The Nation

I sure do.

Ever notice how the under graduates that were the "D Generation"/"Late Show" have become the type of performers they themselves used to parody? Again we see it with "The Nation" and the sad plight of Mick Molloy.

After much hype, Molloy's return to regular television was disastrous for reasons seemingly obvious to everyone but Mick and the Nine Network. No wonder PBL are getting out of television! The once laconic likable larrikan with the old Holden and a pack of Winnie Blues at the ready is dead. What Molloy has become here is a dapper "media friendly" talk show host who sadly fails to display any rapport with his regular contributors and speaks with the comic timing of Prime Minister John Howard.

This show is just stale and the format is so ill conceived that it's choice of subjects for discussion fails to engage it's intended demographic. Whilst "The Chaser" can have it's disappointing moments, you're at least certain they're not going to resort to Paris Hilton impersonations! And regular Jackie O is the type of "celeb" that Molloy once would've satirised, not hang on her every word for the latest on Lindsey Lohan! Please bring back Nine's original Mick Molloy Show with the real Mick Molloy in it. I don't know who the Molloy hosting this corporate rubbish is, and I don't want to.

Week Two: Even worse

How can it be that fifty years after telly arrived on these shores we get this? You'd think the writers had never seen a television let alone watched it for a while and taken a few notes.

Constructive criticism is always better but where would you start when there's nothing about 'The Nation' that actually works? Nothing. Maybe if they changed the writers, the host, the guests, the format ....?

Credit where it's due though. Mick Molloy is a lot braver than me because I'd leave the country out of embarrassment rather than front such undigested garbage two weeks in a row, let alone twenty.

How many more "exciting new Mick Molloy projects" will there be before dopey TV execs twig to the reality that whatever promise Mick once showed, he turned out to be a very, very minor talent.