The crisis in Georgia caught the commercial television networks napping - even CNN - as they have been reducing their overseas bureaux, often to the level of one staff member.
Idle (sorry) speculation on what FremantleMedia and Network Ten will do to re-invigorate Australian Idol. Interesting in a no-new-information kind of way.
An unnamed industry source has claimed that Sonia Krueger's much-criticized Olympic gaffes during the Yum Cha broadcasts were scripted, not spontaneous, and that she has risked her arse executing Seven't dumb-down policy.
Television host Tania Zaetta is suing over an article claiming that the Australian Defence Force was investigating claims that she had sex with several soldiers while in Afghanistan.
A survey by a leading electronics company reveals that admit the hype, 53% of Australians knew so little about the Olympics that they couldn't comment for the survey. Always good to have a reality check on the hype. Trivia: ancient Olympic organisers were frequently criticised for not supplying any latrines during the games.
Writer Andrew Knight (Sea Change) has been unusually absent from television screens - but it's not because he isn't working. This is a nice wrap of the half-dozen projects he has in the works.
This article on viewer dissatisfaction with Seven's coverage of the Olympics is running on rival Fox Sports, so should be taken with a grain of some banned substance.
Prime will not be broadcasting the Carlton vs Melbourne AFL match on the weekend, prompting groaning in Wagga Wagga. Trivia: As more and more people converted to Christianity, and refused to sacrifice to the pagan gods Greek sports disappeared. The Olympics involved athletes killing and burning a lot of bulls. The modern Olympic athletes are contractually required to speak a lot of bulls.
Home and Away, So You Think You Can Dance and The Chaser's War on Everything took the awards, voted by the select demographic of 27,000 Dolly magazine readers.
"State owned TVNZ has apologised for a signal failure which meant many people could not see the Olympic men's 200 metre butterfly final in which New Zealand swimmer Moss Burmester was placed fourth," Stuff reports. Trivia: the ancient Olympics didn't recognize fourth. Or third. Or second. You won or you didn't. If you won, you got the right to raise the money to have an artist make a statue of yourself.
"I don't mind the delayed telecast so much as the commercials. Surely they could suspend commercials for a special event like the olympic games. It indicates the unbelievable greed of Channel 7 to continue revenue raising at a time like this," Michael J said. [This is called missing the point]
Which is a bloody good thing, because we tried to find an online Gaelic translation for the headline in an attempt to be clever and witty - but couldn't, so presumably Scots-gaelic needs all the help it can get.
