According to e-news Don Burke is in talks to bring Burke’s Backyard back to Nine for Friday nights.
The program, which is likely to feature Scott Camm as well as Burke and others from the former sister program, Backyard Blitz, will return to Nine after the National Rugby League competition proper finishes and the finals start.
At this stage it will return towards the end of September when the Friday night semi-final matches are finished.
The timeslot will be the old 7.30 pm on Fridays where the program was a standout success from 1987 to about three or four years ago when ratings crumbled.
It’s like people at Nine don’t remember why they got rid of the show in the first place. Staleness had set in and people stopped watching. Yes it was one of the first of its genre, but Burke’s Backyard as we knew is unlikely to stand on its own in the current climate.
I’d be interested to see how the show changes to bring it up-to-date but I truly doubt there’ll be anything ground-breaking.
3 Comments
catbrain says:
Perhaps it’s more to do with local content requirements? They removed Outrageous Fortune, didn’t they – what has replaced it? Nothing, as far as I can tell…
markymarc says:
beyond that – the stories that i’ve heard from people who’ve worked with him are horrendous. He’s easily one of the most infamously evil people to work with in australian television.
catbrain says:
oh yeah, markymarc – I’ve heard some shocking stories too. I’m disgusted / appalled / any other adjective you can think of that he lasted as long as he did; just goes to show that some commercial networks will do anything for ratings.