Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Lackluster television

Is the cupboard completely bare? Is there anything left that Channel 9 could possibly show us or are they conceding defeat and deliberately losing nights.

Let’s look at last nights schedule:

730 – i-caught
830 – 1 v100
930 – CSI

Firstly I watched i-caught and didn’t mind it. Ok it was just a collection of clips from YouTube but I like ‘the battle of Kruger national park’, nevertheless waste of time prime time television, it should been on FOX 8 with Cheaters and World’s wildest waste of time police chases.

1 v 100: Is it just me or does no one care about game shows? Has there not been a MASS OVERKILL of them. 1 v 100 is nothing different from any of the other game shows that have been launched. It will not challenge City Homicide or Desperate Housewives.

CSI: Ok, Nine is infatuated and has NOTHING else to show. ER had been rating poorly, so they pull it for CSI repeats again. I mean how many times can you repeat the one episode? I don’t know but surely every CSI episode would have been shown 3 or 4 times?

So what are the television producers doing over at 9 and why do they allow such poor excuses for television to air? They have been a fantastic television station and I just wonder what’s being made and who is making these decisions?

The one shining light is Temptation and they’re pulling it for Millionaire. Is Millionaire going to do any better or even beat Home and Away?

Of course it’s not if anything it will do worse because (despite the fact I like him) Eddie McGuire is host and we will see him 5 times a week. He tried 5.30 Millionaire and that failed why would it work in the 7pm timeslot?

I find it bizarre that 9 are continually back pedaling, undoing mistakes and re-scheduling cancelled series... Here comes Burke’s Backyard, what’s next Hey Hey It’s Saturday??