Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation - Awesome show, crap name

Does anyone here (in Australia) watch Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation? It's AWESOME! Baby Boomers, Generation X and Gen Y thrown against each other for a fun panel show.

Shaun Micalef's hosting skills are amazing, and I reckon the whole success of the show is because of him. XD

What do you guys think of the show?

 

Jogh Thomas is hot. XD A few episodes ago he was wearing very tight jeans and bent over.. He has a very nice ass.

Shaun Micalef is just plain hilarious. I love his dry sense of humour and how he's so satrical of the show he hosts. When he refuses to say "What's a Doodle Do?" I always laugh, and the phone linked to the producers on the set is hilarious!

And yes, Gen Y are very embarrassing.. At home I'm always screaming out the right answers to the TV.

 

Here's a couple of vids.. One from the "end game" which is the final round where the teams have to do a physical task. By the way if you didn't see the entire episode the jokes about Enya and Shaun's dream might not make a lot of sense. XD

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And here's another one I found which was pretty funny.

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They are! I did some googling around and apparently TEN have been beating Nine for the past few weeks in ratings which is kinda sad really.

 

Well it's not just Big Brother, they've had success with a lot of their shows this year. So You Think You Can Dance Australia went OK this year considering the competition, Bondi Rescue went MUCH better this year compared to the Bali version of last year, Bondi Vet went pretty good (Dr. Chris Brown.. So hot), Good News Week is getting its best ratings ever this year, Lie to Me developed a very strong following which stuck with the show in the weeks when there were delays in receiving the episodes from the US, MasterChef Australia developed into an INSANE phenomenon across the country (and ironically enough most people in the entertainment industry thought it would flop), Merlin was another suprise hit, NCIS has been getting its best ratings EVER this year, Recruits was also another quiet performer for them, Rove struggled for the first part of the year, but since Dance Australia has finished he's returned to his glory days of ratings, Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation is another example of a new hit show, The Biggest Loser this year yet again went extremely well for TEN (isn't it funny how we went from 7PM weeknights seeing fatties loosing weight to now at 7PM weeknights we have people cooking fattening food for fat judges? XD), and TEN News is also another one of their quiet performers.

The big thing though is that their top shows comprise nearly all of LOCALLY PRODUCED SHOWS. Australians are sick of seeing trashy US imports! Yes, they're very expensive to make but we like them more (for example, Canal Road (a Melbourne-based drama Nine comissioned last year) was estimated to cost approximately $1.1million per episode, when most shows of the genre are only about $500,000 an episode).

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Yeah All Saints' axing was pretty sad, but it's struggling to rate as well as it used to thanks to stiff competition from TEN on Tuesdays, and they needed to cut down costs. Originally it was going to be cut down to 22 or so eps a year from 40, but sadly they just decided to end it entirely. Still, 11 years on air is a pretty darn good run, and 1.2 million viewers is pretty good in my opinion for a show that's lasted so long.
I would've liked to see Seven try a different day to air All Saints (such as the wasteland that is Thursday and Friday, though the prior is going to get interesting soon with Rush, TV Burp and Double Take airing soon).

The 7PM Project looks really interesting! I've been waiting for it since it was first speculated so long ago. If it goes well for TEN this year they're going to make it a year-long program and move The Biggest Loser and MasterChef to 7:30PM weeknights.

I was a bit unsure of MasterChef and Merlin as well. I knew MasterChef would definitely develop a cult following, just one of about 2 MILLION viewers each Sunday and between 1.4-1.8 million weeknights (according to the Herald Sun I believe) is insane, considering it's got a pretty piss poor leadin from Neighbours which has not gotten over a million viewers since the night of The Biggest Loser finale.

Nine is definitely in a ditch. Nine News is dying and their audience is flocking to Seven News, ACA is holding up, but sadly it's generally their top show of the night.. Which is sad. And Two and a Half Men is coming FOURTH in its timeslot quite reguarly now against the ABC!
Nine have relied on the success of one or two shows/franchises for too long (Two and a Half Men, Underbelly, Gordon Ramsay, etc) and it's finally starting to catch up with them.
homeMADE completely failed for them. And now that it's finished, guess what they're slating in the high traffic 7:30PM Tuesday timeslot? Some stupid US show called "Dance Your Ass Off" where a bunch of fatties loose weight by dancing for an audience and set of judges. Ick.