Comments on: TV Tonight Awards 2009: The year of Shaun Micallef

By: Reubot

Reubot — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:47:44 +0000

Man, I can’t believe TEN won best FTA network…

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:15:34 +0000

Interesting results!

The only suggestion for the 2010 awards is that Sports Shows (e.g. Before the Game, The Footy Show) are separated from Sports Broadcasting itself, as these are quite hard to compare.

By: BM-dog

BM-dog — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:01:56 +0000

I’m mystified as to why anyone would think that Seven News is the best news/CA program in the country. They are just as tabloid, manipulative and parochial as Nine and (increasingly) Ten, and barely anyone there could be called a serious journalist. ABC News is far and away the best news service in Australia.

In the sports category, the Sunday Roast is a hidden gem, although less so since Nine dumped Matthew Johns and replaced him with some boring guy from Sky Radio whose name I can’t remember. Unfortunately their timeslot (early afternoon) means they don’t get a whole lot of attention from anyone.

By: Mr Seriosity

Mr Seriosity — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:30:41 +0000

Thanks for doing the awards, David.

A big cheer for The Gruen Transfer, too. It doesn’t slot neatly into any of the voting categories (light entertainment? talk show?), but it was my favourite show last year.

By: damo

damo — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:39:13 +0000

@beckala. steven jacobs shouldn’t be on tv all together.

By: Beckala

Beckala — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 09:49:40 +0000

Must say, after watching the Today show on Sunday (had people staying over with us at our holiday house, so out of politeness, let them pick the show), I wish I could re-vote worst female and male as Leila McKinnon and Steve Jacobs, after the appallingly embarrassing, cringeworthy “rap” songs they each performed. The other unfortunate thing is, our guests were going “oh, isn’t she doing well”, when I was about to throw something at the television as I couldn’t reach the remote to turn it off, so the thought of smashing the tv was preferable then living through the 90 seconds of Leila rapping. Oh, the humanity!!

By: Jed

Jed — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 09:42:56 +0000

@Kathy, i totally agree with you on Mark Beretta. I personally have no real problem with Kochie or Mel (Kochie’s a Port supporter so i love him), but Berretta annoys the hell out of me. Can’t stand him. Can’t believe they picked him to fill in for Kochie, it was terrible to watch. Replace him with Simon Reeve.

Ten was judged best network, but after today’s changes by Ten and reading some comments, me thinks a lot of people would like to change their vote.

By: Mandy

Mandy — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 08:11:40 +0000

I’m also interested in why British TV doesn’t get a guernsey. David, do you think next year you could put the BAFTA TV nominations in your “helpful lists to remind us when voting” links? (Apologies if you’ve already explained patiently elsewhere why you don’t do this.)

As British shows are generally underrepresented on commercial FTA I think it would still end up US-heavy in the voting, but it would be interesting to see if any at least made it into runners-up, with a bit of voter memory prompting.

Thanks, I enjoyed voting and I’m glad others share my Micallef obsession. And also miss TV Burp.

By: jmgirl

jmgirl — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 06:40:44 +0000

Saw that Double Take made the runner up list for worst show, while TV Burp made the runner up list for best. Everywhere else, critic-wise, it was the opposite. Never quite understood why this site’s visitors took such a set against DT. Thought a lot of it was outstanding, especially the song parodies. Wonder how the show came to run over Tv Tonight’s dog in a past life?

By: Kathy

Kathy — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 06:18:19 +0000

Love your work David… this is top stuff, and no surprises really.

Shaun Micallef said:-
“When I’m looking myself up on the internet, I always log onto TV Tonight. There’s always something there about me (or Your Gen) and usually it’s complimentary. Thank you David for the support and for the always thoughtful assessments and appraisals,” he said.

It would be great if a lot of other TV personalities would provide feedback as well, good or bad.

Jed said:-

‘Sunrise wins Best Morning Programme yet Melissa Doyle also wins Worst female and Kochie 2nd by 1 vote for Worst Male”

I have to agree with the results when it comes to Melissa (how fake is that smile) Doyle and David (pain in the A) Kochie… But, one other that should be on the list is Mark Beretta.. He drives me insane with his ‘know it all’ attitude. What does this guy not know he has such a big head.

By: BG

BG — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:47:46 +0000

I think the votes are pretty well on, would agree with the majority on most of them.

I know people with disagree with me on this one, but I can’t understand Seven News’ popularity. I find the language they use to be overly emotive (at least in Melbourne) and can have a tendency to tell you how you should feel about a report rather than just reporting facts.
Then again Nine News is also rather pathetically going down the “desperately local” angle, and has too many stories that should be ACA pieces somehow filtering in to their News (and too many ACA stories that shouldn’t be on air…)

Not surprising to see Dave Hughes on overexposed either, I think he’s served his purpose on 7pm, fine for occasional/weekly appearances but out of his depth regularly during discussions on any serious issue.

By: Jason D.

Jason D. — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:27:25 +0000

Thanks for facilitating these awards. It was great fun to participate & to see the overall results. It’s interesting to note that those in the worst female category are those who are famous for no perceivable reason where as those in the favourite female category are known for their talents i.e acting, comedic skills, knowledge etc. It differs from those who made it into the worst male category who are embarrassing or plain unlikable despite their knowledge or skills. Going by this years trend, I have a feeling that we might be seeing “chk chk boom” girl making the 2010 list considering that Nine is giving her a presenter position despite only being famous by being largely overexposed by Nine and News Corp for the purpose of publicity. I think fame and genuine likability doesn’t work without talent at the very least, it didn’t work for Ruby Rose and I don’t think it will work for Clare Werbeloff either.

I’m also happy and proud of the shows and personalities that were voted favourably.

By: damo

damo — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:54:41 +0000

i was bit shocked with a few. most overexposed talent by a country mile would have to be tom williams

same with worst male.. it should have been david koch

best sporst program. before the game didn’t deserve that. talentless hacks on that show. one week at a time was better

By: Anon

Anon — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:47:50 +0000

9am with David and Kim Beat KAK?! How exactly, lol
Thanks for some great results and hard work David

By: Chloe

Chloe — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:29:48 +0000

:O I love both Gary Unmarried and FlashForward! Some of the results are pretty suprising…but I am ecstatic Shaun Micallef is getting heaps of recognition, it’s about time, he’s a very talented man. And I can’t wait to see V here, but if Nine has the rights to it, I’ll be waiting a long time.

By: tasmanian devil

tasmanian devil — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:09:17 +0000

I must say that I am surprised with the results for many of these. As David said, “detractors are often more vocal than its supporters”, which probably explains why shows like The Chaser, Sunrise, Deal Or No Deal, Border Security and Seven News managed to win their category and honourable mentions to 7pm Project, Hey Hey, Rove, Idol, TT, Carrie Bickmore etc. despite their incessant criticism on this site.

I was a little disappointed to see that no British comedies made the list, and surprised that Australia’s Perfect Couple didn’t make the list of Worst Shows and that Bert Newton made the list of Most Overexposed, since the only show he appears on is 20 to 1 and even so his role is rather redundant. Also I’d like to mention Scope, which I voted for in Best Kids Show but unfortunately didn’t get a mention, a pity because it really is a good educational show for which Ten should be congratulated.