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Sunday, November 24, 2002  

No bloggage yesterday or today, but couldn't let today slip by without noting this:

Channel 9 is set to axe Mike Munro as compere of A Current Affair in a major revamp of the program designed to take it up-market.
The network is courting investigative reporters Paul Barry and Ellen Fanning to work for a new hard-hitting nightly current affairs half hour.
Former ACA host Ray Martin is expected to be sitting in Munro's chair as soon as December2. It was not clear last night whether Martin will anchor the new-style program permanently.
The move comes as no surprise to insiders who say that recently Kerry Packer has been a vocal critic of his network's "soft" current affairs treatment.
A philosophical Munro told The Sun-Herald he had not been informed of his impending demise but said: "If it is true, I'd be the last to know, wouldn't I?"

I can't bring myself to feel sorry for the guy somehow, especially since he's not actually out of work with the station as a whole (still got a year of his contract to run and This Is Your Life to host). He was a slimy bastard hosting a cheap and nasty show catering to a denominator that was as low and common as they could manage, and all I can really is say is good riddance to him and his fucking smug cunt face in the promos for the program. Although I can't help feeling the return of Ray Martin will necessarily make things much better; ACA was, I think, starting to drift downwards at the end of his tenure already, and anyway I fear he's become too much of a fluff presenter with celebrity things like Ray Martin Presents to look serious in that position any more. If they are letting Paul Barry be involved, let him host the bloody thing...

posted by James Russell | 9:17 PM


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