Daryl Somers unimpressed after Hey Hey It’s Saturday snub in TV Week’s list of the all-time favourite Australian TV programs
You have to wonder what a show that has been on for three decades has to do to make it onto the voting list of the most loved Australian TV shows of all time. Exactly what is this Daryl Somers he’s been thinking about it ever since TV Week It released a list of 140 shows and asked the public to: They used their votes as a way Identifying the 70 best-loved Australian TV offerings of the last 70 years.
In a glaring omission, Hey hey it’s Saturday. Published for 30 years not included in the list. Somers, Hey Hey’s The host and executive producer was rightfully stunned and unimpressed.
“Even though I’m disappointed hey hey I’m not shortlisted, I’ve always had a very strong connection with our large and loyal audience and at the end of the day that’s all that matters,” Somers told CBD.
While people have the option to add any show what is not on the list Based on their votes, this seems strange Hello it was not included in the original compilation.
It’s unclear whether this is a regrettable omission or a deliberate understatement. Voting ended on June 21.
Of course there are some parts hey hey those who do not age well, but the show has stood the test of time and collected 29 Logie Awards; distributed by gongs. Television Week – Including three Golden Logics for Somers.
hey hey Its Facebook page has more than 800,000 followers.
TV commentator Colin Vickery He sided with Somers: “Given Hey Hey’s “Thanks to its longevity and popularity over the decades, it certainly deserved to be included on this long list.”
TV Week editor-in-chief Amber Giles When the CBD tried to reach the bottom of the trash, I poured some gasoline on the trash can hey hey drama.
“The shortlist is designed to spark debate, not define it,” Giles said in a statement.
“Australians are encouraged to vote for any program that shapes their TV experience, whether it’s on the 140-show shortlist or not. We love seeing the passion this survey brings.”
The top 20 programs of the survey will be announced August 16 is Logies night.
It will be interesting to see if it holds up against the odds, hey hey could he get into the bottom 70 and if so where could he end up? Watch this space.
Andrew Bolt escapes Racial Discrimination Act
in 2014 messenger of the sun columnist Andrew Bolt was close to being stigmatized “racist, racist, racist” after the Federal Court found three years ago that he had breached section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act.
But the landmark decision doesn’t seem to have deterred him much. More than a decade later, Bolt, himself a YouTuber and host of the low-budget Sky News talk show, narrowly avoided another run-in with the law.
The latest complaint alleges that Bolt’s comment calling Indigenous knowledge “primitive” amounts to racial discrimination and seeks an apology and compensation for alleged breaches of section 18C. The applicants said the comment “caused aggression, insult, humiliation and intimidation”.
The lawsuit was filed by the musician in Federal Court in mid-May. Adrian BurragubbaWangan and a man from Jagalingou and the Gomeroi people Cameron Manning And Gwenda StanleyRepresented by the Center for Racial Justice. However, this imprint was ultimately taken down after receiving documents from the court and information about the case. Executive Director of the Center for Racial Justice Sarah Abraham The reason is not adhered to.
At issue for the applicants was a television segment broadcast on Sky News in November 2023 and two opinion pieces Bolt wrote for the article. messenger of the sun later that year.
Bolt commented on the broadcast: Tiwi Islands elders’ legal efforts to block Santos’ $5.7 billion gas pipeline they pass through traditional maritime countries. He said: “Not all Tiwi Islanders who are struggling with this are like that, but these guys are really reliant on government handouts, so three quarters of them are not working, either unemployed or unemployed according to the last census, so why, how can they say no to money going to the social services they rely on?”
in the first messenger of the sun Bolt called the Minister of Energy in his article published on December 13 Chris Bowen Bowen said in his statement at the COP28 conference that it was anti-science and racist. Indigenous peoples around the world have been at the heart of climate change and have valued lands for thousands of years.
“Bowen could not have imagined that the ‘Indigenous peoples’ who he claimed had valued the land for ‘thousands of years’ included the white tribes of Europe, let alone the Japanese or Han Chinese. And why not? Because these people left their ‘Indigenous knowledge’ behind as they used reason and science to find better ways to live without dying early and poor,” Bolt wrote.
“We need to show ‘deep respect’ for the ‘Indigenous knowledge’ of Aboriginal people, some of whom are currently trying to stop a $5.6 billion offshore gas project in the Federal Court, claiming the undersea pipeline would disturb a human-transformed crocodile that they claim has been living in that patch of ocean since the Dreamtime.
“Don’t Bowen and the prime minister himself realize that many Australians are fed up with this subservience to primitives?”
Bolt later clarified what he meant by “primitive” in his second column, published on December 17, and responded to Bowen by calling her initial opinion piece “racist.”
“If he was smart, he would know that I don’t call Aborigines ‘primitive’. Indeed, I have Aboriginal friends who are much more knowledgeable than Bowen – Jacinta, Warren, Anthony, Adam. ‘Primitive’ is what I call an anti-gas Crocodile Man belief in the Stone Age,” Bolt continued.
Asked about the action last week, a News Corp Australia spokesman said the company would “vigorously defend” the matter. After this was stopped days later, the spokesman said the company had always had “full confidence” that Bolt would be “exonerated”.
Not that we have any reason to doubt them. Bolt was only spotted hoofing down the street in December on his way to Lachlan Murdoch’s annual Christmas party. The previous year, Bolt was part of Rupert Murdoch’s personal entourage during The Sun King’s first visit to Australia in six years.
Fox spotted among Icelandic works in Melbourne
Spotting Fox has become something of a sport in the town after the billionaire Fox family’s high-stakes succession drama was revealed to the patriarch earlier this month. Lindsay Fox confirmed his eldest son PeterHe was retiring as chairman of the board of directors of Linfox.
89-year-old Lindsay and her husband Paulacurrently in Europe escaping the frigid cold of Melbourne. Lisa FoxThe co-chairman of the Fox Family Foundation, a major supporter of the NGV, and his eldest daughters were seen among the guests at the Icelandic artist’s unveiling. Ragnar Kjartanssonexhibition, mercyThursday night at the National Gallery of Victoria.
The Kjartansson exhibition is a bit like a trip. One of the unusual pieces in the exhibition is a video work. Me and My Momr, Kjartansson asks his mother, an Icelandic actor, every five years Guðrún Ásmundsdóttirto spit on him. Strange.
Kjartansson was at the opening on Thursday, and instead of giving a speech, he toasted the exhibition by singing an Icelandic folk/drinking song. Art always delivers!
Fiona Byrne is the CBD columnist for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.Connect via email.
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