The winners of the 2008 TV Fugly Awards have been announced. For those who missed the actual awards ceremony in Melbourne last Friday, here's a great run down and some photos. The empty seats are in fact the platinum seats, and being very late is the height of fashion for platinum ticket holders :)

The Pipe & The Straw The digital television revolution may not quite create the upheaval television companies are envisaging, or hoping for. While digital broadcasting will facilitate a greater volume of better quality transmissions, will anyone care, or more accurately, have time to absorb all this high-definition content? Especially when viewers have the option to browse sites such as YouTube and pick and choose what to see, and when. There is ... Read full entry

The 2008 TV Fugly Awards Voting in the 2008 Fugly Awards opens on 11 April 14 April. "The Fuglies", which "celebrate" underachievement in Australian television are the antithesis of the Logies which commend, er, achievement in local television. I'd love to vote in the "Fuglies", but unfortunately I shot my TV, Elvis Presley style, back in '97. Does anyone know if anything good has been on since then? Update: Anthony ... Read full entry

Dino Conspiracy Theory. Here's an article opener, or hook, budding journalists should take note of: The extinction of the dinosaurs has long been considered a crime committed by a lone gunman: an incoming asteroid that struck the earth 65 million years ago, filling the air with sun-blocking dust. But was there a grassy knoll? Not quite... Now, however, controversy is being stirred anew as evidence ... Read full entry

Five Questions is where I talk to bloggers about their projects and some of the other things they are doing. I ask {Q}uestions, and hopefully get some {A}nswers! TV ads: are they a necessary evil, an outright distraction, or do they make for useful intermission breaks? Not all TV ads are forgettable though, and some are almost an art form says Duncan ... Read full entry

I woke up this morning to the realisation that I've been on my own for ten years. Ten years without a TV that is. Ok, it's not quite ten years, but give me any reason to reference Don McLean's "American Pie" lyrics, and I will. Now for ten years we've been on our own Two things happened ten years ago. Actually rather a lot (more) happened ... Read full entry

I’ve spent the last week or so watching DVDs of the BBC production, The Office. As I don’t own a TV, I’d only ever seen bits of maybe three episodes before this.I’ve since been reading a few discussion forum threads on the show, and its primary protagonist, boss David Brent. Many of these threads ask the ... Read full entry