Canberra too provincial for Come Fly With Me

Obviously a publicity stunt, excite interest is something by banning it, then show it later. How many of you would have bothered with it otherwise?

cleo said :

I wasn’t born or bred in Canberra, always said it’s a big country town. More like a MICKEY MOUSE TOWN!

A big country town with more public servants per capita then anywhere is in Australia.

I wasn’t born or bred in Canberra, always said it’s a big country town. More like a MICKEY MOUSE TOWN!

farnarkler said :

Why oh why didn’t the ABC buy it!!? Surely the Beeb would’ve given them a discount and not let the knuckle dragging channel nine get hold of it.

Probably because they saw how bad it was. Little Britain was a classic. This show was a massive let down.

Why oh why didn’t the ABC buy it!!? Surely the Beeb would’ve given them a discount and not let the knuckle dragging channel nine get hold of it.

Win – what do you expect? They give new meaning to “lowest common denominator”.

This is nothing new. In 1992 WIN refused to show Doug Mulray’s Australia’s Naughtiest Home Videos, the program famously yanked off air by Kerry Packer halfway through.

In the leadup to the show going to air WIN said it wasn’t censorship, that they would show it when the regional ratings were on later in the year. As it turned out, it was never shown on WIN until 2009 when Channel Nine under different owners found an unlabelled copy when they were doing spring cleaning, re-edited it with Bert Newton replacing much of Mulray’s input, and showed it in its entirety.

Pommy bastard said :

Well if 2 1/2 men can be the top ranked “comedy” show in Aus, we only have ourselves to blame for being seen as somewhat less than suffistikatud.

That’s a very good point.

Ok this really gets my goat. God damn billy bob, I’m pissed off.

Keijidosha said :

I’ll be damned if I let a television network dictate the height of my brow. To the internet!

Agreed to all – Tallho I say……………………….

http://www.utorrent.com/

Pick your server, download, enjoy. Ad-free, too.

What a stupid decision by WIN. They’ve been promoting it on their channel, and I was intending to watch it.

I’ll be damned if I let a television network dictate the height of my brow. To the internet!

Odd, according to the WIN web-site it’s on tonight at 10:04pm on GO. Maybe someone forgot to tell the web-master?

Well if 2 1/2 men can be the top ranked “comedy” show in Aus, we only have ourselves to blame for being seen as somewhat less than suffistikatud.

I’m with you Mysteryman – I’ll watch it at my leisure, ad free. One of these days TV executives will realise that in a digital age, it’s impossible to withold content like this.

At least we’re still sophisticated enough for The Footy Show

Not that I had any plans to watch the show (having seldom despaired of the state of humanity as much I did when watching a co-worker descend into paroxysms of laughter at a broad Asian stereotype on Little Britain), but the decision to divide the viewing audience into bumpkin/non-bumpkin categories doesn’t seem like a great PR move on WIN’s part.

That sucks donkey balls.

It’s about time we were told what we can and can’t watch. I’m sick of having to make decisions and form opinions about what I find funny.

Is it strange that they’re putting on a tv show about a group of scientist nerds who explain string theory and play online games because we’re too “regional” to understand the workings of an airport and the fact that there might be “multicultural” characters?

Canberra – it’s the capital, but it sure doesn’t A.C.T. like it.

For the love of crap!

I have the internet. I’ll watch the show regardless of what the buffoons at WIN think. Ever since I discovered how to access TV shows via the internet some years ago, I’ve become my own programming director. I watch what I want, when I want, free from ads. Let’s be honest, the regional stations/affiliates are a joke anyway. Their news is terrible and their ads worse.

Wait, wasn’t the camp airline steward schtick done already by Full Frontal….or was that Fast Forward? One of the two. Anyways, expect the characters to get old by the third episode. Yawn! Not missing much.

What a bunch of arse!

WHAT??????????? You have to kidding me…………………….