The Shopping Channel: televangelists of tat

Diana Wichtel braces herself and tunes in to watch New Zealand's newest channel.

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20th October, 2012

It takes a lot to upset a television critic who has survived everything from 5.30 with Jude to Paul Henry and The GC without resort to therapy. But there isn’t enough viewer discretion in the world, even if it could be delivered to your door anywhere in the country within 72 hours, to deal with the Shopping Channel. It isn’t the double entendre. Any entendre at all is a relief when you are listening to wittering this defiantly meaningless. I’d barely tuned in before a punishingly roguish chap called Peter Meikle was promising, “You can be doing this tomorrow for the ...

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