I hope Gogglebox blows it out of the water.
Filler programming
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A two and a half hour Grand Final Countdown on the Thursday night? Yikes. That’s one long night.
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Not sure I’d call 2.5 hours of live television ‘filler‘
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I’d argue it’s filler as the Grand Final is Sunday and they have nothing else to air then, so they’ve put a footy themed thing on Thursday
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Is everyone at every network just running on fumes at this point. Like, do even footy fans want to watch 3 hours of gibber just because there’s no game?
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Where does it say it’s live? I can’t see that.
I suspect it will all be pretty much pre-recorded material, lots of clips from this year’s games, some recycled interviews, but some reasonably new interviews as well.
And probably a permanent countdown clock in the corner of the screen to live up to the program name!
Filler is a movie or cheap library content, surely rather than something that does require some effort.
Guess we will see but it sounds like a Footy Show. You’d hope there’d be plenty of new content.
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In the details schedule info from Nine it is marked as live.
Seems like a good innovation - better than RBT, Emergency, A+E repeats etc.
WHo knows what the content is, but potential studio audience and/or crosses to the clubs.
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Thanks, I’m also surprised Melbourne is getting this in prime time as well… even more so given that there is no guarantee the Storm will be playing 
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Just heard Nine say that 100% Footy with the studio audience is “at their North Sydney studios” so they must have a decent amount of space there.
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The tail end of the article says this year’s Kangaroos tour will be shown on Nine and Fox League.
Nine and DAZN have agreed to simulcast this year’s three-Test Ashes Series which will be played in England in October and November.
The Kangaroos will begin their Ashes campaign against England at Wembley on October 25, with games in Liverpool and Leeds to follow.
Update
Looking at the schedule, the second Ashes test between England and Australia in Liverpool on November 1 will overlap with the England v Australia rugby union clash in Twickenham. The rugby league match kicks off at 2.30pm GMT and the rugby union match kicks off at 3.10pm GMT.
On November 8, the third Ashes test in Leeds (2.30pm GMT kick off) will be followed by the rugby union match between Italy and Australia in Udine (5.40pm GMT kick off).
The rugby union matches (as part of the Wallabies’ European tour) are live and exclusive on Stan, so there will be no clash on FTA.
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You get what you wished for tonight.
If Panthers make it in, Nine’s programmers will have one of the easiest jobs in the world next week!
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Imagine if it featured 2 of the Raiders, Sharks or Warriors.
They’d have an aneurysm.
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If it is Storm v Penrith, the ratings will be interesting… I’ve seen comments on sites like Whirlpool saying people are sick of Storm and Penrith and that won’t watch it if those two are playing. So it’ll be interesting to see if that is reflected in the wider audience.
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Let’s just say, I wouldn’t call Seven’s counterprogramming schedule what viewers will choose to flock to.
Probably 10 (or one of the multichannels of any network) would benefit if that.
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