Will you watch 60 Minutes on Sunday? Me neither.

W says:

12:32pm | 17/07/09

Poh is going to roll Julie.  Julie is going to choke up and ruin her food.  Poh has a new game face and she has some dishes up her sleeve.  With no themes to bind them Poh is far superior. Go Poh!

G says:

12:41pm | 17/07/09

Poh will probably win but from a marketing perspective Julie’s book would be the bestseller.

Bella says:

12:59pm | 17/07/09

What sort of idiot at 60 Minutes didn’t check the Green Guide?
What a waste of $200k!

Oh, and go Julie!

Rachel says:

01:00pm | 17/07/09

What does it matter? If the judges follow all the same pattern of the previous challenges, Poh will serve a superior dish, Julie will win anyway and then the twist will be that Poh gets her (4th) 2nd chance.

stephen says:

01:59pm | 17/07/09

It’s fabulous that the young english lad was found alive, but it really isn’t an overly interesting story.  Then again, 60 Minutes hasn’t run an interesting story this millenium

Julie Coker-Godson says:

02:03pm | 17/07/09

To answer your question, yes, I will watch it with interest.

Robert says:

02:30pm | 17/07/09

No, it used to be a great programme but, like so much on Channels 9 & 10, it’s all rubbish. That the young man survived is great BUT he did go beyond the signs telling people who are not experienced bushwalkers not to proceed. Why his story should be worth $200k is beyond me.

Winsor Dobbin says:

02:38pm | 17/07/09

Couldn’t really care less about the backpacker - unless it is proved that he staged his own disappearance, which is my suspicion.

T.C. says:

02:47pm | 17/07/09

I survived the Blue Mountains for 12 years (including a 6 year stretch at Katoomba High), that’d make my time worth $73 million dollars.

Shall I send Channel 9 the invoice?

Darren says:

03:05pm | 17/07/09

well as both shows are absolute tosh I wont be watching either - Nature’s Great Events on what is now called ABC1 is the obvious pick!

Zedimus says:

04:26pm | 17/07/09

Well both channels have winners, on 10 it will be Poh or Julie taking home a few hundred thousand home and on 9 a Backpacker will be getting $200,000.
At least the Backpackers $200,000 will go towards his rescue costs… wont it?

Andrew says:

04:28pm | 17/07/09

Watching St Kilda give Adelaide a touch up

David says:

05:01pm | 17/07/09

The people at Masterchef have made it obvious who they wish to win. After a challenge where they banged on all show about presentation they gave it to someone who did a roast and a chocolate cake? Who didn’t even manage to plate everything up? My 2 year old could cook that! Poor old Poh’s going to get the same treatment for sure. Better a main stream Mumsy win for the middle aged housewives than anyone with any talent.

Razor says:

05:34pm | 17/07/09

Won’t be watching 60 Minutes - never do.

Boycotting MasterChef as they got rid of th etwo most worthy winners - Chris and Justine.

Baffled by bulldust says:

09:01pm | 17/07/09

Im sorry, really I am. It’s not just that I have a suspicious nature it is also my background as a professional Infantry soldier and hunter. This appears to me to be a re-play of the Wally that claimed to have survived a couple of weeks high up on a mountain in the Himalayas armed with only a chocolate bar. That was circa the mid ‘90’s. A couple of highly experienced and super-well equipped trampers ( bushwalkers ) just died in the Tarawera Range north of Wellington NZ after just 4 days! I accept conditions there were atrocious but, hey - this idiot appears to have had only the light clothes he stood in. They had the works. Everything for a winter traverse. This dude seemed to have no thermals or bivi or sleeping bag, no food, no emergency rations, like scroggin - nothing. I find this just too incredible for kind words. Wouldn’t watch Ch 9 in a fit for any reason anyway. This is just money for fictitious jam.

Susie says:

08:56pm | 18/07/09

I won’t be watching 60 minutes or Masterchef.  Thank god for pay TV.  I will be watching ‘From Earth To the Moon’ on the History Channel.

miantiao says:

12:14am | 19/07/09

I agree with fellow RAR vet ‘Baffled’ earlier.
In order to avoid death caused by hypothermia he would have had to have been very mobile at night, and rested during the day. To sustain 12 nights of continuous activity in order to keep warm would require a very high caloric intake and plenty of water for hydration. As well as the means to carry the water. Searching for water and food would have hampered his aims of rest and recovery during the day.

Movement in the bush at night requires a certain level of visibilty. The Blue Mountains mostly consist of dense forests, even the light of a full moon would find it difficult to penetrate the forest floor. He would have been lucky if he could see his hand in front of his face.  And given the topography of the blue mountains, high steep slopes and deep gullies, the light of a full moon would only be temporary or fleeting even if he did find himself temporarily in clearer surroundings. I would suggest that without a torch, and batteries to power it for 12 nights, he had no means enabling movement at night ,and should have eventually frozen to death as a result.

From my understanding he is supposed to have had no means to make fire. Not taking into account wind chill factor, the temperature inside stone caves are lower than outside, so unless he had means to make fire a ‘survived in a cave’ story won’t wash. So, no cave story allowed.

If no evidence is found to contradict his story, he’ll walk away well rewarded for his traumatic experience.

jen says:

01:30am | 19/07/09

all of you are just plain stupid, THIS IS MASTERCHEF! Dont get me wrong, Julie may be a nice person but she DEFINATELY isnt worthy of the title for cooking mash and roast.. Seriously, even then she couldnt get it right! If your saying youd rather lamb chops and veges for dinner, Im sure youd be able to google a million of those recipes and be able to find thousands of books with that style of cooking already. Thats if the average aussie already doesnt know how to cook it! Julie constantly sweats on her food, has VERY poor time management skills, and cries at every opportunity she gets. TO be Masterchef’s winner is absolutely appalling! ITS ALREADY BEEN LEAKED! SHE WINS!

I feel so sorry for the original creators of the UK version of Masterchef. I watched it religiously on foxtel and i can tell you now, if u served the garbage that julie was dishing out in the finals, you wouldve been gone FIRST ROUND! UK Judges Gregg Wallace and John Torode obviously have WAY better taste buds and are very unbiased judges. They know how to turn off the emotions and judge for what the show is really about. GOOD TECHNICAL ABILITY, PROFESSIONAL PLATING AND GOOD TASTING FOOD! Julie fails at all 3. I think the Aussie judges here need to get a grip. They need to stop letting their emotions take over their palet and do what the show was advertised to do.. That is to find AUSTRALIA’S MASTERCHEF!

davido says:

01:52am | 19/07/09

As they say… if you dont watch it - they wont put it on.

pteropod says:

07:52am | 22/07/09

As i told you guys many times , IT WAS A RIGGED SHOW!!!!!
It had to be crying Julie, Poh is Asian the australian public would not accept a asian for AUSTRALIA MASTER CHEF simple is that.
it had to be a lambchop cooker to win thr title, This show was suoosingly a show to find a restaurant qualyti chef not a home cook. as it turned out .
All those chefs who spent 4 years apprentisship and worked in the industry for number of year are the Masterchefs of Australia
not a IT worker
Maybe master homecook , but then again my wife can cook the same or better.no need her cookbook.
Rest my case , it was a rigged s…t show I will not be wathing any future episodes