A derisive response generated by the ugly blending of two or more distinct words.
Example: football + entertainment = footbotainment.
Was footbotainment invented by an Age or Channel Seven work experience kid? Some ports work, some don't, footbotainment doesn't.
Nor is footbotainment merely an ugly word, it's also an ugly genre. Extensive investigation undertaken by the AGB R&D department has revealed that for every successful footbotainment show, there are 123 rancid failures.
Richard Hinds eleborates, somewhat:
Risky business
IT SAYS something about Channel Seven's somewhat strange recent programming priorities that it plans to show the first instalment of its new "footbotainment" show The Bounce at 7.30pm on Wednesday - 70 minutes earlier than it deigns to screen the Friday night games from which it derives some of its hopefully thigh-slapping material.
For some reason, the picture at the top of the following article does not fill me with optimism. Debi Enker filters Seven's press release:
Taking a punt at the big league
CHANNEL Seven's first prime-time footy show in more than a decade kicks off on Wednesday at 7.30pm. But before the first official Bounce, the rules are being fine-tuned for its newly assembled team of television players.
Even the name of the show, The Bounce, leaves me feeling queasy; evoking, as it does, Foxtel's horrendous Before The Bounce. BTB started off with good intentions, but in the last twelve months has been reeking a similar reek to the corpse of Seven's late, but not lamented Live and Kicking.
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