And this is how Totally Full Frontal ended.
Features future Rove Live writer Kynan Barker.
Totally Full Frontal Final Episode (1999) Channel 10 - YouTube
YouTube: For the Love of Broadcast.
Especially since Totally Full Frontal was one of the first major TV roles for Julia Zemiro, who of course has since gone onto far bigger and better things in the industry…
Going by what I’ve seen of the series, I’d have to agree.
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Once Shaun left, the show should’ve ended then and there.
Instead it went on for another 7 episodes.
How long did Pass the Buck run for?
Lasted only 40 episodes before Burgo’s Catch Phrase was reinstated
From Wikipedia:
Before Pass the Buck went to air, Nine’s Director of Programming at the time, John Stephens, was confident of Burgess as host, stating that he would “make the transition [from Burgo’s Catch Phrase ] to the new format without missing a beat”
Probably a few more than that, with “Pass The Buck” premiering on 11/2/2002 and it still being listed in that mid-May TV guide posted above by TVAU.
Although didn’t Nine try running a really old show like Happy Days or The Brady Bunch (possibly both) as a lead-in to the 6pm news during 2002 between the demise of Pass The Buck and Burgo’s Catch Phrase relaunching?
Tuesday 14 May 2002:
Seven: Better Homes and Gardens aired at 7.30pm, and was only 30 minutes long. Back when the Lifestyle genre was short and to the point. Now, its 97 minutes long. And the Late News aired at 11.30pm. Unlike today, when The Latest (aka Late News) airs at 10pm onwards and people complain how late that is.
Ten: Big Brother at 7pm. 30 minutes reality programming. Now those were the days. Short and sweet. lol. And Rove Live? A shame that there’s no weekly variety/talk show these days - on any network.
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…while The Great Outdoors aired at 8pm.
Don’t think it was overly long after this guide that Seven moved their travel show to 7.30pm Mondays in favour of trying other lifestyle shows (such as Room For Improvement and Surprise Chef) in the post-BH&G timeslot on Tuesdays?
Indeed.
Ironically, it’s the spectacular failure of Rove’s most recent show which has probably resulted in the genre of weekly variety/talk shows on Australian TV now being something of a poisoned chalice - commercial networks are highly unlikely to touch the format again anytime soon when it’s much cheaper to produce movie length reality shows!
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Program a poorly produced show, on a Saturday on 10. What did they expect. Nothing to do with the genre.
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Fame And Misfortune (ABC, 5pm) features Kylie Minogue and Ben Mendelsohn, who’d both already been in The Henderson Kids together. Kylie was already being seen in Neighbours by this point, too.
And how’s that 7.30 line-up, four Aussie dramas up against each other, and then Prisoner at 8.30. And on a supposedly low-key Thursday night?
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The D-Generation and The Young Ones. Great nighttime viewing on ABV-2.
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Interesting line-up on WIN Tasmania with Sale Of The Century at 6pm then the local news at 6.30. Just shows that they’ve tried so many different combinations over the years.
Then you have SES running Oprah at 9.30am weekdays and still have space for Welcome Back, Kotter repeats at 5pm.
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I thought that Six O’Clock with Penny Tame had started by that point but it wouldn’t have been too far off from that. I’m not sure if it was or not but they seemed to market it as a Northern bulletin and a Southern bulletin but not sure if it actually was or not as I had no real way of checking if the Hobart one was different back then.
The 6:30 bulletin was the composite local, national and international bulletin to compete against Southern Cross even though that had by then moved to 6pm.
Nice mix on SES8 of Nine, Ten and Seven programming in the one day! Must have been great fun switching the different services back then and the various timings.
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… speaking from experience, “great fun” wouldn’t have been the word that I would have used 
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Yes… I can certainly imagine. Things were very different back then! In some ways it wasn’t that long ago but technology and transmission wise it may as well have been centuries!