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The World Game relaunches

The World Game gets a post-World Cup revamp from SBS, with a new timeslot and premiere episodes live on SBS TWO.

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The World Game gets a post-World Cup revamp from SBS, with a new timeslot and premiere episodes live on SBS TWO. Repeats will play later on SBS ONE.

The new panel format will feature Les Murray, Craig Foster, David Basheer, Mariana Rudan, Vitor Sobral and Scott McIntyre (what no Santo, Sam and Ed?).

The show will be reviewing all the results and action from the previous weekend, including regular live crosses to interstate and overseas locations and guestspromising coverage from “every league and tournament- from the English Premier League, UEFA Champions League and Serie A (Italy) to the A League (Australia) and much more.”

There will also be an emphasis on greater audience interaction through Twitter, Facebook and email.

SBS Head of Sport, Ken Shipp, says: “The World Game is Australia’s most popular and well-known football brand. Each year, the program and the website have continued to evolve to best satisfy the needs of our growing audience. This Our story: A new era for The World Game. The new timeslot and format is our best ever and it will ensure that TWG remains the No.1 option for football fans.”

It returns Monday nights, Live at 9.30pm on SBS TWO, and airs at 11.30pm on SBS ONE from August 2.

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  2. @Jezza – don’t carp, show me some evidence – come on. Ratings, Logies, anything you like. Oh, thought so.

    @Burt – Am I the only one who noticed the WC final (2 hours of boredom for 1 goal) was played at Soccer city stadium? Woo-hoo.

    @David – can I remind you of the comments policy, in respect of jezza’a post?

    “Please confine comments to thoughtful discussion on post subject. Write respectfully of others. Similarly if your post is just a derogatory, inflammatory or rude comment it may not be published. ”

    Hmm?

    1. Re Jezza post: it’s a fine line admittedly…suggesting that someone is looking through rose coloured glasses, has blinkers on or head in the sand isn’t of itself a breach. If it had been “pull you head in” then I wouldn’t have approved it. Usually I give people the benefit of the doubt that robust exchanges / opinions are not meant as insults, but as part of lively debates. At the same time, apologies if you took offence.

  5. Newsflash SBS!!! You can call it its international name all you like but you broadcast to an AUSTRALIAN audience and like the United States, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa (where the population’s use of the word football also refers to the dominant local code – which is NOT the World Game) in Australia it always has, and always will be known as SOCCER!

  8. I agree a one hour weekly version of Cup Fever (presumably without the “Cup” part) would be great. Football is crying out for something a little more humorous on Australian TV. Some eps were weaker than others but this was to be expected when they had to come up with so much material. A weekly outing – hopefully poking fun at both local and international football – would be perfect.

    Any chance of SBS doing something like this?

  9. Monday nights for the World Game? It does make sese (in recapping the previous weekend’s game), but i’ve been used to it on Sunday arvo’s for a long time. No to change! lol

    Do you know how many people watched it on Sunday Arvo’s?

  11. I knew it was changing, but this is a big step. Perhaps trying to counter ONE’s World Football News, which has always been on a Monday night.

  13. “SBS Head of Sport, Ken Shipp, says: ‘The World Game is Australia’s most popular and well-known football brand.’ ”

    Really – that would explain all those Logies won by The Footy Show then. Honestly, do these people have a clue?

  14. Santo, Sam and Ed is now “Australia’s most popular and well-known football brand”. TWG has been a joke for years, what everyone actually wants is a 1hr weekly Cup Fever show.

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