Seven will launch its new AFL and NRL variety shows on alternate nights.
The Bounce will premiere at 7:30pm Wednesday March 24th in Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth. It will air at 12:30am Thursday in Sydney and Brisbane.
The Matty Johns Show, with Johns’ own name boldly as its title, premieres 7:30pm Thursday March 25th in Sydney and Brisbane and 12:00am Friday in Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth.
Both shows are rated PG and run for 60 minutes. Neither show indicates yet if it will be live.
The Bounce: Join Peter Helliar, Matthew Richardson and Leigh Matthews in this fun, family footy show that will entertain AFL fans around the country. Each week, there’ll be a look at the full teams for the weekend’s matches as well as other hot footy news, guests, stunts and gags, plus live crosses to wherever the pre-round action is happening.
The Matty Johns Show:
Matthew Johns will bring his unique and entertaining take on rugby league backed by the game’s strongest panel of experts – including Shane Webcke – with extensive access to players and clubs. Plus each week, there’s plenty for the whole family with special guests, live performances, music and comedy
i have a really cool tshirt from Shane Webkes’ pub at Leyburn in QLD. i just need an email address to send a photo of the shirt. i think you will get a laugh out of it
If he did nothing wrong and deserves his own show (who does he think he is Jay Leno? Letterman?) why was he so worried about the sex incident after it happened as he said in his interview afterwards? Why was he so shattered in the interview? He used to be funny i rekon when he started out as reg regan, but that was years ago.
So now we will be exposed to more tv rubbish. I will not be watching this show.
The ones that are hungry for more fame will be on it. I suppose it is the best they can do!!!!!
For example, ‘no talent’ people who think that a career in the media is what they deserve! They can have it, and the rest of us will just laugh, ie not with them but at them.
These people cannot do anything else, after all not much brain and plenty of brawn in the previous public spot light.
And ….. if they may have managed to get an education, it means nothing because they are too lazy to do anyting with it.
Yes, yes a career in the media – wow, “i am famous now” – that is the way to go. Bore us all to death, why dont you.
We will be exposed to more rubbish to Matty and even more rubbish occasionally from the likes of Big J. ie Stevens or whatever his name is!!!!!
Our 3 year old labrador is named Bounce. We would love her to be a guest on the show! She is a mascot for our rubber flooring business but maybe she could turn into a mascot for the show!
Its the old ‘what message are we sending young people’ , particularly young men .
This is a gross misjudgement on the part of channel 7. Unbelievable .
@Katie………please! As if your gonna stop watching ur favourite shows just becoz they have given matty johns a show……at the end of the day channel 7 is like any other business, im talking money, they seen the fallout after he was sacked from ch:9 & realised that there was a buck 2 be made…….in a poll on TT the verdict was pretty evenly matched meaning that 1/2 the viewers were dissapointed in his sacking, ultimately channel 7 are the one’s who have the balls 2 back him up. His actions regarding his promiscuity are none of our business & its only public knowledge because he is famous…….dont take the moral highground here.
Johns and Helliar = me not watching either of these shows.
I expect they will last about as long as the Whtie Room.
The VFL Bounce it should be called.I’d rather each state get it own point of view. If you live in WA or SA most people don’t care about Vic clubs .
Would be better than the Footy Show which is now like New Idea TV.
Can the league show take Peter Helliar please? Richo’s kicking is funnier than that guy.
Why is a grown man called ‘Matty’?
“Matthew Johns will bring his unique and entertaining take on rugby league backed by the game’s strongest panel of experts – including Shane Webcke ”
Haha. Maybe they got Shane on there so that the panel is Literally the strongest panel of experts possible. Far better than those puny guys on the Footy Show
Kyle Sandilands, Matty Johns, next they will want Dennis Ferguson.
So why can they not be showing this at the same time on 72 (and the same for 9 on GO) in Sydn and Bris?
They’d have to pre-record them to keep them to 60 minutes wouldn’t they.
Hate to think what the “live performances” involve.
As long as there are no unaccompanied women in the audience, and viewers with no intelligence for the “Matty Johns’ Show” (absence of the apostrophe in the official title doesn’t bode well), all should be ok. By the way – shouldn’t there be an age limit for people to be called “matty” ? Would have thought leaving high school would be the cut-off – mate.
