Double bill for Bondiplus, Net News anchor to head Church radio news
Lou Bondì gets two programmes a week on PBS. Net News anchor Josianne Camilleri moves to Church radio RTK.
Church radio RTK has engaged the former Net News journalist Josianne Camilleri as their new head of news.
Camilleri was reported to have given in her resignation at the PN’s television station, where she has anchored the news, last week.
Internal interviews at RTK provided no suitable candidate to take over the position of head of news after Leonard Callus stepped down from the position.
Instead, an external call for applications saw Camilleri take up the role.
In other developments on the media front, Where’s Everybody? director Lou Bondì gets to present Bondiplus twice a week on national station TVM as from October.
Eileen Montesin will also be shifting her fictional drama Dejà Vu to Net TV. Her other drama KC was aired on TVM with a peak audience of 58,000. Dejà Vu now competes with Deceduti producers Take 2’s Min Imissu? to be aired on TVM.
TVM has lost Andrea Cassar’s Liquorish to Labour station One TV. “It was a natural step for us to strengthen our yearly growth in these last seven years,” producer Warren Brimmer said.
On the other hand, TVM will be airing Watermelon Productions’s Purée which moves from Net TV while Carlo Borg Bonaci is to present quiz show Kwizzun before the 8pm news. He also moves from Net. Kontra l-Hin loses Borg Bonaci and gets Josef Bonello as its new quizmaster.
Bonello – presenter of TVM’s breakfast show Bongu of last schedule – will also present Bejni u Bejnek, a half-hour interview show.
Veteran TV presenter Claudette Pace, today a spokesperson for the health ministry, returns to the box with her mainstay midday variety Sellili on TVM, which replaces Ray Calleja’s 12:05 midday slot. Sellili is produced by 12:05’s Dee Media.
Calleja instead joins Larissa Bonaci on One TV with news satire show Illostra.
Women to the fore on One TV’s Ilsien in-Nisa, taking the evening 9:45 slot and presented by sisters Clare and Pauline Agius, Moira Delia, Zoo comedy troupe’s Claire Agius Ordway, and Mariella Scerri.
Former One TV chairman Michael Vella Haber is producing fiction D.R.E.A.M.S on TVM and retains Emlija on One.