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Ten Stupid Things This Decade Will be Remembered For

September 3, 2009

This decade will be shuddering to an end in no time. We don’t have long to set in concrete what to wear at future noughties-themed costume parties… Here’s my pick of ten things which will be remembered as stupid remnants of the decade.
1. Reality TV
This genre of “real life” television echoed far into pop culture. [...]

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Top 9 Lessons Learnt from Australia’s Terrible TV Game Shows of the Past

May 27, 2009

There are many lessons to be learnt from our nation’s blunderings through TV game shows. For every Sale of the Century and It’s a Knockout, there’s still fecal dregs like Keynotes and The Up Late Game Show With Hotdogs lurking under the televisual toilet bowl rim.
So, onwards! Let our future game show concepts learn from [...]

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How to Confuse Drunk Viewers of Sports TV into Gambling Their Money Away

May 19, 2009

After a recent poker night in which I inexplicably did pretty well, I’ve been watching a little televised poker. As far as I can tell, One HD doesn’t have much else to broadcast yet, besides foreign cricket matches and Slamball.
What particularly struck me on this show was seeing an advertisement for a new poker tournament [...]

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Australia’s Next Top Lesbian, Mortal Kleaning, and Other Unrealised Game Ideas

May 14, 2009

What ho! This past week I’ve had a visiting interstate friend to entertain. My buddy was a fine house guest, and even spent the better part of 30 minutes running after a rogue mouse we’ve been trying to entrap for weeks. Any boarder who arrives with rodent eradication skills is welcome in Chez Jeb!
Any mate [...]

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Logie Awards 2009 Live Blog

May 3, 2009

While a rotten cold has struck me down, self-medicating myself with Codral and bourbon seems like the ultimate combination for live blogging the Logie Awards this evening.
For those international folk unfamiliar with the Logie: it’s not a disease, nor a skateboarding trick. It’s an Australian TV award which has a shockingly similar appearance to a [...]

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Big Bother

April 22, 2009

Reading about the recent shenanigans of Big Brother’s Mike Goldman has got me thinking about an old job I used to have. Many, many years ago I was a “talent” manager for the evicted housemates on Big Brother. On paper, that was supposed to involve high-profile endorsement deals and media appearances; but usually consisted of [...]

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Media Watch: The Video Game

April 14, 2009

My love of Media Watch seems to border on the sexual. The vitriol, the hypocrisy, the ongoing battles against familiar targets… it seems to be the stuff of video games. In fact, I’d gladly buy a Media Watch Fighter II video game! Just think about the possible characters in the game…

Playable Characters:

Jonathan Holmes
After comforting you [...]

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I Telecommanded Your Mum

February 19, 2009

Everyone’s got those lovey-dovey couples’ nicknames for each other… honeypie. Sweetie. Erotically charged buttock-boil. (Okay, maybe we’re not all married to Dani Filth).
What I truly relish is those nicknames ascending into highly abusive condemnations, which somehow still remain endearing. Yelling “NOOB!” at each other over the last few years has somehow organically blossomed into the [...]

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Missing in A*ction

February 10, 2009

Writing about Ian Turpie yesterday got me reminiscing about other game shows… specifically, older childrens’ game shows.
It cannot be denied that James Sherry of A*mazing fame was ahead of his time. In 1994, there was a sense of inevitability that the future would involve fucking gigantic keyboards we’d need to navigate around at high speed [...]

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The Dyson is Right

February 9, 2009

Over the weekend, we happened to pass a store in South Melbourne with the gut-bustingly enthusiastic name: READY, STEADY, VACUUM!
The store cracked me up because it sounds like a gameshow gagging to be hosted by Ian Turpie. Presumably, the premise wouldn’t be too dissimilar from the sadly-retired Supermarket Sweep, but retooled for a more sensitive [...]

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