Thanks for putting up your reply Carlisle,
xcvator,
This is mostly in response to your message, but I'm going to throw it out there for everyone.
The good old days are the good old days because, and this is an important distinction, they don't exist any more.
If someone showed up to the offices of any network television station with a tape looking anything like Malcolm Douglas' material, they would be at best ignored, but more than likely laughed out of the building.
Always good to get both sides of the discussion, but I think you missed the point I, and others are trying to make ,is that they used a tried and tested format that worked then and still does, of course the material would have to be updated and presented in a more professional , slicker way
. If I travelled to most of the places he travelled with his trusty dog, and dared take a dog with me, we would both be kicked out without warning by some zealous ranger.
Lots of other people travell to those places WITHOUT a dog
Without commercial sponsors, there can be no production. Your favourite movies all have Coca-Cola, cigarettes, clothing and all of the ephemera of daily life carefully placed into the hands of the actors - this is part of how they fund the form, which you still have to pay to see.
Yes, I fully realize that you need/must have sponsorship, but how far do you think a movie would get if the leading actor took a swig of coca cola and then did a 10 minute promo/info with the ceo of cocacola/amital and then went back to the movie script.
Fine to include the products/logos in passing, like lifting the car bonnet up to fill the radiator up and showing the "redarc"products or the "glind" shower and giving them a
quick mention BUT we don't want to see a 10 minute interveiw with the owner of Redarc products espousing his products .
Sure use ARB products, have their stickers plastered all over everything, say you're using their stuff, when you're actually using it, but don't gone on and on and on and on and on and on about it.
THAT'S what the ad breaks are for.
Pat Callinan has managed to get 4WDing onto network television for the first time in decades, albeit on a Saturday afternoon. The boys from All4Adventure, despite their down home credibility, same slot.
When 4WD Touring Australia gets a free-to-air slot, I doubt they will be placing us on Tuesday nights at 8pm as we will be soon on Foxtel again.
Guess you will have to work on the squeaky wheel syndrome there
No, prime time has no place for us, and it is not our fault
Sorry have to disagree on this, look at some of the other travel shows time slots and quality shows will get the air time. The more ads you build in the lower the quality of the content, the lower quality is then reflected in the network rejections
The shows that I and my colleagues make represent an alternative to the drivel of prime-time television. The problem isn't that we are commercially hungry - it is that 90% of viewers would rather watch My Kitchen Rules.
I'd almost bet my left nut that the majority of viewers are heartily sick of "reality " tv shows
The other point that is being made is it's not just your show Carlisle that we're talking about, there are 2 or 4 fishing shows that do the the same. There was a very good show with 2 blokes going fishing and camping a couple of years ago, 1 left the other carried on, bought in some people that could hardly string 2 words together, filled the show up with ads, destroyed the environment in many places and then wonder why they got a canning.
Please don't take this as a personal attack on you, it isn't, it's MY point of view as a viewer that is just fed up with what are allegedly programs but are in fact 25 minutes of infomertial and 5 minutes of quality content
There can only be 1 outcome in this scenario.
Either joe public swallows this 2nd rate stuff and it will continue to be produced
or
He can hit the "off" button ( guess what I'm doing)
ok I getting off of my soap box now
Keith
