Thread: Free To Air TV Is Rubbish.

Originally Posted by BMKal

And they even showed "Clare" the ultimate truckie who believes that everyone else on the road but her is an idiot. Great example of driving through a level crossing with all the lights flashing - while abusing the driver of the car who stopped at the crossing - bloody muppet. It's morons like her who cause accidents - and get all the decent truckies out there a bad name.

from memory, one of the shows sponsors pulled their funding because of her.

link:

http://dieseltalk.co.nz/news/sponsor...ucking-tv-show

Key sponsors, CAT and BP, have withdrawn support for popular Australian TV show, Outback Truckers, which Perth based production company, Prospero Productions is hoping to bring to New Zealand TV screens.
both BP and CAT Trucks have been disappointed with the way drivers were portrayed, claiming that the series showed dangerous driving behaviour.

A statement from Cat reads: “The program does not meet the intent we believed it would and is not consistent with the core values of Cat Trucks or the positive image of the Australian truck industry that we and our Australian truck customers work so hard to portray.”
BP’s statement says: “We withdraw endorsement of the Outback Truckers TV Series because there have been scenes which show high-risk and potentially unsafe practices. We believe that the show is not in line with BP’s core values and as a result we have withdrawn our endorsement of the program.”
Julia Redwood from Prospero Productions told DIESELtalk that she was disappointed at the pulling of industry support. “BP and Cat decided it was prudent to withdraw as partners in the wake of one incident in the first episode that caused a huge reaction and a lot of political heat.”

Originally Posted by V8Ian

I can't disagree with the title but, pay TV is no better. We recently canned it.

Looked at Pay TV for a month and wondered that people pay to see advertising. SBS or ABC for me. When forced to look at commercial Free to air or pay tv I get a lot of tea breaks, take the kids to the shower, brush teeth...... and usually have more time due to the advertising making 30 minutes shows take 1.5 hours.

PVR works well. ABC and SBS Online work well. Stealing music or movies via Illegal downloads are not my cup of tea.

Originally Posted by debruiser

Call me illiterate but I can never find good places to watch anything on the net.

Sounds like you're not looking in the right places...

Originally Posted by weakestlink

Stealing music or movies via Illegal downloads are not my cup of tea.

i think you mean copyright infringement, not stealing.

Same thing.

crackle and sbs on demand have saved us several nights of bad tv.

I just read through this thread and only recognised a couple of shows mentioned, doesn't sound like I'm missing much.

My TV crapped itself back in January (2 mths out of it's 5yr warranty) and I haven't bothered replacing it. I have thought about it a couple of times and had the money there to do it, but spent it on parts for my bush truck or DD instead. Much better value for money I think :-)

Neale

The age tv site has some interesting stuff.