Yes Million Dollar Wheel of Fortune with Tim Campbell. The wheel was tiny and the set tried to look futuristic.
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MDWOF premiered on Nine on 26 May 2008. Low ratings saw it axed after five weeks on air.
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These episodes never aired, in any slot?
Bring it backā¦ alongside Tenās Changing Roomsā¦
It aired at 10am on 7 after the final episode of Season 25.
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thanks for that. I didnt know that about Wheel of Fortuneās 10am final.
It reminds me when Temptation finished up. Itās last episode aired on a Friday morning, at 11.30am (in late January 2009).
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Inside word was it was a mutual decision for him to leave - he was a bit over it and that was starting to show on air. So he and Seven agreed heād finish up end of 2003 - a seven season stint.
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He took over when John Burgess was canned from the show and moved to Nine? Or was there another presenter in between?
Tony Barber had a disastrous attempt in 1996. Rob was Tonyās replacement from the 1997 season.
Seven moves the show to Sydney, Burgo is sacked and replaced with Tony, and in November Adriana takes sick leave due to depression.
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It was sad when they moved the show from Adelaide to Sydney. This was the time when all networks were closing down production in Perth / Adelaide and Brisbane and centralising them to Sydney (or Melbourne).
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They kept a lot of production in Brisbane, a lot of childrenās shows were produced there for all networks until the government cut the quotas.
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Saturday Disney continued to be filmed at BTQ until 1999 when it moved to ATN.
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Not for Seven. All childrenās content moved to Sydney in the late 90s.
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The Big Breakfast was produced at BTQ in 2000. Studios became decommissioned in 2001.
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Iām assuming the Big Arvo came out of ATN7 in 2001?
Iām pretty sure Nine had their childrenās shows produced in Queensland as well. I remember the science show Y! Being on and produced in Brisbane.
I thought The Big Arvo came onto the scene a bit after that.
But yes, I believe most (if not all) Seven Network childrenās television came out of Sydney from about the Late 90s/Early 2000s until last year.
QTQ was the home of Nineās childrenās television output for many years, but didnāt the network do something weird and move it to Sydney for a while? Certainly I remember it being revealed on-air (via a question) that the game show Pyramid was produced here at some point.
And of course, Tenās kids shows were produced from TVQ until they were axed.
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Yes The Big Arvo came out of ATN.
Local shows like Sportscene were using the local BTQ studios up until its last days. Roy and HG produced a 2001 Goodwill Games edition of The Monday Dump there.
In recent years its been used for one off projects like the TV studio scenes in Hoges: The Paul Hogan Story.
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Interesting that they put on one of the older Grant episodes instead of the newer ones with Simon. Could it be because of the legal case he had with Seven?
Though I believe all the MDM reruns currently being shown on 7TWO are ones featuring Simon?
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