TV Guide - Sydney primetime at a glance
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Television
Nine quietly switches to hour-long news
![Channel 9 logo
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Paul Kalina and Scott Ellis 8:00pm With next to zero fanfare, Nine has tweaked the most hallowed institution of the TV schedule, the 6pm news bulletin.
Fellowes
Downton Abbey could end with fifth series
![<i>Downton Abbey</i>'s (from left) Lady Mary Crawley, Lady Rose MacClare.](http://web.archive.org./web/20140106121848im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2014/01/06/5056111/downton-4-th-90x60.jpg)
6:11pm Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes has hinted that the next series of the hit television show could be its last.
Ten
Ashes victory draws almost 3 million viewers for Channel Nine
![Australia's captain Michael Clarke (R) and Peter Siddle kiss the Replica Ashes Urn.](http://web.archive.org./web/20140106121848im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2014/01/06/5055916/ashes-th-20140106151517188404-90x60.jpg)
MICHAEL LALLO 4:02pm Almost three million viewers watched Australia trounce England in yesterday's Ashes telecast, with Channel Ten's Big Bash cricket peaking at almost 1.2 million nationally.
Television
Peter Helliar has a date with The Project
![Peter Helliar.](http://web.archive.org./web/20140106121848im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2014/01/06/5055535/helliar-th-20140106130539602839-90x60.jpg)
7:59pm Comedian Peter Helliar expects to be spending more time behind the camera now he has joined The Project.
Television
Michael Muhney's dismissal from The Young and the Restless linked to groping claims
![Departing <i>Young and the Restless</i> star Michael Muhney.](http://web.archive.org./web/20140106121848im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2014/01/06/5055120/muhney-th-90x60.jpg)
Lauren Ziegler 10:39am The Young and the Restless star Michael Muhney has allegedly been fired for repeatedly groping co-star Hunter King.
Rejuvenated Neighbours scrub up OK
![tv](http://web.archive.org./web/20140106121848im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2013/03/03/4078224/tv-90x60.jpg)
ADRIAN LOWE True fans of the grand old dame of Australian soap have hailed its latest facelift.
Golden Globes 2014: all that glitters is gold
![THE GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS -- 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards -- Pictured: (l-r) Hosts, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler -- (Photo by: Gavin Bond/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)](http://web.archive.org./web/20140106121848im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2014/01/04/5052250/th-Tina-Fey-Amy-Poehler-1-90x60.jpg)
David Dale Wit and charm is the go for the Golden Globes when the show hosts are Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.
Can our Rake survive the US culture
![Greg Kinnear in the US version of Rake.](http://web.archive.org./web/20140106121848im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2014/01/04/5053069/th-793765816-90x60.jpg)
MICHAEL IDATO Flamboyant barrister Cleaver Greene, played by Richard Roxburgh, has cut a rough swath through clients, girlfriends and court cases for the past four years on Australian television.
Critic's choice
![Melinda Houston.](http://web.archive.org./web/20140106121848im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2013/11/08/4907375/M_Houston-90x60.jpg)
Melinda Houston Sitting between The Young Ones and Girls, Fresh Meat deserves a bigger audience.
Reality imitates life
![Ruth Ritchie](http://web.archive.org./web/20140106121848im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2012/03/23/3156738/Ruth-Ritchie-dinkus-90x60.jpg)
Ruth Ritchie The season of junk TV shows breeds addiction to the oddly compelling antics of the ditzy and desperate.
What's on
Friday, January 3
![Paul Kalina
Deputy TV editor
(03) 8667 3279.
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A traditional Ukrainian wedding can mean only one thing - wearing underpants on your head, dressing up in nurses' uniforms and drinking enough grog to kill a horse.
Monday, January 6
![05_02_15MBRick Stein at a village Dham with Ash Katoch _ Maharani Chandresh Kumari_4f300d26.jpg](http://web.archive.org./web/20140106121848im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2014/01/01/5046222/PH_greenguideJAN2_thumb_MON-20140101130808315469-90x60.jpg)
Rick Stein might be cooking's Mr Everywhere but his bona fides are subtler than many of his motor-mouth contemporaries.
Saturday, January 4
![Lucille (LIZ WHITE) and Campbell Ballentine (JOHN DUTTINE)_49926947.jpg](http://web.archive.org./web/20140106121848im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2014/01/01/5046261/PH_greenguideJAN2_thumb_SAT-20140101130607457936-90x60.jpg)
As British bonnet dramas go, The Paradise is a beauty with extravagant costumes, slavish attention to detail and richly interwoven plots.
Thursday, January 9
![ELLEN POMPEO AS MEREDITH GREY IN THE TV SERIES GREY'S ANATOMY.
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It would seem audiences are tiring of the antics of our grating heroine, Meredith Grey, in Grey's Anatomy.
Tuesday, January 7
![Hard Time on ABC2](http://web.archive.org./web/20140106121848im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2014/01/01/5046264/PH_greenguideJAN2_thumb_tuesday-20140101130929619803-90x60.jpg)
Smith State Prison in Georgia is a cage for exceptionally dangerous men, many of whom are unlikely ever to see the outside again.
Wednesday, January 8
![Roddy, a 56 year old hoarder from The Hoarder Next Door on ABC2](http://web.archive.org./web/20140106121848im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2014/01/01/5046262/PH_greenguideJAN2_thumb_Wed-20140101131119852270-90x60.jpg)
There are more than a million hoarders in Britain and their numbers are growing - as are their piles of junk.
Monday, December 30
![Paul Kalina
Deputy TV editor
(03) 8667 3279.
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If bagpipes, kilts, tartan, highland drumming and dancing are your thing, look no further than this celebration of 'the Year of Natural Scotland'.
Recaps
MasterChef recap: It's back, and with so many questions
The weather may be turning colder, but the sun is shining in our hearts, because MasterChef is back, with all the deliciousness and spice and subtle psychological torture that that implies.
Video
The President vs The Pirates reviewed
This documentary follows Somali-Australian former refugee, Abdirahman Farole who returns to his home land to become President. His goal, to tackle the pirate problem and bring democracy to Somalia.
Boxing Day Test TV previewed
The perfect Australian Christmas tradition after the perfect Australian result.