This won’t go down well at all…
Channel Nine has issued a rare weekend programming amendment this afternoon to indicate Hey Hey the Reunion will not be repeated tonight.
That’s likely to incense a lot of the fans who were singing Nine’s praises this week.
Instead it will play the movie 50 First Dates at 9:30pm instead.
At this stage there is no explanation as to the reasoning behind this.
A lot of fans had planned on watching the show a second time, and there were plenty who heard about how successful the show was and wanted to catch it tonight. Some viewers even held off the Wednesday special to enjoy the show on Saturday night, its traditional home.
A move this late only reiterates why viewers have been so alienated by Nine programming and shun many of their new programmes. Many TV Tonight readers noted the Hey Hey reunion was the first time Nine had stayed on their box in a long time.
UPDATE: After breaking the news on Nine’s cancelled Hey Hey repeat, TV Tonight can now reveal Nine will replay both specials some time after the second reunion. A Nine spokesperson did not give any reason for tonight’s replay being withdrawn.
Update: The Herald Sun says Daryl Somers asked Nine to remove the show from Saturday’s schedule.
Watched the repeat of Hey Hey with a continuous smile, it is a top show, love it; I wanted to see mainly this untalented American ‘artist’ squirm on the ‘gong Show’.
FU channel 9 for cutting out the ‘second act’ on the Gong Show.
Instead I listened to an untalented American pr**k castrating a classic song and gurgling his own version; ironically the songs title is ‘ Don’t go changing’.
He didn’t like the ‘black’ shoe polish!! Does he rather prefer all these movies & TV series coming out of the US of A, where killing is the main object? Bloody hipocrit!!
And you d**k-heads at channel 9 fell for it? FU all !!!
hey! I loved your reunion! It was a Crack up! Hope you never go of air again! Im only 10 but your show is my fave! Only 1 word to say……………Excellent!
(P.S please read my message out!
Channel Nein is run by monkeys.
Not happy with Daryl Somers and Channel 9 for pulling the repeat of the Hey Hey Reunion because I really wanted to see it.
Well I hope they’re planning on repeating it soon.
What is it with Nine lately?Humphrey Only exists as repeats and a game show of close to thirty years gets the chop for a cheaper US Import which is nothing more than a 21st Century Male Version of the Nineties Australian Show My Two Wives.
@Azmond, the other channel is GO!. Nine HD from what I’ve heard is just a HD simulcast of Nine.
What’s strange is that 9 have two channels… ‘Nine’ and ‘Nine HD’… surely they could have played 50 first dates on one and the hey hey repeat on another!
I missed Wednesday night’s edition due to work commitments. Channel Nein owe everyone a huge apology for this stuff up. I can only assume this was an accident. They couldn’t possibly have done it deliberately.
Not Happy = My wife wanted to watch the repeat and it wasn’t on. And when the wife’s not happy I’m not happy.
Its a simple problem to solve. Don’t let marketing type people make descisions about content. These type of people are idiots and have no idea on what constatutes quality. Get creative people into management and let them decide what is shown and when.
Oh dear. I intended to record the rest of Hey Hey since I missed the last ten minutes (or I don’t even know how much) when I recorded it on Wednesday, but was unpleasantly surprised to find that I had recorded something else.
This is exactly why Nine is so unpopular. Hopefully we’ve all learnt our lesson that you can never trust Nine. And any notions that they may have pulled it to ensure strong ratings for next Wednesday, you’re probably right. After all, Nine is so thick nowadays that they probably think that will work. But if you ask me, pulling a repeat at the last minute will only lose viewers, on both Saturday and Wednesday. It’s beyond me how it could possibly increase the audience.
Nine may have reached a high, but don’t let that fool you that they’re not Still The One to mess it up.
Adelaide had “Two Weeks Notice” airing from 9pm. Another movie played too often.
What a silly decision by the program director at nine. I would have thought that at least 1 million people would have watched it = good ratings and good advertising revenue, but instead we get some silly movie that has already been thrashed to death on TV. even at 10pm, the nine.com.au website was still saying HHIS reunion was on. they obviously have no idea themselves what they are doing.
I am one of those million, and I am really annoyed at nine and didnt watch the 9 movie on principle.
