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Saturday 24 September 2011

The Gruen Transfer

This one will probably be up a bit late. Been doing some stuff. And that sort of thing.

Anyway. This show you will quite possibly know, or have heard of. If not, it is essentially about advertising, and understanding the way that advertisers sell us stuff. In a nutshell. In that, they've done everything from sport to religion, water to flight. They've done a fair bit, over the time they've been up.

Being hosted by Wil Anderson, they've also done their best to make it pretty entertaining. And they've really done a pretty decent job of it. One particular section, where they ask two ad agencies to sell the impossible, almost inevitably brings a laugh or two.

The two consistent panellists that join Wil on the show, Russell and Todd, are such different people that it's quite funny watching them argue about almost everything.

Though, for the more conservative among us, this probably isn't the show for you. If you can manage to get an episode that doesn't have a fairly high level of sexual references or coarse language, then great, but they can be few and far between.

However, if that doesn't worry you too much, then this would be a show I'd definitely suggest. They've actually just finished up for this season, but are starting a new one (spin-off, I don't know) called Gruen Planet, where they go a bit more global, and that starts this week. I'll certainly be checking it out, and I'd recommend it to anyone else as well.

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