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Ossie & Jackie…. not just yet.

Daryl Somers says the invitations to 'Ossie' and Jackie are out there, but nothing is confirmed for any regular returns.

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Last week there was speculation that Daryl Somers was wooing Ernie Carroll (aka Ossie Ostrich) and Jackie MacDonald back to Hey Hey it’s Saturday.

Today it sounds like it’s a long shot.

“I’ve spoken to Ernie, but haven’t put any pressure on him,” Somers told the Sunday Telegraph.

“I said to him, ‘We’d love you to be part of it, but it’s your call as to what you’d like to do.’

He acknowledges putting in one call to MacDonald to try and entice her back, but luring the reclusive Queenslander is no mean feat.

“I would imagine the best scenario there is if she comes down every now and again, almost as a social catch up with us.”

Meanwhile, in a separate story in the Sunday Herald Sun today he floats a proposal that GTV9 studios could be turned into a television museum if and when the Nine Network exits the premises.

“In the event that Nine moves from Richmond, I think it would be wonderful to do something like a museum because the studios have so much history,” he said.

“It would be a shame to just have a picture in a book somewhere in the future as this could end up being a major tourist destination on the map.”

Hey Hey returns next month.

Source: Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Herald Sun.

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  2. A very good point John Jackson! I’m sure it wouldn’t be hard to find a replacement for the role of playing Ossie if Ernie wasn’t up for coming back. A possibility worth looking at.

  3. What, you mean Daryl is full of hot air? Surprise.

    Meanwhile, surely half the point of selling in that the land GTV is on is worth a mint. Why make millions from apartments when you can make nothing from a TV museum! Yeah, that’ll happen.

  4. I don’t care much for Jackie.. she left the show ages ago, even before Ossie I thought. Though I really hope for Ossie to return. If it is too hard for Ernie to support Ossie I wonder if someone else could do him? It’s not like the show is Sesame Street or The Muppets, so it doesn’t have the huge backing and support of the Jim Henson company but they could get someone else to do the character and voice.

  5. The Museum of Modern Media on the Mornington Peninsula run by ex-Nine producer Bob Phillips held a lot of television memorabilia, including from GTV. When Phillips closed the museum, the entire contents went to the ACMI in Melbourne.

    Why would you want another television museum when you have ACMI in Melbourne and the NFSA in Canberra. Really, Daryl has no idea!!

  6. a tv museum?? – nice idea but where are you going to get the props and equipment to fill the studio with? …unless nine has a yet unknown hidden stash somewhere, most of the equipment and memorabilia was junked years ago – and what went to bob philps museum to be “preserved” was divided and sold off to private collectors long ago. Not much exists in reality except in collectors hands such as mine (which most items were saved at considerable cost to my own pocket from being destroyed)

    Hopefully the studios can be saved…but who would run it, who would fund it….and the reality is there is a limited interest…and in a short time nobody except the older people will remember what studio 9 was, or care…the culture in australia needs to be turned around toward preserving our history than actively pretending it didnt exist!

  7. I thought it must have been certain because Ossie is on the billboard I saw yesterday. It’s a giant Daryl and Plucka with a little Ossie and Dickie sticking their heads up at the bottom.

  9. I agree with Daryl. Like I said earlier this year, Studio 9 needs to be preserved. Too many old TV studios have been redeveloped in the last few years, and Studio 9 has too much history between those walls.

  10. Hardly a shock.

    I seriously doubt either of them would return – it was difficult enough getting them to return for 1 special let alone the planned 20 for this year.

    Hey Hey should rejuvinate itself with new talent. Sure have some older people in it, but in order to thrive the show needs to look forward rather than backwards.

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