How about they give the second reunion to one of the other networks as they would seem less likely to stuff it up.
and they wonder why they’re going to hell in the ratings.
One show that gets em good ratings adn what do they do>
Can it for a bloody American movie that has been played 50 times!!!!
@Andrew
October 3, 2009 at 11:56 pm
Oops – my bad … lack of sleep thanks to the cricket makes the brain a bit drrr
Either way, Channel 9 still sucks, especially in Adelaide, where they have no balls – so any program with a ballsy logo on it has an ugly green or blue block covering it (with the ball-less logo instead – like an opaque watermark)
i was going to watch it but chance blown 9, i won’t bother tuning in for the other special either. i saw a few minutes here and there on wednesday and it looked quite slow and boring, but after people raved i was going to try it. i’m not that angry, gives me more time to watch movies on dvd instead, 9 is the only one loosing out here. if they can’t even keep it together for a show that rated as massively as this what hope is there for any thing else on the network.
FU Ch9 you did it yet again, no wonder commercial TV is on the way out & TV Piracy is on the increase.
Lots of people here with anger management issues lol. As I said before it’s likely out of Nine’s control for whatever reason. No reason Nine would give up winning the night and week if they could help it.
I never really got into Hey Hey but silly by 9 not repeating it… Oh well, now they have something to put on Tuesday haha!
@Aaron: Fantastic Four is on Channel Ten
I’m willing to bet that Channel 9 will reneg on their promise to repeat the episodes of the Hey Hey It’s Saturday Reunion episodes and instead will probably release them for sale on DVD instead.
A lot of us are really angry about Nine taking off the Hey Hey repeat. The least they could do is tell us why they made this decision.
That is a let-down. My Grandma didn’t see Hey Hey on Wednesday, so my mum and I were going to watch it again so we could enjoy it with her.
My guess is because of footage referencing it to being live eg Twitter, E-mails, live cross to John Farnham’s concert.
At least it hasn’t been replaced with 2.5 Men repeats.
I Love Hey Hey and I love Channel Nine..Its been a Long wait,doesn’t seem like Ten Years..I am with a Majority of people who want it back,no question…It was a poor programming decision to take it off the Air in the first place..Here is how it is..”Wake up Channel 9″..You have let so many people down yet again..It seems that not only half the fortune has disapeared,Since the Legendary Late Kerry Packer,but so too has sensible decisions!, there is a total disregard and ignorance to the loyal 9 viewing public, suprseeded only by continual contempt..My advice..start listening to what people are saying and avoid a costly advertising revenue drop through retalitory boycott..Majority Rules!..
I don’t think Adelaides poor-mans version of Channel 9 planned on showing the repeat anyway … they’re showing one of the Fantastic Four movies tonight – but have been advertising this for the last few days ?!
I’d dare say Seven or Foxtel stopped Nine showing the repeat due to Molly … they weren’t happy with him going on to begin with, so I doubt they’d let them repeat it, especially with the ratings they got from the first screening.
Interesting … I’m watching Good News Week now (and the commercials therein) … it’s a repeat from Monday, started bang on time, and has me parked in front of the TV. Thank you Nine … if HHIS had been on, I might have watched your channel instead, but now I’m watching a channel with the courtesy and respect to play what they advertise, when they advertise it.
(Yes, it’s also out of character for Ten, but less so …)
What a disappointment! I didnt even know it was on wednesday night, just expected hey hey to be on saturday like it always was and i dont get much of a chance to watch tv during the week anyway. This is a disgrace Channel 9 I’ve been looking forward to tonights episode all day.
I’ve always had alot of respect for channel 9 but this is a kick in the guts and lets face it anyway you treat your viewers like products that can be consumed and spat out whenever you want. I’ll be taking a stand against 9 for doing this, my respect has shifted.
Channel Nine are a joke. They tweak and tweak, until nobody wants to watch anything any more.
If they could just stick to their advertised programming, and give the viewers a chance to tune in – then maybe they could keep us away from YouTube and torrents.
No wonder TV is dying. Nine lose. Internets win.
Well that sucks ! I missed it on Wednesday and will miss the 2nd show next Wednesday…… grrrrr
Good on you channel nine. Though I am sure you have your reasons, I’ve already lost interest as to why. Back to channel ten I go…….