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Eating Media Lunch

New Zealand satirical television series

Summary

New Zealand satirical television series

Field	Value
genre	News parody
creator	Jeremy Wells, Philip Smith, Paul Casserly
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presenter	Jeremy Wells
country	New Zealand
language	English
num_series	8
num_episodes	52
executive_producer	Philip Smith
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runtime	30 min (including commercials)
channel	TV2
first_aired
last_aired

Paul Casserly
Jeremy Wells
Philip Smith
Graeme Hill
Lee Baker
Steve Braunias
Wendyl Nissan
Paul Casserly
Lee Baker
Jonathan Brough
Cass Avery
Paul Casserly
Claire Logan
Phil Green
Jonathan Brough
John Cleave
Great Southern Television
TVNZ Production

Eating Media Lunch (EML) is a satirical New Zealand news show hosted by Jeremy Wells. It aired on TV2 from 2003 to 2008. The show was frequently controversial during its run.

Notable episodes

In 2005, it shocked some viewers when it depicted two newsreaders fornicating (a parody of Naked News). It frequently caused complaints to the Broadcasting Standards Authority, ranging from complaints about the show's treatment of New Zealand celebrities to complaints about an episode which showed a cat in a microwave oven (S4, E3, "Life After Death"). Producer Paul Casserly noted that portrayals of violence against animals were certain to attract complaints, such as the show which claimed to feature famous sheep Shrek being slaughtered, while the spoof Māori porn movie 'Anal Mana' saw no complaints.

Innovations

The show features a regular animated segment by Anthony Ellison titled Media Dog which was available online. Since 2004 the series had included an annual 'awards' show which "honour[s] the absurd and the unusual as seen on television, radio and newspapers" categories include: "Services to Scaremongering, Worst Moment on Reality TV, The Inappropriate Touching Award and the much coveted New Zealander of the Year trophy."

The 2006 season featured former Close Up reporter Hugh Sundae as well as Matt Heath and Chris Stapp from Back of the Y. According to TVNZ the 2006 season tackled "racism, reality TV and the country's best-known protesters".

Last season

In 2009 when TVNZ faced $25 million in budget cuts as a result of the recession and declining advertising revenue, the network made the decision not to commission a 2009 season of Eating Media Lunch.

References

"Eating Media Lunch". TVNZ. link
(2006-02-22). "TVNZ and Wolf". Broadcasting Standard Authority.
(2005-08-18). "TVNZ and Panasiuk". Broadcasting Standards Authority.
"Content may offend". [[The Press]].
"Media lunch off the telly menu". [[New Zealand Herald]]. (2009-04-05). link

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