TV3s latest never ending attempt to get people to watch them in the morning has come to an end with the final of Firstline this morning.
Firstline was TV3s attempt at credibility after the horror of Oliver Driver’s Sunrise. Who can ever forget the cacophony of chimpanzees that zoo turned into with an on stage cast of thousands all talking and bickering at the same time. It was like waking up to parents during a divorce every morning. Understandably it was put down.
Firstline was launched with the very credible Rachel Smalley as a much straighter news show and it had appeal. Rachel however was too talented for 6am and moved on. At that point the show lost some of it’s fizz and credibility, but it still had its highlights.
The very solid Michael Wilson was always very good, the ever interesting Emma Brannam and her tech bytes was always excellent and the person I consider the best sports reporter on NZ television, Sam Ackerman, was one of the best parts of the show. Sam’s intelligence, humour and quick wit makes Sports interesting to people like me who don’t believe sports should even be allowed in the news hour.
Firstline ending will at least stop that smug Jamie Lee beating Jacinda Ardern up every week.
What TV3 put up first thing as a news show matters because the offering on TVNZ is just so appalling. I would prefer hot spoons to scoop out my eyeballs than watch those idiots on Breakfast regurgitate whatever bullshit Rawdon Christie is brainfarting out daily.
Paul Henry’s new show – which I’ve been invited to appear on as a commentator – will begin next week.
I don’t watch those morning tv shows, not part of my normal early functions. Will Paul Henry being on get me to change the pattern? Well, I already go to the toilet.
(Good luck to you Martyn if you appear. I hope you get to make the points which need to be made.)
Tv 3 is streets ahead of Tv1.
I watched tv1 breakfast for the first time in ages. Rawdon Christie and his stupid funny man stance is sickening,he and the female co presenter are so inane, it was so much rubbish interrupted by adverts it will be the last time I watch it.
Michael Wilson is much more intelligent than Christie any day of the week.As for Jamie lee ,he is like a stuck John Key recording,”we will work harder ,we will win Northland back blah blah blah we will make things better for families,” Jacinda Ahearne is much more credible.
When Mark Osbourne in Northland claimed in a flyer that John key was his hero, he must already be brainwashed as other mps in National are. We don’t need repetitive mps like Jamie Lee on any programme, its spoils the day, but the rest of the cast was interesting.
I hope you have; a contract that ensures that any commentery you provide will either be live, or that you will at least have approval on the edit that gets broadcast. There’ll be no way to stop Henry cracking half-witticisms at your expense, hopefully you’ve been cultivating a thick enough skin to endure that.
With Paul Henry now on tv3 morning News, National have now full control of NZ media. Not much hope of any other party getting anything but negative combative airtime.
This is one person who will not watch tv1 or tv3.
Michael Wilson’s a dick . Paul Henry’s a bigger dick . Jamie Lee and Jacinda Adern are both dicks too . I liked Dick Driver . Dick Driver was a genuine PLU . Not a fucking insufferably dribbly dick .
TV One has Mr Squeak and Plasti-Girl . No TV has none of them . Now , there’s an idea .
You say @ Martyn that you’ve been invited onto paul henry’s show . If you take that offer up , that could prove very revealing could it not ?
Rawdon Christie is not that bright, and it’s really funny to watch the women dressed up as bimbos look askance at him when he says something dumb. I wouldn’t be surprised if he earns more than them though. Still, he appeals to the type of viewership that is really just looking for a bit of superficial news (nothing too hard) and celeb gossip.
First Line was like grown up tv by comparison.
Please tell me you accepted the invitation!? Although I suspect it’s merely a ploy to humiliate any sort of progressive political thinking. You must make sure you know EXACTLY what you will be asked to discuss so you can properly anticipate the usual neoliberal bullshit Henry is sure to bloviate in order to undermine the left (at your expense).
Just collapse laughing at everything Paul Henry says, that should fix him without you having to answer his stupid National Cant.
Tell this like it is Martyn.
It”s Paul Henry snide cant and supposedly sanitised Dirty Politics, wrapped up and delivered by an obnoxious snickerer. The Snickers Ad was right, “you’re mean when you’re hungry”.
Irony is that Paul Henry has never been hungry except for keeping the Nasties in power and foreshadowing 250,000 hungry children, all rolled up into one obnoxious package, the Paul Henry show.
I loathe the dick-shit and Australia did as well. Let’s face it, Henry’s brand of denigrating the left-wing, the social fabric and safety nets of Australasians ONLY applies in NZ, with John Key and his neoliberal cabal in power.
Paul Henry: the “dickhead” brand that killed Ten Breakfast?
Taking the piss out of people who care about others is considered by “Aussies” as ‘not a fair suck of the sav mate’.
NBR – ‘The Meeting Place of Intelligent Business’, concluded with a telling quotation that summed up for me Mediaworks’s brand of Dirty Politics
Congratulations MARTYN;
Had gone off those shows but now a permanent record program.
If you need any brushing up or practice these two clips may be of help.
‘Winston tears Paul Henry a new one.’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlcBgR5agFU
‘Classic Winston Peters vs Kim Hill’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCG9i9Eb_qs
We can easily forget.
Wish you all the best.
Cheers.
Who the hell has time to devote to television in the morning if they have to go out to work, at least with radio you can have it on while you get on with what you have to do to get you out the door.
Doubt I will be bothering with hours of a total narcissist, could be vomit inducing. Too bad really, as I really quite like Hilary Barry’s wry humour
Trying to remove television completely from my life – sick of all the BS.
So, sorry I won’t be watching – good luck Martyn in opening a few kiwis eyes… Maybe.
Yet to see the fabulous Martyn Bradbury appear on TV3 Paul Henry show yet. please advise when we need to tune in.
Good luck and hope you bring “the other side of the story” out into NZ places for those who are keen to hear the truth.
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