Quoted from dara

Luckily they don't target your demographic

I'm a part of their "key demo" (apparantly), and there's NOTHING that I'd want to watch on Ten. The only TV I've been watching of late is SBS and ABC. This time last year I seldom watched either one of those channels.

Maybe you're maturing

From TV Week:

Network Ten will soon add to the managerie of animal series currently on air with Bondi Vet, which follows the day-to-day life of former Burke's Backyard vet Dr Chris Brown at his Sydney practice. I hear that the owners are expected to be just as entertaining as their pets, so look out for it in the second half of this year.

Quoted from Seriously

From TV Week:

Network Ten will soon add to the managerie of animal series currently on air with Bondi Vet, which follows the day-to-day life of former Burke's Backyard vet Dr Chris Brown at his Sydney practice. I hear that the owners are expected to be just as entertaining as their pets, so look out for it in the second half of this year.

I'd better pop some niaprazine after that news  

Tonights lineup

6:30 Futurama
7:00 Friends
7:30 Simpsons
8:00 Rules of Engagement
8:30 Double Jeopardy

All repeats, but a surprisingly watchable night for 10! Unfortunately overly loud ads for their reality lineup will also run all night long.......

Quoted from aquamonkey

Tonights lineup

6:30 Futurama
7:00 Friends
7:30 Simpsons
8:00 Rules of Engagement
8:30 Double Jeopardy

All repeats, but a surprisingly watchable night for 10! Unfortunately overly loud ads for their reality lineup will also run all night long.......

The lineup is fine but it would never rate
Thank you! You reminded me to create a new thread

I saw this on the 7 pm report and wondered what it was about.

Ch 10 'mocks mental patients'
January 29, 2010 02:30pm

MENTAL health advocates have lashed out at Channel 10's new station promotion, which features network stars mimicking patients in a support group.

The Daily Telegraph reports high-profile presenters including Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Paul McDermott and Shaun Micallef parody those in crisis, appearing dishevelled, catatonic and highly emotional.

Bassingthwaighte cries hysterically, comic Mikey Robbins rocks in his chair, mumbling, while Neighbours starlet Margot Robbie mindlessly strums the show's theme song on a toy guitar.

Talkin Bout My Generation's Amanda Keller sums up the stars' complaints, telling the group they are feeling "the pressure of making 2010 even better than last year''.

However, counsellors have attacked the station as "insensitive'' and "distasteful.''

Lifeline's Chris Wagner said the latest "Seriously'' sketch, which was leaked on You Tube but will air on Sunday, ran the risk of discouraging those in need.

"They make a joke of what can be a really important process for those dealing with a mental health crisis and if it discourages even one person from seeking out this sort of help or support that is not on,'' he said.

Barbara Hocking, executive director of Sane Australia, said she was "disappointed'' in the stars who participated in an advertisement which "mocked and trivialised'' support groups.

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,26649708-5006301,00.html

Link to Daily Telgraph article here...

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/seriously-sick-sketch/story-e6frewyr-1225824636399

That to me is as bad as the Black minstrels sketch on Hey Hey! Disgusting. Maybe it was not done to insult but it fell way short of what they intended.

Quoted from SuziH

That to me is as bad as the Black minstrels sketch on Hey Hey! Disgusting. Maybe it was not done to insult but it fell way short of what they intended.

Just as the Hey Hey sketch wasn't, but you'd think a network would have some sort of PR department that would say "hmmm this might not be for everyone...?"

It didn't even register with me as being remotely offensive (or terribly funny for that matter), nor did the Hey Hey sketch, or the banned KFC ad.

Well having a close relative who has/had Asperger's Syndrome and with my daughter having worked with people with any number of disabilities for several years and having a friend who drives for Disabled and wheelchair bound people, I find it offensive.
Also knowing the African/American struggle to even be regarded as human beings I was offended by the skit on Hey Hey but then again I find Hey Hey Offensive on many levels.
That's just my view and ideals.  

The KFC ad was nothing, the hey hey bit I still don't think a lot of people get, but I can see why people who need support groups for whatever reason could see it as making fun of whatever they suffer from, and the people who run the groups many on their own time and coin feel their efforts are not taken seriously.


It's sort of how Michael on The Office summed up accidentally calling a gay employee gay. "You don't call a retarded person a retard, you call your friends retards when they're acting stupid".

Quoted from aquamonkey

Just as the Hey Hey sketch wasn't, but you'd think a network would have some sort of PR department that would say "hmmm this might not be for everyone...?"

Yes you wouldn't think it would have taken too many brains to realise it.