Comments on: What I would have been reporting on http://boxcutters.net/2007/02/26/what-i-would-have-been-reporting-on/ It's Television: Dissected Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:32:55 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: fourthof5 http://boxcutters.net/2007/02/26/what-i-would-have-been-reporting-on/comment-page-1/#comment-1836 fourthof5 Mon, 26 Feb 2007 04:46:55 +0000 http://boxcutters.net/blog/index.php/?p=319#comment-1836 The Code was in trouble because it was crap. The content might have been ok with some better editing and more attention on the stories of interest; more of the court because generally Australia doesn't really have a lot of Smash Hit Ciminal Violence (eg COPS) to creat good content. But the thing that really killed it was the voice over giving a "sensationalised" blow by blow account of what was happening. I watched one ep of this and they spent an hour beating up a possible kidnapping / dead body which turned out to be a Maniquin. Mind you that same ep had the gem of the person in the hiding in the wardrobe for 8 hours while the police raided the house. They of course neglected to mention the amount of time it took to "find" them. To be honest, this show had me in tears. Best comedy I have seen in ages, The Code was in trouble because it was crap. The content might have been ok with some better editing and more attention on the stories of interest; more of the court because generally Australia doesn’t really have a lot of Smash Hit Ciminal Violence (eg COPS) to creat good content. But the thing that really killed it was the voice over giving a “sensationalised” blow by blow account of what was happening. I watched one ep of this and they spent an hour beating up a possible kidnapping / dead body which turned out to be a Maniquin. Mind you that same ep had the gem of the person in the hiding in the wardrobe for 8 hours while the police raided the house. They of course neglected to mention the amount of time it took to “find” them. To be honest, this show had me in tears. Best comedy I have seen in ages,

]]> By: Ross http://boxcutters.net/2007/02/26/what-i-would-have-been-reporting-on/comment-page-1/#comment-1835 Ross Sun, 25 Feb 2007 21:01:50 +0000 http://boxcutters.net/blog/index.php/?p=319#comment-1835 Yep, I mentioned last week on the show that The Code was in trouble, but I am surprised it is disappearing this quick. Good to have Whats Good For You back, so we can all be patronized to and get told the answers to ridiculously obvious health questions (ie Do we really need sleep?). ACA was in good gloating form this week over the whole woman in chains story. They actually used footage from Media Watch to highlight their claims that it is not the first time TT has been caught out lying. Funny watching ACA cite Media Watch as though they are old allies. Something about a pot and a kettle. I misread the 'at' in the Barber article and thought he'd been moonlighting as MC Raheen. Not sure what that would entail but I was pretty keen to check it out. Yep, I mentioned last week on the show that The Code was in trouble, but I am surprised it is disappearing this quick. Good to have Whats Good For You back, so we can all be patronized to and get told the answers to ridiculously obvious health questions (ie Do we really need sleep?).

ACA was in good gloating form this week over the whole woman in chains story. They actually used footage from Media Watch to highlight their claims that it is not the first time TT has been caught out lying. Funny watching ACA cite Media Watch as though they are old allies. Something about a pot and a kettle.

I misread the ‘at’ in the Barber article and thought he’d been moonlighting as MC Raheen. Not sure what that would entail but I was pretty keen to check it out.

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