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Fans rally for Rove

Shocked Rove fans are gathering on a Facebook page to ask their host stay on their screens.

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rvfAfter his shock announcement on Sunday night, Rove is now the subject of a Facebook campaign, “Come Back Rove McManus!”

Hey if it worked for Hey Hey it’s Saturday….

The imploring page, with its full title “Come Back Rove McManus! We Love You! You Can’t Go!,” was started by 24yo fan Guy Pickett.

In just 48 hours it already has nearly 2,500 members.

“I started this group on Facebook simply as a thankyou on behalf of the many Australians that have tuned in to watch what was an amazing television show for the past 10 years!” he told TV Tonight.

“I knew that the page would have the potential to take off! but not this fast! It’s been incredible. The fan meter just keeps on rolling with nearly 2500 fans in less than 2 days!”

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  1. The page is basically spam (surprised it hasn’t been banned), after numerous email exchanges with Guy I tend to agree with Ashley’s comment about wanting numbers rather than actually wanting the show back on the air.

    I support all groups that are fans of Rove but now regret recommending he try TV Tonight, in my personal opinion it was always about the fame and at one point he posted a status update (now removed) claiming if 1,000,000 users joined Rove would provide a personal video message. That’s always possibility but I somehow suspect that was just a ploy to attract more users.

  5. His Show is one of the few talk shows of the Non Jerry Springer Variety that is not aimed at housewives and can be enjoyed by all.
    I only have to think of the women most of which should be out working in the day watching that Dr Phil and Oprah Tripe to hurl.

  6. This is a story about how people on Facebook want Rove to come back to television, I am in that group. To all the people that hate Rove. This is about how people like Rove, not about the people that hate him. You shouldn’t compare Rove to Hey Hey Its Saturday because Hey Hey Its Saturday is just so not funny, & I think people are over it. Why don’t people keep their lame comments to themselves. I didn’t mean to offend anybody, but I am sticking up for Rove okay!

  7. Hes not going anywhere.. hes obviously still going to be on TV. Its Rove for gods sake. I hope TEN give either Hamish and Andy their own show for Sunday night or Shaun Micallef his own show for Sunday night.

  9. @koverstreet
    “your so right he is awful and his humour is childish and low brow at best. The very fact that he’s lasted so long is testament to the stupidity of many aust viewers” Yes, I couldn’t have said it better myself. I looked at the Facebook page and it’s literally saddening that some people there genuinely think that Rove is talented and hilarious.

  11. I’ve watched just about every episode of Rove for over 8 years, but I think it’s a bit soon for a Bring Back Rove campaign. I’ve been invited to join several different facebbok groups dedicated to this notion and I’ve ignored them all. But then again, I never join any groups because it’s just facebook, it’s not real. I assume Channel 9 don’t quite understand that it wasn’t a group of dedicated Hey Hey fans, the fact is that in the facebook world; you see a friend has joined the bring back Hey Hey group so you click ‘join’ and never look at it again, and this cycle repeats hundreds of times.

  16. @ john johnson .. your so right he is awful and his humour is childish and low brow at best. The very fact that he’s lasted so long is testament to the stupidity of many aust viewers.

    And Hey Hey was a much loved classic and so much better then Rove it’s incalculable!

    I just love that next year Hey Hey will be back and Rove will be gone 🙂

  22. bindi – you are right about Rove not ruling out a return to TV but I can understand why some fans would be more content knowing it is a certainty rather than a maybe.

    As for me – I’d rather watch Rove and his naughty but nice antics than the outdated and unfunny racist ones from that blowhard Daryl Somers.

  23. Why bother rallying this this bloke to return to tv? The guy has no talent and has about as much humour as a plank of wood! Plumbing might be a more suitable career move!

  25. I don’t really think it is necessary, he didn’t rule out the possibility of a return to TV, give it some time and if he doesn’t come back on his own then start the campaign.

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