If you accept that context, then it’s a nonsense term - bumping the news to give the bulletin the tennis lead-in wouldn’t make it equivalent to the “reserves game”.
Call me cynical, but this only makes it muddier for me. There’s the back and forth between Genovese and Zempilas about presenting/being the fill in, then this exchange:
BZ: “The tennis is on tonight, isn’t it?”
MG: “Uhh yeah, the women’s final” (or words to that effect)
BZ: “It’s a reserves game”
Unless Basil has only now decided to process an earlier point in the conversation - which isn’t impossible but unlikely - I call bull.
In the video he has recently posted (which I’ve only seen since after I posted), Basil is talking about Genovese going head to head with his wife on 7, before he realises the tennis is on and the match up (against his wife) goes from being a ‘derby’ to a reserves game as they’re not on at the same time.
He sort of starts trailing off about having read nights like that (presumably when 7 had the Australian Open). I really think there’s nothing here and that 6 News (and others) jumped the gun.
Remember, Peter worked a few weekends leading into December which didn’t seem to be planned. So they probably took those weeks from January.
It was mentioned on here the other day that he will return in February.
Everyone is entitled to a break.
Yep, a cheap shot without knowing the context. “Reserves game” is a term often thrown around internally for a news bulletin which is up against heavy competition.
When Peter was absent from his regular segment on 3AW this week, it was mentioned then that he’ll be back “next week or the week after”. So we can only assume he’s not too far away from returning to the weekend news.
It will be weird with him been on weekends without Tony Jones and Livinia Nixon joining him. It just won’t be the same. I’ll miss the banter between him and Tony.
It would’ve been quite hard for him to move to weekends and no longer have Tony and Livinia joining him.
No because it’s not like he’s moved overseas and hasn’t got his mum and dad with him. He’s obviously wanted to scale back and all they can offer him is weekends. He’ll be just fine.
Including Cameron Price, who lost his job at Nine after the Choppergate scandal of 2011. He had been due to move to the Sydney newsroom in the weeks following, though ended up moving there anyway with Sky and later Seven.
He actually re-joined them earlier this month. He was initially let go by GTV in August 2020 when the regional bulletins were axed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
