Getaway to Underbelly?
Getaway is offering up a ridiculous "guided tour of Underbelly's King's Cross" -so here are some more ideas Nine could try.
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Getaway tonight is offering up a ridiculous “guided tour of Underbelly‘s King’s Cross” in one of the most shallow cross-promotions Nine has attempted all year.
It’s one thing to have an astutely timed interview on 60 Minutes, but this hits a new low.
And is Getaway jumping the shark? Isn’t the show supposed to be about holiday escapes?
So, while we’re on the subject, here are a few more cross-promos for the Programming Department to toy around with…
Kids WB: Salvatore Coco drops by the Warner Bros Studio to show us how to punch someone’s lights out, Underbelly style.
Domestic Blitz: In one of our most emotional episodes, Scott Cam and Shelly Craft makeover the Pussycat Parlor while Richard Reid takes the girls out to watch Mamma Mia and spends a day at the races.
Hot Seat: After years of selling narcotics to the good folk of the Cross, tonight one of the real-life characters from Underbelly has a chance to makeover their lives, in this edge-of-your-seat episode.
Today: Come down and join Karl and Lisa as they broadcast live from outside King’s Cross Police Station with guest host Sigrid Thornton. There are prizes for the best signs that show us how you much you love the Cross!
Adults Only 20 to 1: Bert counts down the top 20 hookers. They’re hot, they’re sexy, they really flip his wig.
Hey Hey It’s Saturday: If you look like one of the Underbelly characters hurry down to the King’s Cross water fountain where Trevor Marmalade is waiting with Dieter Brummer and Dougge the Pizza Hut kid. The best outfit wins their own personal lap dance from Roy Billing.
…..and more seriously, Underbelly is now also joining GO! Well, why wouldn’t it? It will air from Episode 1 at 10:30pm Monday May 17.
Lookout Daryl and co -you could be next.
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19 Responses
Excellent David! That’s the kind of clever writing that got me hooked on this site years ago! You’ve covered the plugs going one way – may I suggest some cross-promotion to be included in the inevitable Underbelly 4 for the rest of the Nine stable?
For example – A gangster can get kneecapped on the ‘Hey Hey’ set with Darryl thus legitimately able to use his “Logies-only” shocked look when he discovers the body. Dickie Knee can make some appropriate knee-less jokes.
The possibilites are endless.
Two and a Half Men-On Tonights Episodes Alan learns to become a man by punching out Dr Herbert Melnick Underbelly Style and murders Judith in her home then puts the dead body into a bodybag.
Didn’t UB fail in re-runs the last time they tried in on the main channel?
Get-out-a-here! Not sure if the crossover is a good idea, love the list David.
David, I LMAO. Biting satire is always best when it has more than a grain of “truthiness”.
I could handle more articles this if you feel inclined.
Well, I’d expect Humphrey had nothing to say on the matter.
Nine should bring him back. Fat Cat was treated better than this, when he was taken off air years ago, for not being “educational enough”, the Fast Forward team found plenty of jokes. Why no Humphrey jokes today…
Getaway always is like a 10 minute full on commercial per segment. They always put on the ‘hard sell’.
I wonder if Catorina will present this? It could go along the lines of,
“Ladies while the family is visiting Kings Cross if you have a head ache and ‘not in the mood’, hubby can duck into a brothel while you and the kids have a nice cup of coffee and cake. A further bonus is you will be left alone to get some sleep tonight. Everyone is catered for at Kings Cross!
Looking forward to the shots of the syringes, used condoms and homeless in the package.
Underbelly – Humphrey bear speaks out !
LOL David that has to be the funniest thing i have ever read on this site
ROFL! This is one of the funniest things I’ve read online all year!
Did Getaway provide any tip-offs on the best value brothels?
Nice one, Nine.
And thus continues GO’s transformation into 9TWO.
…agreed.
I’m shocked! Local content on GO!?
Don’t forget that Nine News used some scenes from Underbelly in its news report this year when Carl Williams was murdered. That’s really low. It was highlighted on ABC’s Mediawatch show.
Actually it wouldn’t be a bad idea to have characters from 1990’s Kings Cross appear on Hey Hey. It would at least move it out of the 1980’s.
Tacky as.
‘Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares’ – Ramsay goes behind the counter of a kebab shop in the Cross and demonstrates what that big spinning bit of meat is really made from.
‘Sea Patrol’ – this week the crew investigates the work of a Kings Cross strip club janitor in an enthralling episode entitled ‘Seamen Patrol’
Getaway have done this sort of thing before. I remember when The Strip started on Channel Nine and they did a tour of the Gold Coast with Vanessa grey and Aaron Jeffrey.