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ABC1 Videos: Chaser's War

This Week in Current Affairs: 11th April

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This week’s lesson: Humiliation

I’m the treasurer of the Pussycat Dolls fan club

Blame, dignity and a little incest, all in a days fun for the Chaser. Their continued and brutal attacks on A Current Affair and Today Tonight undermine the entire genre and with special appearances from Chas’ parents, some of the funniest five minutes on television.

Catch the whole show from the Chaser’s website or through their iTunes link.

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ABC1 Videos: Chaser's War

The World According to Fox News

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The Chaser no doubt still have years of parody to get out of Today Tonight and A Current Affair, but I guess there is no time like the present to go after the mother ship of questionable journalism… Fox News Channel (and by association; Chuck Norris).

With cameos from Kerry O’Brien and Monica Attard, its enough to make any ABC geek giddy, and probably explains further why the show is such a hit with those snobby, wealthy, educated or employed OG1 + 2 demographics (ie. you and me, the definition is pretty broad).

Tonights episode is already available for legit download here.

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ABC1 Videos: Chaser's War

This Week in Current Affairs: 28th March

Update: Ratings are in, they nearly doubled last years viewing average.

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The Chaser’s War on Everything returned last night, and while I can tell you it beat out House, Cold Case and Heroes in Canberra, you’ll have to wait for someone else to tell you how it did in metro Australia, but I think its fair to say it probably did pretty well.

It was a complete return to form, and my favourite of all segments, What have we learned from Current Affairs this Week was just brilliant, with a special tribute to Naomi.

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ABC1 Ten Network Videos: Chaser's War

Sorry Ten, you’ve been Chaser’d.

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Ten’s new idents got a serving last night for their love of imported content.

Download last nights entire episode right now from the ABC here.

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ABC1 Videos: Idents

The ABC goes cross platform: Arts.

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Another of the cross-platformers, this time promoting ABC online, radio and television for you lovers of art. Crikey has picked up on the ABC’s high level of self promotion these days;

There’s nothing new here, even if it does make listening/watching/surfing the ABC feel like you’re in an Escher drawing

I don’t see a problem with it though, its certainly better then advertising. Check out the rest of the cross platformers (news, kids and science) here.

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ABC1 Videos: Chaser's War

The Chaser’s war on.. Iceland and Iraq

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Continuing with the rental of the world’s cheapest billboard gag that started on the Chaser’s website, the ABC has turned them into some coming soons for the show, which if you didn’t know already returns March 28th at 9pm.

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ABC1 Videos: Chaser's War

The Chaser’s War.. staler then ever.

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If the details of the press release, the countdown to the countdown or the hilarious rental of the world’s cheapest billboards haven’t quenched your thirst for new Chaser stuff, then maybe this promo for the new series will.

For some of the best bits from last year, check out the Videos: Chaser’s War category of this blog, and in case you forgot, it returns Wednesday the 28th of March at 9pm to the ABC.

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ABC1 Videos: Chaser's War

The Chaser’s War returns to the ABC.

Wednesday the 28th of March at 9pm.. keep reading for the full press release.

Update: The promotion continues with a countdown and the hilarious purchase of some of the world’s cheapest billboards.

Continue reading “The Chaser’s War returns to the ABC.”
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ABC1 Videos: Idents

The genres of the ABC: National News

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The first new addition to the awesome ABC1 “genres” collection since it launched earlier this year is a National variant on the already existing International version relating to the ABC’s news services.

Its great to see such sensitivity being taken with the expansion of this collection, each one of the now six idents is brilliantly executed, and they haven’t rushed to make a thousand different versions, the quality is great and I look forward to seeing what the next addition will be. (I’m still gunning for a “there’s more to.. podcasting”, something to play at the start of all their downloadable content).

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ABC1 ABC2 Videos: Idents

The ABC goes cross platform, and a little yellow.

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Thanks to this comment from Sam at zspace I’m able to clear up some self induced confusion. The above three idents are part of a new Cross Platform collection created for the ABC, and are separate to the now christened “Genre” collection (still my favourite Australian idents).

All round brilliant stuff from both collections, and the best the ABC has looked in my (albeit short) living memory. And, if there’s anymore to come they’ll end up on this post.