Friday Night Download or Funniest Home Videos 2.0?

Well we have seen a huge increase in people viewing consumer-generated content. Channel Ten have decided to do something about, no they aren’t going to add their shows online, their going to bring “the funniest, naughtiest and probably the most disturbing material on the web and deliver it right to your television screen”. Yes it is Funniest Home Videos 2.0.

I began to watch, until the repetitiveness of “Don’t do this at home” was too much, which didn’t take long. I managed to see a few funny videos, which I had already seen online weeks, if not months prior.
There were a few I wanted to see again, so I thought, well this is a show about videos online, surely they will have links to the clips they have aired on their website (I then laughed to myself, as I knew the chance of this would be small). I went to the official Friday Night Live site anyway and there were 3 videos of the host talking, a poll, a how to send your videos, that’s it.

Yes they had decided not to allow the viewers to actually see the videos on the platform they were pulled from.

I feel the show is just taking one platform and attempting to show it on another, which defiantly is not working. As many people have said, if they want to see this content they would turn on their computer. Channel Ten have done little to adapt the show further online. The official site not showing the clips they play on air, not even a link. Overall it’s a step in the wrong direction.

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Official Friday Night Download Site
http://ten.com.au/ten/tv_fnd.html