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Naomi Robson returns with online TV show

February 1, 2010 10:46

by Tim Burrowes

Naomi Robson is to make her return to the small screen with her own online video show – The Naomi Show.

The former Today Tonight presenter has created the three times a week dating and relationships chat show through her production company Little Frog Productions.

The show sees her banter with a panel of three men and three women along with interviews with experts and the public about love, sex, dating and relationships.

From next week, The Naomi Show will be uploaded every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Guests include Nick Giannopoulos, Krystal Forscutt ,Tottie Goldsmith, Make me a Supermodel’s Rhys Uhlich and Australia’s Next Top Model’s Samantha Downie. There will also be daily articles posted to the site.

PR for her front of camera return is being handled by Max Markson. A launch sponsor for the show is Vodafone.

Robson presented the East Coast edition of Seven’s Today Tonight from 1997 to 2006. Among the most notorious moments of her time with the show were an abortive attempt to rescue a boy apparently about to be eaten by cannibals, and having a lizard on her shoulder during coverage of the death of Steve Irwin.

After leaving Today Tonight, Robson was reported to have created a pilot of a chat show which was not picked up by Seven.

Robson will not be without competition in Australian online relationship shows. Studio 33 (also the production company behind The Mumbo Report) produces That’s Why You’re Single.

And MySpace Australia created Kiss or Miss.

Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes founded Mumbrella in 2008. He worked on Mumbrella until 2021. At various points he was editor, content director and editor-at-large.

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Comments: 15

Ryan C 1 Feb 10

Evil powers have caused this to appear in my web browser

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Gezza 1 Feb 10

This is really sad.

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Art Vandelay 1 Feb 10

Wow, great production quality here.

You cant even understand what they’re saying the audio’s that bad.

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Micah 1 Feb 10

Let’s hope she thinks more of the online community than she did of her TT audience – http://bit.ly/9IpE3H
….I used to have such a thing for her too.

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Nate 1 Feb 10

Pathetic. There’s enough BS circulating already, why must this dragon be allowed to contribute…

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C K Cash 1 Feb 10

Please poke out my eyes and stab my eardrums….poor nay nay….not!

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hank 1 Feb 10

great title, great concept, great way to tell the world your career’s gone down the toilet.

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Corrina 1 Feb 10

Wait a minute. This sounds like an evil plot to gain exposure for all of Markson’s B grade celeb wannabes. Krystal Forscutt? Puhleease.

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Simon Band 2 Feb 10

Do I hear a touch of canned audience reaction sounds. Suitable for a pilot? Maybe. For a “sizzle reel”? Probably not.

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anon1 2 Feb 10

>You cant even understand what they’re saying the audio’s that bad.

The audio is shit because it’s been compressed by someone who clearly knows nothing about compression and probably used some cheap shitty preset.

For the record: audio takes up a very small percentage of the file size of a video. So when you compress, you can afford to be “generous” with the audio settings. Compress too much and you’ll get the metallic whistling hell as experienced in the above video.

Generally, I wouldn’t recommend dropping the audio of any converted video below mp3 quality (128k).

YouTube audio itself (because uploaded videos get reconverted) is now around 200k standard, according to some sites. However you can’t “add back” quality to audio that has already been overcompressed. You can turn a 60k audio stream into a 2,000k audio stream, but it won’t sound any better. It’s like enlarging a tiny jpeg image several hundred times. You don’t get the data back that you chose to discard.

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C K Cash 2 Feb 10

Would not waste one bit of bandwidth on watching nay nay

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jase 3 Feb 10

naomi robson’s demise could not come sooner.

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Yesterday's News 3 Feb 10

I like the concept, even if I won’t watch programs like it myself. Will it pull in bimbos galore who want their heads on the box (big or small)? You bet. Will it be a life support unit for all of the B-grade actors/presenters involved? Sure will. Hell, it’ll probably be picked up by a cable channel and gain a cult following. Not a bad way to reinvent yourself.
Robson was never a journo anyway, and for all the gaffes attributed to her, remember she wouldn’t have been acting alone – someone else writes the autocues, lines up talent, decides on dubious story material and how it will be attained, demands their talent dress up in silly outfits (remember the khaki shirt and lizard show?), and demands their stars are coiffed to within an inch of their lives (hence the mega make-up truck debacle).
As for the dodgy boyfriend – let she without a similar liaison in her past cast the first stone (hey you – put that rock down you lying bimbo!).
You can’t in all good conscience pillory someone who was only a product of the TV machine. But I guess everyone likes to have a whipping post.

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