MEDIAWATCH: AM Show vs TVNZ Breakfast post John Campbell

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It’s been pretty depressing over at TVNZ Breakfast since John left.

If you like to start your day in a grieving, mournful kinda way, then it’s the TV for you.

Jenny-May looks like she weeps before the show starts each morning, Matty still has that ‘where’s Dad’ stunned look on his face and Indira is not very endearing, she still looks like the entire show is beneath her and seems confused why she wasn’t appointed host after having put up with a white male for so long.

John was such a spectacular broadcaster that he lifted everyone and his leaving has left such an enormous hole in the show it feels like the wreck of the Titanic.

A ghostly, rudderless State funded behemoth that is as cold as it is unfeeling, just like Seven Sharp but not as smug.

Over at the AM, it’s a slightly different problem.

I think Ryan Bridge is a uniquely talented Broadcaster who has that super power of listening to an answer and responding in real time to that answer. He is one of the very few Broadcasters in NZ where I actually learn something new during his interviews and he makes the AM show a must watch.

Unfortunately the AM is now chasing a female audience so Ryan has to share interview duties with Melissa Chan-Green, now while that is disappointing from a journalistic point of view, I’ve really warmed to Melissa as a interviewer because some mornings you don’t want to be reasonable and you just want to have a fight.

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And Melissa is just spectacular at that.

Talking over guests, angrily demanding answers to questions that you already know the answer to, the passive aggressiveness of it all, it’s just a hot mess of anger and I LOVE IT!

While you will NEVER learn ANYTHING from a Melissa Chan-Green interview, the argument and fight is glorious.

Bernadine Oliver-Kerby has some interesting points to make as well while dear William Wairua looks as lost and lonely as Matty does.

So the AM Show actually has a lot going for it, right up until they start doing that fucking banter. Individually, and when they are on task, the AM Show is smart and fun, when they start bantering however, it’s a voyage into tedious mediocrity.

At least once a show as I zone in and out of their twaddle, I ask myself, ‘why the bloody hell am I listening to this shit’ and reach for the remote to flick back to the 7 days of State mourning over at TVNZ  and remember, ‘oh that’s right, it’s marginally better than this lonely sadness’.

I’m no TV guru, but you shouldn’t be asking ‘why the bloody hell am I listening to this shit’ more than once a month.

Breakfast’s new host, Kamahl Santamaria, joins this week and he will try to cheer up TVNZ but it will feel like a sitcom that has suddenly had its lead die unexpectedly.

Meanwhile The Working Group is now the number 1 weekly political podcast in NZ!

What’s Tova doing over at Today FM?

 

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29 COMMENTS

    • Agree, the weather guy on TV3 is a complete waste of wage, I’m not sure if the ‘dumb’ is real or put on but it really needs to end

  1. Thank you Martyn for your services to broadcasting for actually taking the time to sit through this tripe, it must have been taxing and in possible need of counselling afterwards.

    But seriously, it’s obvious the target market is mum’s with kids who turn the TV on trying to organize the kids in the mornings, and female pensioners. All while trying to tick every race, gender, sexual orientation box as possible.

    BTW John Campbell to the left is what Mike Hosking is to the right. I find John ‘wetter than a fishes wet bits’ (apologies to Rowan Atkinson)

  2. Our breakfast shows are now truly awesome viewing, because they are ethnically perfect. The fact that they lack any personality and are about as banal as the TellyTubbies makes no difference whatsoever. As directed and prescribed by the new woke charters… german accent now…YUU VILL ENJOI ZE BREKFIST SHOW OR ELZ!

  3. ” ‘why the bloody hell am I listening to this shit’ ”

    Watching and listening led me to the same conclusion several years ago ” I got this and I have the power ” …to turn it off permanently several years ago and by reading your comments Bomber it was the correct decision and the right one.

    Television in general and its excuse for current affairs stopped informing me and educating me when it became just like the rest of the country and let the corporates take over. It stopped the proud tradition of honest fact based news , no bias and real human interest stories including even ones about the plight of many under market economic policies.

    A lot of people were rightly concerned about an attack on free speech but what about our right to un censored news and a truly independent media that report what’s real not just what our overseas allies and corporates tell us what we can watch and hear.

    And TVNZ who took it upon themselves to interfere with biased news and interviews with obvious anti left sentiment. Talking and representing the views of only one section of the population and to hell with the rest !
    Jessica Much McKay their political editor was in no doubt where her political sympathies lay when she infamously said and I quote ” I don’t think your criticism of the National party is fair ” in response to Adern and Davis holding the former government to account.

