Rants

1) Find a great uptempo, fun song

2) Reduce the tempo to boredom

3) Rework the arrangement to make it sound dull

4) Sing it with pitchiness

5) Hope people will want to hear another song destroyed next week

Please Australia! Send her home!!

We all know that after the much heralded success of the Australian version of The Biggest Loser in 2007, the producers of Australian Idol thought it would be a clever idea to try and align the formats by putting Idol on every night of the week.

While reducing the agonising weeks of auditions to the point where the Top 24 are announced in the span of a week has been a much welcomed change but this year has seen even closer meldings of the two formats with the introduction of plus sized people. (Or as everyone at home says in the comforts of their own homes: fat people.)

When you take a look at Chrislyn Hamilton, Brooke Schubert and Natalie Colavito, don't any alarm bells start ringing with the words "Casey Donovan"? Sure. They might be able to sing, but didn't SonyBMG drop her like she was, er, hot? If this competition is all about getting a record deal, wouldn't the smartest thing be to keep the label happy? Especially if you want them to keep taking on board your winners.

ARGHHHHHHHHH I have heard that they filmed Jack and Sam's wedding during the last week of September. THIS CAN'T BE TRUE!!!

PLEASE don't marry the most awful couple ever. Jack and Martha deserve to be together, please don't ruin my favourite couple forever!!!!!

WHO else agrees???

Serious, how wrong is it to try and smuggle heroin into the country using your children's books as a hiding place for $1.8m worth of the stuff?

How to get one's kids to resent you for the rest of your life!

Now that poppa Chen is serving 7 years in a federal prison in Australia, at least it's his family that has been broken up because of the filthy drug.

I know they like to drag these things out for the advertisers but seriously, this is insane!

Having problems at this level really isn't acceptable. Poor Aleisha and Zach who have had to sit through this while there have been some 'technical issues' with the vote count.

Unacceptable. What do you think?

A new scandal for Big Brother but this time in Australia, not the UK. The reality show knew, i repeat, knew that a contestant has miscarried, yet decided to continue with a task requiring her to keep a toy baby "alive". Such a task obviously caused Kate Gladmanm, the contestant, to break down and threaten to leave the show. How insensitive can you get??

Google.

Should we be obliged to pay for the continuation of McLeod's Daughters being filmed in South Australia? Note - the popular series will go ahead whether it is in SA or not. It seems a silly question to ask, and yet this is just the question currently under fire. The producers of the show are looking for a big Government handout and if they don't get it, then they plan to move interstate. Is this such a bad thing though? The majority of tourists would not head to Gawler (where the show is currently being produced) - few would even be aware where the set was. There doesn't seem to me to be any real benefit for keeping the show in South Australia - so should the taxpayer pay to keep it there?

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Viewers inundated Sydney radio stations with complaints about bad language, simulated sex, gross innuendo and general sub-standard behaviour with the coverage of the new year celebrations. Even worse was that the show, in the past orientated towards family viewing, failed to indicate the content that was to follow.

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Music industry icon Elton John has given prime minister a stern "up yours" when asked by Ian "Molly" Meldum what he'd say to Mr Howard about his opposition to gay marriage on Seven's sunrise.

The interview can be seen here

Home and Away's Lisa Lackey is about to star in the US hit Heroes.

Another Home and Away star, Chris Egan, stars in the new series Vanished which starts on Seven on Monday but it's already been cancelled in the US.

While I'm stoked for the Aussie actors, I hope that we don't lose all our great Home and Away stars to America.

The O.C. isn't getting a full 22 episode season this year and looks like it is going to get ditched by fox.

Save the O.C.