{"id":799025,"date":"2026-07-14T04:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T04:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/799025\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T04:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T04:56:13","slug":"colleagues-remember-sam-neill-on-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/799025\/","title":{"rendered":"Colleagues remember Sam Neill on Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tFellow actors recall their memories of Sam Neill while Australian Story replays an episode in tribute.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>On Monday TV paid tribute to the late Sam Neill following his sudden death yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Australian Story quickly rescheduled an earlier Sam Neill episode, 7:30 heard from Heath Mitchell, A Current Affair from NZ colleague actor Roy Billing and ABC News from Charlie Pickering.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile in its penultimate episode Farmer Wants a Wife topped entertainment on Monday, winning its slot at 1.01m viewers in National TV Audience.<\/p>\n<p>That was ahead of 7:30 (853,000), Travel Guides (830,000), MasterChef Australia (718,000). and a last-minute rescheduling by Australian Story\u00a0(713,000).<\/p>\n<p>Later\u00a0Have You Been Paying Attention? led with 709,000 then Four Corners (558,000), Media Watch (557,000), The Rookie (455,000) and in select markets Footy Classified (182,000) and 100% Footy (160,000).<\/p>\n<p>Seven News was #1 at 1.59m then Home &amp; Away (946,000) and The Chase (780,000). The Agenda Setters \/ Rugby League are 106,000 \/ 71,000.<\/p>\n<p>Nine News drew 1.42m with wins by A Current Affair (1.05m) and Tipping Point strong at 918,000. Nine News Late was 121,000 and Players (49,000).<\/p>\n<p>ABC News scored 982,00 for ABC then Hard Quiz (427,000) and If You\u2019re Listening (360,000).<\/p>\n<p>Millionaire Hot Seat pulled 381,000 then 10 News (345,000), 10 Late News (227,000), Deal or No Deal (209,000) and 10 News+ (181,000).<\/p>\n<p>On SBS it was SBS World News (251,000 \/ 177,000), Mastermind, (118,000), Michael Palin: Into Iraq (91,000), 24 Hours in Emergency (82,000) and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (52,000).<\/p>\n<p>Sunrise: 466,000<br \/>Today: 269,000<br \/>News Breakfast: 220,000<\/p>\n<p>National Total TV: <a href=\"https:\/\/tvtonight.com.au\/2026\/07\/monday-13-july-2026.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Monday 13 July 2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fellow actors recall their memories of Sam Neill while Australian Story replays an episode in tribute. On Monday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":["post-799025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}