Hey Hey It’s Saturday to take a break
Hey Hey It’s Saturday is to take a break until later in the year, Nine said tonight, although it insisted that was always the plan.
The last programme in the current run will be the July 21 episode featuring Kylie Minogue.
Although the return of Hey Hey It’s Saturday originally pulled in more than 2m for its two specials last year, the series return made a debut of 1.5m in April this year and faded to 801,000 last week.
Tonight’s episode is likely to pull in a smaller audience yet because of being pushed into a later slot in Sydney and Brisbane by State of Origin.
Nine programming director Michael Healy said: “Daryl and the Hey Hey team have done a terrific job with the show in a really competitive environment. We always planned for the season to be in two bursts at the beginning and end of the year and it is a great tribute to the team that they have secured Kylie Minogue one of Australia’s most outstanding performers to appear on the final show for the first half run.”
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I bet it’s a looooooooong break.
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I bet the door hits him in the backside on the way out.
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I could believe Danii might be desperate enough to front up for this awful show, but Kylie? Is her career finished now?
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Yes this show has had it’s day and 9 made the mistake of bringing it back as a series. 3 or 4 specials throughout the year might have worked but I really think it is well past its used by date.
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Finally, some good news.
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Yeah, just like Photon shares are ‘taking a break’.
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Hopefully a permanent break.
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@ Phil, very funny…giggle giggle.
Bet this dinasour does not last beyond the performance of the singing budgie.
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I honestly cannot fathom why 9 agreed to bring it back. That muppet Daryl Somers must be one hell of a negotiator.
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lOVE THE SHOW ITS DARN SIGHT FUNNIER THAN TRASHY AMERICAN STUFF SHOWING ON NINE VOTE FOR IT TO GET BACK. KEEP GOING DARYLL
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I think the above post sums up Hey Hey nicely. DONT U LIK TTLY THINK!?!?!?
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Can I quote you Pam?
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Of course you can. She is this generations Oscar Wilde.
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Caught a couple of minutes last night. Had a spot called “Private Parts”. Daryl was saying “I’m holding an object under the desk” and his body language and physical comedy was so polished and so sophisticated that, for a magical minute the whole audience understood perfectly that he was insinuating that he might be holding his cock.
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I was a suppoter for Hey Hey coming back – i know i know, what was i thinking… The Set, the jokes, the bad…. its been done before… John Blackman’s humour is terrible… we should have known when the warmning signs were there along when they put a show around “saturday”” on wednesday
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I love heyhey it most stay it is the best TV of the WeeK but put it on SATURDAY Night.
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