Archive for the ‘On The Tube’ Category

Obligatory Christmas Post

December 25th, 2007 | Posted by Dan Barrett | No Comments
Merry xmas from your friends at Televised Revolution. Though, to be fair, we’re really more acquaintances.

Gangsta's Living In A TV Paradise

December 23rd, 2007 | Posted by Dan Barrett | 1 Comment
The paranoia is intense. TV networks are desperate to ensure that the Internet doesn’t bring them to the brink of irrelevance as it did to music distributors. In order to ...

Marie Louise Thiele – 17 Years

December 7th, 2007 | Posted by Dan Barrett | 2 Comments
Brisbane newsreader Marie Louise Thiele signs off tonight after 17 years of reading the news. The question everyone is asking is whether this will make it into the inevitable highlights ...

"I'll Be There For You" – Friends Premieres on Channel 10

December 3rd, 2007 | Posted by Dan Barrett | No Comments
In an unexpected move, Channel 10 recently purchased the rights to the television series Friends, airing it nightly at 7pm. Friends, which ran from 1994 to 2004, focused on six ...

The Writers Strike Continues

November 27th, 2007 | Posted by Dan Barrett | No Comments
When you tune into Letterman tonight only to discover it’s a repeat, when you watch Heroes & The Bionic Woman on Thursday only to find pseudo season finales, when you ...

US Presidential Race: Colbert 2008

October 20th, 2007 | Posted by Dan Barrett | 1 Comment
I still don’t know exactly what to make of this yet, but this is truly taking the performance artistry that is Stephen Colbert to a whole new level.

Sony

October 12th, 2007 | Posted by Dan Barrett | No Comments
I will admit to being a bit of a Sony whore. About 8 or 9 years ago I purchased a Sony Wega Trinitron telly and it has served me remarkably well. ...

Tin Man

October 8th, 2007 | Posted by Dan Barrett | 1 Comment
A few years ago I visited Melbourne. On my first day after spending a few hours of walking about the city, I was looking for a place to sit down. ...

On The Tube: Letterman v. Paris Hilton

October 1st, 2007 | Posted by Dan Barrett | No Comments
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why David Letterman is the best at what he does.

Common Cultural Reference Point

September 30th, 2007 | Posted by Simon Band | No Comments
I’ve always thought that The Simpsons (especially to anybody born after say… 1980) was a common reference point for everybody to use in almost any situation. When you need to ...