The Cult of (News) Personality

The Cult of (News) Personality

You see it every time you switch on the News. You may not even know it’s there as it whizzes by in the strapline. Networks publishing the reporter & anchor’s Twitter handle on-screen and encouraging you to follow their journalists so you can stay up...
@WakeUp No More

@WakeUp No More

148 episodes. If it were a prime-time drama that’d be heaps (11 and a half season’s worth). As a 5-day a week breakfast program it’s not very much at all (just under 30 weeks – a third of that over summer). It’s barely run in. Today the...
Top 5 TV News Tidbits #2

Top 5 TV News Tidbits #2

1. INXS get re-cast & re-made. A drama about one of the biggest Aussie bands ever? Well it *could* work, but only if you had the support of the surviving members of the band and the casting managed to find actors that look like the original six members. Somehow,...
Bye Bye @Sandra_Sully and #TenLateNews

Bye Bye @Sandra_Sully and #TenLateNews

Well, it’s happened again. Last night Sandra Sully signed off from the Late News on Channel 10, for what seems to this time be the last time. Recent changes within the newsroom at the network have meant that the show is being retired with no replacement...