Posts by Alfie
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Oaktree has provided Mediaworks with a multimillion-dollar capital injection. Mark Weldon earns 100 bonus points.
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I'm really enjoying Steve Braunias' nightly reviews of The Block as he cleverly captures the unbridled excitement this series offers.
Today's story devotes a sizeable and deserved chunk to "Mark "Useless" Weldon" -- well worth a read.
And the running "Creak," croaks Cat" gag is just priceless.
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Hard News: A cog in the Mediaworks machine, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Pimp My Flag is going gangbusters at the moment!
To be fair, it benefited from the audience tuning in for the upcoming episode of "Panda, what panda?"
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It's official... promoter confrims (sic) Chris Brown concert is dead.
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Hard News: A cog in the Mediaworks machine, in reply to Trevor Nicholls,
So what will they replace 3D with?
The possibilities are endless. How about…
"Underestimating the Audience" – wherein somebody famous for copying others’ reality formats is promoted beyond her capabilities, then mistakenly trusts her gut feeling that intelligent tele is dead with disastrous and hilarious results.
"Fuck my Channel" in which a well-connected man with no broadcasting experience does his utmost to destroy an existing television company in the shortest possible time. Bonus points are awarded for keeping the board onside… until it’s too late.
The anticipated success of these shows will spawn inevitable spinoffs including Product Placement 101: Degrading Audience Expectation and Undervalue your Staff.
And on it goes.
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Former District Court judge Roy Wade has written to Police Commissioner Mike Bush over his department's heavy-handed treatment of HDPA and the extremely foolish search of her home.
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Hard News: A cog in the Mediaworks machine, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
In the ‘Entertainment’ section rather than ‘Politics’ ?
Almost everything TV3 touches these days qualifies as entertainment. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised to see Weldon & Christie relaunch the channel as Bottom-feeder TV.
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We all knew it was coming. As soon as the sham (sorry, consultation period) was over, Mediaworks has officially axed 3D.
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Thanks Graeme. I was actually more surprised that a self-confessed "conservative Christian" was selected as a guardian of our country's morals in the first place.
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Don Mathieson, QC, the censor who banned Into the River is quitting the Film and Literature Board of Review.
Mathieson, a conservative Christian, made headlines in September, after Ted Dawe's teen novel Into The River was briefly banned, following a complaint from conservative lobby group Family First.
The book had previously won the NZ Post Children's Book Award, and the ban - the first handed down in 22 years - sparked public outrage.
By a majority vote, the board lifted the interim ban in October - and the book's previous R14 classification was thrown out at the same time, making it an unrestricted read.
Mathieson opposed the ruling, with a dissenting opinion in the board's final decision, saying "no responsible parent of a 17-year-old, let alone of a 12-year-old, would want this repetitive coarse language normalised."
On Monday, Internal Affairs Minister Peter Dunne announced Mathieson's departure from the board, in a statement announcing seven new appointments.
