Outnumbered, a family sitcom worth watching!
If you want to see the most natural child acting on TV have a look at Outnumbered (TVNZ One Friday). It’s a family sitcom which is distungushed by letting the children improvise a little. The result i...
Television
What do TV adverts say to me?
I’m sure fortunes are spent by experts in the mind control they call “Marketing” and “Branding” but you wonder about the message they are trying to convey. Here’s what I get from watching them*:...
Can you be an "Extraordinary Ordinary" person?
In the current TVNZ Close Up Promotion Mark Sainsbury says last year they met some “Extraordinary Ordinary people”. If extraordinary is “Beyond what is ordinary or usual” and ordinary is “Commonly...
Blu-Ray or HD DVD?
I’m not in the market for a player yet but watching this format battle seems like a repeat viewing of the VHS/Beta war. Seems the New York Times isn't sure either as today it says; Did Warner Br...
Top Gear Australia?
Strewth, can an Top Gear Aussie match the U.K. original? I never saw the US Top Gear, did it ever happen, but did see one episode of the “sanitised” version that screened in the US. It was not a patch...
Comedy
Alan Coren dies
Sad to read this. In addition to “The News Quiz” I remember Alan from appearances on Clive James, Parkinson and other talk shows. He will be missed. Alan Coren dies aged 69 | Top News | Reuters H...
The lead story on TVNZ One News
What colour shirts will the All Blacks be wearing tomorrow? Nothing, yep nothing, more important than that happened in the previous 24 hours. The bizzarre thing was they didn’t know what colour so...
Play-Doh, <strike>coming soon...</strike> is here!
2.5 tonnes of plasticine on set. 40 animators. 3 weeks. 189 2ft bunnies 150 1ft cubes 10ft x 20ft purple wave 30ft giant rabbit. 6 cameras. 40 animators working through 4 ho...
QI : Why don't we get it here?
Funny, intelligent, thought provoking TV. Why don’t we see it in New Zealand? http://www.qi.com/tv/
A message to TVNZ and TV3 News
Instead of spending time and money on promotions telling me you do great news, spend the time and money doing great news.
The Simpsons & string theory?
String theory meets The Simpsons? How a fake word from The Simpsons ended up in a perfectly cromulent string theory paper – Sciam Observations: Scientific American Blog
Loving the road...
The “Love The Road” campaign introduced New Zealand to the Mercedes Benz C-Class using a magical combination of Kiwi roads, music by Joel Haines , stunning scenery and production values to match. They...