Balls- January 31, 2006 One of the ongoing pleasures of media watching is how seriously the participants take themselves and the way great importance is attached to relatively small changes. For example, the Nine Network recently tweaked its logo -- an event that prompted these snippets from News Ltd (translations are in bold).Acting Nine chief executive Sam Chisholm had been a driving force behind the new changes, bringing in former colleague Bruce Dunlop to work on a new logo last year.i.e. were dropping the...http://littlemistersquareeyes.blogspot.com/2006/01/balls.html The good, the bad and the ugly- January 27, 2006 More Sopranos episodes to come -- only 20 but Im sure the Nine Network will dole them out as slowly as possible.Paul Riesner is back.Finally, the Herald Sun carried a report claiming Greg Domaszewicz was one of the first to be approached by Granada Productions to appear in an Australian version of the British series, I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here. Full story here but Im not sure for how long.Little Mr Square Eyes is attempting to contact the Australian arm of Granada Productions to...http://littlemistersquareeyes.blogspot.com/2006/01/good-bad-and-ugly.html Something magical- January 20, 2006 Ahh-Eeeh! Bok!Huh-Hrnn! Thwock!Ahh-Eeeh! Bok!Huh-Hrnn! Thwock!Owwt!So it went for three sets -- and, with the contest between Tszvetana Pironkova and Venus Williams sounding more like SFX for a Xena versus She-Ra adult entertainment video, it was clear that Summer (or Sevens Summer of Sport as it was once referred to) was here in all its sweaty splendour.As with other seasons, the Summer of Sport encompasses change and renewal. The laid-back Hopman Cup gives way to the Australian Open,...http://littlemistersquareeyes.blogspot.com/2006/01/something-magical.html Oh Hoppy Daze- January 10, 2006 You can almost see, explained Geoff Masters during the Hopman Cup final, the min-tell in-tent-city. By the time Id translated this, US player Lisa Raymond had lost the point, mental intensity notwithstanding.Minutes later for no apparent reason Geoff announced brightly, coochindard looking very happy, while the screen showed a pair of dour, middle-aged men sporting the sort of poker faces that suggested one of them had farted and was refusing to own up. Exactly who was Dutch player Michaella...http://littlemistersquareeyes.blogspot.com/2006/01/oh-hoppy-daze.html WIN Television knows news (and apparently what you want too)- January 6, 2006 Originally, I intended to explore the news that Network Nines resident lounge lizard David Reyne had made a clean getaway and was headed to ten to replace Bert Newton, who recently moved to Nine for unspecified duties (and when I say explore the news what I actually mean is shoehorn in even more bad puns involving the words getaway and Reyne).All this changed when a brief glance at Thursdays Mercury revealed WIN Television is scuttling its local 6pm news bulletin. The 30-minute local news...http://littlemistersquareeyes.blogspot.com/2006/01/win-television-knows-news-and.html Where's Buffy- January 4, 2006 In their usual slap dash fashion, Southern Cross appears to repeating early episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Little Mr Square Eyes was going to include details of when it was being broadcast but TPTB at Southern Cross have apparently decided that the Tasmanian program schedule isnt important enough to be included with the other states on its website.Its difficult to accurately describe the erratic nature of Southern Cross Tasmanias programming style. Suffice to say, even armed with an...http://littlemistersquareeyes.blogspot.com/2006/01/wheres-buffy.html New Year Televisuals- January 2, 2006 Forgoing the attractions of the Hobart CBD on new years eve (drunken 20 to 30-somethings, soggy fireworks displays plus the usual gouge-orama hosted by local restaurants) and keenly aware of the need for blogging material, Little Mr Square Eyes shipped in quantities of seafood, champagne and those tiny, irresistible, marinated Huon Valley mushrooms and settled down for a night of what the old conti announcers used to call viewing pleasure.And really, is there anything more sad arse than seeing..http://littlemistersquareeyes.blogspot.com/2006/01/new-year-televisuals.html |