A lot of the guest interviews are just becoming boring, lazy cross promotions (taskmaster and masterchef tonight). The show needs to return to its roots and do more original comedy, making fun of regional news etc and a regular sports segment.
I struggle to watch the show on broadcast anymore and will only watch it on 10play so I can fast forward the random cross-promotion guests.
At the rate they’re using the show as boring a cross-promotion vehicle, they’ll probably kill it.
might be tricky - WIN, Seven and Nine might mot allow Working Dog access to their local news footage. IIRC, they had issues with this during The Panel era, albeit not for regional news, but other footage.
The Cheap Seats has featured plenty of reports/footage from WIN News and Seven regional news.
As far as I’m aware, most networks are clients of a logplayer service, which allows them to access and record any live channel in Australia (including the regional channels), and the ability to go back and watch specific times and dates in case they miss anything.
I’m sure a few people here are using it 
Well I wasnt sure. Im assuming theyre claimong copyright or have made the cost of licensing clips sky higjh. I wouldn’t rule out those 3 jacking up the price.
Nine and Working Dog and Ten have history - check The Panel’s Wiki page.
This season’s Cheap Seats is much more entertaining and enjoyable than the last one.
Agreed. Used to be a big fan, but finding the interviews in particular often boring, and with unknown or little known guests. They used to have far more emphasis on making fun of the news. And no, they’re not restricted as to what news sources they can show. Comes under the fair comment rule.
They’re also falling into the breakfast radio trap of laughing and giggling at everything. Though it’s good to see Tim keeping up his level of dry humor and cynicism.
HYBPA went through this problem at one point too. In around 2018 or 19 I think they had 3 guest quizmasters in several episodes, which was too much. Nowadays it’s rare that they have 2 an episode.
I personally prefer Mel and Tim just doing sport.
No, bring back Titus O’Reilly.
Random female athlete of the week
Adam Rozenbachs is good when they have him presenting as a guest. They should make him full time on sport as I can’t see Titus coming back.
I prefer more of the duo at the desk than more bits with less than stellar sports guuets.
Alex Ward is on tonight’s show to talk sport.
You never know what to expect from The Cheap Seats - wasn’t expecting to reminisce about Offspring tonight. 
This one is for all the #Offspring fans out there that want the tough questions asked... #why
— The Cheap Seats (@cheapseatsau) June 10, 2025
You can see Eddie Perfect in Beetlejuice The Musical in Melbourne right now! #cheapseatsau pic.twitter.com/qz3DNwyaE9
Interesting that when they showed Eddie’s clip from Offspring, Stan (in tiny letters) was shown on the top right corner. The streaming platform currently has the SVOD rights.
