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Axed: Warnie

Cricket's poor season continues as Shane Warne is dumped for Two and Half Men.

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Nine sent through an Amendement on New Year’s Eve noting that Warnie would be out for January 6th, replaced by Two and a Half Men.

All season the talk show had been aligned to air alongside the Ashes and given we were doing so poorly at the time, I read this as a routine Amendment rather than an axing (there had previously been another week it didn’t air because the cricket was off).

Today the Daily Telegraph reports that Nine has axed the final episode of the series. This would make the show the final axing of 2010.

At this awkward time of the year I have been unable to get more detail on this one.

As previously reported, Warnie was also the last variety show to be recorded at GTV9’s Richmond studio.

Which is too, too ironic to editorialise on any further….

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  2. Yay!!!
    Once again Nine make idiots of themselves with another failed “jobs for the boys” waste of money …
    Warne is just an embarassment to Australia …

    When will Nine get a programmer who actually has some idea of what good TV is????? Never at this rate!!!

  3. Hey! I’ve just read on the ABC newspage that “Warnie” failed because Australia lost the Ashes, and also that :
    “….Nine have said they were suitably impressed with Warne’s debut performance as a host. “I think people were pretty impressed with Shane … he was a very, very comfortable host,” the spokeswoman said.”

    I thought the show failed because it was unmitigated crap!
    So I stand corrected.
    He’s “very, very comfortable”.

  6. But Warnie, does it hurt as much as being dumped by Liz Hurley mate?

    2.5 Men is funnier and more entertaining the 37th time around than Warnie was the first. I admire Nine’s attempts to help us recycle our surfeit of retired sports people, but they can’t take them all, it’s time everyone pitched in to help. Someone should organise a telethon.

  7. God No!!!!!Not more Two and a Half Men.It was bad enough Nine dropping Temptation for the likes of Charlie Sheen back in 2009 but to show more of that garbage is disgusting.For Christ’s Sakes Nine don’t be an Alan Harper(Jon Cryer’s Character on 2.5 men)and be so cheap not to make a decent home grown sitcom even it is only for one night a week to fill the hole left behind by Warnie.Even making a 21st Century version of the Price is Right would be an improvement

  15. Something I read recently, not sure who said it but it is so true; Micheal Parkinson interviewing Warnie is a good thing, Warnie interviewing Micheal Parkinson is a horrible horrible thing. (or words to that effect).

    So long Warnie, until next time Nine drags you out for some other dire piece of rubbish.

  16. The person making decisions at nine should be axed firstly they change the day its on then the time then take it off for a week secondly they pick a host only really like by blokes whom don’t really watch chat shows Matne a chat show with a good host ie Andrew Denton type would of worked better

  17. Television Execs sometimes have a strange idea about who would make a good host. Some have the instinct to recognise a talent, and others follow a rigid set of guidelines apparently based on what has worked in other countries; ignoring the warning signs and instead pointing at their list of ticked boxes and dodgy audience surveys.

    Shane Warne fits in the latter. He’s tabloid fodder, which should be warning enough, not a charismatic talk show host.

    Adam Hills, on the other hand, has oodles of talent, experience, and therefore a lot of potential to be a hit as a talk show host. Though I admit I’m still not 100% convinced just yet.

  18. Nine absolutely love Shane Warne and have stood by him through scandal after scandal when anyone else would have had their contract torn up on the spot. Whilst I think he has a likeable and amenable screen presence, he is not prime time material. He would be much better suited to hosting a Sunday arvo Wide World of Sports style show. Celebrity talk show hosts need to have a journalist/media background, as there is a fine art to television interviewing. David Frost, Andrew Denton and Michael Parkinson after the supreme masters of it. Whilst Warne may have umpteen zillion celebrity friends that he could buttonhole for the show, it didn’t mean that he made a good interviewer.

  19. Can’t say I watched it, but when he comes on the cricket as part of the commentary team I have to mute the TV.

    He may have been a great bowler but he is painful to listen to, and you would need sunglasses to tone down the teeth if you watched his show.

  24. So the full page magazine ads didn’t work… couldn’t happen to a nicer guy LOL

    I think Nine were screwed, they had Warnie on contract after the Top Gear gig didn’t work out and had to give him something. They’ll probably down play this as a ‘summer show’ and not even classify it as an axing.

    But seriously what were they thinking?

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