Clearly, the bird has to go...

It doesn't get any more self referential than linking to your own post.

SunnyO: A no-brainer, surely?

But it occurs to me, with the weight of their audience entirely against a silly idea, the only thing left for Radio NZ to do is send the bird the way of Wayne Mowatt.

Does anyone remember a truly brilliant TV programme called Friday Night? Must have been on in the late 80s. On... Friday night oddly enough.

It was a - I don't know the technical term for it, which no doubt will exclude me from ever producing a TV show - a show which contained other shows within it.

A brilliant & funny guy called Alistair Kincaid fronted it & he & his co-hosts would tour the country in a beat up old station wagon (which was the prize in a competition of some sort), looking for, amongst other things, the best fish & chip shop in the country.

It also presented such overseas produced programmes as Red Dwarf, Jane (1940s period comedy in which the hottie heroine is engineered into situations where her clothes fall off), and several others.

it was smart & clever in much the same way as the later Ice TV was.

hell... I even stayed in on Friday nights to watch it.

So of course, it was canned in very short order & Kincaid has never been seen on our screens since.

Way to go TV people.