{"id":645880,"date":"2026-05-03T00:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T00:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/645880\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T00:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T00:01:10","slug":"tv-lounge-changes-ahead-tv-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/645880\/","title":{"rendered":"TV Lounge changes ahead&#8230;. | TV Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tFamed couch discussions are about to undergo a major overhaul.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>For 19 years TV Tonight has featured a TV Lounge section\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>That place where you can leave comments for subjects not covered elsewhere on the site.<\/p>\n<p>But change is ahead\u2026<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a popular destination for conversation, debate and discussion with literally tens of thousands of comments.<\/p>\n<p>These are published chronologically from newest to oldest, which is not especially practical for following or finding information. It can be like trying to find a needle in a haystack.<\/p>\n<p>Soon a standard Forum with topics and threads will take its place, making conversations easier to find.<\/p>\n<p>I always felt the excellent <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.mediaspy.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MediaSpy<\/a> led in this area, so it was one I did not seek to replicate\u2026 but in 2026 it\u2019s just no longer practical to publish a never-ending list of comments.<\/p>\n<p>Before design is finalised I\u2019m seeking your feedback on the Forum basics, which I am proposing as:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Free to Air (Sub headings: ABC, Seven, Nine, 10, SBS \/ topics)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Subscription (Streamers, Foxtel \/ topics)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Miscellaneous\u00a0(other topics)<\/p>\n<p>When the Forum is introduced all current discussions in the TV Lounge will also be removed, so please aim to conclude those soon.<\/p>\n<p>Change is never easy (and risks teething problems) but ultimately I believe long-term it will aid discussions and archiving.<\/p>\n<p>David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Famed couch discussions are about to undergo a major overhaul. For 19 years TV Tonight has featured a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":["post-645880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}