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Oops. Is that The Block scoreboard rolling down the highway?

Spoiler Alert! Behold The Block scoreboard on the back of a truck -with no cover in sight.

2014-04-02_2142SPOILER ALERT:

You would think given the importance of The Block‘s scores and storylines that a little more care might have been due…

But a reader sighted the scoreboard for the The Block on the back of a truck driving down King’s Way in Melbourne, without any kind of cover to conceal its scores.

Good one, guys.

The offending blackboard reveals scores for the challenge underway this week in which teams unite for two makeovers, with the prize being a reduction off the Reserve price of their own townhouses.

Each point nets $500 off the Reserve price and there’s a bonus $10,000 shared amongst the winners.

In the passenger mirror there’s another Channel Nine truck behind it.

Normally I wouldn’t publish this kind of storyline spoiler, but on this occasion, I reckon King’s Way qualifies as “public domain.”

26 Responses

  1. Hopefully, the board will go to the tip along with the ridiculous machine that Cam gets on to spend 10 mins and an ad break turning. Seriously. It is more interesting watching grass grow.

  2. I don’t care if you revealed a spoiler coz I love The Block. If you watched last night you will know will know who’s scores they are.
    David keep up the good work. Now just dole out a spoiler for MKR & it will be even. Haha.

  3. Considering this finished filming months ago im not too sure I would believe this is real.
    Maybe a cunning marketing tactic by Channel 9.

    And everyone leave David alone….. You cant see any names. And he had Spoiler Alert in the title…… Why did you read the story if you were going to have a Cry!!

  4. Given the B/S Network 9 and The Block have dished up this series, who cares?.

    So in keeping with The Blocks ethos of not letting ‘continuity’ get in the way of Blockhead dramas, I look at this in the same multiple scenario style, and readers can edit/out in what ever they wish.

    Was it actually planned to move it in the early hours of a morning, but Scott Cam took to long to load it with his forklift.
    Was this on April the 1st.
    Was it being taken to a preschool the get the calcs. corrected.
    Was it a record breaking hot day, and the cover simply melted away.
    Was it network 9 staff or was it contractors who simply couldn’t give a stuff.
    Was it Steve doing the ultimate spoiler.
    Was the truck in the mirror actually chasing him because he had surprised them by nicking it, by moving 50 times faster than he normally does.
    Was the chase necessary, because in a couple of Km, he…

  5. @chk chk – your first comment in months and it’s another dig at David. Do you not have anything positive to contribute?

    I’m with David on this. He’s in the publishing business and this photo was taken on a public road. It’s irrelevant that “not many” people would’ve seen this as it travelled along a major highway in Melbourne. All it would need is for the taker of the photo, or one of their friends, to upload it to one or more of the many social media/photo sharing sites and then it’s out there, and David has missed out on a scoop (a real one, not an ACA one).

    It was clearly tagged as a spoiler. If you click thru, that’s your choice.

  6. I don’t have a problem with this. Spoiler alert at the top, although maybe the idea of blurring the title image and then including the unblurred image in the story would have been better.

  7. Well if you didn’t want to know you didn’t have to read this story. It did say ‘spoiler’ on the front page. Also, if no cover is on the scoreboard then they obviously don’t care much about it being revealed and is open to anyone taking a pic and doing whatever with that pic. And its on a public street, in the middle of a busy

    I’m surprised they didn’t cover the scores, also surprised that they leave the scores on the scoreboard… would have thought they put the scores on paper and rub the scores off the scoreboard..

  8. Sorry David just need to make the point that while no names are revealed, there is a clear House 1 and House 2. And while not all scores are revealed, fans of the show know that the scores for rooms 1,2,3 were revealed last night. So with all of the scores for one house revealed and rooms 5-8 for the other revealed, there’s really not much left for the imagination.

    I take your point that you did include spoiler alert and I made a conscious decision to still click through. But I just think there are other times when you would be privy to spoilers but don’t reveal them in any way. I just think this should have been one of those times.

    As I said in previous post David, love your work 99.9% of the time. No harm done (it’s just a TV show after all) and life goes on 🙂

  9. I couldn’t agree more with David. The post was headed with a spoiler alert giving readers the choice of viewing the picture or not. At the end of the day this is David’s blog and he can post whatever he wants. Personally I found the picture of interest and think that if the picture was out there to be seen then David is within his rights to publish it. If some of you want a completely spolier free tv based blog then can I suggest that you get off your high horses and create your own!

  10. Agree with you 99.9% of the time David, but not convinced that posting this photo was the right thing to do. Perhaps blurring it out would have made the point without showing the scores. I don’t believe a truck driving down a Melbourne road was really in the public domain compared to posting it online. In reality, very few people would have had the opportunity to see the truck.

    1. Thanks for feedback. Note that the photo does not reveal either names or a second score, so there are still unresolved storylines to reveal. It is also identified with a Spoiler Alert on the home page so that readers on this post made the choice to read further details. I would suggest that’s more care than production displayed on this occasion.

  11. yeah that’s a very silly and careless thing to do although I think David did this very deliberately for the benefit of someone or something…

  12. @namdog

    Maybe the 10,000 isn’t split?

    500 x 69 = 34,500
    34,500 \ two teams = 17,250

    each team gets 10,000

    = 27,250

    Who knows.. There’s always some twist to these things.

  13. im on the fence with whether this should have been published as is…. while the photo was public domain on Kings way… not many people would have noticed…. and it may have been a fan that snapped the photo… its not the end of the world for sure… but its a good get… and like TVgirl says it really was the most careless thing ever for the driver… but in the interests of the “suspense” it may have been better to digitally adjusted to show the point of being uncovered… but not give way the ending…

  14. Agree with Tezza you can get the point across David by posting the pic but blur the numbers!

    I wouldnt like to be the staging & props guy.. Whack!

  15. Why would a website that purports to be for industry and viewers alike publish such a story? Seems a very silly thing to do. Great – so you got a pic of these scores. But why publish? Who benefits? The scores from Eurovision are very much in the “public domain” long before they’re televised. Will you be publishing these too? Way to alienate people

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