Top
Vatanika Black Pants
Jennifer Meyer jewelry
Casadei Black Sandals

[Photo Credit: Getty Images]

• Casadei
• Jennifer Meyer
• Lea Michele
• Red Carpet
• Solace London
• Vanity Fair
• Vatanika

Elizabeth Olsen poses with her award for Actress of The Year with James Norton at the ELLE Style Awards 2016 in London, England.

T: These shots make me want to cry.

Lo: Her outfit’s bad, but it’s not that bad. Get a hold of yourself.

T: It’s not her, it’s him.

Lo: He’s making you cry? Why, because he’s so dreamy and you can’t handle all that beauty?

T: Simmer down. No, because he’s so dreamy and he looks like crap.

Lo: And that makes you want to cry?

T: Yes, because he’s got full lips, blonde eyelashes and the skin tone of a basement-dwelling viking, and as someone who also has full lips, blonde eyelashes, and the skin tone of a basement-dwelling viking …

Lo: I can see where this is going…

T: I’m upset that someone as beautiful as him can’t avoid looking like an eyeless fish in photographs.

Lo: You’re mean.

T: No, I’m panicking. I’ve been kidding myself all these years that someday I’d figure out a way to not look like an eyeless fish when a flash goes off, but if someone as drop dead gorgeous as he is can’t figure it out, what hope does a mere, pale, full-lipped blond-lashed nobody as myself have?

Lo: There, there.

T: HE NEEDS BRONZER. AND HE SHOULD OPEN HIS EYES REALLY WIDE, THAT’S WHAT A PHOTOGRAPHER TOLD ME ONCE.

Lo: Shhhh….

T: HE SHOULD DYE HIS EYELASHES – OH GOD, I DON’T EVEN RECOGNIZE MYSELF ANYMORE.

Lo: You’re forgetting the most important thing.

T: *snf* What?

Lo: They’re both wearing shit outfits.

T: That does make me feel a little better, thank you.

Style Credits:
Calvin Klein Collection Ensemble from the Spring 2016 Collection
Christian Dior Black Pumps

[Photo Credit: Stills Press/INFphoto.com, Landmark/PR Photos, IMAXTree]

• Awards
• Calvin Klein
• Christian Dior
• Elizabeth Olsen
• ELLE
• ELLE Style Awards
• James Norton
• Pairs Division
• Red Carpet

Fuller House is a great argument for why axed sitcoms should never be revived.

Even those stuck in the ’80s and longing for sentimentality will struggle with this one.

To be fair, I was never particularly a follower of the original Full House which aired from 1987 to 1995, so all of the ‘in-jokes’ in this spin-off went way over my head. But it’s 21 years later (or as the opening scene reminds us 29 years since its beginning). You have to presume there are a lot of people coming to the show who have never seen a frame of the original.

The action takes place in the Tanner household of San Francisco. Recently-widowed Veterinarian D.J. Tanner-Fuller (Candace Cameron-Bure) is raising three boys — the rebellious 12-year-old Jackson, neurotic 7-year-old Max and her newborn baby, Tommy Jr. Her dad Danny (Bob Saget), plus ‘surrogate’ dads Joey (Dave Coulier) and Jesse (John Stamos), his wife Rebecca (Lori Loughlin), sister Stephanie (Jodie Sweetin) and neighbour Kimmy (Andrea Barber) are all on hand, along with her niece Ramona (Soni Nicole Bringas). Yep, it’s a house pretty full.

The premise of the messy first episode that exists primarily to ‘pass on the baton’ will see Stamos, Saget, Coulier and Loughlin as guest stars only (along with one or two other legacy faces). This next generation series will revolve around DJ struggling to raise her clan until Stephanie and Kimmy move in to lend a hand. And there you have it.

But the episode plays out like a private party you’ve been invited to where you have no idea what’s going on. Adhering to an 80s sensibility, its fingers are white-knuckle clinging to a template that has all but faded save for the Chuck Lorre camp: a multicam sitcom with a studio audience who whoop and holler at the slightest wisecrack.

The opening scene of characters stepping onto the set would make Fonzie proud, with the audience cheering incessantly. I had to check I wasn’t watching a Saturday Night Live parody. The gags are devoid of any subtlety, coming no later than every third line of dialogue, with the audience guffawing monkey-like regardless of whether the line was actually any good or not.

“Damn we all still look good!” declares Jesse. Yes you do. A pity I thought it was Stamos (an Executive Producer of the project) saying the line, not the character.

As the cast steamroll their way through punchline after punchline, I couldn’t help but feel like everybody was acting at one another, rather than with one another.

The plot meandered its way through blast-from-the-past moments (a Stamos-led song will have you cringing) until it works its way up to the routine 11th hour heartfelt moment. Oh where is Alex Keaton or Kevin Arnold when you need them? Somebody show them how to switch from comedy to emotion in a heartbeat? Apologies to Lucy.

I kept wondering who the audience for Fuller House is. If it’s a new, younger audience I’d suggest they are now weaned on single-cam comedies sans-laugh track such as Modern Family. If it’s the original Full House audience (many of whom presumably have their own full houses now) will they be satisfied with a show without the three-men-and-a-baby who made the show?

We all long for a bit of TV nostalgia, but this is one idea that should have been left at a reunion special.

Fuller House premieres today on Netflix.

Music channel [V] today ends a 20 year run on the Foxtel platform, after two decades of music videos, Live broadcasts, concert events and highlights including its Presenter Search, The Channel V Oz Artist of the Year, Guerilla Gigs and [V] Island Parties.

Osher Günsberg, as a young Andrew G, was one of many presenters who have appeared on [V] along with Molly Meldrum, James Mathison, Jabba, James Kerley, Yumi Stynes, Chloe Maxwell, Danny Clayton, Marty Smiley, Jane Gazzo, Renee Bargh, Andrew Mercado, Billy Russell and Toni Pearen.

Osher Günsberg told TV Tonight, “It’s with sadness in my heart I see Channel [v] go, however we did put in motion what would eventually end us.

“On my first night on air, April 12th 1999, I asked my producer Tim Daley (now general manager of CMC) if I could put the chat screen on the laptop onto the broadcast.

“He said ‘Sure!’ so we plugged it in and the next time we were Live the Director put the laptop feed live to air. We brought live web chat to live TV there and then, bringing the internet and TV together.

“Once broadband speeds increased, we began to put video on more and more – and now those same speeds that we were experimenting with are bringing music fans full HD music videos whenever they want to see them.

“So there is sadness, but I am sort of happy how it ended. Our audience moved on, and that is a wonderful thing. What it means for other content providers is yet to be seen. But I am grateful that through my time there I had “, and was given permission to explore new frontiers in broadcasting with a very cheeky edge.

“We would never have existed were it not for the fans, so may I say ‘Thank you’ to every person that subscribed or showed up at a broadcast . We would have been lost without you (thanks Delta).”

From tomorrow [V] Hits will continue the [V] brand.