…and there’s a reasonably high chance this funeral service will be broadcast on TV and/or livestreamed on the internet.
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I’d imagine that COVID restrictions may limit non-invited people
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No doubt it’ll be
Seven News Melbourne aired a six-minute tribute at the start of this evening’s bulletin with Nick McCallum reporting. It was beautiful but the background music was a bit too loud.
guys try 9 now on pc
Angela Bishop interviewing Rove on the news tonight.
They’re showing great clips of GMA.
God I remember some of the hilarious shenanigans he got up to on that show. Even with the regulars as well as the guests.
He use to do a live advertorials on mondays with the clipsal safety switch. He would the take the piss each week. It was hilarious.
His antics with Ken James when he was cooking were a highlight.
His graciousness and generosity to Elisabeth Chong were also memorable.
A highlight reel of that show would be great but alas 10 would never do that.
The nine special tonight will be good but won’t show the funny parts of the GMA years. 10 never recovered in mornings when they axed that show.
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I’ve recalled here before I think. One time they had Cornelia Frances on. She was talking about waiting for something, I can’t remember. She then looked at her watch and said “and as of 2.35 on Tuesday afternoon…” and finished her sentence. Having her just blurted out to a morning audience that the show was taped days earlier (which we mostly knew, anyway, but it was never advertised), Bert, not missing a beat, just looked at his wrist and said, “I really must check the time on my watch”.
Another time, the first year that Seven took the Melbourne Cup over from Ten. GMA, which usually had a Cup Day boost in the ratings, had some segment on and Bert just commented, “I don’t know if that many people are watching us this morning, we usually have a lot more viewers on Cup Day but not this year, I have no idea why…”
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Yes he would do a couple of eps a week live. Usually mondays and then would tape the rest. Particularly when he was doing the live stage shows in either Sydney or Melbourne.
Many people also didn’t realise that most of the advertorials were taped in Sydney. Only a few were done from Melbourne. The odd live ones he did you could tell because all hell would break loose.
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Oh wow. I never knew that about the pre-recording.
My recollection is that they didnt really hide the reality of it being prerecorded either
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I believe Bert’s Special will be posted to 9now.com.au shortly after it airs
Tribute words to Bert from Scotty Cam before The Block tonight.
I wonder if we have any footage the 10 version of New Fafe that was short lived and hosted by Bert.
Was it done from nunawading? What did the set look like?
Gee, there’s been a few great Bert Newton anecdotes here.
Seems like I missed out on a tonne of gold on his incarnation of Good Morning Australia, being someone who only occasionally got to see the show on sick days or school holidays during the early-mid 2000s.
That’d make sense, as primary GMA advertorial presenter Moria McLean lives in Sydney AFAIK.
Don’t know if Moira’s done much in recent years, but certainly for a while post-GMA she was presenting on TVSN (based in French’s Forest AFAIK) and MCing Variety Club Christmas Parties…at least back in the days they were held at the old Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre.
Although there just might be a few people on Media Spy who are old enough to remember Moira presenting the ad for The Sunday Telegraph weekend children’s program that was “The Harry & Ralph Show” back in the 1980s! 
AFAIK, that went to air at 6.30pm Sundays around 1992-ish. No idea whether any footage still exists though.
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That’s when I first started watching them when I went to uni it was a 4 year staple as I hardly attended uni. Couldn’t stand the pretentious twats at USYD. So I would only attend the minimum compulsory and had plenty of days off so I’d watch a lot of Bert.
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Considering how this has been produced, I imagine it was filmed early last week when they got word Bert had gone into palliative care.
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AFAIK it was made at Nunawading. Not aware of any footage. To be honest, I remember the Fast Forward parodies more clearly
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Just going back with lots of the discussion - ABC radio had a pretty well prepared news story each hour not long afterwards so there would have been quite a bit of pre-preparedness with the obit.
News.com.au and others I’ve seen a couple where they have the article mostly written and just fill in the blanks and flesh things out… we can tell because sometimes they haven’t filled in all the blanks and there’s some weird sentences in there!
Has been so good to see all the tributes being positive and while a couple have touched on a couple of incidents, it’s been good to see so much positive reporting from all the networks. Can’t believe how well Patti was speaking to the media today, I know she’s had time to prepare herself for it but watching her face the media with her grand-daughter just made me and I’m sure many Australians just want to give her a big hug.
I saw the question about the funeral earlier, I’d imagine there will still be some COVID limitations but I’d be expecting a public location or two for large screen broadcasts and most likely Nine at least having a broadcast but the way they all try to jump on things, Seven and possibly Ten to cover it too.
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A quick montage of Bert of “Bert Newton: Let Me Entertain You”, before Tracey Grimshaw reflected her time with Bert, followed by Hamish Blake, Shaun Micallef and Eddie Maguire (more to follow, i assume)…
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