Comments on: Nine’s last quarter crap-tacular

By: ActualChad

ActualChad — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:45:08 +0000

Maybe they had to leave the name as it was so they could use the theme tune, which reminds me a lot of the movie “Screwballs”.

“are you ready for the Summer?
Are you ready for a good time?…”

Ahh, the memories…

By: jebo

jebo — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:29:23 +0000

Re: “are you smarter than….” – on the west coast of this little island of ours, the primary school year levels are called “year” instead of “grade”, so the title would probably have to change for every state anyway.

By: Adam D

Adam D — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 04:27:39 +0000

I started two sentences with conjunctions and got off somehow.

Having received so much bad press, is it likely that Eddie isn’t the viewer magnet he once was? Now that he’s synonymous with sleaze and boning?

Also, that line-up would have been shit five years ago. What are they thinking?

By: ActualChad

ActualChad — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 23:40:18 +0000

Double negative.

By: Ross

Ross — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 12:35:02 +0000

Can’t we have one thread which doesn’t result in a discussion about grammar?

By: David Boxcutter

David Boxcutter — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 10:45:38 +0000

Ross, do I have to give you a spelling and grammar lesson?

By: Adam D

Adam D — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 08:40:42 +0000

So when did Bob Shanks join 9? And will Bert or Eddie host Family Double Dare?

By: Ross

Ross — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 06:18:20 +0000

Just read the Conchords article. I assume this must mean Nine passed, as they have first look of all HBO stuff.

By: Ross

Ross — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 06:15:55 +0000

I could be wrong here but I think “Surprise Surprise Gotcha” is an amalgamation of two different titles – “Surprise, Surprise” being the old show and “Gotcha” being radio bore Matt Tilley’s prank phone call stunts (He and Jackie O uggh co-host).

See? It’s actually a *clever* title.

I agree about the name with “5th Grader”, but what are they going to do? “Are You Smarter Than A Kid In Grade 5?” isn’t as catchy, plus I assume the format is sold all inclusive – title, music etc.

I didn’t mind the one ep of 5th Grader I saw a few months back. Much better than the crap they have tried with quiz shows this year, especially the ones where contestants try and psych each other out.

By: fourthof5

fourthof5 — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 03:02:47 +0000

I just want to know who came up with the title “Surprise Surprise Gotcha” Christ, thats the lamest name I have heard with the possible exception of…. no wait. There isn’t anything that bad. The whole concept is ridicules. Its nothing but a cheaply vialed channel 9 “Star” promotion for its talent. Singing Bee ???!!!! Not only is this crap reality TV its scraping the bottom of the Reality bin just for an idea.

On other news… “Are you Smarter than a 5th Grader?” (why are we using an Americanism for the title?) is another lame duck designed to appeal to the lowest of base audiences. I wonder if they realise that the kids all get the questions before going on air so they actually know all the answers where as the “contestants” get nowt.

By: Daniel G

Daniel G — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:08:30 +0000

Ten has picked up Flight of the Conchords, so it'll be 50/50 whether it stays in a good timeslot, or gets put down in the Friday Night Death Slot. And the new Ten-HD channel that'll be launching in December sounds excellent! Hopefully this'll mean that season two of Torchwood will get a better run on Ten-HD than it did on the main channel! Seven's planning to launch a multi-channel, too. Exclusive/differing/compelling content (like ABC2, and Seven and Ten's upcoming channels) will be the *only* way to significantly drive up conversion to digital TV.

By: Marc Edwards

Marc Edwards — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 08:22:58 +0000

I agree regarding Weeds. An amazing show that could really do well here (or anywhere). I’d rate it in my current top 5.

Haven’t seen Tell Me You Love Me or Flight Of The Conchords, but I’ve heard good things about both.

No blog post about the new Ten HD channel?

By: MordWa

MordWa — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 07:34:22 +0000

Yeah, but is a top-to-bottom shake up at Nine even on the cards? Wouldn’t that take someone with oh, I don’t know – Vision?! Unfortunately, I think the ‘vision thing’ is in short supply right now. Like it or not, until Browne goes, I can’t see Nine making any real gains on Seven…
Funny thing is, it’s not like Seven is even winning the ratings by all that much – but they’re definately more together and focussed.

More interestingly, if Nine continues to go down, expect to see them shed some talent – question is, who would Seven want to draft right now, if they could?