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CibbuanoFrontline - This Night of Nights
March 16th 2007 00:00
Episode: 1.13 ‘This Night of Nights’
What Happens: A charity organization asks the media not to do a story that could affect donations, Frontline has trouble adhering to the voluntary media blackout… meanwhile, Mike gears up to give out an award at the Logies.
The Issues/Cliches of Current Affairs television: Breaking a media blackout. Logie night.
Elliot-Watch:
MIKE MOORE: (laughs) Treading on some toes there! He’s done it again, Friday night funnyman Elliot Rhodes.
Celebrities: Ben Elton, Anne Fullwood and Bert Newton all appear. We see various female celebrities as Mike goes through his telephone number collection trying to get a date to the Logies… Helen Welling, Nicky Buckley, Amanda Keller, Jo-Beth Taylor and Liz Hayes all appear. Lots of footage is shown of the real Logies, with Mike Moore shown getting amongst it on the red carpet. He is shown mingling awkwardly with the kids from ‘Hey Dad!’ and both Ray Martin and Stan Grant appear in passing (Stan Grant in particular looks really excited to be talking to Mike Moore). Mike Munro is shown presenting an award for which Frontline is nominated.
Celebrity mentions: None are mentioned that don’t actually appear.
Quotes:
MARTIN DI STASIO: Bloody do-gooders… they give ya decent story and the take it away.
OTHER JOURNALIST: Yeah, I’d already thought of a headline – ‘Street Aid, Cheat Aid’.
(After announcing that Frontline is nominated for a Logie)
BRIAN: Before you get too carried away, I gotta warn ya that commercial networks never win this category, they usually go to someone like Dateline, Lateline, or Crapline. But… just in case we do, someone has to make an acceptance speech.
MARTIN DI STASIO: Well, Brooke presented the piece.
BROOKE: It was your idea, you did the initial research so…
MARTIN DI STASIO: Alright, I’ll accept it.
BROOKE: Hang on! I was the presenter!
BRIAN: That’s the trouble with these shows… you spend all night trying to remember everybody’s name.
MARTIN DI STASIO: Simple solution – you call everyone ‘mate’.
(Everyone laughs and agrees)
MARTIN DI STASIO: Everyone does it, can’t remember your name, see ya – maaaaate.
DOM: It works.
STU: Well, I’m outta here – mate.
MIKE MOORE: (spots Bert Newton in shopping centre) Bert! Bert.
BERT NEWTON: Oh, hi.
MIKE MOORE: How’s it going?
BERT NEWTON: Just great, thanks.
MIKE MOORE: Looking forward to the Logies?
BERT NEWTON: Oh, certainly am, yeah.
MIKE MOORE: Well, I’ve just been doing some shopping for it.
BERT NEWTON: Yeah.
MIKE MOORE: Well, I better get going – lovely to see you Bert.
BERT NEWTON: Yeah, good to see you… mate.
BROOKE: I still feel completely ill.
MARTIN DI STASIO: My heart bleeds for you.
BROOKE: Why did you let me drink so much at the Logies?
MARTIN DI STASIO: Cause you wanted to forget that Mike was your date.
BROOKE: Oh my god, don’t remind me, people saw us talking in together – I feel sick.
(Dom picks a Logie up off the office table)
DOM: Hey, I thought we didn’t win a Logie?
MARTIN DI STASIO: Oh Christ! (Remembering) I nicked it off the 4 Corners table. Ollie’s gonna kill me.
BROOKE: Marty!
MARTIN DI STASIO: Negus made me do it!
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