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#39099 8-Aug-2009 20:45

Thought it would be nice to have a thread for this..

Its looking good so far, top marks for using a Call Centre to handle all the calls.

I'm watching it on TV3 HD on Sky, looks like either a high bandwidth SD picture or HD coming out of Auckland but def notice the less qual from the other 2 places...but I'm just nit picking lol

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#244300 8-Aug-2009 21:22

Good on them for trying, but no where near as entertaining as the ones done by TVNZ... We could only bear to watch it for an hour.

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#244303 8-Aug-2009 21:25

It feels more like a case of they have forgotten how to do it!

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#244306 8-Aug-2009 21:52

TV3 are always so bad at doing stuff like this.

I mean, for heavens sake, they're playing a commercial break every 5 mins!

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#244308 8-Aug-2009 22:04

Got tired of it after the first 30-40 minutes.. ad breaks come thick and fast, and it seems far too scripted. Loved the bit where they had a band playing and cut the end off just to play an ad.

Jeremy Corbett is not funny :-/ Good to see Bill and Ben on there, hopefully they can save TV3's bacon. Bring on the dares!

23 hours, bunch of girls blouses, the old Telethon's use to be 48 hours and they can't even do 24 :-P

ah well off to bed, might trying watching it again tomorrow.

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#244312 8-Aug-2009 22:43

I think it's an idea that is past the used by date, didn't bother watching it.

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#244319 8-Aug-2009 23:23

i watched it for about 5 minutes, hope no one visiting the country tunes in by mistake, not a good advertisement for NZ television

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#244325 8-Aug-2009 23:49

telethon is trending at #4 on twitter at the moment

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#244330 9-Aug-2009 00:11

its made number two on trends . .

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#244335 9-Aug-2009 00:55

It's a joke. Boring, too scripted, unheard of bands and people, too many ad breaks, and pretty embarrassing when it looks like there's only a handful of people present at each location.

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#244351 9-Aug-2009 08:19

I seem to remember when SPTV and later TVNZ ran these they finished about 9.00PM Sunday evening. I see the TV3 version finishes at 6.00PM Sunday and then it's back to the dross..

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