//shock Shrek killing and dog arse staring competitions

What kind of show are they trying to put on?? I liked the previous series in spite of its flaws. Now it feels like they're trying to fill those inadequacies with toilet humour and reality-tv-esque shock tactics! I mean - sure, talk about how Shrek's been murdered, but did they really have to show a sheep being slaughtered? I don't have a problem with being shown where my food comes from, but in the name of satire? That's just dumb.

//Actually, I'm intrigued about the complaints.

Yeah, "animal cruelty"? That's a bit of a stretch. I also thought it was a bit funny that they thought it'd make things better by assuring people it wasn't Shrek. "don't worry, Shrek's safe and well, it was another random sheep that got slaughtered for the camera". But it also fuels my suspicion that often people end up more upset that they were sucked in than about any fault in the presentation.

I just thought the item was tasteless. It's like they're deliberately setting out to rack up as many complaints as they can, and I don't really understand why they'd feel the need to do that. It seems a little childish. Mind you, I helped develop a site called crapshag, so I guess I can't really point finger...

I thought it did have a point in that they were trying to highlight the hypocrisy of the regular fluffy animal news items appealing to people that eat meat. The Shrek killing was probably less grusome than sights at an abbatoir, and i for one felt very guilty about eating meat that evening...
And come on - Mike Puru down on all fours staring at a dogs arse...is our humour really so sophisticated that we can't appreciate that?

You're girls after my own heart. This show deserves the mammoth amount of support TV2 is giving it. TIGTH is a little too much like TSLOU but who cares, it's better than most shit out there.

"Just, well.... can you touch me?"
"Fuck off!"
Hahahahahahaha

We're not after your heart Jimi, just your kidneys and liver will do me.

I think the difference between TSOUL & TIGHT (that's much easier to remember that way!) is the failry obvious that TSOUL is all realistic story lines, wheras there's the more magical aspect to TIGHT, and also the fact that it's immediatly apparent how the characters on TSOUL are connected (they all live in the same building) whereas I'm really looking forward to putting the rest of the TIGHT characters together. But they both have a similar look and both have the fun "spot the location!" aspect to them. I'd do every character on TSOUL but not TIGHT though.

Inncidently, is anyone else really really really furious with Evan right now or is it just me?

// Incidently, is anyone else really really really furious with Evan right now or is it just me?

I did get annoyed with him last night, although not "really really furious", as he was ragging Christian a bit too much, really rubbing it in. But apparently that's how mateship works - I thought the final insult was giving him that hat right at the end, but it created a bond. Its a tricky situation - Evan and George are both hot for each other, Evan at least feels some sort of guilt and a need to keep his friendship with Christian going, is struggling with just how to do it or whether its even possible. We don't get to see George having a second thought about what she's doing.

At least now I know why I have no friends - I'm too kind.

//Its clever TV

Yeah, that pizza thing had me in hysterics. Little things like that are what separate good progs from the rest. I really am hung up about the TSLOU thing though - there's a number of things, mainly the charcaterisation... that long blond-haired guy (still working on the names) is such an Evan. Of course he's also very funny, so who's complaining.

Fuck it, so it may not be an original concept, as people have noted, but it gives the (relatively new) genre enough tweaks and NZ-isms to be an above average prog. Hopefully the ratings reflect this - anyone know how it's going?

last nights episode of tslou was great.

I'm not pissed off at him at all. Christian will get over George. When Christian mentioned sleeping with Alex, I'd call it even.

The hat thing at the end was funny.

Obviously!

TSLOU (or TSOUL because I am lazy and that's a far easier abbreviation to remember) is The Secret Life of Us - a brilliant Aussie TV show set in St Kilda, Melbourne about a bunch of young beautiful young people. It had me hooked from the very first episode because one of the characters (Mirana, whose breasts make up for the fact that she was in Heartbreak High as that awful singer) pulled down her sleeve to unscrew her beer, and that was just such a realistic touch that I went "wow".

Heartbreak High? what a flashback

yeah suck it up Heather, I took the time to put in a little more information and also talk about boobies, hence why I came in all of 30 seconds later than you :P

IT'S THE HOUSE I TELL YOU!! THE BOOK IS THE HOUSE!!!

the house...

Ha Ha Ha I should get my own prime time comedy hour now.

oop's that's already been done, and like eating media lunch it involved segment's with sheep and a dog arse

//eeewww

It's ewe Heather.

Ha Ha I'd better stop now or TVNZ will give me my own 12 episode comedy series with a 2 hour series final.

I watched it sometimes and found it kinda funny but an awful lot like Spin Doctors - which was mainly funny because I was doing my grad dip in PR at the time and they'd be making fun of whatever lesson it was that I'd just learnt that day.

That said, I prefer Oliver Driver acting as a writer to Oliver Driver acting as Paul Holmes even down to the 'not listening to the people he's interviewing' role he's playing right now on Front Seat. That story they did on the Vic Library was a shambles.

ooops. bit slow. maybe the link between spin doctors and serial killers (apart from similarities in title construction), was the similarity between certain characters (utilising the same actors) between series. Personally, I still think Oliver Driver works better in a dress with a shave head (ala Snakeskin)

// That story they did on the Vic Library was a shambles.

commentary on the story:

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//the one show I did see was where the Miriama Smith character was demanding that everything in the script be checked by her for cultural safety]

yes to me this was the weakest episode, I never did watch spin doctors, I whole PR thing put me off

hey myshkin we have broken bread together, I thought this ment you weren't allowed to disagree with every little thing I say, :"(