After some speculation last week following comments on their Wednesday night show, The Chaser’s War on Everything team has confirmed the end of the show.
During the week the picture was somewhat unclear. A spokesperson had told TV Tonight they could only confirm the end of the current series, on July 29th.
But yesterday the Herald Sun confirmed the War brand would end, the second ABC show to announce its closure in as many days.
Following their ‘Make-a-Realistic-Wish’ sketch the show was suspended for two weeks. The ABC also truncated their episode order by a further two weeks.
The Chaser team will instead focus on new projects. Executive producer Julian Morrow said he was “interested in doing different sorts of stuff” including a possible narrative comedy.
Earlier this year we saw another of their productions, Lawrence Leung’s Choose Your Own Adventure.
Chris Taylor will also present Australia’s Heritage: National Treasures: Eureka Flag on August 6th on ABC1.
Source: Herald Sun
Ah…… I’m gonna miss this show, but I look forword to their new work, the whole War on Everything formula was getting old anyway.
Steve I Bet You Watch S**t Like The Panel Laught At It While Wearing Your Fav
Channel 10 Big brother Shirt And All There Other Boring Repetitive Reality And Panel S**t Styled Comedy Attempts ..
The Panel Where The Best Comedy Act On Tv For Many Years
Despite what is said, I still get the feeling they canned themselves due to the media harassment. As said at the end, for those of you who enjoyed our show, thank you – the other 19 million of you can get stuffed.
I’ve seen far worse comedy on commercial channels that have outlived their comic value yet are pushed to oblivion. Chasers *Was* unique and fresh, despite Steve saying otherwise.
A shame. satire comes and goes, but when you take a step back and think about a show moving on, you know they were doing something right.
Anyway, isnt dancing with losers on now or something? Must be off, cant miss that…. oO
Sad news indead, Once again the precious little kill-joys get listened to again. It was funny (as far as TV shows go) and fresh. What a shame.
So sorry the’War’ has ended.Some bits I didn’t find funny….most were hilarious.None of it was in such bad taste as’Big Brother’….or so totally boring as ‘Biggest Loser’ and all the other’real life crap!We need Chasers to say and do the things we’d like to do ourselves to all the stuffed shirt politicians,’important people,etc.etc.For once my husband agrees with me….without me threatening to set the dog on him….hence his name is alongside mine as co writer of this letter.
How did ABC, or anyone else, tolerate this crap for so long? Maybe it brought a smile to the sort of people who enjoy meat raffles? Trash, and not to be missed. Not clever, not funny, not new. Just a group of sad, smug nobodys. Bye.
999gmc: They aren’t being cancelled – they’ve made the decision themselves to end the show.
Everyone always say’s TV shows ‘lose something’ I’ve heard it so many times it seems to be FOTM to just say it now.
Chaser was funny and even if it didn’t make me laugh it did make me smile. Oh well.
this is soooo unfair. i’ve only just discovered the chaser, and now they’re gonna be cancelled before i even make it a regular thing! just because of one sketch??? i think the whole thing is media hype, taking the show too seriously. lighten up! laugh once in a while. it might even do some good in this world. i mean, yes, the sketch was sort of insulting to disabled kids and the make a wish foundation, but they’ve made fun of everything from americans to the art critics to the australian government itself, but they didn’t get cancelled for that!
Good decision. The jokes weren’t hitting the mark this year. Even the ‘controversies’ weren’t enough to generate long term interest.
There goes the only funny Australian show left on TV.
I thought the last few episodes have been good.
But the first season late on Friday nights was the best. Because they were unknown so they could get more naturalistic reactions from people on the street.
I was reminded of that feeling from the overseas segment, the brash charm in dealing with people who have no idea what is going on.
This is good news only because I think they can all do better.
Ah well. It was a good run while it lasted.
Yep, the comment about there being two episodes remaining “ever” at the end of Wednesday’s show pretty much made the end of the show a foregone conclusion. I’m kind of amazed that anyone needed to speculate. I just heard that and drew the obvious conclusion.
I’d be interested to know, though, whether it was driven by their own reasons, or if they were pushed into it by the ABC…
I think the problem is they’ve become a victim of their success. A scripted comedy sounds good.
CNNNN and the first 2 seasons of Chaser were excellent, and the Chaser Decides will no doubt come back.
Good work boys, bow out before you become too much yesterdays material.
very said to see this show gone, Now Comedy channel needs to ‘pick up’ this show for new eps, isn’t that what cable networks are all about.
Shame on ABC for culling 2 episodes from their originally planed 10 episodes.
Shame but they’ll still be doing other stuff, which is welcome news.
This series was patchy, but has def. improved, especially after the ‘make a wish’ incident.
Last few eps have been among their best.
Yep the war is over, they lost and we won.
We finally get to see back of them…:)
It had become a bit stale a while ago. CNNNN was great and the first series of War was good but I think it is definitely time to call it quits. I look forward to seeing something different from the guys.
Should have done it a season ago… They could have left on top and have people hungry for more. Instead, they got greedy and are left licking their wounds.
That being said, I would be interested to see a narrative style show.
Since they’re gonna be gone in 2weeks, I recon they’ll go insult absolutely everybody to leave a lasting impression.
Yay, The Chaser’s War On Comedy is over. I loved, loved, loved CNNN but after that it was just blah.
I’ve never really watched the show. I’m not a fan of political satire or practical jokes, so most of their humour never did anything for me.
However, I have seen some of their other sketches that they flesh the show out with – the songs and silly stuff – and thought they were genuinely clever and funny.
I’d like to see them be less deliberately controversial, and do something more traditional in flavour.
Wow. Not a complete shock but still a shock to me. Only 2 eps left :O
Wednesday nights will not be the same without The Chaser
i think i read about this a few days ago somewhere else
Man, that’s a shame. I’d love to see them try narrative comedy though – there’s not enough of it on TV at the moment!
Hasn’t Julian Morrow been saying for months this would be the last series of The Chaser’s War on Everything? In fact, didn’t they go into this series with Julian saying publicly it would be the swansong of War? A quick websearch confirms this was out there in the e-ther and metro press some time ago.
They have not been funny since CNNNN.
They did say at the end of Wednesday’s show that they were only 2 eps left “for good”.
sad news
Smart move, it has lost that “something” this year.