Saturday Night Rove

The show’s executive producer is Jo Long . She comes to the program after working with Charlie Pickering on both The Weekly and The Yearly . Long also worked with Rove on his US series for Foxtel, Rove LA .

“For this season we have The Chaser’s Chris Taylor as our head writer. We have never worked together before and collaborating with him has been very good.

Saturday Night Rove will again feature live crosses as in the pilot, but Rove said there will be less of them. “We won’t rely on them as heavily as we did in the pilot.”

Rove is hopeful the show will generate enough viewer interest to grow into something regular. “For the moment we are focussing only on these six episodes.” He suggested anything is possible and he noted that with Hughesy, We Have A Problem , the first season of his show at 10 was extended.

Also from Studio 10 earlier today:

https://twitter.com/Studio10au/status/1164767084061941761?s=20

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Is this the same studio where they filmed Rove 10 years ago?

Also seems they streamed the first 10mins on Facebook.

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Rove was done in Melbourne, this is the Sydney 10 studio

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Interesting how they are going to auction off each celeb item on Ebay. Already over $2000.

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Is this live?

This is really poorly produced and barely written.

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The camera moving during Jess’ interview was making me sick. Strange decision to have it swing back and forth like that.

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That Anthony Callea with Alice or Alex or whoever she is “skit” was pure torture.

They’ve literally had a year to prepare and this is what they come up with?

“fun” can sometimes be mistaken for “funny”. I’ve got an idea, give him a desk back so he isn’t roaming around without a home base. Give him some proper comedians for back-up, drop stupid one note gimmicks like the Luke McGregor torture, and give us some proper comedy. Rove was a decent show in the day, this really wasn’t, and had no reason to go long as it was bereft of content.

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Mmm. They’re called steady cams for a reason… hopefully they don’t return next week.

It felt like about 30 minutes of good ideas smashed out to 70 minutes.

Ivan was good and probably deserved more time. Jess a complete waste of time.

Getting rid of the host would be a start!

This show is trending online, as is Mrs Doubtfire LOL

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Any ratings come through yet?

Ratings came through this morning. Weren’t too bad for a Saturday night and outrated the NRL on Nine. Mediaweek notes last night’s ratings were higher than last year’s pilot.

Here:

Pretty sure you can’t post that here?

You can post a link, which is what I did. There is no preview of the Twitter post.