Kerr family beat up

ABC1 drummed up loads of attention for Family Confidential featuring Aussie grown supermodel Miranda Kerr's family.

A shot from the family album shown in Family Confidential. 

Miranda's brother and parents. Image: news.com.au

In the lead up to the show airing, ABC1 released comments from the show which seemed like Miranda's family was out to get her. If there is a family feud going on behind closed doors, the Kerr's certainly didn't reveal any juicy details.

In fact, the Kerr's comments came off way better on TV than they did in print media.

It sounded like the Kerr's were discussing how Miranda's global fame has come at a cost to quality family time. But they weren't being nasty. They just seemed saddened. 

Notably Miranda didn't feature because of 'other commitments'.

No clumsy dancers on SYTYCD debut

Go Carrie Bickmore hosting a revised version of So You Think You Can Dance Australia on Ten.

SYTYCD 2014 judges with Carrie Bickmore (centre).
Image: smh.com.au

But what happened to the first rounds of auditions we've come to expect?

You know the ones with the dancers that aren't quite as good as what they think

Looks like they were given the flick.

Maybe it's for the better?

Digital summer

Australian summer television will be interesting this year with the recent addition of multiple new free-to-air digital channels. Will we be bored or will there be some bearable repeats to watch of sitcoms and movies we've watched dozens of times already? It's definetely exciting now with 7mate, 7TWO, GEM and GO! in the picture for the upcoming summer.

Laughable advertising

Channel Ten promoted the movie Wall Street was next - just 10 minutes into the movie Mrs Doubtfire which aired at 6.30pm. It was funny to see a promotion for the next program so soon into the movie.

Why do television stations they keep doing this? So many times when a program has started, often in the first lot of advertisements the upcoming program is advertised as 'next' even though there's three quarters left of the current program. Advertisers should at least wait until half way to promote the next program. What do you think?

Death of the TV guide

Hard-copy television guides are becoming irrelevant thanks to digital television.

Why should we keep the weekly free TV guide from our Sunday newspaper when we can read program information on the electronic guide on our digital television or the internet?

With the analog signal slowly being phased out in Australia and more people upgrading to digital television sets, should the TV guide be phased out too? After all, the star ratings for programs are just based on one person's opinion. Plus if we're interested in watching a film why can't we just read a simple unbiased description on the electronic guide?

TV guides, particularly Adelaide's, are becoming outdated just like analog television. With the launch of more and more new digital channels on free-to-air Australian television, the Adelaide TV Guide program layout is looking messy and cramped.

In today's Guide there's a write-up about the four main female characters in the drama Gossip Girl. The spread is there to entice us to watch but why wasn't this article published in last week's Guide in time for the season launch?

Here at Media Muncher we'd hardly miss our paper TV guides since we can check our digital guide instead and put our paper guide from the Sunday newspaper in the recycling bin on Sunday.