TV Tonight Awards: Worst of 2022
These are the shows polarising readers - or just plain turning them off.
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They may be hit shows, but they are polarising TV Tonight readers.
For the second year running Married at First Sight has been voted the Worst Aussie Show of 2022.
It was joined by 10 failures The Real Love Boat and The Challenge Australia, along with ratings hit The Block and 10’s The Project -despite it winning two categories yesterday. That makes the latter a show with both fans and detractors.
Sonia Kruger was again named Most Overexposed Performer fronting Big Brother, The Voice, The Voice: Generations. and Dancing with the Stars: All Stars -try not to look shocked, that was actually one show less than in 2021.
New names this year included Abbie Chatfield, Hamish Blake and ABC’s own Stan Grant.
Will Smith’s infamous Oscars slap was chosen as the Biggest Blunder of 2022, while Love Island UK took out Worst International Show for the second year running.
* denotes runaway winner
Worst Show (Aussie): Married at First Sight
The Real Love Boat
The Challenge Australia
The Block
The Project
(2021: Married at First Sight)
Worst Show (International): Love Island UK
Blockbuster
Harry & Meghan
The Kardashians
House of the Dragon
(2021: Love Island UK)
Most Overexposed Performer: Sonia Kruger *
Karl Stefanovic
Abbie Chatfield
Eddie McGuire
Hamish Blake, Stan Grant
(2021: Sonia Kruger)
Blunder of the Year: Will Smith slaps Chris Rock at Oscars *
Lisa Wilkinson Logie acceptance speech
Logie Awards slammed over Neighbours tribute
Network 10 Q4 schedule
Rebel Wilson outed by newspaper
(2021: Matt Doran admits to not listening to Adele album)
Thursday: Story of the Year, Best Channels, Underrated Performer, International Show We Need to See Here.
15 Responses
I was very surprised that Hamish Blake was voted as the most overexposed person on TV – appeared on the Big Freeze at the G, LM, Bricksmas. As well, his exposure during the 2022 Logies has been way over the top. Too much news outlets including DM and News.com.au criticising Hamish Blake during the Logies.
I notice a lot of the worst shows are reality. Surely the powers that be must eventually get the “memo” and take notice viewers are almost at saturation point with a lot of them. Reply to Solace2021: I don’t find TV a “peaceful” experience when I see people belittle, demean, be obnoxious or talk down to their guest/participants on any show., and I sure don’t find it peaceful/appealing when a tiny bird is left by its mother to fend for itself and jump from a cliff edge while it plummets to it death. The only polarising I enjoyed is the actual Sun. I’m just not that easily captivated by fads/trends. I look to TV for entertainment which includes creativity, variety and escapism for just awhile. Shout out and praise to the inventor of the remote. And to each his own.
Programmers respond to ratings before awards or surveys.
I would have thought programmers surely would have sense to look at all aspects of TV entertainment and respond to viewers likes and dislike whether ratings, awards, surveys, reviews and feedback etc but apparently not.
I thought the slap was the highlight of the year. I was great TV
I’m confused as to why the block was one of the worst shows. Surely it doesn’t deserve that. Yes the auction didn’t work but it didn’t work in other years too. They all did great houses. And was a good cast with only one annoying couple but won’t name names.
I know opinions are subjective, but how does House of the Dragon get anywhere near the nomination for worst international show? Maybe people are still salty about GOT’s ending?
House Of The Dragon was a pointless knock of of Succession, but with dragons, even less likeable characters and no story. A waste of $200m on the over use of poor CGI, even the walls were fake looking CGI. On the bright side they didn’t spend $450m to start a flame war between fans and critics, which ended up with the critics churning lots of articles proving the fans, and by extension Tolkien’s novels were pro Neo-Nazi. That was entertaining. House Of The Dragon made a lot of money though so there will be more of it,. Here we have to wait and see what WBD does with its HBO content.
Best and worst are relative. I have a ranking that goes Family Law, My Best Friend, The Good Fight, Wisting, Blue Bloods … The Handmaid’s Tale, NCIS, CSI:Vegas and House Of The Dragon. Then House Of The Dragon is the worst show that I watched a significant amount of. Sure there’s probably 500 English dramas worse than it in 2022 alone. Plus hundreds of trashy contests and observational documentaries. But I don’t know anything about them because I was watching Boston Legal, Fringe, Southland, Kavangh QC, Longmire, House, My So Called Life etc while they are still available for free.
It really was awful. Just a rehash of Game of Thrones but with duller characters, duller plots and a whole lot less fun.
I enjoyed it (unlike Lord of the Rings), but now you have your answer why it attracted some votes. It was also on the Best International Drama list by other readers -that’s not unusual.
The one word that comes to mind for the shows and personalities that were voted as worst, yet are still very popular is polarising.
I think it’s better to have content and personalities that are universally liked, as being polarising leads to differences, conflicts and increased difficulties in finding common ground.
Television should always be friendly and never divisive. At the times when everything else might be going pear shaped, television is one thing that can provide peacefulness.
Abbie Chatfield must have a social media deal with News Ltd, because her exposure on News.com is way over the top. Hell I don’t even know who she is and I don’t want to know, but there is a hell of a lot of beat up stories about her flashing up on the News front (web) page.
Stan Grant, I can understand how he can be disliked. He does suffer from verbal overload. But at the same time, I think he is one of the smartest person in Australia about international affairs and the intricate inter-woven web that is international affairs. So he tries to explain it in his questions, which unfortunately do tend to go on at length. I do sometimes get frustrated with his questions, but I appreciate what he is trying to put forward.
I think the newspapers like the outrage as it gets views. The stories get both the fans and detractors. I’m sure many celebrities have the press on speed dial and tell them I’ll be walking to buy coffee at that time and place, so you can take some photos.
She doesn’t need a deal, she puts her life on social media, making it easy for entertainment writers to pick up. She must get clicks if they keep picking it up.