Re: Railway Adventures TV Series

[geoffrah@NOSPAMhotmail.com]

I think a lot of people are missing the point.
Yes, all readers in this newsgroup would have liked a show that was
about railway journeys and trains, and not some travel advertorial.

Unfortunately, such a program would not be attractive to TV execs
because such a program would not be attractive to advertisers  (who
ultimately finance the shows we see on TV). Hence we get the crappy
advertorial as described by the Canberra Times TV reviewer. Oh for the
days when we had a strong (and well funded !) national broadcaster
*sigh*

>The following review appearred in today's Canberra Times TV Guide, in
>relation to the above series on the Ten network, Saturdays at 7.30 pm:
>"South Australia's got so much to offer!" Scott McGregor gasps at the
>beginning of this show and creating the certainty that the South Australian
>Tourism Commission will get a great big guernsey in the closing credits.  It
>does, sharing the credit with all sorts of other tourism bodies.
>This is advertorial TV at its most naked, with, tonight, Scott presiding
>over an entertainment very thinly disguised as a show about trains and train
>travel, but, in fact, a sustained advertisement for various tourist
>destinations.