
Another nail in the coffin of Idols
Posted by Rich...! under Uncategorized on August 29 2007 at 9:17 PM
Did I ever tell you about the time I was at a meeting at SABC? They wanted us to work on a job, Randal Abrahams walked in, I was introduced to him, I said, “Hi” he said nothing, he just looked at me with contempt, so I left the meeting, got in my nice limo, and never bothered to quote the fuckers, no one needs work that badly. Needless to say that I think he’s a twat. But I digress…
After a herd of seasons of the show, and not one idol, pop or otherwise, to their name, the guys realised that the show needed help. So, rather than fixing the problem – the useless judges, if they were sports selectors they would have been fired years ago – they stooped to a new low and hired their ad agency (it’s like the blind leading the blind) to put an actor into the auditions to add drama and create buzz.

I almost hate to post this, as it means they are actually getting some conversation time, however I just hope my contempt is properly relayed.
Oh, as an aside, look what happens when you click www.idols.co.za.
Haha, bet it still won’t sell any records though…!
Update: More here
Update 2: Panic stations people. Seems the ads of the world page has been nuked (cheers coda) haha, busted, fuckers.

Luckily I still have the cached version from my RSS reader, enjoy.

August 30th, 2007 at 12:24 am
Hahaha, busted!!
August 30th, 2007 at 8:09 am
Check the post on muti about jennings being exposed
August 30th, 2007 at 8:36 am
Thanks for that, although I’m not sure that “exposed” is the right word. The bloody agency couldn’t submit sending their details to ads of the world – wankers…!
August 30th, 2007 at 9:45 am
Having been outta SA for a while, is Idols some local version of Simon Cowell’s anal “make me a supah star for 1 record and then i’ll open titty bars for a year and then hopefully die from public life” show?
August 30th, 2007 at 11:10 am
Daniel: Yes.
August 30th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
Looks like the adsoftheworld.com page has been removed.
August 30th, 2007 at 3:44 pm
And here was me thinking that randal was such a nice guy
August 30th, 2007 at 3:53 pm
Ya, I spoke to Cliff on Facebook today, and he did confirm that it is a scam.
He did mention also that it is more of a goodwill thing with regards to giving people hope and living their dreams blah, blah, blah…. I mean just go read comments on his videos / facebook groups etc. People love this “Cliff Jennings” oke.
So how lame a marketing ploy it is, it does seem to give some sort of hope to the directionless people in life.
August 30th, 2007 at 5:42 pm
I don’t know about that, he was boring to watch – it had a falseness about it – and as a reality show I expect to see real people up there giving it a go, not some random fictional character manufactured in an ad agency spewing motivational crap about “living your dreams”.
If they followed some of the REAL contestants more closely then I’m sure they could come up with plenty honest, heart-rendering stories that would inspire and motivate.
Idols has never been about inspiring and motivating, or giving people direction in life. You only need to watch 5 minutes of Randal to realise this. It makes me sick, what a crock of shit.
Ogilvy confirms Idols fake
August 31st, 2007 at 12:14 am
I LOVE CLIFF JENNINGS THE FAKE! HIS AWESOME!
August 31st, 2007 at 8:53 am
This just shows what happens when you get ignorant ad agencies playing with things they don’t understand.
Stick with 30 second ad break guys and leave the fake stuff to Paris Hilton.
August 31st, 2007 at 9:57 am
It’s a credibility issue of course. If they’re prepared to do that, how can anyone rely on the ‘viewer-votes’? They could be cooked or contrived to suit a whim as well.
Randall’s so-called humour is regretfully worse than a lead balloon. His brain just ain’t quick enough to get even halfway to being the linguistically challenged Simon Cowell.
August 31st, 2007 at 11:02 am
Hahahaha what a bunch of w*nkers!
September 3rd, 2007 at 2:16 pm
Scary thing is that the man was featured on last night’s show (2nd Sept.) after all this…. have they no shame?
September 3rd, 2007 at 4:08 pm
Well…fake or not,he sucks as an actor.
The Ad agency mustv lost out on a lot of money..they paid for his travelling expenses and all that. Shame and it backfired…
September 3rd, 2007 at 7:54 pm
This is an interesting story, I thought the judges were in on it as well. Very few people knew in fact.
http://www.24.com/news/?p=tsa&i=658607
September 5th, 2007 at 11:51 pm
Ben Elton’s CHART THROB (his latest book) says it all.
I’ve had a dig myself on my own blog with some caricatures of the judges(?) What a load of consummate bollocks!
http://www.rogaroundablog.blogspot.com
September 5th, 2007 at 11:52 pm
Ben Elton’s CHART THROB (his latest book) says it all.
I’ve had a dig myself on my own blog with some caricatures of the judges(?) What a load of consummate bollocks!
http://www.rogaroundablog.blogspot.com
September 6th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
The whole point was to get people to talk about Cliff Jennings – and we achieved that, we did our jobs that isn’t lame.
September 6th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
No , the objective was to build the profile of the show, by getting people to talk about Cliff Jennings.
I believe that you did well on the secondary objective, but (possibly) to the detriment of the primary. However, I was thinking yesterday that it was a very successfully buzz campaign, so well done, only time will tell if the guys have now lost too much credibility…!
September 7th, 2007 at 2:10 pm
Who cares about motivations of Cliff, his performance and idols interations were a gas. I vote Cliff in..
September 11th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
Usama bin Laden is fake Cliff Jennings is real
September 16th, 2007 at 12:54 pm
Well look how many people are talking about him. I give him a high five, i do agree that it was a lame move but hey he did pull it off!
November 16th, 2007 at 6:44 pm
i want jody out of idols because her head is all swolen she used to sing very nice but now nothing. let me tell you beauty is not everything GIRLY Bjorn was voted out unfairly for that fairy-wannabe jody bye bye to you next time you fool