News just in from Nine:
The Nine Network Australia today announced Mick Molloy’s new television project, The Nation, will premiere on Tuesday, June 5 at 9.30pm.
Mick Molloy swaps his tracky daks for a snappy suit to sit at a desk and let rip with a topical, news-based program ? with an edgy difference.
Every week The Nation will take a humorous look at the people and events making news. Mick will be joined at the news desk by a roster of comedians and entertainers as they dissect the real world of politics, current events, sport and entertainment.
“I promise that every episode will end with a dog that can ride a surfboard and do long division,” said Mick Molloy.
Stars of the airwaves such as 2Day-FM breakfast co-host Jackie O and Nova drive co-host Akmal Saleh will join Mick each week to review the news.
My favourite bit of this media release is “with an edgy difference”.
Anyone who has seen the Daria episode where her dad is supposed to be more “edgy” will know what I mean.
Placing bets now. I reckon it will last 5 weeks.
7 Comments
Ross says:
Jackie O – fantastic! Why not Jo Stanley and Fifi Box too? And maybe Alan Jones.
catbrain says:
Nice one, Josh! I’d forgotten about that Daria ep…
So, they’re basically trying to do The Chaser’s War On Everything with a single host and changing guests?
I don’t reckon they’ll pull it in a hurry – gotta keep their Australian “drama” quota up.
Brett says:
Having been at the shooting of the pilot, there’s a couple of things I should mention.
Jackie O is a late addition – as a replacement for Fifi Box! Personally, I prefer Box over O.
As for the longevity of the show, the pilot was a lot more punchy than the old Saturday night show, has better talent with more direction and I suspect there’s going to be more oversight from 9 management as to content, rather than Mick being given carte blanche by Jamie, as he was for the previous show.
dishy says:
It will run until around 2015, because Australia loves crap TV shows. And this sounds like total crap.
Ross says:
More shit casting news with Channel 9 announcing Nikki Osborne will be part of the show. As in Nikki Osborne brain dead bimbo QuziMonkey co-host.
If her efforts on QuizMonkey are anything to go by, the show will be bursting with humour.
markymarc says:
i guess in theory, having more shows that dissect media and news is a good thing, (a world with both John Stewart & Colbert is better than just the one?) But the problem is that CH9… are just incapable of making watchable tv. Could be worse – it could have Richard Wilkins.
catbrain says:
Well, I’ll be giving it a bash because Tuesday nights are pretty vacant on FTA, apart from the police procedurals and serious stuff on ABC/SBS.