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...
Ben Elton, here to save our comedic souls

Ben Elton, here to save our comedic souls

Channel 9 have announced that Freemantle Media will deliver for them a new live variety program in 2011, hosted by Ben Elton. The program will be called Live From Planet Earth. Is this to be the long awaited successor to the D-Generation’s The Late Show that held so...