Glasshouse- final show tonight

XRQTR · 01-11-2006, 09:45 PM

Guys if you are not watching this you are missing out, it's the final night because some Poli thought it had too much negative political sattire aimed at the government, you wanna see them going at the government right now.

16wantsI6 · 01-11-2006, 09:49 PM

hell yea ill watch it tonite, shoulda heard them taken the **** on the radio lol

Outbackjack · 01-11-2006, 09:51 PM

A sad day for Australia when crap like this happens.

XRQTR · 01-11-2006, 10:08 PM

Lmao Krispy Kreme terrorists.

Jeld-Wen Falcon · 01-11-2006, 10:10 PM

I didnt know it was tonight? I thought it was the end of the month?

I love this show, a very sad day when pollies get there knickers in a knot. GROW SOME BALLS.

jd dad · 01-11-2006, 10:31 PM

Bugga missed it, is it still repeat on Sat night?

kenz · 01-11-2006, 10:34 PM

Pollies need to get a life seriously

Van D · 01-11-2006, 10:35 PM

There's still another show? I heard the last was the 25th.

Dumbest decision in TV since keeping neighbours running.

It's discracefull IMO. Surely an audience partition can reverse the decision? It's one of the best shows on TV..

bunny · 01-11-2006, 10:36 PM

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Originally Posted by jd dad

Bugga missed it, is it still repeat on Sat night?

i dont think the repeat is on saturday night...
i was looking at the tv guide and it wasn't there

starkersEB · 01-11-2006, 10:37 PM

29th is the last show will just said

Dazza XLT · 01-11-2006, 10:38 PM

I heard 29th November.
But cannot find a link to the article but found this information

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THE ABC last night axed its popular and irreverent television comedy show, The Glass House, which has been at the centre of a storm over allegations of anti-Howard Government bias.
The ABC gave no explanation for the decision apart from telling the cast and crew yesterday that not all shows could be renewed.
Host Wil Anderson posted a blog last night promising to "go out with all guns a'blazing". "It's been a really fun five years," he said.

Co-compere Dave Hughes said axing the show made little sense.

"We have had our best ratings ever," he said.

The Glass House has become the latest casualty in the "culture wars" and comes just a day after Liberal NSW senator Connie Fierravanti-Wells said during a grilling of ABC executives that co-host Corrine Grant had been guilty of a serious conflict of interest because she was the public face of the ACTU's workplace relations campaign.

And it follows revelations the ABC will pay a new chief censor $280,000 a year to investigate and monitor instances of bias on ABC programs.

Anderson, Hughes and Grant regularly make jokes about John Howard and US President George W. Bush, provoking critics to accuse them of bias.

But during a recent show Anderson responded to criticism by saying if Mark Latham had been in power they would be having a great time.

The decision to axe The Glass House came despite the show achieving its highest ratings since it first went to air in 2001 - with average audiences of 728,000.

The program regularly outrated commercial programs in the same time slot and this year won a peak audience of almost 860,000 viewers.

The last episode of The Glass House will go to air on November 29.

cedric · 01-11-2006, 10:45 PM

good about time

Van D · 01-11-2006, 11:01 PM

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Originally Posted by cedric

good about time

Why's that? You don't get the jokes or issues tackled?

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Skooter · 02-11-2006, 12:25 AM

We should start a petition to keep it on or put it onto another nework, if it outrated commercial programs surely the commecial big bosses can see that it will pull an audience and if that means advertising throughout so be it, its a good show.

fmc351 · 02-11-2006, 12:31 AM

Im so glad the Diggers and ANZACS fought for this to happen.

Outbackjack · 02-11-2006, 12:35 AM

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Im so glad the Diggers and ANZACS fought for this to happen.

Well said.

XR Martin · 02-11-2006, 02:06 AM

The whole purpose of the ABC is to give the public an unbiased opinion. Theres a four other channels that can offer as much biased media as you want so let them have it.

The show sucked anyway, so good riddence

merlin · 02-11-2006, 07:59 AM

I liked this show - parts of it are very funny, and some of the jokes are very clever sattire.

XRQTR · 02-11-2006, 08:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Skooter

We should start a petition to keep it on or put it onto another nework, if it outrated commercial programs surely the commecial big bosses can see that it will pull an audience and if that means advertising throughout so be it, its a good show.

Don't think they (the networks) are not already doing this, but how many of you remember Good News Week, went from a hit on the ABC to a flop within weeks on commerctail TV, and now the former host can be seen hosting a ballroom dancing show lmao

XAGSV8 · 02-11-2006, 08:42 AM

I hope the Chasers are not next.

4.9 EF Futura · 02-11-2006, 11:22 AM

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Originally Posted by fmc351

Im so glad the Diggers and ANZACS fought for this to happen.

How dare you compare the ANZACS to a decision surrounding a TV show. What a disgraceful thing to say. Seriously mate - that is sickening stuff.

And i must commend all participants on the thread for a great job in oversimplifying the matter. C'mon - i know you guys are media watch fans, surely you're aware of the bias issues that are currently a hot topic down at the public broadcaster.

And so they should be.

