Let This Be A Lesson To Those Of You Who Think A Cut Finger Is No Obstacle To Television Overlord Status

Sometimes we get so caught up in noting just how royally fucked Channel Nine seems that we forget there are just as many interesting things going on at the other networks.

To wit, a life-and-death struggle over at Seven, where network boss David Leckie remains in a coma – yes, a coma – which he fell into after developing a blood infection from little more than a badly cut finger sustained in an accident at his home (something rather grim-sounding involving his garage roller door).

Mr Leckie was admitted to St Vincent’s Private Hospital on April 11 and slipped into a critical condition on Thursday after taking a grave turn for the worse.

His condition stabilised on Friday, and hospital spokesman David Faktor said today the network chief had made “a tiny improvement” over the weekend, although he remained precariously ill.

“He remains in a serious but stable condition. He remains in intensive care but all the signs show he is improving,” Mr Faktor said.

Mr Leckie is being ventilated and is in an induced coma while doctors work to help his body fight the infection. His wife Skye and brother have been by his bedside.

Defamer Australia send their warmest well-wishes to the Leckie family and the extended Seven fraternity, and hope that the gnomes over at Nine HQ take a timeout from boning each other to offer the same sympathies to their rival network.