Rove’s special for the US ABC Network, The List, landed last in its timeslot. At 2.9m viewers, it was a long way behind The Mentalist on 10.8m viewers.
The special, looking back on 2008 newsmakers, was preceded by a Donnie and Marie Osmond-hosted reality special. It managed 4.6m viewers.
In the lead up to the special, Rove also appeared on Good Morning America, plugging the show.
You can see a clip here
Source: The Age.
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Cant see many of the Rove haters commenting in this blog appearing soon on Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader. The spelling is atrowshus
Watch the YouTube clips of ‘The List’ – quite honestly it sounds like 7 or 8 audience members are laughing at the material… The rest are dumb-founded by the stupidity of his commentary…
Sorry Rove, but you should be quarunteened (sp?) to Australian TV only bud…. We’re used to this crap.
The funny thing is, I could have put a show on in Roves place with me sittin there playing with a monkey and it would have rated last as well.
I agree with Wildeye. The kind of money we put into our shows would barely cover catering costs in an American production.
Of course Rove is a nobody in America, it’s cause he’s only just started out there. Just remember, just because your big in Australia, doesn’t mean your gonna be big in America. You have to prove to them you can make it in the big league. Like Russel Crowe, Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Toni Collette, etc.
Don’t forget also, we had an American hosting a television show, 3 decades ago, and he was massive here. Don Lane had talent, but had the smarts to back it up.
Give Rove a chance. He may just pull a rabbit out of a hat. He might just do it, at some point!
Well points for trying, you cant blame the guy for giving it a shot, its not exactly easy, I think peeps are miffed at why he wants American fame, Australian actors and personalities seem to hold up the US like its a friggin holy grail.
I’ll say it again, Rove is just not funny, seems like a nie guy and all, but he is simply not funny. Everyone else on his show is funnier than him, and he has the top spot.
See, What the yanks call “lame” TV or “crappy TV” is the equivilant to Australias top production level, to them, our best stuff, would be there crap. Actors and personalities n all.
“Freddy on December 26th, 2008 1:35 pm
The only reason you laugh at him is because the audience laughs, the only reason the audience laughs is because they have people standing there with signs telling them to laugh.”
Opinions are opinions… but don’t make stuff up Freddy! I’ve been to Letterman twice and there was never a “laugh” sign of any type.
@freddy…
been to letterman twice – no cards with applause/clap/laugh……they do have an applause light at conan though…..not needed really.
Ummm, Rove is a nobody in USA.
So don’t blame him for ruining the show and making it bomb. He’s a nobody and people would be like, why is a nobody from australia hosting a show..next!!
If he was well known in USA as an Australia and a host/entertainer/comedian then the show would have done well..
Come on guys!! His first hosting roll of a tv special in USA as a nobody. Give him a chance!
Did anyone saying “ouch, his comedy is lame” actually see the show?
I live in the US and saw the whole thing.
The show was terrible. It was terrible content, terrible format, terrible entertainment. It was the kind of cheap TV on E! At 4pm weekdays.
I also saw the promos for it which made it look very boring and unwatchable too.
I would suggest it bombed in the ratings because it was a terrible show. Nothing to do with Rove himself. The content and format was something ABC came up with. And they needed a fresh but cheap host to front it. Enter Rove. He’d have no say over the content. The show could have been hosted by Americas #1 talking head Regis Philborn and it would not have rated better.
The show was shit. Not the host. Americans love anyone with an accent so if anything more people stay tuned to due to Rove hosting then turned off.
Keep it in perspective guys.
I agree with knoxoverstreet Leno is lame happy his leaving soon…
For me it’s jon stewart & stephen colbert then Letterman > Conan & Leno last..
& Rove even after Leno can’t stand the way Rove does interviews…
No-one who saw that would not have watched The List. Even I would have watched Donnie and Marie. Ouch indeed!
bobby, exactly, not prepared, not enough research on the subject, not telling anything new.
I just love how irrational humans are and immediately pressume this was the end of his chances in the US, it was on 2 days before christmas and at 10pm, with someone they don’t know properly, if at all yet telling them thigns they already know about the past year, of course noone watched.
Now that’s funny
Yeah without Hughsie etc around to make his show half decent Rove falls flat.
victor, thanks i was wondering about the mentalist, i was going to say; doesn’t it usually get around 18mil
Wasn’t that a rerun of The Mentalist?
I like Letterman, and while I won’t try to convert those of you who aren’t fans, remember that he does five shows a week, for basically the whole year. Rove struggles to do one show a week.
I’d say this was just ABC trying to recreate the magic CBS had with the hiring of Craig Ferguson. But as Rove has painfully learnt, being foreign is not enough. It’s being talented that is key.
Exposed! With Helliar, Hughes and co out of the picture, Rove’s really nothing to write home about.
Shane, learn to read before posting.
I did not say ‘I like Leno’
I do not like any of them, they are all boring and very unfunny, what I said was that I think that Leno was better.
Freddy – the fact that you like Leno is bad enough, but to prefer him to Letterman…that is the actions of a first class dullard.
Letterman better than Leno but it doesn’t help that Leno is not on FTA, over on The Comedy Channel I forget to watch unless there is a celebrity I want to see. But there is always YT.
IT Conan is better than Leno!
Those would be excellent numbers.. if it was Aust.
Leno is lame.
It goes Letterman > Conan > the rest with Leno last
Gawd there’s lots of positivity from the commenters here… not! Tough break for Rove but small steps I guess.
Cause of problem: Richard Marsland is no longer writing Rove’s material.
Letterman may be the best, but the best at what?
Boring, unfunny, grating voice.
The only reason you laugh at him is because the audience laughs, the only reason the audience laughs is because they have people standing there with signs telling them to laugh.
His Top 10 is quite pathetic, needs creative funny writers.
Jay Leno is a lot better. (Although I hardly watch him)
Rove? Never had much time for him as he seems to copy everyone instead of being original.
No surprise there… Seems his ‘comedy’ is too plain on an International level now.
At least it is three times more viewers her gets here!!!!!
A much needed reality check for “Team Rove”.
Letterman is the best in the business.
I concur with the “ouch” though ,hopefully this will show Rove and ABC that he has no place on US television.
Not surprising, he is quite boring and a copy of those US boring people such as that abosolute useless Letterman.
Stick with that useless CH10 and those youngsters without brains who seem to watch it.
ooooh, that’s gotta hurt!
I think it’s pretty safe to say there isn’t a TV career for him in the US now.
Ouch!