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‘Fitzy’ joins Between the Lines

TEN's Ryan Fitzgerald is joining Nine's Between the Lines sports-panel show, hosted by Eddie McGuire.

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Ryan Fitzgerald, known to viewers from Before the Game, The 7PM Project, Big Brother, Friday Night Live and TENs Royal Wedding broadcast has joined Nine’s new sports themed panel show, Between the Lines hosted by Eddie McGuire.

‘Fitzy’ will be a team captain along with Mick Molloy (also from Before the Game amongst other shows).

Each team will features a comedian / celebrity including Giaan Rooney, Kris Smith, Grant Hackett, Cal Wilson, Danny Green, Merrick Watts, Steven Bradbury, Jimeoin, Dermott Brereton, Billy Brownless and international comedians Mark Watson and Reginald D Hunter.

‘Fitzy’ also works in drivetime for NOVA Radio, which is a rival to Triple M radio which has a breakfast show with McGuire and Molloy.

Competitors will take part in Q&A segments with pictures, video clips, guessing games, special guest rounds, performance rounds and sporting challenges.

Each episode will feature guest appearances from sporting identities who will provide anecdotes from their careers. The teams will then be required to say whether the stories they’ve just heard are true or false.

Between The Lines will also include a special segment that gives viewers a rare peek into the locker room to hear never-before-told tales from Australian sporting heroes.

Produced by Southern Star, the series premieres at 8:30pm on Thursday May 12th on Nine.

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  1. Dear fitzy, I have an exciting idea for your show. It’s called exposing the ugly parent at a under 9s game of non competitive game of footy. I currently coach a team and find it bloody funny how serious parents take it and how far they are willing to go. I can give you an idea of which games to turn up to and with one of those special microphones that track people’s voices from a fare whilst sitting in a car under cover expose these clowns.

  6. If this means he can’t appear on Channel 10 anymore, this is great news because it means I can actually enjoy watching the 7PM Project 😀

  8. Won’t be watching this garbage not so much for fitzy but the Eddie Everywhere factor that fella is more than enough to either make you to switch to reading a book or checking out the alternatives elsewhere

  9. @Secret Squirrel, i think the opposite of the Midas Touch is the Kiss of Death, a practice that Nine has perfected since the death of K. Packer Esq. I totally agree with you that this show is way too Melbourne-centric, so it goes without saying that it will die on the vine in every viewing market outside of Victoria. Fitzy is an absolute shocker, with no discernible talent whatsoever.

  10. Well from memory it only ran for a few nights in Sydney and was not selling and season was cancelled. In Melbourne they were giving away tickets for most of the season and the upper levels of the theatre were never full. Apart from opening night when all the tickets are given away I don’t think it sold out once. I know people who saw it in Adelaide and at the Melbourne Comedy Festival trials who really enjoyed it before they had to cut some songs for legal reasons and Neil Armfield got involved.

  12. If this had even half a chance of pulling an audience, that has been smacked down by them choosing to be so Melbourne-centric with their cast and guests. I don’t think this will rate even in Adelaide. What’s the opposite of a Midas touch?

  13. @billyc

    Care to provide evidence of the “spectacular failure” of Shane Warne the Musical?

    I saw it as an ‘in development’ production at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival years ago and it was hilarious.

    It won:

    Best New Australian Musical
    Best New Australian Work, and a prize for best
    Musical Theatre Script

    That doesn’t sound like spectacular failure to me.

    If there was any failure it was in the marketing, and they should have gone to London first, where they understood it.

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