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Channel 9 has finally lost patience with Family Feud.
I guess after 18 months of claiming it was ‘building’ when there was no real change in the ratings Nine had to do something. Like the whole Rowe departure you just have to wonder why it has taken this long.
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She who must not be named, officially boned.
Nine finally ended its tortured relationship with the high-profile star with a terse three-sentence statement.
Nine announced that Rowe, currently on maternity leave, “would not be returning to the Network and that Nine and Jessica had reached an agreement that would allow Jessica to take up other opportunities for her career”.
Yay!
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.
Boxcutters Episode 83 is the extended remix. Brett drops the dope beats in his review of The Sideshow, Ross has the funky col’ fresh rhythm with Ratings and Josh kicks it old school with Big Brother.
Also, dropping his needle on the wax this week is James Talia who tells us all about being an international news correspondent.
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We were planing on covering Drive on next week’s Boxcutters. Unfortunately there is this news from TV Guide:
Multiple sources confirm that Fox has axed the Tim Minear creation after less than three weeks on the air. I’ll go out on a limb and say the show’s crappy ratings were to blame.
I’m a big fan of Tim Minear‘s work, especially on Angel, Firefly and Wonderfalls. He seems to have no problem getting shows off the ground but keeping them on the air is another story entirely.
That being said, Drive was fraught with problems in both story-telling and casting. It’s not a huge surprise.
It’s Boxcutters Episode 82 SHOW OF MYSTERY!!!
What is happening this week? Are there any segments? If so, what? I Don’t Buy It? Crap TV? WHO KNOWS!
And what about guests? Maybe there are and maybe there’s not. What about inflamed rhetoric?
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Last week we heard about a possible Surprise Surprise rehash. Now it appears Channel 7 is going ahead with the Naomi Robson talk show.
It can’t be a coincidence can it? ‘Yes, sure Naomi, you can do your own Springer/Oprah style chat show’ snigger, snigger, snigger.
What other explaination could there be? Surely Channel 7 can’t seriously be considering about a Naomi fronted talk fest.
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