Rove live sell
Rove revisits a bit of old Gra-Gra adding Tonight-show live advertisements.
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Love them or loathe them advertorials are a way of life on the box. They are singularly responsible for the continuation of many morning shows. But there was a time when they could be entertaining too. Right, Graham Kennedy?
Now Rove is revisiting the concept from Sunday night with new ‘live sell’ comedic ads for a bakery chain.
Hosted by Hayden ‘Haydo’ Guppy, and Nick Maxwell, better known from the Kevin Rudd, PM parody, the two will have complete licence to write, produce and star in each segment.
Each 30 second spot will appear in commercial breaks during the program.
Vance Lothringer, chief network sales officer at TEN said: “The decision to launch the Live Sell in Sunday night’s Rove was simple. It’s one of our most loved shows, producing some of the funniest moments on Australian television.
“Live television lends itself perfectly to the true spirit of a good Live Sell. It reminds me of the good old, bad old days of TV”.
TEN offers high branding of its other Sunday night show So You Think You Can Dance Australia, but at least this idea is within the confines of a commercial break. Hopefully it will have a bit of cheek to it.
Now if only they could get Bert back for these we’d come full circle…
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12 Responses
Dear Rove
Maybe next week you can put a face of an Indian on the pinata ,instead of Sol’s face, since Australians love bashing Indians.
Disappointed viewer
That live sell for BD was bloody terrible! Completely unfunny, but memorable none the less, and well I do want some mocha hot crossed buns, so I guess they win.
Next time I’ll keep the fast forward button down tho.
I have to give old Rove a tick hear. The idea is great and gives a respectfull nodd to what works about Tv of yesteryear. I hope it goes well. I am not the biggest fan of the Man himself but the show exists as almost an anomaly on out TV’s as local entertainment on Commercial TV is usually cancelled after a season. Will make the ads rate well too ofcourse….
Rove will never be in the same class as Gra-Gra, nowhere near it.
pete should be doing these…he does bugger all else on the show…petes space is..most weeks is waste of space…i know he and rove are close buddies…but c’mon if you are going to sit there and just throw in the odd line..surely a couple of these a night would be better…as far as the bloke doin it ..Pete you are funny 2 weeks in 6 ……..Nnnoooo dont do it….give us someone we can watch….please….Ryan is a good find though…maybe he could ad to t…i can see him as a more valuable memeber of the rove team besides Rove himself…
This is a great idea by the Rove team. Sadly i wasn’t around to watch the king but have seen the classic segments on the clip shows. If he does anything half as funny as that classic bit with the dog it should be a winner.
Oooh, another great reason not to watch Rove. Hooray!
“Now if only they could get Bert back for these we’d come full circle…”
well there is oval face aka peter helliar ? 😛
I guess Mr Guppy is trying to break away from the fishbowl!
Get it, Guppy, fishbowl…
Yes my comedy’s poor…
Late on a Friday eh?
They did this on the Panel Christmas episodes. They were suitably cheap and unrehearsed.
How on this Earth does someone like Hayden ‘Haydo’ Guppy find a national vehicle on not one, but 2 programs??? If he’s the standard for the future of television….”Please won’t someone think of the children!!!!” A greater waste of television airtime I struggle to think of.