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Airdate: The Riff

Channel [V] launches a live music and entertainment show that promises to "drop the bullsh*t, get real, raw and uncensored."

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Channel [V] launches a Live music and entertainment show that promises to “drop the bullsh*t, get real, raw and uncensored.”

The Riff will be a weekly panel show that features Billy Russell, Danny Clayton, Kyle Linahan and Jane Gazzo and invites comment via Facebook, Twitter, Skype and SMS.

Not unlike food porn, The Riff is a sensory deluge. Your new guilty pleasure, it’s dripping with humour and attitude; fuels your veins with their music fix; seduces you with pop culture indulgences; takes you on a voyeuristic discovery of [V]HQ; and is guaranteed to leave you impassioned, inspired or just damn frustrated at the end of it. Regardless, you’ll keep coming back for more.

No ordinary panel show, anything can and will happen as Channel [V]’s Billy Russell, Danny Clayton, Kyle Linahan and Jane Gazzo riff on all things music and pop culture, news of the week and what gets them fired up. Shedding new light on the presenters and their opinions, The Riff will leave them exposed to the wrath not only of each other, but you at home as you get to have your say through Facebook, Twitter, Skype and SMS as the show airs Live.

The Riff is where you go to get in the know. It’s a 30 minute dose of everything you need to be across to get through the week. From breaking news, unconventional album reviews, behind-the-scenes exclusives with artists and some random viral sh*t, as well as heated music debates, and some funny [and sometimes provocative] skits and parodies.

Opinionated and occasionally offensive, nothing is sacred on The Riff. You could find the [V] crew playing Slayer’s Angel Of Death to residents at a nursing home, posing as Justin Bieber to score free stuff from people, or recreating Mark Ronson’s The Bike Song video with kid’s bikes as the boys try to pick up girls on their lunchbreaks. Things could get very heated on set as the team argues about the authenticity of Die Antwoord and whether they’ve got the world fooled, or if Coldplay are a better band than The Beatles. Watch as the gloves come off.

It premieres live at 4.30pm Thursday 9 December and continues Thursday 16 December and Thursday 23 December.

It returns in 2011 Thursday 27 January at 4.30pm live from the Big Day Out and will air weekly thereafter.

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  2. “drop the bullsh*t”? – don’t they know that saying poser things like “drop the bullsh*t, get real, raw and uncensored” is exactly the sort of bullsh*t that needs to be dropped?

  4. Teenagers want a panel show about music? Don’t they just want to listen to music?

    V should be launching a primetime reality show if they want ratings. Not an afternoon music panel show

    And isnt 430 Thursdays where MTV is launching Freshwater Blue?

  5. Even before it airs, the PR spin for this show is so heavily laden with pop-culture references and indie coolisms that it’ll surely be as contrived as the shows it protests to be so different from – with a cocktail of hosting personality and panche thrown in for flavour. 

    I hate to be the cynic here, but it sounds as though The Riff has it right in name only – it’s simple, sounds memorable for just a bit, but ends up being something you’ve heard before.

    We’ll see.

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