This morning’s media reports are far from clear about what Julia Gillard is planning to do about curbs on poker machines.
Big Brother
WTF sport moment: Shaun Burgoyne’s manager won Big Brother
So it’s the silly season for both the AFL and the NRL. And like most sports junkies I love this stuff. Hissyfits, claims on disloyalty, home sickness etc, says Leigh Josey. But here’s a ripper. It’s time to go … Shaun.
Big Brother dying across the globe
Perhaps the most iconic of all reality television programs, Big Brother, is being axed around the world, as life for broadcasters and marketers gets rougher and losses mount.
Let the public make the call on Kyle and O, not ACMA
As odious as Kyle and Jackie O can be with their shock jock car crash radio stunts, they are a necessary part of free speech, which we consumers should police with the off button.
Channel Ten cooks up a big year in ratings
In its toughest year financially since the 1990s when it was bailed out of bankruptcy, Ten is having its one of its best years ever on the screen.
Technologies that keep an eagle eye on you
A handy cut-out-and-keep guide to the acronyms of Big Brother: CCTV, RFID tags and GPS-enabled mobile phones.
Rundle: It’s 1984 in New Labour’s Britain
The UK has developed a culture of relentless, insidious and universalised surveillance, writes Guy Rundle.
QLD seat of Beaudesert: Pauline or the yoof?
The LNP has handed what should be a reasonably safe seat to a local youth whose main claim to fame is invading the stage of the 2005 final episode of Big Brother to publicise his band, writes Bernard Keane.
Media briefs
Selling Southern Star not straight forward … Hammer the message … Do you hear a reporter clapping? … Even lamer than Second Life … Mr T Snickers ad pulled for being offensive to gay people.
Big Brother the victim of McDonaldisation
Big Brother never really moved out of its training pants. Little wonder it’s now been canned, writes Glenn Dyer.
BB 08: the media didn’t bite this year
Are the media suffering cold sweats as the drip feed of Big Brother is ripped from their arm once and for all? Not so much, says Sophie Black.
A moment’s silence for the passing of Big Brother
Everyone will remember where they were…
Death of BB marks an end to cruel, crude reality TV
Ten’s core audiences — the 16 to 39 and 18 to 49 viewers — have finally said ‘not interested any more’ in the once golden Big Brother franchise, writes Glenn Dyer.
Big Brother or Barnum & Bailey?
Reality TV? Hardly. Big Brother has turned into a freak show, writes Glenn Dyer.
Media briefs and TV ratings
Australian Idol facing the Network Ten cost-cutter … Howard and Rudd stir up the Grumpy Old Men … It really is The Smage … Last night’s TV ratings.
That was the week that was…
Swanny’s latest mashup and the week in trash and one liners.
Media briefs and TV ratings
Ten fights off Big Brother poachers … The Oz in a spell … Last night’s TV ratings.
Seven joins the fight for Big Brother, but why?
The battle for Big Brother continues with the Seven Network now saying it will “participate” in the process, a move which has got media buyers confused because it represents such a dramatic move away from the network’s successful “heartland” approach.
Pop goes the culture: a Razer rap
Poppaea Sabina, the second wife of Nero, was just a jaded harridan looking to cause trouble. As I am. As such, I bid you join me in a Hot Tub of homogenised Ass Milk. AKA, the low week in the life of the popular culture, writes Helen Razer.
Network tensions over Big Brother YouTube posting
Word around the TV industry is that relations between Southern Star and Endermol Southern Star, and the Ten Network are said to have soured and the reason is believed to be this YouTube posting. It’s a rehearsal of the finale of Big Brother last month.
Rudd should stay out of Queensland
When you have the spectacle of a Queensland Nationals Senator moving a motion citing the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights, you know something really bizarre politically is going on. Mark Bahnisch weighs in.
Senate paves the way for NT ‘emergency intervention’
Later today, parliament is expected to pass three bills which will give the government the power it needs for its ‘emergency intervention’ (after 11 years of rule) into the lives of Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory, writes Chris Graham.
Media briefs and TV ratings
Puns a Gogh Gogh … From go to woe with The Sunday Age … Seven, still the one … Ten has a problem and its called Sydney … Last night’s TV ratings.
Media briefs and TV ratings
Ten dances for ratings … Last night’s ratings … Glenn Dyers’ comments.
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Crikey got it wrong on Sky News voting … Big Brother finale voting above board … Nicola Roxon, Emily’s List and junk food … Haneef : Where do we draw the line? … a sharper political antennae …
