Live blog: FlashForward and The Apprentice Australia
5.50pm Welcome to Mumbrella’s first ever live blog, in what’s a massive week for Australian telly.
Tonight sees the debut of Seven’s big sci-fi hope FlashForward. It did fairly well in the US telly ratings last week, but will it do as well here?
And that’s followed by The Apprentice Australia, including our home town hope Lynton Pipkorn. (That’s assuming that because he works in marketing you feel like you’re on his side.) I’m just trying not to think of the UK version where the marketing person has always turned out to be a tool.
And hey, as I’m at it, we’ll be talking about Ten’s The 7pm Project too – they’re going to discusssing the Vegemite iSnack 2.0 debacle.
The American dude is quite funny
So far, so predictable. They’re just not funny enough.
And that’s why I don’t watch the 7pm show.
Nothing can be worth that amount of hype. We’re going to be disapopointed.
Interesting blog post – will you do them often? Seems like more of a Twitter type activity to post live during a TV show, but will be interesting to see the response you get..
The book was good – not sure whether it will make good television though.
This one’s an experiment, Kimberley. We shall see!
Cheers,
Tim – Mumbrella
7 will run it till 9.40
I like it. I’m intrigued.
am more intrigued with the live blog rather than the tv. Am enjoying sharing my lounge room with a few more people tonight.
Flahsforward = iLost 2.0
My money is on the Kangaroo being secretly behind the global blackout … seriously, he’s powered by that dark force, iSnack 2.0!
I’m hooked
Flashforward = iLost 2.0
I think this is a great idea – we’re two hours (soon to be three) behind you all, so I can check in and see what’s going to be worth tuning in to. Twitter’s good that way as well. Cheers.
can someone make me a cup of tea?
we’re watching Vampire Diaries on Go!
Why so many ad breaks! Show me more than 2 mins of tv show please channel 7! Otherwise, I’m hooked so far.
Moving along nicely. A bit cliche though. Too many add breaks.
I wish we had more stuff like this. Not sure they’ll be able to keep it up for a whole series though
am getting hooked….
memories of events that haven’t occurred yet
Too many bloody ad breaks.
Just blacked out and saw what I was watching in 6 seconds time #flashforward #flashfail
Aren’t there rules about how many adverts they are allowed to show? This seems like a lot, even for seven
Very cliche – reminding me of Heroes. It’s losing me.
@Luna I think they’re doing the ‘more breaks with less ads’ strategy
There was an interesting segment on “It looks like an Ad, but is it?”, see here: http://www.abc.net.au/mediawat.....692252.htm
Thanks for the heads up and the novel preview (I must be the only person not on twitter), I’ll record it on my PVR and then skip the ads. I can’t watch live TV any more, drives me mad(der).
ch 7 if your shows are so good you would not have to show more ads for them than the paying coustomers
Apprentice sucks so far
I’m a bit disappointed. It’s not that good. (Apprentice – I didn;t see fast forward)
I can’t be bothered to stay up for the end. Good night all.
Good night, Luna.
The Apprentice is so boring. Was I watching a gardening show on Ch 9 Saturday afternoon??? The Donald and even Alan Sugar would be laughing at Mark Bouris and co….
Half the candidates on The Apprentice should be sacked tonight…..no wonder it’s hard to find good staff, the country is full of morons.
Sabrina may be a MENSA member but she is so far removed from reality its hilarious.
LOL @ GRANDMA
Howard Jones_ You are do right about Sabrina. Did you notice that she also introduced herself as Miss Australia 2006 every time she met someone!
The Apprentice was brilliant tonight. This is my new favourite show.
Tim, they made me say it, honest!
The producers put you in a corner I tell you, it was either that or be branded a mummy’s boy or something worse…listen to Bert Newton’s Mum when she tells you that the Producer’s bend you over on the new Whirlpool ad.
You can’t win on these shows.
Really enjoyed watching this tonight. Morello and the Miss World chick are my favourites. This is one of the best shows to come out of OZ this year. WICKED STUFF
Good solid start… I’ll be watching!
There was no way they were going to do much with the Vegemite thing. Lehmo from Before the Game announced the name during the Grand Final coverage. I assumed it was a Before the Game (Roving Ent) tie in.
Really enjoyed that Tim – thanks
I’m hooked….but agree 90 minutes was a bit long…..looking forward to next week….
The apprentice tanked big time. Only about 600k viewers for the premiere.
Channel 9 won’t be happy.
OMG the Apprentice oz SUCKED!
No one does it as well as Trump – why not actually try to be as good as him FFS?
It’s all laid out and formulaic, like buying a McDonalds franchise – you idiots!
Sir Alan Sugar sucked and Mark Bouris is as stupid as he is.
With The Apprentice (original) you could always guess who was going to be fired and why, because it was based on COMMON SENSE!
Sugar and Bouris just pull it out of their arses – Sugar even hired the final contestant after he LOST MONEY on the final challenge! WTF??
Bouris was attacking Sabrina Houssami even though she showed strengths in all areas of the first task! UNFAIR!
And then he didn’t fire that idiot Carmen even though she didn’t put a foot right!
UNBELIEVABLE!
I’ll never watch again…
Hey Tim, maybe try CoverItLive next time? Integrating the comments into a stream that auto updates would be nice is all.
Good tip, Warlach – ta
Cheers,
Tim – Mumbrella
The Apprentice needs to be edited better if they want to hang on to the audience – the UK and US versions never show such a one-horse race for being fired (Carmen, obv) and then not fire them. It was obvious she was kept in to make good telly, which is what every version does, they just edit it better to make it less obvious. There’s no room for suspension of belief.
Showing her being by far the worse candidate then not firing her is a big own goal for the showcase episode, I doubt I’ll tune in again.
I met the blonde chick and she told everyone at my work that she won
Heather is the most stuck up chick I’ve ever met anyone would think she’d been on the celebrity apprentice. She thinks people judge her for her beauty but she is absolutley disgustingly ugly on the inside. She even started her own fan club – honestly love who do you think you are?