after their widely reviled/panned quizz-show attempt at a celebration of 50 years of local-telly…
..tvnz had another ‘go’ last night…
now..my view on programmes of this nature…is that usually you have an abundance of historical-footage to play with…
and that this should make up most of any such programme….(this is what people want to see….not a bloody ‘compere’ banging on..to camera….)
so imagine my dismay last night..when i tuned into their latest 50 yr ‘do’…
and there was not one compere…..there were three…!
paul henry wasn’t enough…they also wheeled out the tvnz news-readers…dallow…and ?…(sorry..!..don’t watch tvone news..eh..?..)
that was enough..after my first gape-mouthed reaction…i ran away to prime….to catch the entertainment-chapter of their much more workmanlike/competent retrospective ‘take’…
i wd return to one..in the ad breaks on prime….and my worst fears were confirmed…three comperes balthering cliched-drivel..
and just showing those same stock-shots we have always seen…
(whereas..in contrast..prime played fascinating little vignettes…. (perhaps the best from a private-party of the time…featuring an impossibly young chicks/ray columbus etc..)
now..another reason i don’t watch one news…is their weather-coverage…
long a bane of mine…puffed-up/inflated weather bulletins..and tvone are the masters of this…and hickey hoving into view..has me diving for the remote…)
and one part i caught..in the ad-breaks..was hickey doing fifty-years of weather…(!)…aarrgghhh…!!!)
and that..more than anything else…proved my ‘stinking pile of dog-do’ thesis…
(i wd recommnd that viewers stick with primes’ offerings on this ….
to date they have been light years ahead of any offerings from tvnz…)
..and last night..difficult as it may seem..tvnz achieved a new nadir….
