Hey Hey should come back.


Looks like Rove Live's days are numbered. Who thinks Hey Hey should return to Aussie TV?

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I agree.
Rove has always just been a poor mans Hey Hey It's Saturday.

I loved Hey Hey. Just today in fact I watched a videotape of the last ever Hey Hey Its Saturday from '99 which I taped and it brought back so many memories.

The humour was so simple and the show was so entertaining - pity we have nothing as good as that nowadays on TV. The main entertainment now is that 'Big Brother' stuff.

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hey hey should come back it was the best show EVER!!! big brother is such a load of *beep* how can people find that entertaining??? they must have boring and sad lives if they find that amusing. all this american crap we have on nowadays, i long for the good old days when there was australian humour on aussie tv, but finding a show like that these days would be a freakin miracle

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I certaintly agree. It was my favourite show and I still miss it even to this day. Saturday nights just aren't the same anymore. I wish they would take funniest home videos off tv and put hey hey back on or even better get rid of rove and make Daryl host rove live instead.

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It won't happen. Hey Hey was very expensive to produce, hence the reason for its cancellation. Channel Eddie are into cost-cutting now so big productions are out.







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That's a shame. I used to love watching Hey Hey when I was younger. It was the greatest in my opinion. The humour was witty and simple but it was hilarious. I was watching Hey Hey by Request tonight and it brought back some memories. I wasn't born until 1988 so I missed out on a lot of the shows! It went for so many years. Thank you for all the wonderul memories guys!

Yo-ho, yo-ho! A Pirate's Life for me!

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i know just how you feel champ ,i loved watching hey hey , and the crap thats on tv these days is nothing compared to hey hey, i too was watching it lastnite, i went into tears laughing at the segment with the earthquake test house model ,& daryl scrambles under the desk. lol eg did u notice the elvis impersonator.

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How was it very expensive to produce (in comparison to other shows)? Like, what were the main costs on? And approx, was Daryl earning heaps back then?

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I would like to see re-runs of Hey Hey... it would bring back so many memories... especially the music acts and Red Faces...

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unfotunatly channel 9 dont give a flying *beep* what the people want to watch, there too wrapped up in stupid game shows, reality tv and dumb arse cop/hosptial shows. Same with 7 and 10.

And it would be too expensive for the ABC or SBS.

Everyone in Australia wants to see it come back to the air, it was about the last show on Australian TV that was worth a damn. Now all they care about is how to keep costs down and not have to worry about putting any money or thought into what they put on the air.

And the show didnt get cancelled because it was too expensive, not for ch 9 anyway... but as I said, what do channel 9 or 7 care about what people want? they just promote the crap out of the *beep* they put on, claim everyone loves it and pay the papers to print that it is rating... which is a load of bull *beep* because no one is watching tv anymore and crap like big brother and survivor may be winning the ratings, but they dont say how many people are sending in or doing these rating things anymore.

Everyone I know cant stand reality tv shows, and pretty much everyone else cant stand these dumb Idol shows that arnt about talent, there about popularity, so obviusly the rating system is one big lie and scam or the only people doing these so called rating surveys are a couple of 14 year olds obsessed with what the TV tells them to vote for.

I cant imagine more then 1000 people int he whole of australia actualy have one of those rating boxes attached to there tv, so how can they come out and say that something is rating the highest when not even half the population casts a vote? Or even if they do it the old way and fill in a little booklet and send it in to tell them what they watched... have you ever done it? do you know someone who did it? did you even know they exsisted?

so how can they be telling everyone what is #1 on the tv if no one actualy does these things?

Or maybe they just get some people to walk up to people on the streets and ask them what they watch on TV, maybe they actualy do ask a few million people? kinda be hard to do every day of the year wouldnt it?

So where do these magical ratings come from? ... no where, there lies! There is no form of technology to monitor telivions waves and see who has there TV on watching what.

And now, everyone in Australia wants Hey Hey back cause it was one of the best shows to ever be seen anywhere in the world, you got to laugh, watch stupidity, have a good time, know what music was coming out, who was coming to town, who was in town, what shows where on, see bits and peices of things happeing around the place... it was more then just entertainment, it let you know what the hell was going on around the country and kept you up to date with the entertainment world... now, what have we got? Rove? I cant stand Rove, never have, he is not my idea of a host, he's more of a sidekick, and I cant stand the others in that whole cast of that show, so for anyone to say Rove is the Hey Hey replacment is a joke.

