It was poet and philosopher George Santayana who said, “Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.” Such is the case with TVNZ’s homage to its own history, the jauntily named “Cheers To 50 Years.”
This was a programme touted as a celebration of all that we’ve known and loved on the box for the past half-century but which resulted in the boring vying with the banal for two excruciating, culture-cringing hours.
