* I thought I would have a look at the Logies last night, but only because Sam Pang, whose dead pan style of humour I find quite funny, was hosting. Unfortunately, though, I missed his introductory monologue, which seems to have been well received, and switched over mid show to see him doing a protracted bit involving that old bloke from Home and Away, which seemed to be a big fail. But then again, I also saw Dave Hughes, whose routine seemed pretty dire, and once again got to wonder how such a strange looking man with a strange delivery ever managed to find a career in visual media. I probably saw about 20 minutes in total. It was not, shall we say, holding my interest.
As I watch nearly nothing on commercial free-to-air TV, that's hardly surprising. I was going to say that the industry insiders seem to lack insight into how few people really care for them (and it's always been a cringe-fest); but now that I check, there were 877,000 Australians watching it, at least at the start. (That's far more than I expected, but I would also expect there was less than half of that by the end!)
* On a more positive note - Futurama has been revived, and while it is on Hulu in the USA, here the first episode has dropped on Disney +.
I thought it was very, very good: an extremely self aware take on cancelled shows and binge watching TV. In other words, it was mocking itself in a very meta but pretty pleasing way. It seems all of the voice actors are back, and the writers, I think this episode would have pleased everyone.
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