Here’s the ‘Coming Soon’ ad they’ve been playing on TV3:

Super choice!!

It’s just really darn good and we have become as close as is possible to being addicted to a TV show. We are about half way through series 4 and desperate to finish it before series 5 begins on TV3.

So imagine my delight when I found this yesterday:

Talk about timing! I reckon we’ll just finish Series 4 just in time… Go Westies!

Cadbury’s and Moro have done just that with their latest gem of an ad: ‘New Zealand’s 4th Favourite Bar’. It’s totally not honest (well, it could be, but for the ‘allegedly’ featured at the end of the ad), but it makes a refreshing change from bores like ‘the diamond standard’ or ‘kills 99.99% of all known germs’ (both from other choc ads!). To make matters better, it’s a really funny ad too…

Has anyone else ever surpassed your expectations with an advertisement? Anyone ever deprecated their own product in the name of sales? Comments below, please. I’d love to know…

People aren’t stressing so much about the message, but more about the stupid rumours that ‘the production team really made the boy cry by taking his mother away from him’.

MANURE!! Look at him! He’s clearly an actor. The whole thing is PR, PR and more PR! And bloody good PR too.

Toughen up, people.

Being relatively new to NZ and Jen having been in the UK for 6 years, neither of us had had the pleasure of Outrageous Fortune, until recently we were in The Warehouse and couldn’t resist handing over the $19 they were asking for Season 1. The gamble was what you might call: “WELL WORTH IT!” as, despite receiving mixed reviews amongst colleagues, we both love it.

Watching the continuous stream of troubles arriving at the door of the Wests has highlighted to me a unique way of living, which I am a strong follower of. There is no name for such ways, so I’ll simply call it ‘Watching Old TV Shows Way After They Were On The TV The First Time’. Without meaning to, I’ve always done it.

Back in the UK, I used to enjoy re-running Dragon’s Den episodes, a few years after they were first run. About 99% of South Park episodes are brand new to me; I own two whole Simpsons DVDs, of which I have seen two episodes; I love Black Books, have three seasons of it, but have only seen one; And Spaced, one of my favourite all time TV comedies, was only first watched by me in 2003 (it came out in 1999).

I have given some thought as to why I am so far behind the times and I have put it down to a couple of factors: the first was that I packed of to Uni in September 1999 and the TV reception was never close to great, so I never saw a lot of these shows first time round. The second reason is a kind of subconscious future-proofing: I am obviously scared that TV is going to suffer some massive ‘creative downturn’ (hell, some would argue it already has – eh Simon?) so am saving up as many episodes of quality programming as possible. Just in case.

I still have about four seasons worth of Outrageous Fortune episodes to work my way through, then I may just begin on Lost. Actually, I may go back and fill in my X-Files gaps first… We’ll see.