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Rave #02: CHANNEL NINE ARE IDIOTS
"Hear
ye! Hear ye!"
The
following are my thoughts on the cancelation of Micallef Tonight.
Please excuse the bad spelling, it's very hard to type when you
want to kill something and your hands are slipping on your tears
on the keyboard...
August 6th:The Day
After I Found Out
Bloody idiots. Evil,
brainless, money grabbing idiots. They can’t see genius, they
can only see the falsified measurement of ratings, which in itself
is completely irrelevant as only an uneven percentage of the population
have the boxes thingys. Utter poos. They were presented with
the best program since ABC’s Welcher and Welcher, and what did
they do? Axe it!
They cannot recognise
complete genius if it is shoved right up their noses (not that
I’d ever have the heart to shove poor Shaun up those mongweeds
snouts). This program was the only thing that I had ever watched
on high-and-mighty channel nine! The only reason I would turn
and degrade myself to enduring mindless boring ads set to a demographic
with the intellectual age of stoned three year olds, and they
bloody get rid of it. So, Andrew Denton got better ratings-
well stuff that!
Shaun walks all over
Denton’s ‘intelligent’ style. Would they listen if I chained myself
to the set of Micallef Tonight and refused to move until Nine
had signed a contract to re-commission the show? Well Nine are
such meanies I wouldn’t be surprised if they just bulldozed me
into a mush. Poo on them. I might sue for the bad grades
I got from sport because I was too depressed to run. Did they
think what the potential psychological damage of all Shaun’s fans???
No. Because they are stupid poos. I want my Shaun. I need
to see what color tie he’s wearing, I NEED TO KNOW HOW HIS KNEE
IS HEALING! I had that same dream as before(*), only it was
only me on the seat...:( Nine is sooo gunna regret making me this
depressed! (Sobs) See you in the (Waaaaa!) Monkey house (breaks
down into gibbering wreck)
(*)Picture this. An empty field, with a small
park-bench in the middle of it. The grass streatches to the horizon.
It is twilight, and raining a bit. There are two people sitting
on the bench, staring strait ahead with an umbralla that neither
of them is holding above them. Nothing happens.I'm one of the
people. Nothing happens. Shaun is the other peroson. Nothing happens.
A Magneto-blimp slowly floats across the horizon. Nothing happens.
I wake up. How entertaining it THAT!!
Please
excuse the insanity of the above dream. It was shrunk for your
protection, really. OK, SO I'M OBSESSED! SHOOT ME!... Please
don't. Here is an artical from "The Age" (August 6th) of channel
9's justification for this act of outright heresy.
The Nine Network has axed Micallef Tonight, citing poor audiences
for the Monday night live variety show. The news shocked
host Shaun Micallef and producer Todd Abbott when they learned
of the decision late yesterday afternoon. It was a different
message just a month ago when Nine extended the show to the end
of the year. Guests have been booked through to November.
Nine's Melbourne programmer, Len Downs, said yesterday the show
failed to attract the audience it needed to sustain it. "We
believe Shaun Micallef is a great talent," Mr Downs said. "We
are disappointed that the program did not reach our ratings expectations."
The show got off to a shaky start this year, its launch delayed
by network executives reportedly worried that Micallef's offbeat
humour would not work with Nine's conservative audience.
The show's format was fine-tuned and Nine launched the show three
months ago, proclaiming it a return to the network's glory days
of live variety television. But it faced stiff competition
in the 9.30pm Monday timeslot from the ABC's heavily promoted
Enough Rope, hosted by Micallef's friend Andrew Denton. For the
past few weeks Enough Rope has consistently rated higher and this
week only 293,624 viewers tuned in to watch Micallef interview
singer Ricky Martin in Melbourne, compared with 359,790 for Denton
chatting to singer Kate Ceberano on the ABC. The figures
were similar nationally, with 821,192 for Micallef and 1,119,758
for Denton.
Grumblefumble.
I want more Micallefy genius.
I have
pleged to (and have for about five months now) always wear a tie
in mourning for this wonderful program. *sniffle*
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