Naomi Simson is one of Australia’s most well-known and successful entrepreneurs. She is the founder of Red Balloon (an online gift-giving service), one out of the five Sharks on Channel 10’s Shark Tank and a successful author. I have admired Naomi since first watching Shark Tank, her intelligence and passion, as well as her no-holds-barred […]
Read more "blog #80: inspecting naomi simson"Being someone who loves reality television, the focus for week 10 was reality television with a specific focus on shows such as The Bachelor, Unreal and Candid Camera. Reality television can best be described as “the ‘entertaining real’… ‘authentic’ personalities, situations, and narratives is considered to be reality TV’s primary distinction… and also its primary […]
Read more "blog #68: part one, the bachelor & dating shows"Transnational television can best be described as a concept, program or idea that takes different forms (Chalaby, 2005). Many existing formats have gone transnational and have worked: for example, cross-border satellite TV channels, international and regional news channels and joint ventures. Chalaby also infers that transnational television takes different forms (Chalaby, 2005) including the international […]
Read more "blog #67: part two, transnational programs"If someone was to ask me to record my television habits before commencing my Television Cultures course at the start of this semester, I would have given them a weird look and asked them why it was important I had done that. What I hadn’t put much thought into, which turns out to be the […]
Read more "blog #66: part three, my television habits"“It’s your winner, Australia! So jump onto your phones and text the name of the person you want to see go through to 141 300 – or now you can even vote via your laptop or iPad through the official website” is a request we’ve all heard our favourite reality show host say through our […]
Read more "blog #65: second screen"The television show Broad City is a comedy web series that aims to represent a group of people living in New York City. Broad City is loosely based around a group of twenty-somethings attempting to manoeuvre their way around love, life, careers and The Big Apple. A web series is a relatively new way of […]
Read more "blog #64: transmedia storytelling"Tonight was the premiere of Channel 9’s brand new show, adopted from the American version, called Married at First Sight. The show’s loose concept is that 3 relationship experts match couples out of a pool of around 20. The couple is then “married” in a normal ceremony, however it has now been made clear that it […]
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