Seven accuses Nine of theft over Today Tonight lift
The Seven Network is threatening legal action after Nine’s A Current Affair rebroadcast most of a segment from Today Tonight minutes after it had aired.
Last night’s incident – involving an interview with one of two boys at the centre of a much debated video of a schoolyard fight – marks the most extreme example yet of the rival shows lifting content from each other.
Image source: TV Tonight
A Current Affair carried around five minutes of Today Tonight’s eight minute report.
A new low is reached, although impressive they turned it around that quick!
I doubt it was a ‘brain explosion’, more like the fight to get ridiculous drivel to prime time television goes wrong. Epic fail, ACA.
I don’t *really* care what they get up to, but I do think it’s interesting that the screenshot clearly shows that nine got the footage free of TT (or any) watermarks – they didn’t just record it off-air, they had a much more direct source, which I could only speculate at.
Both as bad as each other – watching both shows is almost akin to watching the same program some nights. They’re like two spoilt little brats fighting over a toy.
ACA trying to make a point, or pot calling the kettle black? All this and dodgy Muslim electricians robbing your gran, tonight on A Bennett Affair.
Scratch my last comment – the watermarks have just been blurred out, which clearly visible on the TV Tonight story the pix came from (which I had to google as you didn’t link)
People still watch television?
But who are these 2.6 million Australians silly enough to be watching in the first place?
Why don’t you boys go out and settle this in the playground.
My only wish is that Working Dog are hard at work on a new series of Frontline…
Hey, I’m a lazy slacker with no ethics and very few ideas of my own. I’m always willing to sink to the level of the worst people in my industry and I promise never to apologise if I get caught out. How can I get a job on A Current Affair or Today Tonight?
Two bullies arguing about a story about bullies. What else can you expect?
@Adam Paull – oh how I wish that were true
+1 @Adam Paull – Rob, Santo et al, please read this
Considering just how far down the chute tabloid TV has gone since Frontline finished up, the episodes will practically write themselves – the team’s ideas must be overflowing!
I can’t see how its possible that Rob Sitch can wake up every morning without having a finished script on his bedside table.
The hardest part will be finding a Hi8 camera to shoot it on…
@Adam Paull – are you saying ACA and TT aren’t by Working Dog?
I’m not apologising, he started it – come on guys how about we grow up, and get back to the hard hitting journalism about which type of butter is trying to hurt your family
It would be the joke to end all jokes if the last 10 years of ACA/TT was a carefully scripted parody, but alas…
Besides, if it was the BBC would have ripped it off by now.