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CibbuanoFrontline - The Invisible Man
March 2nd 2007 05:25
Episode: 1.9 ‘The Invisible Man’
What Happens: Mike worries about having a low profile and goes to Perth to do a telethon. Meanwhile, Brooke puts a controversial and sensationalist hidden-camera-in-change-room story to air.
The Issues/Cliches of Current Affairs television: Secret filming. Hidden camera catching thieves out.
Elliot-Watch:
MIKE MOORE: (laughs) He gets better and better. Elliot Rhodes with perhaps our new national anthem, ‘The Buckingham Blues’.
Celebrities: Jane Hall, Terry Watson, Bud Tingwell and Pete Smith all appear at the telethon.
Celebrity mentions: Princess Fergie.
Quotes:
MIKE MOORE: (proudly) You know how many times I was recognised in the supermarket the other day?
GEOFF: Uh, ten?
MIKE MOORE: (taken aback) No, twice.
GEOFF: Well… that’s a lot.
GEOFF: I hate all this publicity too. I mean, I said to the news director, the day I started here, I said ‘Hey, I’m a TV personality five days a week. The other two days – I’m a private person’.
(On showing bare breasts of women who have been secretly filmed)
MARTIN DI STASIO: We could do a wipe over their norgs, or that digital effect thing – you know, you squint and…
EMMA: Marty, Marty, Marty – hang on. Can you imagine how humiliating it would be for a woman to know her breasts have been seen by half he country?
(On Mike allowing a newspaper to take a ridiculous photo of him)
BRIAN: “C’mon just one more photo to finish the film, we’ll send it to you for a laugh”
MIKE MOORE: (surprised) Yeah, that’s what they said!
BRIAN: C’mon Mike, you’ve been around too long to fall for that sort of shit.
MIKE MOORE: Well, it’s publicity.
BRIAN: So’s getting arrested.
JAN: What about the charity angle then? He does sponsor a child.
BRIAN: He never told me that.
JAN: Oh, he doesn’t know. We do it automatically at this network. Everybody does.
MIKE MOORE: Oh Brian, they’ve been phoning all morning, Brooke’s story’s really got us into some hot water with complaints… aren’t you worried?
BRIAN: They’re watching.
MIKE MOORE: (reading complaint transcript) “I will not be watching Frontline again”.
BRIAN: They’re the ones who tune in first, wanting to be outraged.
ASIAN TAXI DRIVER: So, you work for TV?
MIKE MOORE: Ah yes, yes I do.
ASIAN TAXI DRIVER: What do you do?
MIKE MOORE: I work on a show called Frontline.
ASIAN TAXI DIVRER: Oh yes. What do you do on it?
MIKE MOORE: I’m the host.
ASIAN TAXI DRIVER: Host?
MIKE MOORE: How long have you been in this country?
ASIAN TAXI DRIVER: Eighteen years.
MIKE MOORE: (pauses) I think we better get to the airport.
KATE: Great outfit Brooke… did they give you that to keep?
BROOKE: In return for giving up myself – it was a charity event.
MIKE MOORE: I did a charity event, all I got is yelled at by Brian.
BROOKE: Yeah I didn’t make an idiot of myself Mike.
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