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Tash Jayasinghe
CibbuanoFrontline - The Desert Angel
February 6th 2007 12:19
Episode: 1.2 'The Desert Angel'
What Happens: A lost Australian Aid Worker is found to have survived her five-week stretch in the desert. Frontline enters a bidding war with a rival network over an exclusive interview with the so-called 'Desert Angel'. Meanwhile, Brooke gets to interview Pat Cash.
The Issues/Cliches of Current Affairs television: Sketch-show send ups. Network-poaching (Channel 9 tries to steal Mike Moore). Spoiling a rival show’s story (when you can't get an exclusive). Rumours of shagging celebrities = higher profile for Brooke.
Celebrities: Pat Cash appears.
Celebrity mentions: Kerry Packer. Ray Martin. Michael Crawford. Andrew Ettinghausen. Jeff Harding. The Woodies. Casey Kuro. Bono. Jana Wendt. Shane Warne. Dustin Hoffman. Greg Norman. Carl Lewis. Alan Jones (whose interview with Carl Lewis is referred to by Brian as ‘a flirt piece’).
Quotes:
GEOFF: (referring to a dinner) What’d you have?
MIKE MOORE: Er… roqua… rocquoff… roqu… er… salad… roquoff…
GEOFF: Caeser salad?
MIKE MOORE: Caeser salad.
MIKE MOORE: Guys! Guys! You hear Brooke’s doing Pat Cash tomorrow?
STU: I hear she’s already done him.
(They all laugh and snigger)
MIKE MOORE: (stops laughing, doesn’t understand) She hasn’t interviewed Pat Cash before.
MARTIN DI STASIO: Not so much the interview, it’s gonna be a reunion.
(Marty and Stu laugh)
MIKE MOORE: (joins in laughing, loudly) Set! Tennis set! (laughs more) Funny.
(They all stop laughing)
MIKE MOORE: We’re quite firm at Frontline. We won’t be paying people for shows.
NEIL MITCHELL: But you paid the topless hairdresser.
MIKE MOORE: Yeah, but… she gave us a haircut.
GEOFF: (on phone) No, no, I need to know whether the low pressure system is slow moving or very slow moving. It’s very important.
BRIAN: Mike, we’ve got the Desert Angel.
MIKE MOORE: For free?
BRIAN: For what we offered last… it’s ours.
MIKE MOORE: You paid!? I’ve just been on the radio saying we wouldn’t be involved in chequebook journalism!
BRIAN: Well, you’re gonna look stupid, aren’t ya?
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