New role for Renai Caruso

Renai Caruso (Bec Quilter) has landed a new role in the Aussie drama Satisfaction, which airs on the Showcase network.

For those who don't know, Satisfaction follows a group of women who work in an upmarket city brothel and explores how they balance their personal and professional commitments.

Renai will play the character of Tess, a personal assistant who is looking for a career change. She'll be appearing in the forthcoming third season, which is currently filming in Melbourne and expected to air in Australia from December.

Satisfaction has been a hit since launching down under in 2007. Among its main cast is Madeleine West, who played Dee Bliss in Neighbours.

Read more about season three here.

Aussie ratings: June 7 & 14

Time for another ratings update. On Sunday, June 7, along with other shows Out of the Blue saw a decline in viewers due to the long weekend. Episode 55, which saw Detective Wilson cracking Philby's laptop code and finding a shocking email from Bec, was watched by 224,000 viewers, a fall of 71,000 from the previous week.

Things were more or less back to normal for the most recent installment. Episode 56, which saw Bec quizzed over her email threat, was seen by 285,000 viewers, a 10.8% share of the audience.

Next week's episode also focuses on the show's many mysteries as Detective Wilson goes public with his latest theory: Was Jason Connors killed by the same person who murdered Philby?

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Fiver schedule change

Another slight change to the Fiver schedule from next week. Sophia's Diary is out of the schedule, which means Out of the Blue now starts five minutes earlier in the afternoon - at 4.00pm. Fiver+1 is obviously affected by this too, so the new time on there is 5.00pm.

Wes Carr's Fearless video

You've seen the trailer, but now watch the full video for Wes Carr's new song Fearless, which features some of your favourite Out of the Blue cast members...



You can also go behind the scenes to the making of the video. Wes thanks Ryan Johnson (Stavva Jones), Clayton Watson (Jarrod O'Donnell) and his girlfriend Charlotte Gregg (Tracy O'Donnell) at the end of this clip...

Compare the openings!

It's been known for a while that Out of the Blue has different opening titles for both the UK and Australia, but up until recently only the British ones were available for international viewing online.

However, the Australian ones have finally turned up on Youtube, allowing UK fans to view them for the first time. Rather than focusing on shots of Sydney and close-ups of the cast like the UK opening, the Australian version contains more fast-paced clips, fun and action.

Which is better? Watch both versions below and decide for yourself.

UK Opening



Australian Opening



And finally...

Here's our own attempt at some Out of the Blue opening credits, in the style of US sitcom Friends. Enjoy... (Warning: This clip contains a wedding spoiler unseen on both Fiver and Ten.)

Aussie ratings: May 31

Episode 55 of Out of the Blue was watched by 295,000 viewers in Australia last night, up 25,000 from last week but still down on the 319,000 who tuned in for Episode 52 a few weeks back.

Last night's episode saw the aftermath of Peta's boating accident and Detective Wilson finally cracking the code to Philby's laptop before discovering a threatening email.

Next week sees the sender of the email being interrogated and Wilson considering new possibilties for the scope of the murder case.