Monday, April 19, 2010

Foxtel is screwing with my head

There is some sick bastard with a damn good sense of humour who works in programming at Foxtel. Take these examples:

Hoarders (a show looking at excessive hoarding, collecting, consumerism and trash)
When does the Bio channel decide to do a marathon of Hoarders?
Clean Up Australia Day - the one day devoted to cleaning up trash.

Border Security (a show devoted to making middle Australia feel good about their racist attitudes to immigration)
When does the Lifestyle channel decide to do a marathon of Border Security?
Australia Day - the celebration of white invasion of Indigenous Australia.

Worse still are the adverts that are allowed to slip in to highly inappropriate programs.
Here's some that we've seen (I'm sure there are more):
  • Advert for beer, aired during an episode of Intervention featuring an alcoholic (a show that documents extreme addiction and the interventions their friends and family hold).
  • Advert for cat food, aired during an episode of Hoarders featuring a crazy cat lady who had 40 cats forcibly taken from her home and put down.
  • Advert for baby formula, aired during doco about extreme breastfeeding.
Also, why the hell was a sympathetic documentary about transgenderism featured on the Crime channel?

Fucking Foxtel programming guy. Stop it!

5 comments:

  1. 8 year olds who still breastfeed

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  2. I saw Extraordinary Breastfeeding. Whoa. Also thought those Nan formula ads were inappropriate... There is a happy medium, you know!

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  3. Yeh you've got to love documentaries that show the extremes of both but no sane middle ground. I particularly liked the guy on the street in London - "Breastfeeding shouldn't be allowed in public because there's a lot of weirdos around - got to watch out for the Peter Fiddlers'. Charming.

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