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Report: Rove tipped for late night show at Nine

Rumours that Rove is headed back to a talk show, but on Nine not TEN.

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Rove McManus could be headed to Nine for a late-night talk show in 2017.

News Corp suggests McManus was reportedly filming secret tests for the show at Nine (although it suggests Pyrmont rather than Willoughby studios).

McManus had a variety show at Nine before moving to TEN, but declined to dump Pete Helliar, Corrine Grant & Dave Callan as requested by management and subsequently offered him game shows.

As producer Craig Campbell once told TV Tonight, “They had weddings and parties, all these ‘great’ formats they wanted Rove to host. He just kept going ‘No not me, no not me.’ To his credit he kept saying ‘Thanks for the offers but it’s not what I want to do, I’m not here to take the money.’”

More recently Rove has been on radio with former Bachelorette Sam Frost, in the tough world of radio ratings, and juggling a late night show (presuming it is Live) with early morning radio would be a tall order.

A late night show on Nine might also go up against repeats of the Roving-produced Project repeats.

But there is definitely an appetite for a shake-up to late nights, so bring it on.

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39 Responses

  1. ch 10 is losing an opportunity to have a late night show that fits well with their content – a late night show maybe after the bachelor joking about it would be great cross-promo and keeps viewers from prime time. HYBPA’s success shows there’s a market for a late night show, and if ten had some guts, tue-thur rather than silly once a week rubbish would work perfectly. tbh, I’m 50/50 on whether a show with rove on ch9 will work.

  2. A late night show won’t work unless it is on at exactly the same time every night and becomes a destination – whether on Nine, Ten or anywhere, the start time has to be consistent and not dependent on extended earlier realities or cricket finishing late. People don’t watch the same channel all night and are turning off when shows don’t start when they are meant to.

    As for Survivor the other night, I simply recorded a 4 hour block of Nine knowing there was cricket on, and as we all know when cricket is on Nine anything that follows is never on time.

  3. Wow, from 9 to 10 and back again? Should just go back to the studio he did his 10 stuff at and do it with them again. It is sad since he left we haven’t really had much replacements for things like him and hey hey.

  4. Apparently Rove’s radio show with 2DAY FM in Sydney (Rove & Sam) is horrible and gets horrible ratings to go with it. “No personality and not funny” some people say. If Rove can’t do well in radio he can’t survive TV. Rove’s time might be up. Also I’m not actually in Sydney. I’m on Melbourne so I’ve never heard Rove and Sam.

  5. Would love to see it happen but feel it could only work with a big budget to make it event TV like the old Don Lane Show days. But are there enough viewers around today to justify it? I also think he is best on TEN. When Nine does cheap TV it looks cheap. TEN does cheap TV better.

  6. No!! Not Rove I honestly don’t find him funny whatsoever more so annoying, he’s time is done and dusted please hopefully this won’t happen of him coming back on tv- his radio ratings also speak for themselves…

  7. I personally feel Rove has had his time and regardless of the network it would be doomed. It would need to be a very different format to any past shows.

  8. Bring it on. A late night Australian live chat/variety show is desperately needed. We haven’t had a good one since Tonight Live with Steve Vizard. To work it definitely needs to be live and not pre recorded to take the safety net away. As with others comments here, not sure 9 is a good fit though. Would be better on 10 or 7….maybe even the ABC. 9 used to be good at these shows (Don Lane) but it seems these days unless it was hosted by bogan footballers, they wouldn’t be interested.

  9. Late night TV shows don’t work. The TV industry have already lost people to netflix, bringing a late night show to air is not going to win any more viewers. It will fail dismally and I will say ‘ I told you so on 26/11/16’ to anyone who thinks I’m wrong.

    1. “Late night” in Australia could mean 9.30pm. Primetime clocks off so early these days with reality offerings etc being the highlight at 7.30pm. I can’t see them programming something like this later than that.

  10. Rove has been on 3 networks over the years! Foxtel Ten & initially Nine in 99. I remember watching Charmed followed by Rove on Tuesday Nights that was when BH90210 was done & so was Melrose Place! Really enjoyed RoveLive & later not so Live version! Although late night TV is risky here Nine tried it with Ben Elton & that failed Sean McCallef had his that didn’t last lon either! We need 1 but will it survive or be given a chance!

  11. A late night talk show/variety show is much needed in Australia. I can appreciate that Rove isn’t everyone’s cup of tea but in my opinion he’s pretty good. Tbh if anyone was going to have a late night show on nine I thought it would’ve been Hamish and Andy, since they are currently developing a show for the network I think.

  12. “in the same studio where Nine tapes Today at Pyrmont” (D.Tele). Um, Nine doesn’t “tape” Today, do they? And if they did where at “Pyrmont” would that be done? Is the rest of their story as inaccurate as this? Hopefully will be on TEN, not Nine.

  13. Wouldn’t like this to be on 9, much prefer to be on 10. It suits 10’s demographic better. 9 just keep moving shows around, delaying starts to shows or just stop showing them, Survivor US, 2 Broke Girls…..etc

  14. If Rove did in fact end up going to Nine with SCA’s recent affiliation with that network, it wouldn’t really surprise me given the cross promotion opportunities a la Hamish & Andy.

    As mentioned the article states the secret pilots were recently filmed in Pyrmont, which is very interesting with recent information on another forum suggesting that an audience call went out recently for some secret pilots being filmed for TEN recently.

    Any late night format would be a good addition to any of the networks schedules, bring it on.

  15. Good luck with that Rove. Survivor started 40 minutes late on Thursday. Forty minutes!!!!
    Way past the 20 minutes extra that Foxtel IQ allows to record. And, as I read, it was one of the great finishes to an episode in a long time. There was no excuse as there had been no rain delay in the cricket.
    So, my advice to you Rove: Keep the monologue short and get your big guest over in the first twenty minutes – because that will be all the delayed audience will be guaranteed to get to see.

    1. The Budge: Beacause of the cricket it would say.
      Aust bowled there overs too slow.
      Watched it in perth all ok.
      This would be great for Nine.
      Need something to break the Seven strangle hold

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