If channel nine care about what people want, then theyd bring back HEY HEY and what it stood for and meant to people, but why would they when they can make profit out of being paid what to show instead of what people want to see, the more it happens, the more everyone is turned off from TV all together and the higher DVD profits or computer usuage gets amongst a million other things.

Canceling a show like Hey Hey just about murdered telivision in Australia.

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mate, u are so freaking right.... I believe in every word you just said... long live HEY HEY

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If they dont bring it back, why not re-run it like some other poster here suggested?
Late saturday night - starting at 12am - repeats of classic Hey Hey episodes [in full] from the late 1980's to early 1990's - it would be better to watch that stuff than quizmania!

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I rember watching it when I was about 6 until when it closed (I think I was about 8 or 9) and I don't remeber much but I do remeber pluck a duck and the celebrity heads game thing they used to play and that little sock mop puppet thing that used to appear at the bottom of the screen. Also is it just me making up memories in my mind or did Dame Edna used to be on it a bit?

They should put on re-runs because I can't even watch free-to-air anymore because quite frankly I don't care to see people investigating crimes, operations on hosplital shows or big brother or any other reality show. I miss the good days of free-to-air...I'm sure a lot of people would rather watch a re-run of Hey Hey It's Saturday than Big Brother Live or whatever it's called

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Hey Hey was at it's best with a lower budget. When the show went nationwide in 1984, I'd say that was probably it's best year. They started off by saying "no hype, no fanfare, no budget, blah blah", but that all changed within a few years. Always a great and much lamented show, but it was better when it was smaller. If any Hey Hey fans are interested, there's a bloke on YouTube who must have every episode on tape since '84 - there's heaps of segments to watch, and it just proves what a sad little wasteland Australian TV is these days. And I hate to say that, because it makes me feel REALLY old. Big Brother sucks!

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I agree 100% with every word you said. BRING BACK HEY HEY OR EVEN RE-RUNS!!

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I'd love them to bring back the series however one thing I feel that they should do if they are to revive the series is bring back Ossie Ostrich. He really contributed to a good portion of the show and added to it's originality. Even if Ernie Carroll isn't available to do the voice then perhaps someone else can act with that level of comedy and have the right voice. They've done it a lot before with cartoons when voice actors are changed and sometimes it's hard to even tell the difference! (A good example is with Kermit the Frog when Steve Whitmire replaced Jim Henson)

If it's not possible to make more episodes then re-runs from the 80s or even 70s would be great since I never saw episodes from back then.

and yes, Rove Live is absolutely awful.

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I totally agree with you. But I can tell you something. Barring a massive miracle, "Hey, Hey It's Saturday" will never be shown on Channel Nine again. How do I know? Because I spoke to Daryl Somers himself, and he told me.

I'm not pulling your leg. I am a Geelong AFL member, and I went to their end-of-year function. Daryl is the No. 1 Ticket-holder at the GFC, so he was at the function too. There was a period where fans could get autographs. I got the autographs of many players AND Daryl Somers. Daryl is a great bloke, and treated me as if I was the "star" not him. He invited me to sit down, and we chatted. I asked him if "HHIS" was coming back? He said that he sold most of the footage rights to Foxtel for a couple of million, since Daryl and his friend Gavan Disney created the show, and he made it clear that, when he was selling around the "Hey, Hey" footage, Nine weren't even considered, since Daryl still seems a bit annoyed that they axed the show.He then proceeded to spend some of his new-found wealth on outbidding everyone in the Geelong auction items LOL.

Since Daryl was on Seven recently, maybe he should pitch the idea to them instead. Seven may even go along with it, just to stick it to Nine.

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As long as 7 gave it a minimum of a 2 hour time slot, i'd be happy to see 7 run it. As long as most of the original cast come back and it doesn't become one huge promotion for other channel 7 shows and sticks to inviting guests who people want to actually see.... you know like having world wide guests on it, not just the losers from Home & Away every week.

Basically, as long as it was like it used to be.

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I agree. It wouldn't be totally the same, as the studio setting would be a bit different, and Ossie Ostrich is retired, don't forget. Also, they would have to get a new female co-host, as Livinia Nixon looks tied to Nine.

I would like to see all the segments back, and they could even run it on Saturday nights, as Ten do the footy, and it could compete with it (like HHIS used to go up against the "Footy Replay" many moons ago.

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