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For New Zealand viewers this Friday @ 8:30 on TV3 - Wil Anderson promoting his stand-up tour Wilosophy, Delta Goodrem chats to Rove & performs 'I Can't Break It To My Heart' plus Hamish & Andy from Beijing
Sunday's ratings for Rove - 824,000 viewers nationally tuned in for the 8:30 pm time slot following TGYH (repeat).
Note: During the Beijing Olympic Games
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From The Advertiser (13th of August) - Keeping ahead of the Games
Australia's favourite talk-show host isn't fazed by the Beijing
juggernaut. It's business as usual for this multi-Logie winner.
AS an avid TV viewer himself, Rove McManus knows the Olympics are
a black hole when it comes to finding engaging alternative content.
While just one episode of his Sunday night variety program Rove was
put on hold for the Olympics - "we don't want to compete against
the swimming, our little love-sick swimmers", he quips - the
seasoned comedian says TV stations shouldn't rest on their laurels
during the Games broadcast.
"It's one of those years - you're either going to be pre or post-Olympics,"he says. "Two weeks of everybody going `let's just not
put anything good to air'."
McManus says he can recall a time when the non-Olympic networks approached
the world event in a very different fashion.
"It must have been in 2000 when I started at Channel 10 we did a
thing called The Gap so that Ten - when a major event such as Cathy
Freeman running or Ian Thorpe swimming, the ones that you know
people are going to watch was coming - would stop their programming,
I would come up and say `this is The Gap and you can go and
watch the race and we'll see you when you get back and we'll continue
the program then'."
McManus says in that program down time he would run competitions or
some other filler before returning to the halted program once the
event was over.
"It was an ingenious idea. . . I don't know how it equates success-wise,
whether people would go and come back," he says.
But whether it be The Gap or some other initiative, McManus says
Seven's rival networks need to get smart.
"Networks need to do a bit more - put your balls on the line and
take some risks like that,"he says.
But now, in the first week of Beijing 2008, it appears McManus' gumption
hasn't extended to Ten - or Channel 9's - executive boardrooms.
Nonetheless, the effervescent host, who next year will celebrating
his tenth year in TV and insists his program Rove will stay around
to mark the milestone, has plenty of opinions on other issues.
ROVE ON new media integration with commercial TV
"There's only so much you can do towards what people want because
you're bound by the medium.
You do see that when you go to an ad break, people disappear but we
are on a commercial network so there's not much you can do about
that.
Most of our band performances do a second performance after the show
that you can catch online.
And even what you see on air doesn't stop. Once we throw to an ad
break we switch the signal off so they (the viewers at home) can
get commercials but we still keep going in the studio and all of
that is shot and becomes online content for us.
There are those elements that allow you to have more to play with.
You can't just suddenly say we're not going to have ads on the show
› Source: The (Adelaide) Advertiser - Author: Jessica Leo
From Illawarra Mercury (6th of August) - Corrimal man works with Rove
When most people do work experience, it involves such mundane tasks as photocopying and buying lunch for the boss.
But for Corrimal's David Akele, work experience on TV show Rove Live meant an introduction to model Miranda Kerr and having his face on national television.
Mr Akele, 24, beat thousands of other aspiring workies for the coveted spot. It included a week behind the scenes in Melbourne with writers, animators and editors, and finally a seat next to host Rove McManus during live filming of last Monday's show.
"I helped (comedian) Dave Hughes come up with ideas for his segment and (comedian) Peter Hellier, and worked on some voice-overs, so it was good to see how much they do to put the show together every week," Mr Akele said yesterday.
"I did my news gag on television, the I Love section, and I actually operated a camera for a little bit."
After his brush with fame - and a meeting with Orlando Bloom's girlfriend Kerr - Mr Akele is now back at his real job at Mazzucchelli's Jewellery in Wollongong Central.
"It's a bit of a down off a high, I'm just trying to get used to it again," he said.
He won the place after entering a 30-second DVD, hamming it up as he put 30[PI9014]Centsymb worth of petrol in his car and travelling around Wollongong in a supermarket trolley.
From The Daily Telegraph (2nd of August) - Rove's kid in the spotlight
FIRST came Are you Smarter than a 5th Grader? - now he's taken on a kid for work experience. It seems Rove McManus just loves putting random kids in the comedy limelight.
Rove's newest protege will make his debut on the program tomorrow night - a 24-year-old jewellery shop worker from Corrimal on the South Coast.
Budding young star David was hand-picked by McManus from thousands of personal entries because of his "playful nature".
But David will hardly be making coffees and licking stamps, instead he will be sharing the stage with supermodel Miranda Kerr and interviewing her off his own mark.
Good luck mate.
