TV REVIEW: The AM Show – God it’s awful

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Martyn Bradbury
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Wow, it’s awful.

It’s exactly like the Paul Henry Show minus the wit, the pace and Paul Henry. It’s like the mince and cheese pie of morning news.

Duncan doesn’t know what he’s doing in terms of tone. He tries to grill Bill English and Andrew Little and comes across like a dick who doesn’t have anything more than repeating his question louder and louder as if the volume adds meaning.

The sports boof head, I think he’s from the crowd goes wild? He has waaaaay too much weird right wing bullshit to add to every issue. He needs to shut up a lot.

Amanda Gillies is utterly wasted here, she’s an actual journalist for Christ’s sakes, the boys should shut up and let her provide insight as she seems to be the only one capable of it.

Have I mentioned that the sports boof head guy needs to shut up? Let me re-iterate, shut up sports boof head. You do rugger and kick kick run run stuff. You shut up about anything cerebral, political and cultural.

The big story was a special that Labour clearly gave to them for their first show, it highlights the do nothing bullshit of National when it comes to building houses.

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Duncan should have launched into Bill English by accusing him of wilfully expanding the property bubble for political reasons. Instead a slightly bemused Bill English fended Duncan off like he was some horny puppy trying to hump his leg first thing in the morning.

Andrew Little responded to Duncan’s enthusiasm for asking louder and louder questions that have no depth by just smacking him on the nose, “I know this is your first show, calm down Duncan’.

The show was about as insightful as your average drunk on a Saturday night. If this is what they’ve done for the morning show, the deep sense of dread as to what TV3 intend to do at 7pm with The Project feels like an impending positive cancer diagnosis.

All that said, I’ll watch every morning until the Sun burns out its fuel and expands in its last stage of life before it implodes under its own weight because sweet Jesus however much a swing and a miss the AM Show is, it’s ten thousand times more preferable than fucking Breakfast on TVNZ.

Honestly, who the hell is the target audience for TVNZ Breakfast?

Is it coma patients?

The criminally insane?

Christians with learning difficulties?

TVNZ Breakfast is such a hot mess of a hot mess, it makes the AM Show look like Nobel Prize winning journalism.

This is what we have to hold the Government to account in a bloody election year? No wonder his nation is bewilderingly stupid.

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20 COMMENTS

    • absolutely rosilee, bill hicks stated that for every hour of tv you watch you drop an iq point.
      it’s probably 2 points for daytime tv.

  2. Mate, public so called free to air commercial TV is dead.

    They, as in Labour/Greens in government need to turn TVNZ into an RNZ type format and let “the market” turn TV3 off permantly. It’s day is gone!

    • 100% XRAY.

      MARTYN, – Is it not time we all together sign a petition to get the opposition parties to band together and take out a order under public right to have control over half of the “Public free to air” funded programing now so we can get the important messages out there well;l ahead of the election -Tick tock tick tock??

      Can you set none up on one of the campaign petition websites for us all, & in conjunction with our own Campaign for Better Broadcasting?

      • Somehow I think that’s the idea – to treat the voters like mushrooms: in the dark and feeding on manure. Especially in an election year. Think back to 2014 and how prevalent the “nothing to see here” mantra was and how much real information wasn’t available to everyday people. Neither TVNZ or Mediaworks are keen to much of the looking under rocks that true investigative journalism requires, afraid as they are to offend their paymasters.

  3. I guess we have to give it chance but it doesnt come anywhere near the wit and intelligence that went with Paul Henry.Really what is with the silly little confetti type objects that float around the screen when guests are being interviewed,looked very cheap and tacky.

  4. I guess we have to give it chance but it doesnt come anywhere near the wit and intelligence that went with Paul Henry.Really what is with the silly little confetti type objects that float around the screen when guests are being interviewed,looked very cheap and tacky.

  6. Does ‘The am show’ stand for the ‘alt media’ show, or what?

    I watched it for the first time this morning, and I agree, it was anything else but the usual news cereal morsels for the morning, with endless commercial advertising, silly chattery, foolish, over-rated media characters trying to look professional.

    Indeed, mince pie rather than steak and cheese, when compared with the Paul Henry Show, which I also did not think all that much of.

    But ‘breakfast’ on TV1 is not much better.

    Don’t bother with this crap, if you want real news and better info, while also getting more boring and shallow, at least RNZ still presents the best morning news program with Morning Report.

  7. Quote:

    “Duncan should have launched into Bill English by accusing him of wilfully expanding the property bubble for political reasons. Instead a slightly bemused Bill English fended Duncan off like he was some horny puppy trying to hump his leg first thing in the morning.

    Andrew Little responded to Duncan’s enthusiasm for asking louder and louder questions that have no depth by just smacking him on the nose, “I know this is your first show, calm down Duncan’.”

    Yes, not very good, was it?!

    But with Garner, do never expect much real grilling, but “show grilling”, he avoids the truly hard political questions, compared to him Guyon Espiner does do a much better job on RNZ, despite of mostly being rather tactful.

    Garner comes across as having a bet both ways, most the times.

    • Yep, I’m at a complete loss as to why media companies feel Dunc is worth chucking on the telly. He was *possibly* fine as a political reporter, but all of last year’s Story efforts proved night after night that he isn’t articulate or fluent without the pre-scripted autocue. At least at 0600 he’s completely avoidable – 1900 less so.
      Maybe one day +hr=E will wake up to themselves and move on from the Henry/Dunc/Gower crushdom.

  10. Audience for TVNZ Breakfast? – my guess is oldies who are going senile and at home parents who have had 1.5 hours of sleep that nite. Have you not noticed the poise and hearing aid adds?

    It’s the advertising that often give more idea of expected audience than the content.

    TV is actually just made for advertisers not viewers, that’s why we get infomercial breakfast TV, property porn sponsored by banks and placemakers and nothing educational or vocational that might help people improve themselves.

    I don’t watch breakfast TV, but if I did the pic you showed of the panel would put me off straight away.

    In fact since I got Netflicks, I have not watched any TV.

    TV is on the way out. Even my elderly Mother has Netflicks.

  11. I reckon most mainly watch* those breakfast TV ‘news’ shows so think they’ve got other people, live people, there in house with them. They like the company.

    Me? I’ve got dogs to fill the role. The irony is that those watching the crap also have TV programmes which are dogs .

    *watch = have it on

  12. this is the ‘news’ as entertainment brain child key had, where you get a formula news, lite new – fake news programming from some authorative sounding source – then a happy local thing, dont worry if its all to much cause theres always sports at the end of the day, this is a variation of 1984. I dont think this will work with out keys pervy hand at the helm, has english been up keys ass long enough to have understood how to minipulate citizens? thats the question

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