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Rumour: Hey Hey it’s Saturday

Updated: Hey Hey it's Saturday tipped to return to screen early October?

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We’ll see how well this plays out, but don’t be surprised if Hey Hey it’s Saturday returns to screen at 7:30pm Saturday October 2nd for its second block of episodes.

If that comes to pass it will follow on from Australia’s Funniest Home Videos and air from 7:30 – 9:40pm.

TEN’s Commonwealth Games coverage will begin the next day.

Meanwhile, that all night post-Hey Hey party to farewell GTV9 is now looking less likely…..shame!

UPDATE:  Nine source saying rumour is two weeks out…..

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  1. @ David , why was there a need to single me out ? It was just my view and opinion that Hey Hey haters should go away . As If would listen to little ol me anyway .

  3. I watch the 2 new shows n more on Sat nite in my home in Harrington Waters with lights out having dinner with a candle n wine great atmosphere and I would like to get a ossie Ostrich doll n Pluka.

    Best Love n Wishes
    Mark :):):)

  5. It’s best playing a bookended on Saturday, following that horrendous half hour i.e Australias Funniest Home Videos. It’s always amazed me how watching people incur serious bodily injury can be laughed off as light hearted primetime humour. Yet, satire like Chaser or Summer Heights High gets everyone’s back up? Anyway, my point is – the audience for AFHV show will laugh at anything (and do), have a very low entertainment threshold (obviously) so it’s a preemptive win/win situation for Hey Hey.

  6. i don’t care what night the show airs on, i really just hope that Daryl gets a format for the show and sticks to it. the first season didnt really have much of a format and it wasn’t very entertaining, especially when daryl would just ramblew on for quite a while, and then the games and other fun parts were rushed.

  7. I just hope “Hey Hey” changes the studio decor, It’s so 80’s look, get with times channel 9. As for the show being a Saturday option i think the “NRL” in NSW & QLD would be shown first (or a possible delay of NRL games) on the network.

  8. As someone who finds Hey Hey rather lame and very out of date, my objection is not to the fact it is airing at all. As Cam Reed says, there are plenty of other stations I can watch, and I can’t remember the last time Nine had something I wanted to watch on a Saturday night anyway outside of the NRL finals.

    My objection is to the sheer amount of money being spent on the show. I have read in the papers that this show is estimated to cost over half a million dollars per episode. The production certainly doesn’t show it. Nine should be putting this sort of money into new, fresh programming and not using it to rehash a show that was axed years ago because it had run its course.

  9. Much better time for Hey, Hey, Australia’s Funniest Home Videos rates consistently and it is really a natural feed in to Hey,Hey.

    For people who do not like Hey, Hey, there will GO, 7, 7Two, 7Mate, ABC1, ABC2, ABCNews24, SBS1, SBS2, Ten, ONE and possibly a third Station from Nine, so more choice than ever before to avoid Hey, Hey for Non-Pay TV viewers.

    Hope next year Hey, Hey continues (and on Saturday), it is either that or repeats of Movies we’ve seen a few times over, so why not some Hey Hey I figure,and like I said above, with more Digital Channels (like a third from Ten), hopefully there will be a nice balance for choice on what people watch on FTA TV.

  12. god, its really gonna feel like the 90s. Much better slot for it, should have done this in the first place, because say what you want, it is good , harmless, old fashioned fun despite it maybe being a bit out of place in todays tv genres

  19. I’m gonna make a prediction and say that this a false rumour. I don’t think Nine would extend Hey Hey’s run by 10 minutes, even though they have needed that 10 minutes quite a few times. By starting on October 2nd they are going to either take a week off for the Commonwealth Games or air an episode during the Games. Both scenarios are bad ideas. If they air an episode during the Games, they could potentially lose some of their audience. If they don’t, then that means they are only one week ahead of what was originally planned, which makes the final 2010 episode of Hey Hey the 20th of November. Sound familiar? That was the same day eleven years ago when Hey Hey was axed. Let’s hope history doesn’t repeat itself. Plus, now that the news is out, I think Daryl will really be pushing for that last Hey Hey episode to be the Studio 9 sendoff and why wouldn’t you? It’s the show that has more than 28 years of history in that studio.

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