WE CELEBRATE OUR FIRST BIRTHDAY!

We talk to Marieke Hardy about the lot of a modern TV writer.

We discuss the wonders of being around for a full year.

We don’t buy advertisements for pizza and tatoos.

We discuss the disgrace that was the television media’s tributes to Steve Irwin.

We are graced with the presence of RayWatch.

We read birthday notices from the Boxcutters Family.

We discuss the positioning of pork (most often found on the table).

We made this episode convenient to download with the following three (3) options:

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We refer to ourselves in the third (3rd) person.

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We are one year old and we love it!

Steve Irwin, the environmentalist and star of The Crocodile Hunter, died Monday after an accident with a stingray near Cairns, Australia, according to local Australian media. He was 44.

Irwin was filming an underwater documentary, reportedly about demystifying stingrays, by Port Douglas, Queensland around 11 a.m. Eastern Australian Time (0100 UTC) when he was struck by a stingray barb in the chest. While the stingray barb had penetrated the left side of his chest, the exact cause of death is still offically unknown. Steve Edmondson, a local diving operator, listed cardiac arrest from the injury as a possibility.
– Wikinews

I like the sound of this…

TV Anywhere recently announced its upcoming plans to make American television programming available to subscribers residing outside of the U.S. This new service will allow viewers to watch live linear TV, on-demand movies and shows, and daily local news on either a PC client or a digital IP based set top box connected to the subscriber’s television. The service is also broadband enabled.

from imediaconnection.com

From TV.com:

The Terminator series is one of the most successful film franchises of all time, with the three movies collectively grossing over $1 billion worldwide. Chronicles will follow the events taking place AFTER Terminator 2, when Sarah Connor and her son, John, go underground, hiding from authorities and waiting for the chance to strike at the evil supercomputer SkyNet.

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RB

Earlier this afternoon, Channel 9 issued a release to the media. It was unusually short for a 9 media release. Only seven lines long. In fact, short is not so much correct as curt:

Negotiations between Jana Wendt and Channel Nine have concluded with the parties agreeing to part company.

Channel Nine thanks Ms Wendt for her contribution to the Network over many years and wishes her well for the future.

Perhaps Eddie should listen to some of his critics. Paticularly Peter Craven in yesterday’s Age.

Craven points out that having programmes like Sunday and journalists like Wendt in your stable sets you apart from the pack.

This new iteration of Sunday will see us out the season and then I will not be surprised if it doesn’t return next year.

McGuire, it seems, is nothing more than just another Cashed-Up Bogun. The changes he makes to 9 remind me of a CUB conversation I recently overheard in which a decision needed to be made between a BMW and a Mercedes. It was all about image and had nothing to do with the quality of the automobile.

Eddie doesn’t realise that shows like Sunday and high quality journalism and reportage, whatever time it is shown, gives a network a soul where others have none. At least 9 had something they could truly be proud of (as opposed to the showing off of figures they wave in our faces every week). Now it seems there is almost nothing left of any decency in commercial television*.

* except, of course, for James Talia.