    It took the internet and the TDB and its contributors to fill the void and thank Christ for that Bomber.

  4. They should go back to the old days when tv wasn’t 24/7.

    Try broadcasting from 5pm to 12 midnight.

    That’ll save the taxpayers some change?

      • Not good enough

        They need to include a disabled person in a wheelchair and someone transgender or I will carry on with my boycott of that white supremacist TV show

        No need to have any more intellectually retarded people though: the show is already full of them so thats a bonus

      • ‘The current show teams are all better than the grumpy old raving right wing tory men (and woman) who are slowly being lost thru moderisation – do you remember Banks, Plunket, Garner, Williams, and Bruce Russell (with respect to his excellent Saturday night show “In my day”). The new morning show’s host Kamahl” is a professional like Melissa so he will bring some credibility to the show. Campbell was too big for the morning show and wish him well with new career.

  5. I haven’t bothered to get a tv since coming back in 2020.. Watched my sisters tv for about 2 weeks, and then realised that I was better informed when I didn’t watch it.. NZ tv is actually several levels below Australian TV, and that is a damning assessment, as Ozzy tv is crap as a rule, but you can still find something amusing to watch.. It’s just wall to wall dross and political drivel that we should have grown out of by the time we got to high school..

  6. On Tuesday the am show and all right wing media (Tory talk ZB, Tory times herald, tv1 & 3, MSM,) were hi-jacked by the dirty politics brigade with regards the MIQ issue. I understand Bridge who is incompetent and dumb being caught up but I’m surprised Melissa was unprofessional in following the NATZ dirty politics and Luxon line that MIQ should be opened in December. Graham Lowe exposed them both when he responded that there must be more to the report than what we have heard. Later on Melissa confessed that the report recommended that a process be put in place and that MIQ be opened up in the new year. This is what happened. The am show then went further when they brought Bellis in to talk about MIQ and then went to their correspondent in Singapore to talk about Jacinda’s successful visit but instead talked about MIQ. Obviously the Dirty Politics team also instructed the right wingers not to report favourably on Jacinda’s visit. The winner here was Jacinda and Labour. The losers were Dirty Politics, right wing media, am show.

    • Relentlessly knocking our PM and her delegation is nothing less than treason. The NZ media should be ashamed of the way they are reporting on our trade delegation, not only to NZ but to foreign news outlets all around the world. I am disgusted with almost all of the so-called news here and stopped watching the Natz paid-for propaganda. Dirty politics is alive and on the rise leading up to next years election.

    • Relentlessly knocking our PM and her delegation is nothing less than treason. The NZ media should be ashamed of the way they are reporting on our trade delegation, not only to NZ but to foreign news outlets all around the world. I am disgusted with almost all of the so-called news here and stopped watching the Natz paid-for propaganda. Dirty politics is alive and on the rise leading up to next years election.

  7. Ryan Bridge is a muppet, he doesn’t allow the people he interviews to answer without interruption. He is also clearly right wing, a man (loosely) in the same mold as Hosking!

  8. Agree, the weather guy on TV3 is a complete waste of wage, I’m not sure if the ‘dumb’ is real or put on but it really needs to end

  9. Well our whanau loves William Wairua & that’s why we watch the AM show!. He is the man! He should be given a raise! Melissa is a pro! So Kool calm & collected! One for the whanau I say!!!!

  10. Yeah Julz, we always watched TV one breakfast but since William Wairua has come on the am show, that’s us every morning, their a cool team

    • I enjoy Wiremu especially his reporting from all over Aotearoa and meeting the locals. Better than listening to Bridge’s Natz party political broadcasts and his interviews with his friend Chris. Ryan looks a nerd and real boring conservative tory with his haircut – the best thing Ryan can do is reinstate his man bun.

  11. ‘The current show teams are all better than the grumpy old raving right wing tory men (and woman) who are slowly being lost thru moderisation – do you remember Banks, Plunket, Garner, Williams, and Bruce Russell (with respect to his excellent Saturday night show “In my day”). The new morning show’s host Kamahl” is a professional like Melissa so he will bring some credibility to the show. Campbell was too big for the morning show and wish him well with new career.

  12. You entirely capture my response to TV breakfast programmes — warm, meaningless urine all over us. Prefer the near jokes of National Radio’s morning programme. Long been tired of Campbell however — warmth and rightness over communication. A direct response to the dear Kim Hill.

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