Thursday, 22 September 2005

CNNNN - They're back!

Got this email today. The boys from The Chaser are back on the TV.

The alert that keeps you alarmed.

The ABC sacked all staff in the News and Current Affairs Department today after announcing it would outsource its entire news service to the team from The Chaser. The ABC has commissioned the team behind the Logie winning comedy series CNNNN and The Chaser Decides to produce weekly 4 minute "Chaser News Alerts", commencing Thursday September 22.

Departing Director of ABC TV Sandra Levy refused to interrupt normal ABC broadcasting to take the announcement live.

Chaser News Alerts will replace The 7:30 Report, Four Corners, Media Watch, Foreign Correspondent and Lateline and will be broadcast on ABC2 and ABC Online. The Insiders will continue, however, as The Chaser team doesn't work weekends.

The Alerts will feature Andrew Hansen, Chas Licciardello, Dominic Knight and Julian Morrow, with cameo appearances from Senator Bill Heffernan, Dannii Minogue and Princess Diana (via psychic).

Since it was founded as a newspaper in 1999, The Chaser has been consistently rated Australia's second funniest current affairs team after Today Tonight. The Chaser is now a satirical media empire that rivals Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation in all fields except power, influence, popularity and profitability. Although the team has recycled material in most media including TV, radio, online and books, this is the team's first foray into digital and online broadcasting.

Ten weekly episodes of Chaser News Alert will be produced and broadcast every Thursday (commencing 22 September) at 7.55pm on free to air, digital ABC2 and 24 hours 7 days a week at http://abc.net.au/chaser.

[listening to: Don't Change - INXS ]
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Curb Your Enthusiam Series 4 : It ROCKS!

Curb Your EnthusiasmWe've been watching the fourth series of Curb Your Enthusiasm, which I got on DVD recently

I've been a big fan of this show, despite the attempts of the local Free To Air network to destroy it.  It's one of the smartest, most entertaining shows out there.

The running theme in this season has Larry David playing a lead role in "The Producers" on Broadway.

This is what HBO says about the series - Larry David lives a charmed life-an understanding wife, famous friends, a supportive manager and an angelic singing voice so what's his problem? See Larry buy medical marijuana, take a hooker to a baseball game, steal a golf club from a corpse, ruin Ben Stiller's birthday party, attempt to cash in on his tenth anniversary present with Gina Gershon and trip the light fantastic in The Producers with Mel Brooks and David Schwimmer.

Hilarious!

I have no idea when it will be shown here in Australia. But when it finally is on, do yourself a favour and check it.

The next series starts in the states this week. Cant wait to see it soon.

[listening to: Mystify - INXS ]
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