@tamara …. yes you are absolutely right because he wasn’t charged he did nothing wrong … please!
Ghost Whisperer is on 7:30PM Thursdays-will that be rescheduled?
Will they last longer than The White Room?
“The Matty Johns Show” eh?
What is with Channel 7 and variety show titles? So very lame.
I can see the show doing OK for the first week, possibly for a few weeks due to the interest factor plus the fact that the NRL Footy Show is so bloody terrible at the moment. Also, the 7:30 Thursday timeslot is fairly light on in terms of competition.
However, I really can’t see the show lasting the whole footy season on 7. Maybe they could move it to 7TWO in order to save some face when it inevitably fails.
Katie & Louise – Johns didn’t do anything wrong. The police didn’t lay charges. How can you possibly blame someone for something that they weren’t even charged with?
Ch7 creativitiy at work came up with ‘The Matty Johns Show’ (falls over)
No matter how bad The Matty Johns Show will probably turn out, nothing could be as pathetic as The NRL Footy Show is right now, and has been for the last few years.
Channel 7 giving Matty Johns his own show sounds like one of those send-ups Hungry Beast does at the end of each episode. Unfortunately, this time it’s for real. The guy shouldn’t be allowed on tv, let alone have his own show. The only good thing is it won’t last long.
Good luck to 7. It may work……..then on the other hand it may not, and that would only be because 7 has a habbit of canning shows after 2-3 weeks. Perhaps fine tuning would be a better option before dumping it.
9′s footy show is fairly old and ratings have been dropping each yr for a while now….Alot of people say to me they can’t stand Sam Newman, and yeah…I’m sick of him too. If seven can offer a decent show without an idiot like sam, then it’ll get alot of votes.
Correction: The Bounce launches early Thursday in Syd / Bris not Friday, which is basically late night Wed.
@ Katie … I couldn’t agree more! I couldn’t watch a show with Matthew Johns ‘Starring’ without thinking about that poor woman who spoke out on Four Corners.
I am tipping The Bounce will be in the Matty Johns slot in non-AFL states in a month or two. Peter Helliar has more appeal to that market (i.e. not just AFL fans, ex Rove viewers, same with “Lethal” Leigh being the former Brisbane Lions coach) and to help grow the game in Syd/Bris. Associating AFL with street parties, rather than street talk, will help the AFL not hinder it.
Any NRL product without footage must look to the original AFL Footy Show for inspiration.
since ch7 shows AFL replays on friday from 11:30pm-2:30am how can they show it @ 12:30am in Sydney & Bris??
Hence me only claiming they are launching on different nights…
Not different nights. Expect the Bounce to be on Thursday nights when the teams get released. It will be on Wednesday nights for the first two rounds because Rounds 1 and 2 start on Thursday nights.
despite the content, weather it will work, fail etc- why bother doing it different nights. Thu 7:30 for both shows should be enough. They will both get a headstart on The Footy Show either way. Wednesday just seems a bit early for a footy related show.
I am genuinely gob-smacked Ch 7 has given Matty Johns his own show. I’m not an overly emotional female, and actually think Matty is a nice guy and good TV talent (past disgressions aside). But his Own show? Come on! What does this say about Australia’s self-proclaimed “family network” when a married man villified for his role in a sordid group football sex scandal can end up hosting a prime time TV show in his namesake? When the battle for ratings and/or NRL broadcasting rights becomes more important to a Network than upholding the brand attributes your audience so loyally and regularly wants to connect with, there’s a real issue with priorities in my humble opinion. You’ve lost me Ch 7…sorry.
Where is Ghost Whisperer going? Will it fill the other night along side each show? I recon this move is stupid by Seven. They should have launched together. Stupid Seven just plain Stupid.
Why can’t us Sydney viewers (and Brisbane) have The Bounce on the same night as those ‘AFL States’, instead of having it over a day later????? And it’s going to be interesting to see The Matthew Johns Show just before The NRL Footy Show.
I don’t know if they’ll go well at the 7.30 slots, but good on ya, Seven, for giving it a go
different nights? why?
Wonder why both don’t air earlier on 7 Two in states that aren’t showing them on their main channel.
this will be a huge fail. for both and there isn’t any doubt about it. the first ad to promote the new matty johns show was it’s usuall terrible bang up job 7 would do to promote the show. this will last about a month