September 3, 2008 – 6:28 am
First they hurt “The Ladies”, now Jemaine and Bret are messing with the hearts and minds of couch potatoes everywhere who have an eye for good telly as the boys won’t be coming back to their very excellent HBO show after they wrap up writing and filming the second season. *sigh*
(via NZ Herald)
August 29, 2008 – 4:15 pm
Australian TV viewers damaged themselves last night by watching it, Nine and its management confirmed it’s blokey with no real interest in what people want to see except if its half n-ked, swears or makes the Footy Show look like Oscar winning TV. Even though Nine’s problem trace directly back to Kerry packer from 2001-02 […]
The much anticipated announcement of who will be hosting Top Gear Australia which will go to air in August was announced by SBS last night. Charlie Cox, Warren Brown and Steve Pizzati got the nod.
All come with motoring backgrounds and media experience. Cox is a racing driver and current director of DMG Radio, Brown is […]
Tonight at 9pm on ABC1 a new show hosted by Wil Anderson called The Gruen Transfer will attempt to give an advertising industry insiders view of the secrets of how they so easily sell products to consumers.
In The Gruen Transfer (named after the psychological effect shopping malls have on the human mind, first theorised by […]
According to advertising industry rag B&T: the home of Karl Stefanovic, Richard Wilkins and Eddie McGuire has topped the list of Australian television networks for showing the most locally generated content.
All national commercial networks exceed the 55% requirement set down by the Australian Communications and Media Authority, but Nine exceeded the quota, with 63% of […]
This is the most addictive online game ever made.
(found via rocketboom)
Readers under 18 years of age might not realise that Saturday nights used to be filled with even greater levels of TV lameness than they are now with a show called Hey Hey It’s Saturday.
For the last 9 years we have been spared from all the awfulness associated with the show. Sure, Daryl Somers has […]
It has been 10 years since the world’s best ever TV show went off the air. It doesn’t seem that long ago as I still use so many phrases and references to Seinfeld everyday.
There are few good articles around the web about it:
- Newsday has done feature on what the cast have been up […]
I know that every child of the 80s who watched Batman repeats after school everyday will be shocked to learn that…
The ’60s Batman theme has no vocals at all. The supposed calls of “Batman!” are just trumpets. So are the “nanananana”s “It is a simple twelve bar blues progression using only three chords until the […]
“The kind of people selected for a reality show are… well, they have issues. They tend to be what we call ‘cluster-B’ personalities. That’s narcissist slash borderline sociopath. They’re people who are exhibitionistic, have poor boundaries, are trauma survivors and want to be famous, not because they have something important they want to do for […]
It has always fascinated me how a company like Apple can make much more complex devices like mp3 players and mobile phones unbelievably easy to use as well as sexy yet telly manufacturers continue to mess up a basic device like a remote control. Then when you add the frustration of multiple remotes for all […]
I remember in high school I thought about collecting the animation cells of the opening couch scene from The Simpsons. Watching this video makes me wish I did more than just think about it. It is such a way cool feature of one the best television shows of all time.
Not watching it ourselves and have logged out of any social networks where it is currently being discussed. Not for an Australian Family Association style moral objections or dislike of the show itself. It is just that we have no level of tolerance to the sheer nothingness of Kyle and Jackie.
But, who are we but […]
The Hollywood Reporter is saying Jimmy Fallon has sealed a deal to succeed “Late Night” host Conan O’Brien on NBC in 2009 and not Rove McManus as had been speculated here in Australia.
While we think the boy from Perth may have been out of his depth in this gig. He is immeasurably better than Jimmy […]
The traditional precursor to the TV Week Logie Awards which instead lets you vote for all the rubbish that has been on the box, The Fuglies, have announced their nominees for the 2008 awards. Unfortunately Eddie McGuire isn’t up for an award this year but there are still heaps of average people and crap […]