It’s bad. It’s bad. It’s really, really bad
Dr Mumbo rather wishes he saw Nine’s rapidly aired tribute to Michael Jackson. If the reviewes are anythign to go by, it was historically bad television.
The TV Tonight blog has posted possible the shortest TV review in Australian television history, with just one word: “A-p-p-a-l-l-i-n-g“.
Equally entertaining are the viewer comments about hosts Karl Stefanovic and Leila McKinnon:
“This was probably the biggest, most hastly thrown together piece of garbage to grace our screens in long time. Absolutley Sh*t hosts and reporters. “Ohh it’s fantastic to be here Karl” shut up Leila, the mans fricken died not releasing a new album.”
I lasted all of eight minutes. It was absolutely DIRE.
The Seven Network did a similar thing…not very good either..I guess it was a matter of getting the jump on breaking news or “exclusive” story related to MJ….but after Richard “Dicky” Wilkins mucking up on Today with the reports of Jeff Goldblum/Harrison Ford’s “deaths” not long after the MJ and Farrah stories broke, showed they did NOT CHECK FACTS before going live on air!
Being first to market does not always mean best as 9 clearly demonstrates time and time again.
Maybe because it was a weekend these were the only “personalities” they could get?
Sadly it rated. 1.239 million viewers… what are you doing people? your just encouraging them to produce more shit!
Stop moaning. Kiddy fiddlers don’t deserve tributes.
Isn’t the old agage “being first is more important than being right”?
For those who missed the ‘special’, you did indeed miss out. Everything about the show was dross, but compelling in that trainwreck fashion that Nine seems to specialise in these days. Here are the standout bits: Karl Stefanovic generallly acting like he was on drugs (again) and somehow making Richard Wilkins look intelligent; the gratuitious cutaway to little brother Peter Stefanovic in New York standing outside an empty theatre and talking about nothing in particular; the constant jokes by Karl at Richard’s expense; the constant jokes by Karl against Michael Jackson (was this really meant to be a tribute???); Leila McKinnon (everything about her). There was one bit where Karl joked about Richard (“man perm!”) and I swear that Richard was telling Karl off as they went to a commercial and was going to thump the bejeezus out of him. Oh, to have been a fly on the wall.
Disrespectful crap we could have done without, agree with all the previous comments (except ‘Wicky Dilkins’, your comment is not appropriate, you’re just a moron) that it seemed thrown together and the presenters were not really that interested in making it a true tribute!
Having some sort of talent for dancing doesn’t excuse child molestation.
I wasn’t there and didn’t see, but the whole pedophile case reeked of someone trying to get x-amount of millions out of Jackson. Any one of us could be taken to prison over something we didn’t do, wouldn’t be too nice for people to point at you and whisper “that’s him” each time you left your house.
The law cleared Jackson, and theres a huge stack of papers with complete details of the case which a friend who is a lecturer of law at a uni here has read, and told me that he felt, very strongly, that Jackson was innocent.
Yes the guy made mistakes, but so have many wonderful actors and singers over the years, Judy Garland, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Michael Hutchence, James Dean, Jimmy Hendrix.
Michael made a lot of people happy with his concerts and music, and he donated millions to charity and produced “We are the world” with Lionel Ritchy and Quincy Jones which helped send a great deal of aid to Africa.
People making “pedo” jokes is sick and ignorant, The man is dead, please have some respect.
Just as an aside Dicky – the kid who scored $20 million+ out of Jackson for the molestation came out with a statement today that he was forced to lie by his father.