Why cheez tv was cancelled

Australian animation was barely a thing in the 90s, and it was slim-pickings outside of the ABC's admittedly brilliant animation block. Cheez TV was a gateway drug to freakdom with its seemingly unending bounty of anime, superheroes, and Street Sharks.

It wriggled its way into the nation's collective conscious. There was something malformed and dated about the media that we as Australian children were given to consume, and how we were told to consume it think Agro. Along comes Cheez TV to throw the baby out with the Ritalin bottle.

I remember trying to tell my mum I was upset because I'd just seen Picollo blown in half while eating my coco-pops. That to me, was trauma on a Princess Diana scale, but Jade and Ryan were there to guide me through my grief. Cheez TV is emblematic of the boomers vs millennials proxy-war. The echo chamber of shouting around affordable housing and smashed avocados is made slightly more stark by the unuttered question: "what gender was Frieza? Jade and Ryan were on the TV every morning yelling at us to ditch the Kool-Aid, fuck conformity, and embrace our inner freak-kid, and more than a few of us were sold on their pitch.

So it's unsurprising that Jade and Ryan's slow burn comeback this year has been met with such welcome. It's a heavy dose of nostalgia.

Sure, these guys and this show are tied up in our iconography of childhood. But it's more than that. Cheez TV was sold to us as children as an alternative, in a time when alternative was not reflective of Australian society at large.

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Jade Gatt also hosted late night music show Ground Zero. During the later years of the show Lappin and Gatt's editorials were quickly becoming notorious for their use of more adult-oriented humour which often flew above the heads of their young audience. Lappin reputedly constantly slid hidden "anti- Rove McManus " commentary in his editorials, which is rumoured to have been the deciding factor which nailed the coffin on the show.

Jade Gatt was not immune to scrutiny either, when he would pose as a news reporter called "Dick Wadd" in one of their segments. Saturday, 20 August was the last episode of Cheez TV broadcast after 10 years on the air, though Lappin and Gatt's final on-air appearance took place during Friday, 31 December In , only cartoons showed in Cheez TV.