★★★★★ 0/5

The last Rove

Rove's decision to surprise everyone with a snap farewell meant it didn't enjoy its best numbers as Seven proved unstoppable.

27
Leave a comment

rlThe last ever episode of Rove signed off with 760,000 viewers.

While it was far from the show’s biggest audience, it was a shock announcement at 9:37pm. If the powers that be chose to give it a big send-off it could have enjoyed a much bigger farewell. But ‘surprise’ was the key word and it managed to avoid most leaks.

But Sunday belonged to Seven with a huge share thanks to The Force, Border Security, Seven News, Bones, Sunday Night and Castle all winning their slots.

Even on the back of the Australian Masters Golf, Nine couldn’t take the evening. 60 Minutes continues to hover around the 1.1m mark -last night 1.07m while the 3 hour edited version of False Witness was just 529,000. At least it did better during the daytime thanks to Tiger Woods & co.

Australian Idol‘s last two singers sat at 924,000 with Electric Dreams dropping to 428,000.

ABC News was best for the public broadcaster while Who Do You Think You Are? loses ground since the end of the Australian episodes.

On digital channels an episode of The Big Bang Theory was best with 274,000 for GO! with Kill Bill pulling 147,000 for 7TWO.

There were big shares for digital channels last night with GO! on 5.3%, 7TWO 3.7%, ABC2 0.9%, ONE 0.8% and SBS TWO 0.2%

Corrected.

Week 47

27 Responses

  1. the show / format will be missed… it was fun.
    pity I missed the last show – would’ve made more of an effort to watch if I’d known it was the last one!

  3. Ok Rove is going to be missed very much and I couldn’t imagine tv without him. I think channel ten execs could see him doing a hosting role. I think with the talents of the rove team there could be a chance to give a second life to Big Brother who knows it could very much work

  4. Rove doing commercial breakfast radio might work, if he’s willing to move to Sydney and take on Kyle and Jackie O (whom I greatly doubt, he’d succeed at beating). I’d suggest Rove make (occasional only) appearances on either a Sunday night, or even a Saturday night (at 6.30 pm) version of his 7PM Project show.

    What I don’t understand, is if Ten have also been bleeding significant viewers from Aus Idol (which I don’t watch, as it’s never been my cup of tea) and now realise they made a big mistake firing Kyle (who they now realise consistently brought in good ratings for it, when he was on), why aren’t they permanently resting Aus Idol and why are they foolishly continuing to go with it next year. The proposal to revive Young Talent Time could work and would be much cheaper for Ten to do, but not while Aus Idol is still airing.

  6. I’ll admit to being a bit of a sentimentalist, and though I don’t think I’d ever watched the show through before, I did happen to catch the last 10 mins last night (the sign-off) and was a little sad to see him go.

    On the other hand… it does seem clear he went before 10 made some ghastly alternative show suggestion for him for 2010 (hard to see them bringing the show back in its existing form next year), and for that I respect him, even if I never really enjoyed the show or found him funny. He seemed pleasant, likeable, but no more.

    Maybe, as others are saying, it will free the slot up for Hamish and Andy or Micallef?

    But 10 years is a mighty effort, whatever one thinks of the show itself, which in my case wasn’t much.

  7. I hapened to catch the tail end of Rove’s farewell speach by accident. There did seem a bit of bitterness. The “saints into sinners” quote was interesting. I guess they may have felt that they already had a big show in the 10th anniversary episode, so it would have been going over old ground to do a big Finale.

  9. What the? was really just Hey’s Hey’s Media Watch Press/Phunny Foto’s rolled into one anyway so if Ten wanted Rove to become more Hey Hey like he would have only been going back to how his early Ten Shows where (like on Hey Hey James Simpson used to do all the whacky stuff that first Rove and then Hamish and Andy did), Corrine Grant as a human nacho … well Jackie and Co did that sort of thing.

    Perhaps Darryl Somers has seen the error of his ways when he should of passed the host role of Hey Hey on all those years ago and has offered Rove the torch to carry the show on into the future and Rove has accepted that offer (perhaps Nine Execs forced Somers hand), Ernie Carroll is not getting any younger so perhaps Somers Carroll will become Somers Rove.

    Now there is unfounded speculation for you from sources at the centre of my mind.

  10. I give him full credit for knowing when to fold ’em.

    @ Quentin – I am Gen Y and I can’t really stand him. Might want to clarify your statement a little bit considering there are probably millions of ‘Gen Y’s’ in Australia.

  11. I do feel ripped-off by there being no prior warning. But at least I was watching. I can see why Rove wanted to keep it quiet, but it robbed his audience of what could have been a much bigger moment.

  12. @Ryan, thats what i thought too, they wanted him to host a Hey Hey Style show, now as much as Hey Hey Is great, Rove is not Hey Hey, rove is his own show, and should never change the format, once they said to him, “Put your big boy pants on, and we’ll cram you into south melbourne seven studios where its small, dark and dull, act like Jay Leno.”, he followed that lead, and “Americanised” his own show, that’s why people turned away from it, he wasn’t “Fun” to watch anymore… he became an “Old Man” to say… Remember when he swam in a pool of tiramisu?, remember when he made corrine grant into a human nacho?, remember What The?, All those things should have never changed about rove, he appealed to the young audience (Which was me at the time), and then when the Ten Exec’s decided that he should Grow Up, they changed the show, from a 2 Hour Fun-Packed Variety Show (Which would always go over and i remember that Sandra Sully would always be pi**ed LOL), to a one hour Dull, Boring, Stale Talk Show Jammed into a Sunday Night, it was too quick, and not funny…

    But that’s just my opinion… he needed more time on air, but they decided to pull some crap like that.. good onya Ten… You ruined a great show….

  13. Rove was getting too childish – his humour appealed to teenage girls. I can’t believe people are saying a poor Idol lead in was his downfall. As much as lead ins are important, you can’t rely on them. When Idol was strong, was that the only reason Rove use to get big ratings??

  15. Wow! I had no idea that he left! I didn’t watch it as I was think it was just another episode until this! Now I wish it was the 7pm project and not him pulling the pin! I guess we’ll have to see what TEN has to do in 2010, I mean TEN in two thousand and ten

  16. Seems like more and more people are switching to digital.

    The Big Bang Theory – 247,000 (record for the show on Go!)

    Go! Share: 5.3% (also a record nightly share)

    No wonder the shows on the main networks are starting to drop.

  17. @ dan: yes it does seem a bit odd 2 weeks ago he didnt sound like rove was ending but then bang. I rekon ten wanted the format to change for next yr and rove didnt want it to so he went out on a high?

  20. what was roves highest #’s / timeslot? Why did he not announce it prior to get higher ratings? maybe he was pushed and has a resentment? nova969 would be a good fit for him but merrick & rove sounds wrong.

  23. no surprise idol didn’t do well again last night. it will struggle again next week. rove knew his time was up. 10 has too realise now idol is finished and they shouldn’t bring it back

  24. Let’s hope its the last we see of Pete Hellier on tv or radio! What on earth Triple M saw in him to justify the axing of Tony Martin and “Get This”. Maybe Rove sees someone who is unfunnier than himself.

    Credit to Rove for pulling the pin. His continual dumbing down of his considerable sense of humour certainly maximised audience ratings, and has made him a very rich. I wish him the best, and hope he can return to his natural, more edgier humour.

Leave a Reply