There's a new rant over at my new blog
Lots of big upheaval in television this week from both here and in America.
With both these stories it's almost a case of - duh!
Here in Australia, the long running and once unassailable Idol franchise has gasped its last, after suffering several years of middling ratings (hovering under the 1 million mark for most of last season which is painfully low compared to the 3 million viewer highs of its first two seasons) and a public indifferent to the "talent" (singles from the last few idol winners have been fizzers on the ARIA charts) the show was producing.
Officially the show is on hiatus and will not be making an appearance in 2010, unnofficially Ten would be unhappy with being Seven and Nine's bitch and would want to use their Commonwealth Games launch pad late in the year to launch something good with half a chance of success.
Read the whole thing at my new blog...
http://seven2nd.blogspot.com/2010/01/television-rant-australian-idle-and-us.html
