Wednesday, October 21, 2009

The Derek Zoolander Center For Kids Who Can't Read Good

So, I began this post yesterday before I got side tracked at work and never posted it... but in the meantime my wife put me on to site meter. For those who don't know, site meter tracks the people who log on to your blog. Well, that's what the claim is. It clearly doesn't work as it seems to be telling me that the only people looking at my blog are my wife and I. While I am sure this can't be the case, in an effort to test things out I figured I would talk about some hot internet topics in an attempt to drive traffic to my site.

What better place to start than merging the two biggest trending topics on twitter (technophobe, me? Ha!). So here goes - IT IS OFFICIAL: BALLOON BOY KILLED KANYE WEST RIP. You heard it here first.

So back to my original post...

Channel 9 here in Aus ran the other night what, on the surface, may seem to be a perfectly acceptable, one might even say interesting, programming choice. 9pm: The Seinfeld Reunion show.

One problem: it wasn't. Rather it was the episode from Curb Your Enthusiasm where Larry tries to do a Seinfeld Reunion special. Splitting hairs you say? Well, no. They are two very different shows. Sure, the show had all the Seinfeld players in it. Sure they talked about doing a Seinfeld reunion special. But that doesn't make it a Seinfeld Reunion Special!!! Don't get me wrong - I happen to love both shows but for very different reasons.

The frustration comes from the fact that CH 9 has never shown either show before. While the audience no doubt knows Seinfeld, as Curb has only ever been a cable show here in Australia it's audience is fairly limited. So why kill it for the masses by pretending it is something it ain't? By dropping in an episode on it's own without any understanding of who the hell the people in Curb actually are does no one any favours. So why do it?

It makes me wonder what programmers do all day. Their job is to watch television and pick the good stuff. How hard can it be? Sometimes I wonder if they actually watch any television at all. Same as sports journos on TV here. They have one job to do - watch sport - so why does it seem as though if you get outside the AFL, League or Cricket that everything else is a novelty sport played by strange people with strange, funny, unpronouncable names? It is baffling to me...

What is this? A Center for Ants? Indeed...

1 comment:

  1. Is it silly that I giggle everytime I see "my wife"? That's me! Ha!

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