The 63rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards

The 63rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards

The 63rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards have been run and won, and the parties partied. On the whole, it was a bunch of fun, with Jane Lynch (Glee’s Sue Sylvester) hosting and doing a pretty good job. The opening number was pretty funny, the song OK, but the...
TV audiences now have too much power

TV audiences now have too much power

Back in the “golden years” of television, pictures streamed forth from the 4:3 cathode-ray tube in the corner that audiences worshipped. Changing channels was a physical activity (thus the channel didn’t change often). We accepted what the networks...
Big Brother Australia 2012 on @channel9

Big Brother Australia 2012 on @channel9

You heard it here first. Fresh of the back of the success of The Block running as stripped program across the week in 2011, comes news that Channel 9 in association with Southern Star will produce a local version of Big Brother in 2012. While no information is...
Overpromised, Underdelivered… (#TopGearAU)

Overpromised, Underdelivered… (#TopGearAU)

When Channel 9 delivered their first (and the franchise’s third) series of Top Gear Australia to our screens last year, there was a lot of consternation. The hosts alone polarised people, and their interaction with each other would have made the Trojan Horse cry...