Woo round’ the world…

Posted on the July 29th, 2008 under General by admin

So,

My buddy Richard Saunders from Australia is now on a big TV show, which airs in his homeland, the show named; ‘The One’. Supposedly the whole idea is that the show is going to find the worlds, or at least Australia’s best psychic, just think American Idol/Pop Idol for the woo-woo set. Richard is one of the judges in this show, obviously the ‘Skeptic’ judge; there is a lady who claims to some form of witch or other super-woo of that sort as well. You know you just can’t have only logic and reality cloud your REALITY show, so it is required to have someone who believes in strange stuff judging others who believe THEY have the power to do strange and illogical stuff…. It only makes sense, right?

So, I’ve seen a couple clips, which were pretty much exactly what I thought the show was going to be. It wasn’t totally bad for Richard, but since it is filmed, it can be edited and on at least one occasion I kind of noticed a couple places where it could have been easily made to look much different that might have really happened. Then, Richard posted another, new, clip that I saw and had to share.  In this clip, you can witness the epic failure of these ‘psychics’ on more than one level. Obviously they decided to NOT edit this time, and then ran with it. I hope the rest of what I see sticks to the reality of this clip.

Enjoy:

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  1. IanK said, on November 22nd, 2008 at 7:49 pm

    Thanks for Rove’s piece, even if it was motivated by inter-channel rivalry. It is interesting that the poll on “The Ones” website is 67% sceptic to 33% believer -after 16,000 votes.

    http://au.tv.yahoo.com/b/the-one.

    I think (hope) people see this more as a beer and pretzels show – like (say) Funniest Home Videos where its obvious most are setup but people suspend disbelieve in the interests of “entertainment”

    Maybe people will interpret the shows packaging in reality TV garb as sufficient evidence of the essential vacuousness of the subject matter?

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