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Give Us Live Action BB
I don't know.
I don't think Queensland gets the AFL footy show, and they have stopped showing the NRL footy show for the year. You must have caught the last interesting media news before the silly season started.
Or maybe it is because I have just come back from New Zealand with an antibiotic resistant dose of Eating Media Lunch.
I turned on the TV because it was too cold and cloudy to be outside star gazing in Twizel, and it seemed polite to feign an interest in who was going to govern the place. When I turned the TV on, the nation was waiting for the announcement, filling time trying to explain how the MMP voting system works in the dullest way imaginable, so I flicked the channel and there it was.
NZ2 did advise to view with discretion, but nobody warned me that I could be hooked with just one taste. Or that you can only watch it online if you are in NZ. Great Southern Television has not even released a DVD, not after eight seasons, not even after their getting Best On Box awards nominations, and Qantas TV awards nominations, and Bent Spoon awards nominations, and even creating their own awards to give to the kind of people who were thinking twice about giving them awards. Or maybe the writers prudently bought up the rights so they never could end up in the discount bin between 'DAAS Kapital' and 'The Dream' .
There is nothing like this on Australian TV, not even a pathetic rip-off. Compared to EML, Good News Week, Today Tonight and the Chaser don't seem comic. Here, the local politicians, celebrities and famewhores que up to appear on Rove; CEOs and academics feel free to fumble their late night TV interviews, confident that their embarrassing slips on Lateline Business will be lost in the news cycle.
There, Jirimy Jimes Drommund Wills (The host, a Jeunesse dorée with an impressively impassive interview technique) has taught their NZ equivalents the meaning of fear. Mayors, soap stars and NZ Idol entrants scuttle like cockroaches from the lime-light when they see him approach.
We (or at least, I) desperately need him, or even just some pathetic Australian rip-off of him - someone who will warm Judy Spence or Christine Nixion up with "Yes or No: Tasers?" and follow up with the gnarlier dichotomies like "Yes or no:Blowjobs and lesbians on Home and Away?" or "If you had to have one: Leo Sylvestri or Max Sica?"
And what is the point marching down Queen Street in Brisbane to support /oppose gay marriage, when gorgeous Jeremy is vox-popping "Family values: which one is the best? The worst?" in Queen Street Auckland, or Wiamate.
Yes it is warmer here, but the fresh air is smoggier and the mountains are flatter and we have NOTHING on TV. Worse, EML is making MMP look interesting this week, and the only way I can see it is to channel it through the psychics who are coming on the show to explain how it works.
I don't think Queensland gets the AFL footy show, and they have stopped showing the NRL footy show for the year. You must have caught the last interesting media news before the silly season started.
Or maybe it is because I have just come back from New Zealand with an antibiotic resistant dose of Eating Media Lunch.
I turned on the TV because it was too cold and cloudy to be outside star gazing in Twizel, and it seemed polite to feign an interest in who was going to govern the place. When I turned the TV on, the nation was waiting for the announcement, filling time trying to explain how the MMP voting system works in the dullest way imaginable, so I flicked the channel and there it was.
NZ2 did advise to view with discretion, but nobody warned me that I could be hooked with just one taste. Or that you can only watch it online if you are in NZ. Great Southern Television has not even released a DVD, not after eight seasons, not even after their getting Best On Box awards nominations, and Qantas TV awards nominations, and Bent Spoon awards nominations, and even creating their own awards to give to the kind of people who were thinking twice about giving them awards. Or maybe the writers prudently bought up the rights so they never could end up in the discount bin between 'DAAS Kapital' and 'The Dream' .
There is nothing like this on Australian TV, not even a pathetic rip-off. Compared to EML, Good News Week, Today Tonight and the Chaser don't seem comic. Here, the local politicians, celebrities and famewhores que up to appear on Rove; CEOs and academics feel free to fumble their late night TV interviews, confident that their embarrassing slips on Lateline Business will be lost in the news cycle.
There, Jirimy Jimes Drommund Wills (The host, a Jeunesse dorée with an impressively impassive interview technique) has taught their NZ equivalents the meaning of fear. Mayors, soap stars and NZ Idol entrants scuttle like cockroaches from the lime-light when they see him approach.
We (or at least, I) desperately need him, or even just some pathetic Australian rip-off of him - someone who will warm Judy Spence or Christine Nixion up with "Yes or No: Tasers?" and follow up with the gnarlier dichotomies like "Yes or no:Blowjobs and lesbians on Home and Away?" or "If you had to have one: Leo Sylvestri or Max Sica?"
And what is the point marching down Queen Street in Brisbane to support /oppose gay marriage, when gorgeous Jeremy is vox-popping "Family values: which one is the best? The worst?" in Queen Street Auckland, or Wiamate.
Yes it is warmer here, but the fresh air is smoggier and the mountains are flatter and we have NOTHING on TV. Worse, EML is making MMP look interesting this week, and the only way I can see it is to channel it through the psychics who are coming on the show to explain how it works.
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