MEDIAWATCH: TVNZ Breakfast vs AM Show
Both shows have been on air for about a month and both shows are awful now.
I think the advertisers are clearly and obviously chasing a female consumer for the benefit of the advertisers and this has led to TVNZs set now looking like a middle class kindergarten with yoga, vegan, mindfulness options alongside teachers who militantly correct te reo pronunciation and demand pronouns while The AM Show just has Ryan’s balls pickled in a jar next to the living wall and laid back couches.
I watch AM Show and Breakfast to see Ryan and John do hard interviews with powerful people, but apparently that’s too much testosterone in the morning for the new target demos so B team on both shows get to share the interviews now, and sadly are usually pretty hopeless.
I mean, bless Matty, but he’s the weather host and a prince of lite weight entertainment. What insight is Matty going to give me on geopolitics I don’t already know?
Same with the AM Show, it’s like the female co-hosts can feel the viewers disappointment that they are asking the questions and not Ryan.
The AM Show’s new weather host just makes me sad.
So very sad.
He’s trying so hard.
The move from world famous tic tocker (or whatever it was he was on social media) to hosting live TV is an enormous cavern that we can all hide our cringing at his awkwardness inside.
Like Godzilla’s holiday bach of shame.
It’s just so painful.
Why? Why is he being forced to do something he’s so uncomfortable doing?
Why am I being forced to sit through this in the morning? It’s like a sour milk smoothie.
So the reason I tune in, to see Ryan and John eviscerate powerful people, is now a shared task to undermine the heteronormative white cis male patriarchy of broadcasting to sell more stuff to female consumers?
Sigh. Great.
I think all the male audiences have fled to podcasts anyway.
News that John Campbell is stepping down from Breakfast is the nail in that coffin in terms of me watching TVNZ Breakfast again.
And I’m grateful for that.
I’ll tune back into AM when I know Ryan is asking the questions.
I’m open to listening to Tova.
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Melissa is more professional than Ryan. He doesnt do his homework and Melissa shows him up. Dont forget Melissa did a stint as UK correspondent and read NZ news and gained a lot of experience. Same with Bernadette, she leaves Richardson for dead. Ryan looks uncomfortable and out of touch amid those wahine toa.
You’ve become a grumpy old man (like me), we want to dee diversity not older men setting the scene. Same with john he is too big to be on a morning show – he needs something more challenging and political. Ryan and John are of the old school who interrupt and talk over guests – annoying.
The whole lot are the equivalent of the Womens Wankly, puff & fluff, an absolute waste of space.
NZ television is the worst in the world bar none!
I totally agree.both shows are pathetic. Don’t watch anymore. Radio for me.
agree, both shows dumbed down, presenting awful, bored to tears Bring back Duncan, Mark and Amanda.
Was disappointing with the am show “doing” the new school history curriculum – we got two people being interviewed with the identical viewpoint to the government -so at least everything is going to be fine and there’s nothing to worry about.
No hard questions were asked and whichever female cohost was interviewing simply agreed.
Jurnalysm.
It does seem to be a standard norm these days to just have a panel discussion where everyone agrees with other. Sad really if you want reasoned argument and insightful debate. I find that discussion on National Radio at 4pm to be cringe worthy at times.
“a panel discussion where everyone agrees”
Yes Urinal, we’re not being informed or exposed to a diversity of opinion, we’re being propagandised and indoctrinated. And some people wonder why there’s no faith in, or respect for, the legacy media. Well the media wonder, it’s obvious to anyone with any capacity for critical thinking.
A large part of the success of any TV show is the dynamic between the hosts. Lots of it with Ryan, Amanda and Mark. Not nearly so much with the new team. Mellissa might be a top reporter but the morning format is not her thing.
I have switched back to Morning Report. And occasionally to Mike Hoskings, just for the entertainment value.
Isn’t breakfast an off shoot of Maori TV?
One Maori woman, one Pacifica woman, one young pakeha man and one grumpy oldish man – thats not Maori TV.
So, Nikorima, are you buying into Sour Kraut’s alt-right racism then?
Sour Kraut won’t denounce https://www.nuremberg.nz/, which threatens Maori and Polynesian leaders.
Please share your own tribal affiliations Nikorima?
Ngati Porou, or Ngati Nuremburg?
Turi turi Nikorima.
You can use the:
Nuremberg is an alt-right fascist site to quietly tell us in 11 size font that you abhor the racism and evil on Nuremburg https://nuremberg.nz/
It’s no disgrace to realise you have been an Uncle-Tom Maori, supporting genocide of Maori and Polynesian leaders on this alt-right site. What’s important is that you see the error of your ways and choices and are prepared to change and denounce https://nuremberg.nz/
No’s good Nikorima!
Neither of those bro – further north of Te Tairawhiti. What makes you think i buy into krauts racism, nuremburg – the natzi krautz shot up my dad and killed my uncle in Crete. I’m further left than you mate but I support your comments about the influence of the right wing Dirty Politics, anti-labour, hate Jacinda brigade.
Cheers Nikorima – Ngati Porou then – good to hear.
‘He aha te mea nui o te ao? Māku e kī atu, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata’
…and it is more likely that a Labour alliance with Greens and Te Pāti Māori will address the needs of Maori than NACT ever will.
I feel like you haven’t watched any of Indira’s interviews?
Brom…your dead right Maori Channel off shoot.
What year did that shoot off?
Having been in hospital recently I turned on the TV to watch the morning breakfast programmes which I normally would never do. Well…it would be the first and last time as I thought both of them were terrible. Jenny May and her team basically sit with their laptops in front of them barely looking at the Autocad which I thought was terrible. I won’t be watching either one again sadly.
The backgrounds are so busy and overdone the presenters are overshadowed. Ryan is very capable of asking the hard questions and demanding intelligent answers but he seems lost in the new format.
Going to listen to Hosking now. Sick of crappy tv at breakfast time.
Royal “we” Sour Kraut, either, an ego bigger than your right arm, or confirmation that the alt-right Dirty Politics shills, work in unison?
Still waiting for your denunciation of Nuremburg, https://www.nuremberg.nz/ , your alt-right Big Brother in the shill business.
Who needs any of these clowns when you have Russell brand, Lauren Southern, Tim Pool, Laura Chen, Salty Cracker, Sydney Watson, Rotella Streams, We Are Here, Joe Rogan (he really mostly just interviews influential people), and even Steve Bannon’s “War Room” (seriously, you might be surprised). These guys will have you up to your eyeballs in alternative global political debate. We need a New Zealand versions for sure though.
Boring. No longer watch. Get News online now. Lite weight. PC opinion
Ewes Nzzzzz, who has time to watch morning TV? D’ crutch yourselves and go get a job.
Much prefer this name than Ngati Irish Nikorima &