News captions mixed up with a porn documentary make for pretty funny screengrabs

Johnny Lieu
Updated

Media Watch is a program known for its tough and amusingly snarky take on the media landscape in Australia.

It's the television show that calls out other television shows. So when something bad happens on Media Watch, you bet people take notice. Especially when it's porn-y.

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Writer Jane Howard noticed that the captions for the show were really, really wrong on the network's video-on-demand service, iview. She screenshots include quotes like: "You will be having sex with someone this afternoon on camera? I will," and "How did that go? Do you feel closer now that you've had sex?"

All superimposed over host Paul Barry's face. 

While it might seem like an odd Valentine's Day-themed easter egg, or a delightfully tragic mistake from a transcriber, it turns out the captions are from another program. 

As Junkee points out, the captions are from a Louis Theroux documentary called Twilight of the Porn Stars, which aired at the exact same time but on a different channel on the ABC. It's also available on iview.

But for those looking for a quick chuckle, the captions for the ABC programme playing as normal at the time of writing. Sorry. 

The ABC denied any mistake with the captions. "The ABC has confirmed that the captions for last night's episode of Media Watch published on iview correlate with the program and that, at no time, has ABC TV amended these captions," an ABC spokesperson said. 

"The ABC has not received any complaints from audience members regarding mis-matched captions, but are aware of one viewer who has posted images with contrary captioning."

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