Bye bye Hughesy and & Carrie at the Newsdesk
Dave Hughes & Carrie Bickmore will finish up on Rove to focus on The 7PM Project.
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Tonight’s episode of Rove will be the last regular appaearance for Dave Hughes and Carrie Bickmore, now set to focus on The 7PM Project.
With Rove taking a four week break, TEN will fill the spot with an advance screening of Glee next week, followed the week after by a movie: Night at the Museum.
The new weeknight show will comprise much of the schedules for Hughes and Bickmore, who will join Charlie Pickering, James Mathison and Ruby Rose. TEN already has some clever promos running which give a glimpse of how the new show will look.
Both shows are produced by Roving Enterprises, along with Hughesy’s other TV regular, Before the Game. Hughes said he is sad to be leaving Rove but expects to be back in the future.
“I will now have a clear day just to be a family man, which is great,” the new dad told the Sunday Telegraph.
Agents are already being approached in the hunt for a replacement for Bickmore. In a show dominated by male personalities it really needs to retain a female presence (although we did love Bert reading the news last year).
(Corrected: Apologies to Petespace. Doh!)
Source: news.com.au
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41 Responses
Will the 7pm project be live?
The Yellow Pages “1234” sock puppet would be funnier than Carrie Bickmore…..so she’ll be easy to replace……
I;m sorry to be negative and I want to see this 7PM show do well, but I have nervous feelings for it. To me it just seems like a mini rove show on every night and I just can’t see it being a ratings hit. But I’m willing for the show to prove me wrong.
Bert was Gold when he filled in at the newsdesk. Pity he’s tied up with 20 to 01 and Nine.
Yes thanks all for pointing out the ‘Petespace’ error. Guess who hates working late on Saturday nights!!!
So this explains why they invented that new “Corrine Grant” spot last week for that commedienne… she wasn’t all that funny unfortunately…
hehe…Pete Hilliar has already had enough bad news this week with the axing of his radio station….doesnt need more at the mo 🙂
you are allowed the occasional slip up david…..you do a great job here and I love reading it several times a day
david…..yep another one
Im going to miss Dave Hughes segment and Carrie was good as well, surely Myf would be perfect to replace Carrie. She has been on Rove already this year replacing carrie.
No! Carrie at the newsdesk is my favourite segment!! Ten please dont bring myf warhurst on full time!
So 7pm will be the time slot for a lot of Uhhhhhh’s as Hughes tries to think of something funny. I do enjoy the guy but he isn’t the most quick twitted lad. I am very interested to see how this will do but not expecting huge numbers. Do we really need more panel shows?
Corinne Grant used to be tight with rove yeh?
Was there any particular reason we hardly see her on the show now?
Focusing on standup?
It’s sad to see Carrie leaving Rove the show because she gave some funny interpretation to the news items during the week which would otherwise not be mentioned in the evening bulletins. I guess that with her reading the news on the breakfast show on Nova Melbourne (where she is also assistant news director) plus her recording segments for Skybus service between Melbourne CBD and the airport each month, she needs the weekends off.
Lets hope this new shop for TEN will work and breath some fresh talent to Rove on sundays.
Oh excellent. Great news!!! But why would Petespace be going if Peter Hellier isnt. But please get rid of that too, and ryan shelton and rove’s interviews too. Keep Hamish and Andy and they should take over the show!!
Get Celia Pacquola to do the news! She’s an awesome talent and the pre-defined structure might do her good after a small debut the other week.
Carrie Bickmore should be easy to replace…she added nothing to the show, just read out a few jokes that other people had written…a monkey could do what she did. I’m sure she’s pleasant to be around but that doesn’t equal ‘comedy.’ Anyways, if there is a slot opening on Rove for a female what about Cal Wilson or Rebel Wilson? They’ve both shown they’ve got comedy chops on Thank God You’re Here.
Doesn’t Peter Helliar write and present Petespace (not Dave Hughes) or am I completely mistaken? I wonder who Rove will get to replace Carrie? They definitely need a female presence on the show.
Well now that Corinne Grant has landed a gig on Seven can they still buy her back?
She was a big part of the golden era of Rove that involved funny skits etc with Pete and Rove.
Bring/buy back Corrine!
It will be sad to see Carrie go, but both work during the week on Nova so they do need to have family time. Considering both have young children.
Hey I reckon, Myf would be a good replacement. She has done it a few times and has a following… would the ABC allow it??
I’m really gonna miss Carrie – she did wonders for that show. I’d always wait for Carrie at the Newsdesk… *crys.
It’s sad to see Carey go, I loved her segment.
I am going to miss Carrie & Hughes on Rove,but i am looking forward to the 7pm project.
Sorry to be a stickler David but Peter Helliar does the Petespace segment not Dave Hughes. I’m tipping they’ll try and get Myf Warhurst to fill the void left by Carrie. She’s filled in before when Carrie hasn’t been there. Does this also mean Rove might actually have longer interviews with his guests.
Why is Petespace going? It is after all Pete’s and not Dave’s…