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TUBE TALK: Everything comes to an end
Wednesday, 7 May 2003, 5:00 pm | John T. Forde
When I was 10, I turned down Saturday morning piano lessons because they would interfere with my morning cartoon-watching regime. Years later, I still can’t read music, but I can recall every episode of The Muppets and Fraggle Rock ever made. More >>
Tube Talk: Diary Of An Easter TV Addict
Wednesday, 23 April 2003, 12:11 am | John T. Forde
For some, the Easter break is a chance to celebrate the history of your people being liberated from slavery; for others, it’s a chance to have a party about someone being nailed to a tree. But for most of us, it’s a chance to not go to work and sit on ... More >>
TUBE TALK - Dating: The New Blood Sport
Tuesday, 22 April 2003, 11:58 am | John T. Forde
If you’ve been put through the romantic grinder lately – or even if you’re a dried up loveless old cadaver – take comfort in The Bachelor (TV2, Mondays, 9.30pm) and Joe Millionaire (TV3, Tuesdays, 8.30pm) – two fabulously sadistic dating shows that’ll ... More >>
TUBE TALK With John T. Forde - Over The Hill
Tuesday, 22 April 2003, 11:55 am | John T. Forde
There’s nothing sadder than when a national news network starts believing its own PR. TVNZ’s much-hyped news revamp seems, sadly enough, to have equated to nothing more than new advertising. More >>
Tube Talk: Make (Oscar) Love, Not War
Tuesday, 25 March 2003, 10:07 am | John T. Forde
It’s Hollywood’s annual night of trash – a gratuitious love-in where ageing movie stars and the hottest young surgically enhanced starlets converge to worship their own inflated egos. The dresses, the awards, the losing nominees smiling through their ... More >>
Tube Talk: Over The Hill
Thursday, 20 March 2003, 9:02 am | John T. Forde
There’s nothing sadder than when a national news network starts believing its own PR. TVNZ’s much-hyped news revamp seems, sadly enough, to have equated to nothing more than new advertising. More >>
TUBE TALK - The Girls Are Back In Town
Friday, 7 March 2003, 8:34 am | John T. Forde
The modern TV woman has it all – including the right to be as paranoid, self-obsessed and megalomaniacal as men. More >>
Tube Talk: These Sopranos Don’t Sing
Monday, 24 February 2003, 10:41 am | John T. Forde
Just when you thought it was safe to watch the bland fare of sitcom reruns and home improvement shows that constitute summertime TV, along comes a week of horror guaranteed to have you screaming back into therapy. More >>
Tube Talk: Night Of The Saggy Globes
Monday, 10 February 2003, 1:24 pm | John T. Forde
Gird your loins and slap on your tiara - it’s Award Shows time! If, like me, you’ve been practising your Oscar acceptance speech in the shower since the age of nine, you’ll re-plan your life around the awards show TV schedule. Even if you hate Hollywood, ... More >>
Tube Talk - Beware of Bachelors
Thursday, 23 January 2003, 11:04 am | John T. Forde
A new year brings with it renewed optimism that you’ll be less of a TV-watching slob. As the sun shines and you enjoy your holiday, you imagine achieving all kinds of spiffy self-improving goals: going to the gym more, spending more time in the kitchen ... More >>
Tube Talk: ‘Tis the Season to be Brain Dead’
Friday, 20 December 2002, 4:03 pm | John T. Forde
If Christmas is the celebration of the birth of the Son of God, then Christmas television is proof that the Apocalypse is nigh. More >>
Tube Talk: Making the hardest decision
Thursday, 5 December 2002, 8:52 am | John T. Forde
Last week’s Inside New Zealandoffering, The Hardest Decision, was an unusually intelligent and well-balanced attempt to discuss the issue of abortion and its impact on New Zealand women. More >>
TUBE TALK With John T. Forde: White Trash Paradise
Monday, 25 November 2002, 8:21 am | John T. Forde
Like most Wellingtonian emigrés, I’m only one or two steps up the evolutionary ladder from small town white trash. Despite my snazzily-cut trousers from Mandatory and a daily trim soy latte, I, too, once drank Ribena out of plastic mugs, danced to ... More >>
Tube Talk With John T. Forde - Adbusters
Friday, 22 November 2002, 12:32 am | John T. Forde
If, like me, you’d rather put a cigarette out on your eyeball than watch TV advertisements, there’s a particularly masochistic pleasure in watching the Fair Go Best & Worst TV Ad Awards. More >>
TUBE TALK With John T. Forde: What the Butler Saw
Thursday, 21 November 2002, 2:53 pm | John T. Forde
Just when TV is becoming so bad, so boring and so banal that chewing your own arm off starts looking like a riveting evening’s entertainment, along comes some fun, trashy Brit TV to take the edge off. More >>
Tube Talk: Un-Cool Britannia
Wednesday, 4 September 2002, 4:04 pm | John T. Forde
What has happened to British television? Once a feasting ground of witty, acerbic and terribly-well-bred comics who wrote brilliant shows like Fawlty Towers and Blackadder , Brit comedy has descended into unwatchable tripe. More >>
Tube Talk: Attack of the Smug Marrieds
Thursday, 22 August 2002, 9:21 am | John T. Forde
If, like me, you tire of being the only single at a dinner party full of couples, or you’d rather stick a fork in your eye than listen to suburban moms moaning about nappy rash, watching a show like Cold Feet might sound as tempting as water torture. More >>
Tube Talk: Corngate Revisited
Wednesday, 14 August 2002, 1:12 pm | John T. Forde
Fields of Gold (Sundays, TV1, 8.30pm) isn’t the best drama currently on television – just the best-timed, and sure to be the most talked-about series of the year. More >>
Tube Talk: A chain-smoking Romeo & Juliet
Wednesday, 7 August 2002, 4:32 pm | John T. Forde
I’m not usually inspired to write about TV programs twice, and still less inclined to repeat rave reviews. As my Nana used to say, it’s only a short road from repeating yourself to eating cat food and running down to the bus stop with no clothes on. More >>
Tube Talk: Election 2002 - 24 Hour Party Poopers
Friday, 2 August 2002, 8:03 am | John T. Forde
Like the birth of a giant panda, a general election is a rare, wondrous, but agonisingly drawn-out experience. More >>
