Comments on: Rove back around “April or May.”

By: adelaide dj hire

adelaide dj hire — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:43:35 +0000

i like rove coz he gives stand up comics a chance at being seen on national television

By: Tepee

Tepee — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:04:19 +0000

Robert: “Look any other show would have got the chop long ago with the dismal figures he pulls but 10 have a thing for rove and roving productions.”

Really getting sick of comments like this. Don’t think TEN would be keeping Rove if the show’s ratings were “dismal”. The fact is Rove consistently wins all key demographics, and if it didn’t then it wouldn’t be on. Before the Game also does well. Fifth Grader, however, does do dismally and it comes as no surprise that TEN haven’t revealed their plans as to the future of that show.

Obviously 7PM is underperforming drastically but TEN is making a decision to stick with it, perhaps because they don’t want to be constantly chopping and changing in that timeslot as they did last year. They want a long term fix and consistency and they see 7PM as that. Whether or not ratings improve is another thing, but to be honest I’d rather see a solid show not get axed and given time to get tweaked and improve rather than be cancelled due to some silly vendetta a few people have against Rove.

By: Casey

Casey — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:31:50 +0000

I have nothing against Rove (other than his being an abysmal interviewer, whose interviews are too short). As we don’t have a 5 night a week Letterman type
show in Australia (it wouldn’t work anyway, as our population is too small)
and/or a 5 day a week day time talk show like Channel 9 used to have, there’s a need for a show like his, so that when both overseas and local celebs from film, TV and music want to go on to plug something, there’s a free to air Aus talk show for them to appear on.

I’d agree that extending The 7PM Project to 1 hour (and to 6 nights a week to Sunday night as well), is a good idea, as they’d have the time then, for singers to perform on the show, which the half hour format doesn’t currently allow.

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:17:14 +0000

Neon Kitten rove lacks any decent interview skills and does not allow his guests time to speak. Basically the whole interview is “you arrived in australia X how’s that going” “your here to promote your new movie/show/book hows that” “5 questions”

Watch any other late night show from the UK/US and see how they do interviews. Honestly he should cut out the crap on the show and extend the interviews. His interviews are never free flowing either. If they deviate from the scripted sequence he tries to quickly bring it back to the script. He really is poor at interacting with his guests. The most enjoyable show of recent past was when Bruno was on and that was basically because he gave him a good 10 or 15 minutes.

He doesn’t need judith lucy, peter helliar or anyone else or other gimmicks to run the show. If he can’t get 1 or 2 international guests in every week for an hour including his monologues then he has some real serious problems.

Look any other show would have got the chop long ago with the dismal figures he pulls but 10 have a thing for rove and roving productions. The show would not be cheap to make it’s bland and the set is dated. I could go on but because I know he is such a big fan of leno, letterman and conan (he copies their content allot) then you would expect something similar.

By: Tepee

Tepee — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:35:41 +0000

Neon Kitten: “I don’t understand all the hate that Rove seems to generate.” Took the words right out of my mouth, Neon. The man himself for me comes across as down-to-earth, likeable and funny, if not the most innovative comedian. Rove (the show) is what it is – light entertainment and a a bit of fun. Like some people have grown up with Hey Hey, I (and the rest of Gen Y) have grown up with Rove. I’d rather Rove than another boring factual, procedural or the cheesy Hey Hey. But each to their own.

By: tasmanian devil

tasmanian devil — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:30:16 +0000

@Dodge and Kylie, nobody ever said that they watched. If we dislike a show so much that we complain about it, then why wouldn’t we not watch it?

By: franz chong

franz chong — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:33:06 +0000

Don’t take the show off.For without Him every week The Only Talk Show that will be worth staying up for is Letterman whenever they show him during the week.
It could be worse Instead of Rove being Dumped They Send Oprah to the Scrapheap.

By: Goonies

Goonies — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:25:08 +0000

Darn it – that isn’t half way through the year at all!

By: Bobby

Bobby — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:22:38 +0000

We so love mediocrity in this country!!!!

By: KFed

KFed — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:59:49 +0000

Wow, Rove sure does bump into a lot of people on the street who happily reaffirm his life choices.

By: David Knox

David Knox — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:51:17 +0000

It’s clear that Rove now has a divisive appeal. Those who like and those who don’t. I suspect there probably isn’t much in between. The anti-brigade seems rather vocal but last year he picked up both Best Light Entertainment and Favourite Male in awards voted by readers of this very site. He also was fourth in Worst Male. Voting for 2009 will begin later in December.

By: effdee

effdee — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:41:04 +0000

Please do us all a favour Rove……just go away!!!

By: Kylie

Kylie — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:22:11 +0000

Thats great news! I love Rove!

If you don’t like, don’t watch!

By: mac

mac — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:21:29 +0000

the diffrence is last time there was a reason it went of air but this time they have given no explanation

By: Neon Kitten

Neon Kitten — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:14:18 +0000

I don’t understand all the hate that Rove seems to generate. Watching him over the past years – and especially the last two or three – he has really hit his stride as a relaxed, confident and likeable TV show host. There’s an aura about him of, basically, not being a try-hard. He’s being himself, and it’s light years removed from the nervy, stumbling host he was in the earlier years of the show on Ten.

@mikeys – “same format, with the same dongos”? Err, so do tell us why Hey Hey would make for good television, then…

By: Burt

Burt — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:57:17 +0000

Rove should do viewers a favour and not come back. He should ask Ten to move Neighbours to 6pm and extend The 7PM Project to one hour from
6.30 – 7.30 pm Monday to Friday and also do a Sunday 7PM Project show well, which he can appear on.