"The evening raised a record $280,000 which will go towards the next phase of the Zoo's Asian Elephant Breeding Program" - Visit the official site for more info
From The Herald Sun (25th of July) - Tasma Walton: I love Rove McManus' smile
The usually shy actor also took part in a glamorous photo shoot for the magazine's 100 Sexiest People edition.
Walton said she was drawn to men who had maturity coupled with a lovely sense of play.
"And I really appreciate a man who had some challenging life experiences and moved through them with, you know, wisdom and courage, basically," she said.
"He's got a gorgeous smile," she said. "I love his adorable smile. I find that very, very sexy."
Mates rates from The Herald Sun (16th of July) - Peter Helliar & Rove McManus
I remember doing a gig at the Elbow Grease comedy room (1996).
I was at the bar afterwards having a well-earned pot and I got a
tap on the shoulder and it was Rove. He said, "that was a great
spot"and that he enjoyed my work. It was a bit of a mutual admiration
society there for a while. Not long after that Rove was going
back to Perth for a holiday, so I organised a "Roveathon"a pub crawl. I think he was still wearing his Davenport vest around
at the time....
It's all good news for Carrie from The Herald Sun (16th of July) - Carrie Bickmore
HALFWAY through her audition for variety show Rove, Carrie Bickmore realised something wasn't quite right.
Bickmore thought she was auditioning to take over from Sandra Sully as the show's late-night newsreader until she started reading
the script, which was punctuated with newsy jokes rather than headlines...
Q & A from The Herald Sun (7th of July) - Ryan Shelton
Sometimes they sprout from one little idea and grow into something
bigger. For example, I might think, "I'd really like to act like
an idiot with a Bluetooth earpiece on". Then I try to create a
whole bit around that. And then other times the topic comes from
something topical like on Mother's Day I exposed the truth that
all mums are liars.
.... a lot of the guests say Rove, but he hogs the bed. I would turn gay
for Marty McFly from Back to the Future. Damn, he's cool.
Rove & Tasma new members to The Free the Bears Fund
Free the Bears Fund Inc. has many devoted supporters and members that strive to provide bears all over the world with a better life. As a non-profit organisation, Free the Bears relies on the dedication and determination of our 'family' to spread the word about the plight facing bears across the globe.
... both Rove and Tasma are extremely conservation minded and are truly passionate about protecting and preserving wildlife. It was our pleasure to be able to inform our VIP's about the threats facing Asian bears, whilst allowing them some 'up close' encounters with our two orphaned cubs.
... on the conclusion of their visit, Rove and Tasma were ecstatic when it was announced that our two young Asiatic black bear cubs, one male and one female, would be named in their honour. And after this, of course, they couldn't resist one final visit with their bear counterparts, helping to give the cubs their last feed of the day before putting them to bed!
Free the Bears are pleased to welcome our newest members – Rove McManus and Tasma Walton – to the family!
With The Simpsons into its 20th season, Bridget McManus and Nicole Brady ask local comedians, writers and animators what the residents of Springfield mean to them.
Rove McManus - The Simpsons have influenced a lot of my comedy friends. There's an episode, a Cape Fear parody, where Sideshow Bob gets hit in the face with about 20 rakes and it takes a good minute and a half for him to go through them all, which, in television terms, is a very long time for a joke, and it's a perfect comedy moment. It's now a yardstick for comedians when we talk about how you can keep going with a joke in that same way. We call it The Sideshow Bob Rake Idea. And when, if a joke falls flat, rather than just stop and move on, you keep going and reference the fact that the joke didn't work and all you're doing is making it worse for yourself, we use the phrase, "How will I get out of this hole? I'll dig my way out". That's a Simspons line.
What I like most about The Simpsons is that it's a comedy first and a cartoon second. You hear about shows that are going to "be the next Simpsons" but it's a kid's show. The Simpsons was never meant for kids.
Most of the laughs come from Homer. He's just so stupid. I love the arguments he has with his brain where his brain just walks out on him - you hear his brain actually walk out and shut the door. It's those little moments that we can relate to. We've all probably had a Homer moment at some point.
There's only a finite amount of plot lines but they still come up with good ones and it's not just about The Simpsons family now. It's not just the crazy little professor guy any more, everybody knows his name's John Frink. Even principal Skinner's got a backstory through his time in Vietnam and his problems with his mother and how he's getting it on with Mrs Krabappel, and so from that you can have an entire episode that doesn't even involve the core family. That's why the series has managed to last this long and will probably last for a long time into the future.
When I was in Los Angeles, I had the chance to sit down at a Simpsons table read, and you really see where the success of the series comes from. They read it as live, they don't stop. They get a crowd of people in and as they get a laugh they write a note. I don't know how many shows would do that. Most people just put it to air and hope for the best.
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