I know what you're thinking - here comes 4.9 EF to defend the government. That's not what im getting at here, believe it or not. I never liked the presenters on GH, but loved the satire and the jokes - yes, the jokes at the government's expense.

The government doesnt have a problem with the public broadcaster having a lend. Just look at the chaser - they're pretty popular with the blue boys over in canberra. Why? Because they take the p*ss out of the ALP as well, and the greens, democrats and independents.

It's balanced.

The glasshouse is not. Sorry - was not. You could not look me in the internet-eye and tell me that there was not a severe skew towards taking the p*ss out of conservatives.

That's not a problem in itself. What is a problem is the one-sidedness of it all. A strongly biased set of opinions has NO PLACE on the public broadcaster. It never has, and im glad the ABC are now looking a bit harder at the standards they need to adhere to. It is SO important that the public broadcaster maintain an appropriate bias, i dont know if i can stress that enough.

Hahaha, and as for corin grant... well considering the content of the show, i think that is the most disgusting conflict of interest in the media right now. Even rupert himself would have cringed at the idea. She is on record as having an anti-howard agenda, let alone being the face of the ACTU's campaign.

And when was the last time we saw the glasshouse having a lend of the ACTU?

Balanced? Yeah right.

It's not about pollies getting their knickers in a knot. It's not about penalising an ACTU representative. Its about the standards of the public broadcaster. The ABC is not a tool for political aganda.

max · 02-11-2006, 11:24 AM

Yeah the heats getting too much for the feds. Oh brother! Remember the sedition laws– they said comedy/satire will be immune. Simple enough though to axe their precieved notion of it off the main socio-political humour crucible in the country– the ABC! The commercial networks won't have the guts to take it on.

TS50 · 02-11-2006, 11:27 AM

I think what he was trying to say is that Diggers and the Anzac fought to keep us free, and that includes freedom of speech. That is the way I took, and cant see how any offense is implied

4.9 EF Futura · 02-11-2006, 11:33 AM

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Originally Posted by TS50

I think what he was trying to say is that Diggers and the Anzac fought to keep us free, and that includes freedom of speech. That is the way I took, and cant see how any offense is implied

This is not an issue of freedom of speech.

TS50 · 02-11-2006, 11:36 AM

I disagree, a show like the Glasshouse, like it or not, is a satire show, it is a freedom of speech.

4.9 EF Futura · 02-11-2006, 11:44 AM

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Originally Posted by TS50

I disagree, a show like the Glasshouse, like it or not, is a satire show, it is a freedom of speech.

Agreed.

But it's not "anti-anyone" comments that has been the show's demise. It's the lack of balance. There is a difference between freedom of speech and a political agenda.

The ABC is funded by left wing, right wing and middle of the road taxpayers. There is absolutely no place for anyone on the ABC to have a specific political agenda.

No taxpayer - and therefore funder of the ABC - should feel alienated when watching the programming. I would be just as critical of the Glasshouse if it had an anti-ALP skew.

The Chaser is a model of balanced political satire.

4.9 EF Futura · 02-11-2006, 12:27 PM

FYI guys, Wil's article in full:

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegrap...001031,00.html

Must have written that before we went to the ALP fundraiser last night

max · 02-11-2006, 02:15 PM

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Originally Posted by TS50

I disagree, a show like the Glasshouse, like it or not, is a satire show, it is a freedom of speech.

Yep. of course it is!

flappist · 02-11-2006, 02:42 PM

Well I am a little bit annoyed that it has been axed. Not for political reasons, as many of you have worked out, I personally am very evenly balanced politically, I don't care WHO shoots left wingers ar even if they are stabbed or electrocuted.

The Glass House had many funny people on it and yes their agenda was grossly biassed to port but then that is not new. Remember "Australia, you're standing in it" or how about Redgum or Midnight Oil. I used to laugh at their jokes because that is what they are, jokes, funny things, you the great Australian tradition of sledging.

If they were canned by the ABC and they do in fact have a viable audience then we will see them again somewhere else.

Actually a long pondered question of mine has been answered here. Corrine Grant is fairly good looking, sounds fairly intelligent and seems to have a reasionable personality why is she single? Why would she not be swept away by any one of the thousands of hard working decent single Aussie blokes out there? 4.9 EF Futura, thanks for the answer.

Freedom of speech is an interesting concept. If all speech is free and I own a TV network it should be ok for me to tell the whole world that you are a terrorist, paedophile, wobber, wapist and pickpocket (welease wodger).
Freedom of speech is the same as Truth isn't it?
Now I think about it, probably not such a good idea maybe.

Freedom of speech is a good idea when all are equal and you are PERSONALLY liable for your actions and that is NEVER going to happen in this country.

Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what is for dinner.
Freedom, Liberty & Equality are when the sheep has a gun.

TS50 · 02-11-2006, 02:45 PM

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Originally Posted by flappist

Actually a long pondered question of mine has been answered here. Corrine Grant is fairly good looking, sounds fairly intelligent and seems to have a reasionable personality why is she single? Why would she not be swept away by any one of the thousands of hard working decent single Aussie blokes out there? 4.9 EF Futura, thanks for the answer.

Havent you heard her laugh?

just kidding