The ABC last night had back-to-back programmes with a #Libspill flavour:
First, The 7:30 Report with Malcolm Turnbull live in the studio…
…followed by Australian Story’s The Making of Malcolm…
…followed by Four Corner’s Dethroning Tony Abbott…
…followed by Media Watch‘s spill coverage breakdown…
…followed by a Q&A panel of just Bill Shorten…
…followed by simultaneous Australia-wide death-by-yawning 15 minutes later.
But it all worked out for the ABC very nicely; Mumbrella reported on their ratings boost this morning.
Then one witty commenter pointed out that the ABC should do ONLY Malcolm-themed TV shows, which Mumbrella deputy editor Nic Christensen tweeted out, and the rest is history, folks, because Aussies on Twitter fucking love politics, and they fucking love a good pun:
ENTER #MalcolmTVShows:
Australia’s Next Top Prime Minister #Malcolmtvshows
— Writer in Residence (@MikeCullen73) September 22, 2015
Are you smarter than a Malcolm? #malcolmtvshows
— Jake Formosa (@JFormosa) September 22, 2015
Malcifornication #MalcolmTVShows
— Lachie Leeming (@LeemingLachie) September 22, 2015
Malcifornication #MalcolmTVShows
— Lachie Leeming (@LeemingLachie) September 22, 2015
Malcolm Empire #malcolmtvshows
— Alex Hayes (@adnh103) September 22, 2015
Three’s Malcolmpany #malcolmtvshows
— Leslie (@leslienassar) September 22, 2015
MalcolmChef #malcolmtvshows @nicchristensen
— Lane Sainty (@lanesainty) September 22, 2015
(Member for) Wentworth #MalcolmTVshows pic.twitter.com/qkgpUkSJuw
— Daniel Johnson (@danjohnson1979) September 22, 2015
Please Like Malcolm #malcolmtvshows
— Harrison Cartwright (@hazandstuff) September 22, 2015
Thank Godwin You’re Here #malcolmtvshows
— David Astle (@dontattempt) September 22, 2015
The M Word (it’s “Malcolm”) #malcolmtvshows
— Lane Sainty (@lanesainty) September 22, 2015
How To Get Away With Malcolm #malcolmtvshows
— Dean Nye (@Dean_Nye) September 22, 2015
Game of Phones #malcolmtvshows
— Jeremy Fernandez (@JezNews) September 22, 2015
Poke-Malcolm #malcolmtvshows
— Alex Bruce-Smith (@alexbrucesmith) September 22, 2015
[Full disclosure: that last one’s mine. I pun, therefore I am.]
The hashtag’s still trending like crazy, if you wanna get amongst it.
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