DISQUS

How good really are the electronic program guides there? The regular ones, such as are given to David Knox at his site, are sort of all over the place as to completeness. One great thing about TIVO in the US is it looks for movies, directors, actors pretty well most of the time because the guides are good. TIVO will find for you the one time in 3 years some obscure movie gets on the air on one of the 500 channels I get and record it for me. It's unbeatable for that. It's also good for ensuring you don't miss yearly event like Itidarod. I don't remember when the race is every year...but TIVO will get it.

But if your guides are not good, this part would let you down quite often. And there are fewer channels in AUS. Even in the USA, sometimes the guides are not good enough buy usually it's that they lack director info for first run shows. And some sports shows don't distinguish an episode, so TIVO won't realize that Thursdays, Fridays and Mondays episodes of "Ole La Liga" are actually all the same thing. But those deficits are not that bad. But EPGs really do matter.

Why don't you get a FACEBOOK page and then build up some content there and when we have enough, it can get wiki'd. Just an idea....

Adam D, I dislike, or more correctly have no interest in, Top Gear because I have no interest in the topic of cars or motoring beyond a limited number of issues such as wishing more of my fellow drivers took seriously the safety of bicyclists and pedestrians. I guess I'd be surprised if the show has many female fans at all?

I dislike Clarkson because there's not a shred of anything likable about him.

Top Gear, being such a boy show, isn't considered good by all. Some of us just simply strive to achieve "couldn't care less."
Boys are entitled to have some boy shows-just don't equate that with "everyone" thinks it's good. The reason I say strive for "couldn't care less" is that I know in my heart of hearts if Clarkson wrapped a car around a pole and had to be scraped off into a body bag, I'd tune in to watch. Other than that though, couldn't care less.

Josh.....quiz questions you can answer with 10 seconds search on the internet, although potentially educational, aren't particularly any fun. Wilbur Wilde can probably come up with questions, no?

What makes anyone think Lost will have a natural or even vaguely fulfilling conclusion. Alias was every bit as good as Lost, ep to ep. But the ending was wholly non-satisfying. Problem is that Abrams has the hubris to think he can tie up all these complex, interwoven storylines; but when the time comes to do it, he drops the ball. That's the big difference from BSG...they've know where they're going since the beginning and aren't so foolhardy as to think some miraculous inspiration will hit them when it's time to end.

That pre-Logies red carpet thing makes all of the Australian tv industry look like they're severely under-medicated.

The show itself wasn't bad. I think the concept of the awards themselves is the problem. To use some American awards as examples, it's as if you tried to mix the Emmys-dayntime & primetime, TV Guide Awards, Soap Opera Digest Awards and a little bit of the ESPYs all into one. It just wouldn't work. And the Logies may have been around for 50 years (which is longer even than Australia made television shows isn't it?) but that doesn't mean the concept isn't now unworkable (nice triple negative). If you have a dinner party and serve red wine, Kool-aid, pigs in a blanket, gourmet olives, and popcorn, nobody's going to leave feeling they had a good meal no matter if there's a charming host, designer napkins, or good music.
It's not the show itself, it's the categories and who's up against whom, and the fact that having categories like single news story--most popular girl on a SOAP--anything that pretends to be a serious acting award, just won't go together and leaves out a lot what should be done.

And yeah, I did watch it because John Clarke is a treasure.

Two things.....the Fugly's are taking votes so all the NEWStopia fans can get over there and vote for NEWStopia and Shaun Micallef for most underrated.

http://www.fugly.com.au/

Thing two....this was in the news today about ITV adding content to iTunes. For fans of choice on TV, to include international programming, this is another move in the right direction.

http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/?p=4559

I hope that Beyond or Jonathan Shiff will catch onto this and start to do the same.

Underbelly underwhelmed me. It's more of a docudrama than a drama with too many characters and not enough time to get to know any of them. And the voice overs worsened the docudrama problem. The music was mostly bad. I thought they got as many of casting choices wrong as right. And many of the "effects" were weird. The opening credits were nice though.

Agreed.....NEWStopia was great....had "withdrawals" after only a week without it.

Bring back The SURGEON now!

Funny....whether Timothy Busfiled is in something is one of my criteria for whether a show should be watched, as well.

Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz's involvement is probably enough to give it a look-see though.