Doesn’t this diminish Pilot Week? Ten ignored audience feedback, went ahead with this and then axed it after two episodes. Just seems a little odd if they’re essentially just commissioning what they like.
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It was a bad average format that didn’t work. Any time slot wouldn’t have worked.
Well, maybe you’re a quitter, but they are a business and they should be looking for any opportunities to make money. They should be creating programs that viewers want to watch and advertisers want to advertise in.
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The ratings Hey Hey was getting in 2010 would be considered a moderate success in 2019. The problem was that it wasn’t cost effective to licence/produce.
Speaking of money, back in 1999 Daryl wanted to take HHIS in a different direction after Carroll left. Unfortunately, the budget was deemed too excessive.
Considering the rumblings about The Project getting shopped to other networks in the past, I think Ten may have been happy to give Rove carte blanche for any future projects to ensure Roving Enterprises doesn’t think about moving any of its formats elsewhere…
Sounds interesting. Got any more details on that?
Others have mentioned this in the past, but what about having The Project 7 nights a week, and have Rove host on Saturdays alongside Georgie / Lisa?
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From HHIS’ Wikipedia page:
Nine Network executives decided toward the end of 1999 to cancel Hey Hey It’s Saturday. Somers claimed that he wanted to take the program into a new direction after the departure of Carroll, but the budget to redevelop the show was deemed excessive.
1999 also saw the beginning of another variety show on Nine, Rove. Newspapers reported Kerry Packer’s relative closeness to McManus and distance from Somers during the year. Rove was itself axed at the year’s end, but was reborn in 2000 on Network Ten as Rove Live.
And sadly no citations or references for either of those paragraphs.
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im sorry but this just that proves that people have mored on from live tv esp live light enterainment shows . just take a look at hhs for an example it just shows people have moved on and so should tv networks. What worked once a long time ago does not mean it will work now
Upcoming movie replacements will be Sister Act and The Notebook in coming weeks.
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Whoopi to the rescue for the 5,786th time!
I disagree.
When it was put on a Saturday night the odds were up against it, when the audience you’re after is not home on a Saturday night, you can’t expect it to rate.
It should have been on mid week IMO even late Tuesday night. Rove used to be on Tuesday and it’s a bit of a dead area at the moment.
Sure we can have the argument that they shouldn’t give up on Saturday’s but launching a new format on a night when the audience isn’t around was never going to take off.
What’s more sad is that programmers won’t go anywhere near variety live tv now because of this botched programming decision,
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The Front Bar is light entertainment and live. It says hello.
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Oh please. It was pure trash that never should have gone to air in the first place.
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Actually it just proves Saturday night on Ten is a graveyard timeslot. Nothing has rated well there since they had the rights to Saturday Night AFL.
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It’s also because they have no lead-in. Seven, Nine and even ABC have news that still rates big on Saturday nights.
10 have The Project on weeknights, that and reality shows are consistent Sunday - Thursday for 10 viewers. They could only wish to have a 400k+ lead-in on Saturdays!
When Rove was at Nine in '99, his show was on at 11pm on Wednesday.