the catch-up
Was Lisa Oldfield Always This Amusing?
7:50PM Jess McGuire | Once again, we’re starting to realise that maybe, just maybe, The Catch Up might have been worth taping. And by taping, we mean ‘us memorising transcripts of each show’.
From today’s Mediaweek newsletter -
On the day that the final edition of The Catch Up goes to air, The Daily Telegraph reports that panellist Lisa Oldfield has made a public apology, claiming she was responsible for the program failing. “I think Australia has had an absolute gutful of Lisa Oldfield…I can’t imagine me darkening anybody’s TV screen again any time soon.â€
The Herald Sun reports quasi-intellectual Mary Moody said she was lapping up thoughts of never needing to know another thing about Britney Spears or Paris Hilton, while Lisa Oldfield declared their audience to blame. “Australia you should be ashamed of yourselves,” she said. “Because you weren’t watching our show, we’ve got two single mums and a granny on the scrapheap, and a redneck on the loose.”
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In Retrospect, The Catch-Up Was Actually Quite Amazing
3:40PM Jess McGuire | The episodes of recently boned Channel Nine chat show The Catch-Up we managed to watch never quite did it for us, and so we immediately began mocking the program whenever it was raised in conversation. But as Joni Mitchell once sang, you don’t know what you got til it’s gone.
Crikey.com.au have helpfully put together a list of YouTube links to the shows greatest moments, and it is compelling and essential viewing.
* Lisa gags at footage of a man eating corgi.* Libbi and Zoe’s lesbian kiss (includes bonus footage of Libbi pashing Rupert Everett)* The ladies model Stella for Target* The ladies discuss reverse chivalry (warning: contains too much information about the Oldfields’ love life)* Lisa’s drug confessions* Lisa’s botox regret. (Reader says Lisa had a “little cat’s bum mouth”, Lisa gets botox, blames horse fall for swollen lips) * The ladies discuss adultery . Lisa reveals, if a loved one murdered or cheated, “that person would be dead to me”.* Oldfield tells how she froze David’s sperm post 9/11 following a series of death threats he received.
Brilliant! Jane Nethercote, we applaud you for compiling this Best Of. As one of our beloved friends put it, “After reading this, I am now wishing that The Catch Up wasn’t ending.”
Touche.
WE TAKE IT ALL BACK! UNBONE! UNBONE!
PS: We’re also a bit obsessed with Lisa Oldfield now, if you must know. More » 
Axe Falls On Channel Nine’s Vagina Fest ‘The Catch-Up’
2:15PM Jess McGuire | Even the saga of Lisa Oldfield’s cat’s bum mouth wasn’t enough to keep the homemakers of Australia interested in watching The Catch-Up, it would seem, with the show being canned by an increasingly bone-happy Channel Nine.
Staff of the Monday to Friday program were told it had been scrapped today at 1pm just as the four hosts came off air. The final episode of the live show will air on Friday.
The axe fell minutes after the girlie gab-fest’s creator Mia Freedman resigned from Nine and PBL after 16 years with the company.
It was the latest upheaval at the network since it was taken over by new management and follows last week’s announcement that Alan Jones will be leaving the Today show after more than 20 years.
The Catch-Up was launched in February with Libbi Gore heading a panel including radio presenter Zoe Sheridan, author and documentary maker Mary Moody and Lisa Oldfield, outspoken conservative and wife and member of One Nation co-founder David Oldfield.
Vale The Catch-Up. Your up-to-the-minute live crosses to the Woman’s Day newsroom (a place renown for being a hotbed of serious investigative journalism) will be sorely missed by all three viewers.
Note to Libbi Gorr – please do something a bit ace now. We like you!
PS: “Something ace” may involve beating The Nation’s Jackie O to a bloodied pulp. METAPHORICALLY OF COURSE, WE DO NOT CONDONE VIOLENCE.
PPS: (winks conspiratorially)
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Lisa Oldfield’s “Cat’s Bum” Mouth.
9:25AM Jess McGuire | The dazzling Lisa Oldfield, a panelist on The Catch-Up, has opened up about having plastic surgery which left her lips looking like a “cat’s bum”.
But it was a dog of a day yesterday when The Catch-Up panellist Lisa Oldfield was forced to reveal the truth behind her fat lip on the Nine show.
No, she hadn’t been bashed by her hubby and former One Nation staffer David Oldfield.
Instead, plagued by low self-esteem, she forked out $550 to go under the plastic surgeon’s knife last week.
What spurred Lisa to get her lips done?
The op was sparked by viewer comments on the Nine program’s website that “ate away” at her, including that she was “freaky looking” and had “wild eyes” and “a wrinkly face”.
Ahh, that’s the interwebs for you – a place for idiots to judge others. We should know.
Said Lisa -
“I went in with visions of Angelina Jolie and came out looking like Goldie Hawn from The First Wives Club,” she said.
Right now, Goldie Hawn is feeling pretty down about that comment, Lisa. And so the cycle of cattiness continues.
… obviously we jest. We’re fairly certain Goldie Hawn isn’t one of The Catch-Up’s thirty-seven viewers. More » Wait, People DON’T Like Stupid, Shallow Chatter About Fashion And Celebrities? We’re Screwed.
2:16PM Jess McGuire | We’ve never felt much for Channel 9’s rip off of US chat show The View, cleverly dubbed The Catch Up. Well, we felt the sensation of our eyes rolling back in our head when we caught half an hour of it when it first began, but since then? Nothing at all.
That was until today, when we read this.
The panel show Beauty and the Beast, pioneered in the 1960s and revived by Foxtel to enormous success during the past decade, tackled big issues with intelligence, poise and bravura.
The Catch-Up, on the other hand, presumes too easily that women prefer stupid, shallow chatter about fashion and celebrities.
Suddenly, we can’t help but feel a kind of kinship with The Catch Up. Sure, we’d never excitedly “cross live” to Peter Timbs in the Woman’s Day office to discover the latest on Lindsay Lohan (we’d be reading it online, for fucks sake) but still. If people stop caring about stupid, shallow chatter about fashion and celebrities, then it’s not going to be a good Christmas for Timmy and the other crippled orphans here at Defamer Australia headquarters.
As a direct result to this new found feeling of empathy towards The Catch Up, we’re going to attempt to adopt the show for a week starting Monday, and really try to convince you of its good points. It’ll be our very own (temporary) Maddox/Zahara/Pax/David!
Until we get bored, which will probably be about one post into the project, fickle fools that we are. More » 