Comments on: Say bye to variety for me

By: franz chong

franz chong — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:31:08 +0000

Nothing Wrong with Good News Week.Considering the rubbish alternatives SBS gives us in the same timeslot with those overdone South Park Repeats GNW makes for a good alternative

By: KFed

KFed — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:22:19 +0000

@Boy Wonder, you really are quite the conspiract theorist. But the latest one makes no sense at all. What motivation would a network have to do themselves out of viewers?

Oh and David, I want to take back my comment that you weren’t biased. I have noted a bias towards Prisoner and Desperate Housewives.

By: hey

hey — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:24:22 +0000

omg wonder boy are u actually serious???

By: Craig

Craig — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:50:03 +0000

I’ve been watching Top Gear on BBC Knowledge (just came to Austar) and those eps run just over 45 minutes, SBS runs at about 50 while the original (only on BBC in the UK) runs around 60 minutes. My guess is Nine will get the 45 min version to allow for more ads but I still have to wonder what else is cut, the news segment doesn’t run 15 minutes.

BTW the new UK series (airing on Nine in 2010) is great, 2 eps down, 5 to go.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:49:37 +0000

@ Roving Roving Roving.

Dump Good News Week? Never! That show is hilarious

By: Boy Wonder

Boy Wonder — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:03:59 +0000

(I don’t know how i’d cope without this site so thank you David Knox, for even printing my rant which is really fair. I’m here many times thru the day)
Why Rove did not give us all a heads up that something was going to announced makes me wonder if he has a resentment with TEN and purposely wanted to sabotage the final night? I mean he is no Oprah with 25years but 10 years is nothing to be sniffed at. In this tv climate 2 successful years is something. Heck on 9 four episodes in a row in the same time slot is something. I’m almost scared to see what 9 does with TopGear but will watch with high hopes they don’t wreck it. They will have the UK version so if all else fails I can watch that.
2.5 is, well harmless fluff. Everytime I seem to switch on the telly it’s on. I would not buy it, or even download it but it’s okay to switch off for 22mins and not have to think about anything.

By: Roving Roving Roving

Roving Roving Roving — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:46:56 +0000

It was about time Rove pulled the plug on his own show. It baffles me that there is always such a hysterical focus on this guy in the tabolid media. He is beige at best; a ‘poor man’s Adam Hills’. His program was never more than moderately chucklesome; a weary format with the odd half decent joke and a number of average to par sidekicks (see Peter Hellier). The ratings were rarely spectacular either.

No more Rove and please, oh please Ten, follow suit by dumping Good News Week- funny in the nineties perhaps, bloody awful in the noughties. More Micallef and more Tony Martin!

By: Zambora

Zambora — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:12:08 +0000

Now the questions remain -
How many promised shows never made it to the screen ?
Can Network Ten get The Panel back on air or a revitalised BB or will they overexpose Hamish & Andy ?
Can Nine learn from their mistakes of this year ?
Will Seven finda show to replace All Saints ?
And finally will David Knox be ever able to say again – all shows ran on time and networks made no programming changes for last week

By: stevo

stevo — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:54:08 +0000

well said David, keep up the fantastic work you put into this site.

By: KFed

KFed — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:50:20 +0000

Aside from the fact that I have never sensed a bias on this website, I find it very bizarre that some people are actually loyal to networks. Networks are just a bunch of shows stuck together, and at any time one will usually have more shows that I like than another, but I would certainly never watch anything just because it was on my prefered signal provider.

They do, of course, raise my ire when they show viewers a lack or respect and take shows off at short notice or produce garbage, and TV Tonight provides a great place for venting about such things.

Nine may be copping it now with a few years of bad choices, but before that (and admittedly before sites like this) Seven had a very long stretch in the doghouse themselves, and nobody really complains about Ten because they have been an also-ran since inception – to the point where it is now part of their business model – and there’s really very little point.

David also runs a lot of stories on SBS despite the fact only about 16 people in the whole country watch it, but nobody calls that a “bias”.

So David please continue to do what you do, “fair & balances” or not.

By: Mike Retter

Mike Retter — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:48:22 +0000

Fanboi wonder.

By: Tepee

Tepee — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:00:29 +0000

I don’t think there’s any bias in this article. It’s just a fact that Seven won the week by a large margin, in 4 of 5 cities, 5 out of 7 days, and importantly in all key demographics, including their own (and Nine’s) target 25-54 and Ten’s target 18-49.

By: Brenton

Brenton — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:52:03 +0000

To say David is biased is compeletly wrong, I only discovered this website about 5 months ago and since then I come back 3, 4 or 5 times a day to see what is happening in TV and what David has to say about TV land.

Great work David

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:47:46 +0000

Thank you David, I agree with you, I do not think you are biased and for this reason I always read this site each day to catch up on what is happening. Some people are never happy, and I thought the comment nine won Melbourne by .1 was a fair one, and shows how strong Seven is atm, and I think will be for a while to come, no I am not a seven fanboi, in fact I prefer watching TEN, but facts are facts, so again thank you for your reporting items of interest in the media sector

By: David Knox

David Knox — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:11:37 +0000

Bias to Seven? Interesting. Somehow I reckon they would say otherwise. 30.0% is a big weekly share whichever network wins it hence the reference. I did not say All Cities fell to Seven, I said All Cities except Melbourne. It still holds true and I don’t see the need to list the other 4 one by one given this outcome. It’s always a little amusing when people say “you’re biased to Network X.” It’s a bit like politics. By the end of the year I will have been ‘biased’ to about 5 networks which means I am probably hitting the right mark.

By: Brodie

Brodie — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:09:29 +0000

lol Boy Wonder. If anyone is showing a bias towards a particular channel, it is you.

This is one site which I think is very balanced and equal. Giving credit and criticisms where they are due, irrespective of the network. Keep up the good work David.