Thursday, July 17, 2008

BBBA's newest "good friend"

After eight solid years of incessant Mike Goldman bashing - including yet another attempt this year to whip up anti-Goldman sentiment - today BBBA has the absolute gall to post this duplicitous smarm after Mikey posted on his blog he may not be involved with the Big Brother finale:

”After eight years of service to the show - including Daily Show narration, Uplate hosting, Friday Night Live hosting, crowd warm-ups and no doubt countless hours behind the scenes, we would have expected Mike would have received some special treatment.”

What boldfaced hypocrites. They trashed Mike at every opportunity and they know it. Next we’ll be hearing how much they’re going to miss Fitzy.

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

The Deludeanoids* finally come out of the closet

It just gets funnier.

Now Behind Big Brother would have us believe they have exclusive access to Channel Seven's executive boardroom:

"We’re told that executives at the network are extremely interested in negotiating with Southern Star Endemol the possibility of locking in the show for 2009 and/or beyond. The meetings this morning included discussions on the highest possible price the network could bid for the show, potential hosts and producers, possible audience loss/gain and other minor details."

So?? Come on, don't keep us waiting! What's the figure? I mean, surely whoever took notes on the hosts had enough smarts to jot down Seven's dollar value on the program? Wouldn't they?

Even more laughatable:

"The Seven Network and Network Nine both declined to give Behindbigbrother any official comment."

Well, duuuh. What pinhead over there thought they actually would?

Meantime, Seven were speaking to Nine:

"The answer is a flat no," (Channel Seven) network spokesperson Simon Francis said.

"We have no interest whatsoever."


* Deludeanoid: Someone who lives more in their dreams and imagination than in reality.

Monday, July 14, 2008

Insider suicide

Remember this little tantrum just a few months ago? The boys stomping their feet and hollering Hey! NO FAIR! No-fair-no-fair-no-fair-NO-FAIR!

"The WA arm of news.com.au, PerthNow, has broken the standard same-day media embargo and given out details about tomorrow’s three gatecrashers."

Kinda funny, then, when they themselves stumble upon an embargoed press release announcing the end of Big Brother Australia, all that indignant outrage flies out the window:

“… (the) news will be released by Channel Ten at midnight tonight.”

Now despite the hypocrisy of it all, you would think the little tykes would have enough sense to just post the news, sit back, shut up and let everything roll. But no. Someone just had to add one more little bite in an attempt to perpetuate that Super Duper Super Secret Insider myth:

“News filtering through that it could actually be up to two years before a BB revival is made.”

The actual news?

“The show… will be put on the market by the production company Southern Star Endemol after it wraps up on July 21.”

But of course all those potential bidders – if any – were immediately "filtering through" their plans direct to BBBA.

Or not.

Looking really, really stupid, much?