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TAC: Sudden Impact valuable message

TAC boss David Healy has hit back at criticisms the organisation shouldn't party to making Sudden Impact.

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TAC boss David Healy has hit back at media comments Nine’s Sudden Impact cost $4m to produce and that the organisation should’nt be involved with a television series. He says the figures are wrong and criticisms misguided.

‘‘Certainly, from our viewpoint, no apologies,” Healy told the Herald Sun. ‘‘The cost is under $1 million in total and my understanding is that the costs are the equivalent to the production of one (TAC) television commercial.

‘‘On that basis, we’re getting four hours of television coverage (for the same price) at a time when road trauma costs the Victorian community a minimum of $3.5 billion every year. ”

Quoting reader comments from TV Tonight, the Herald Sun article says internet bloggers are divided on the issue.

‘‘Organisations like the TAC should stay out of commercial TV production” says one. Another countered that the show is ‘‘a new way to promote their valuable road safety messages to the public”.

Nine’s new series performed well on Tuesday night with just over 1m viewers.

Source: Herald Sun

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  1. air crash is not a factual, its a documantary series, just like 7 wonders and attenbrough from the national geographic.

    and they were prepared to have 5 if deadly surf wasn’t axed. and can i also add to lee123’s list:
    missing persons unit
    amazing medical stories
    the gift
    crime investigation australia

    2009 will probably see 9 with the same amount or maybe even more factuals than 7
    and yes there will be atleast 1 more added to the list because gyngel promised 4 new aus factuals for 2009 we only know of 3.

  3. NJ, you obviously haven’t seen ch9’s 2009 lineup:
    everyday heroes
    missing pieces
    seven deadly sins
    search & rescue
    fire 000
    RPA
    whats good for you
    animal emergency
    borderline (UK border security)
    these two will probably be renued seeing that they are “sucessful”.
    most of these are quick to make so there will probably be more announced before the end of the year

  4. @NJ, i think you’ll find ch9 fanboys complaining about quality and quantity.

    and anyway my point would still stand. ch9 now has 4 factuals a week and ch7 only has 3, and have you seen 9’s 2009 lineup?

  5. Tommyk Channel Nine criticised Seven because there is nothing but factuals on Seven – they weren’t criticising them for factuals, just the overload they give viewers!

  6. haha. i was wondering how all the ch9 fanboys would handle the fact that ch9 is finally scoring from factuals, after they continually criticise 7 for all their factuals. but very creative knoxoverstreet.

    i found this exactly as ella said it, just like all the others it has just as much moral fiber as RSPCA, bondi or FMF.

  7. meh. if you’ve seen one factual you’ve seen them all, this one isn’t any different:

    small budget, huge success, attempt at a tear jerk, dramatic voiced host, false climaxes and then make it ok with some form of moral to the story.

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