Aperçus of Entertainment

'Living With Tigers' Set To Maul Integrity

Ethan Switch - Monday, 8 September, 2003 - 19:21:59 - print it raw

Well known to many is the sight of Disney pushing a swathe of lemmings off a cliff just to show you how stupid they are. Lessons are learnt and skin burnt for better pelt and the producers of The Discovery Channel are getting as many fingers as a stranger down a busy street swimming in drunks.

In this case it's the case of the tigers from one area misrepresented for another in an upcoming documentary entitled, Living With Tigers.

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Great glee returneth; for Animals Should Not Act Like People

Jimmy Weasel - Friday, 22 August, 2003 - 12:33:30 - print it raw

Rancho Relaxo: News just in that PRIMUS (with long absent drummer Herb Alexander) have clashed heads together again and recorded five brand sparkling new songs to release alongside an equally new DVD. The whole shebang is being released on October 7, bringing a smile to the faces of fans everywhere.

"I've wet my shorts; I'd never expected anything so grand. Wait 'til I call Grandma!" shrieked one fan, who scratched himself briefly and added "I was devastated when they broke up. Not that Claypool didn't throw us some quality goodies in that time; but I prefer the group as a whole."

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'Just Married' Divorced from Survey

Ethan Switch - Wednesday, 20 August, 2003 - 19:46:25 - print it raw

With Ashton Kutcher in the arms of Demi Moore and Brittany Murphy kicked to the kerb, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment have decided to stem the questions of the sanctity of marriage and the powerful force of quickie divorces with a newly-wed survey of 100 men and 100 women in conjunction with the UK release of the Murphy/Kutcher film, Just Married onto DVD and video.

The survey echoes the Just Married movie with questions on first arguments after getting married to sex on a wedding night (less than a third did not consummate on the first night) and whether or not it was with the aid of sex toys (7% for both men and women).

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Channel Channels Overload of Death Threats

Ethan Switch - Friday, 15 August, 2003 - 22:37:42 - print it raw

A few months ago, in the lead up to the final episode of UK drama Cold Feet, the station that had bought the rights, ATN-7, decided on giving away the essentiality of the final story by way of prime time commercials. Audience and viewer reaction was caustic and acidic to consider the least. Few wondered what the reasoning was behind the casual reveal of a major story line, but recent moves by the station have made the action pale in comparison and perhaps to the point of a skeletal haunt.

Despite knowing full well of the outcome and indeed the victim of the final episode of Cold Feet, viewers still flocked to the screen in a send off.

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O Brother Where Art Thou?

Ethan Switch - Friday, 1 August, 2003 - 12:16:28 - print it raw

Nobody remembers who came second place.

The old axiom might have turned aubergine in a broadcast filling at the troughs. In this case, no body will see the body of Daniel McInnes, third place getter in the human menagerie of Australia's Big Brother 3. As has become customary for the housemates, screen time on a variety of shows follows. The reasons are best left to drilling holes in the backs of head to relieve hypertension.

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Big Brother Set For Female Finish

Ethan Switch - Monday, 21 July, 2003 - 10:01:06 - print it raw

In a backflip of Australian audiences, the next winner of Big Brother will most certainly be a woman. Daniel McInnes was released from the compound as the third last evictee in a contest of hidden cameras and voyuers. Daniel was the only lingering hope for many pattern makers into the belief that a man will always win in the game watched by people somewhere.

Down now to two, Chrissie Swan and Reggie Bird—supposedly a first for the franchise—the phone votes rang in the unexpected shock on the Eviction show on Sunday.

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