The Liberal Agenda – The Block was Speculative Renovation Porn and I love that it died
Will The Block NZ ever return to Kiwi screens? What former judge and winners say
A former judge on The Block NZ says he doubts the show will ever return to television amid the country’s struggling economic climate as former winners express sadness at its demise.
In February, Warner Bros. Discovery announced it would no longer fully fund local shows, which included The Block NZ, scuppering its eleventh season. It was expected to set in Auckland’s Browns Bay where a section of houses was bought and building began.
Former judge and Bonham Architecture & Interiors director Jason Bonham said the show’s end was a “shame” but was expected in New Zealand’s current economic climate, which was barely climbing out of its second recession less than 18 months.
Bonham, now based in Australia, said such shows cost “so much to produce”. He doubted New Zealand’s economy would recover enough to reinstate The Block anytime soon.
Is it just me or did The Block manage to sum up everything that is wrong about our culture and economy?
I like that The Block ended, not as a personal attack on these grasping desperate teams, they are just a symptom of the problem, but the whole concept is disgusting and perverse and I for one love that it failed!
Fetishised property speculation porn as mass entertainment in a country of homelessness & poverty.
I wonder if State House tenants tuned in? The auction will be the closest they ever get to home ownership.
It’s as equally harrowing as the thought of all those hungry children watching MasterChef or MKR.
I wonder if those hungry children lick the TV screens?
Property speculation in this country and the way homes have been commodified into an asset base rather than homes is one of the greatest generational robberies ever committed in this country.
Merry Christmas everyone!
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The middle class mus have their entertainment. The lower class watch people throwing themselves around in team sports, or dubious stories of love unrequited, titillated models achieving something or hard-nose police shows where their doubts seem justified.
Excellent comment Mr Bradbury, couldn’t agree with you more. Never watched that crap for the reasons you have stated. The Block was only one out of many cretinouse crass crap rubbish property and “look at me, aint I clever at boiling eggs” cooking programmes that is the norm for so called “entertainment” these days. I sooner watch paint dry than that rubbish.