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That being said, the 3 News live cross later on to North Carolina in a hurricane was one of the best live crosses of the year.  Loved it!  (How did Hillary keep a straight face?)

Even funnier was an immediate live cross afterwards to Emma Joliff in Wellington saying it's pretty wet and windy (bet she's glad she's got short hair!). 

It’s always a mistake to over analyse why something is funny, so no danger of that with Feedback. :)

I think the Jono show is what it is, a bunch of cheap morning radio stunts, videoed and loosely strung together for C4. Some work some don’t but you get what you expect. It’s C4.

Feedback was promoted as more, on TV2 a show within a show, the classic “Frontline” and “The Daily Show” was bandied about as influences. Did they even watch them?

Feedback talked big, aimed high and then delivered low. Really, really low. There is a lot wrong with Feedback but one of the very basic things that bugs me about Feedback is that it feels nothing like a real news/current affairs show. The stories are shot wrong, cut wrong and written nothing like what they try to parody. When was the last time you saw a loose MCU as an inetervew shot on TV news… NEVER.

The public may not know what a loose MCU is but they can tell that every interview on Feedback looks vastly different to what they see on TV every night. Surely if you want to satires something you need a basic understanding of what it is you are trying to take the piss of?

None of the stories are made well enough to be in a real news show which limits any irony. Instead of poking fun at the mainstream media it becomes a show about being rubbish and too stupid to realize it. “Look at us we are rubbish and we don’t know it” is not enough to base a paid for by our dollars show for the TV2 audience on.

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If it was on TV2 it would probably be over 400,000 - 500,000 +, what did Australian Idol get last year? But who are TV3 to be picky so they will be happy with that number.

I guess I must be over these talent shows. I watched about an hour of it. It was boring, and I definitely don't like Kyle Sands. He was fired from a previous similar show not too long ago for inappropriate remarks on a radio show.

Just out of curiousity, what do the people here who hate this show think of The Jono Project?

l'd have thought that The Jono Project and Feedback have very similar humour. So why would you think one works and not the other?

go hard danielle and good luck an put kawerau on the map for something positive for once lol, your a krack up cos you aint scared to say how it is, you keep me watching too.............2much

Your amazing to watch because you give us kawerauians hope we can be whatever we want to be in life, an your a crack up lol you make the show interesting............2much ktown girl good luck in the comp no matter what the outcome is your a winner in yourself!!!!!!!

@markcrysell has posted:

actually Kim I think I might possibly have an even worse photo of you than your breaking news one

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the world cup hotels story didn't really warrant being at number 1 and certainly didnt need a second story. video calling is available in nz with the right phones but dont know if you could easily make the call go to a tv system to talk live with common cellphones.

No they're different....Julianne Moore looks better.

Heh.. @kimvinnell just posted on twitter:

Lets cross live to Kim Vinnell by phone, and for the occasion, we've found the worst photo of her in existence, Kim.

Getting video out of a location by satellite can take anything from 30 mins to an hr, it all depends on finding the satellite in the sky, lining up etc...

I'm not sure how it is a lead story and breaking news, its an armed holdup, they happen regularly (sadly) and with a banner line up saying something about 'armed gunman on the loose' is a bit over the top, every single armed holdup (including those that aren't reported) where a bank is robbed by a person with a gun is therefore a 'gunman on the loose'..

We must have a heap of gunman on the loose...SCAREMONGERING

But in saying this, I had the tv muted and didn't hear what was said...

I watched the Jono Project every week. It was good.

At least One News covered it.

Oh I see it. They both have red hair.

ONE News never can seem to get a live cross when it counts. I thought they were meant to have all that fancy satellite equipment that's supposed to help?

I wouldn't say I hated this show. I was just embarrassed, for everyone involved. Very happy to be considered humourless if this is humour.

Cant debate those figures TV3 although im sure they will give someone the dreaded task of throwing some data and spinning it into something, but who doesnt like a challenge?

Cant manage a live cross when it counts.

I watched the Jono Project aswell and like Kook found it hit and miss but tuned in every week. Watched some of Feedback on demand today and it wasnt to bad and found the dig at Sunrise pretty funny aswell.

House is the most intense, interesting show on TV. I love House because his character is  a most clever, evil, planner who has fun in manipulating people for his enjoyment. This show believable, dramatic and pretty funny too.

I find the Jono Project very hit and miss… Feedback just miss.

Ratings were up this week.  From 1.4 last week to 1.8 this week.

I must admit, I thought the first half of the show was better this week but I'm still struggling.

Is it just me or does Meek remind you of Dominic Bowden?

Yeah huge number for the Movie (well for C4's average audience), but the trouble is with TV2 I dont watch Chuck or Human Target but I hope it doesnt get replaced with a movie.

Rusty have you ever watched the Onion?

http://www.theonion.com

Go to the video section. It is a fake news team who read outrageously phony stories with a straight face, ironically the main difference between the Onion and feedback is the Onion is witty and funny. It looks and feels like a normal news show, something Feedback fails to do but also the content is laugh out loud funny while subtly sending up the mainstream media model.

I’m glad you find Feedback entertaining Rusty, maybe then its not a total dead loss and I will admit that part of the anger I feel toward the show is the fact that NZonair wasted money on this pap but most annoying to me is that many more people will see Feedback as further proof that New Zealanders can’t do comedy... thanks guys.

Hey thanks for going to all that trouble for me :)

 have listened to it on the link you gave me and will try to download it.

You made my day !!!!!