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Report: Hamish & Andy in $17m Nine deal

Nine will pay a rumoured $17m a year to Hamish Blake and Andy Lee in a lucrative new deal.

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The Australian Financial Review today reports that Nine will pay a rumoured $17m a year to Hamish Blake and Andy Lee. The deal will deliver them 15 one-hour programs a year.

So far there has been no official confirmation from either Nine or Hamish and Andy‘s Radio Karate camp, but the pair’s Twitter and website are expected to be the place to watch.

Source: afr.com.au, Mediaweek

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  3. Can someone help me out here, I once read that Eddie McGuire earnt about $4 million a year through Channel 9, and that some people like Bert Newton were paid about $800,000.

    So how is it that Channel 9 have decided Hamish & Andy are worth $17 million? Or is that the budget for their show (ie. not their salary)?

  4. Hmm don’t care really just liked the David and Mac response. Decimal point? What is it? It’s a tiny dot just below your > key. But that’s not important right now.

    sorry I still miss Lesley

    who has more humour in his decimal point than Hamish and Andy have in their whole schtick

  6. Yay :):) I love their stuff; its always a laugh for me :):) i think its much better than giving them a weekly show; this will be great to let them just do what they do best 🙂

  7. I never found these guys very amusing…they remind me of the kids in the back of a school classroom who are trying too hard to be funny. Real Stories on Ten was horrible and their skits on Rove were annoying

    overrated? Yes. I doubt their show will rate very well

  8. wow some intense comments on this. Their $17 mill deal is only rumoured so far so lets not get our knickers in a twist just yet. Secondly, the boys wouldn’t have signed with a network they didn’t believe in. They are smart enough to do a good deal for themselves. The last thing they would want to do is screw themselves even if their rumoured fee is true.
    A lot of you hate Ch9, but that shouldn’t factor in to how you feel about Hamish and Andy. Most of you claim to be massive fans of them, but are writing that you will now refuse to watch them because of Ch9. To me that says you aren’t really fans at all but just commenting to slag off Ch9.

  14. That’s alot of money and a shame they are leaving Ten!
    Personally I don’t know If they are worth that much?? Is that $17 million for the show production costs and the talent signing? Or just the talent?
    IMO the show will be a success big probably not enough to justify such a huge investment! I reckon it would do around 1.2 million

  17. What a ridiculous sum. Well done to Hamish and Andy for scoring it, I bet they’re laughing all the way to the bank. I hope they can make ti work at Nine though – Nine’s track record with comedy is appalling.

  18. I don’t really care which network they’re on, or how much they’re paid; I just want them to justify moving their radio show to one day a week! Keep it real, good luck!

  19. personally id love to see them on abc. the majority of quality aussie comedy can be found on that channel…
    i guess they wouldnt get paid enough there though?

  20. The trainwreck at Nine continues. All the action is over at Seven anyway. Will whoever did this deal be accountable when it turns out to be an expensive mistake? Heads wont roll.

  21. Congrats to H&A. Remember that not only have Nine thrown all this money at the production of these shows, but they have reportedly given H&A complete creative control, so the Poisoned Chalice/Kiss Of Death that is “Comedy on Nine” may not apply here.

    H&A are very switched on, very cluey guys, and they are making more and more assured decisions, but good on them for taking the money and setting themselves up as real players in the industry. One thing I am sure of is that they will put A Lot of the money back into the production side of things, ala Rove, to become/remain heavy hitters in the production industry.

    Again, well done, they exited Austereo at the peak of their popularity, at their decision, and have moved on to the next level. Will it be a huge comedy success? Probably yes and no, because now that these figures have been mentioned, and the fact that it is Channel Nine, means that their shows will be hyped up to unprecedented and unsustainable levels.

    But the boys will be having fun, will be well resourced, and good bloody luck to them. I’ll be watching.

  22. If i recall correctly their last special on TEN failed. Why are these boys being offered so much. They are not that great for TV. I actually think they are crap. Never liked them. Its a good thing for them but seriously its ridiculous. They won’t do much for Nine imo. On radio they are awesome but for TV they are crap.

    Most of and i say most of their TV projects haven’t done that well to be honest. Look when they were on Seven. They failed in the first 2 weeks of their show. They are not that good and Nine are paying the wrong people imo. Pay someone good instead or invest that money into a good drama series, not on 2 comedians. This network continues to be the home of laughter, literally. lol

    They might be worth $1.7m a year but not $17m. Guess Nine like throwing money away. No wonder they are struggling.

  24. @MHA Yes it must include production costs. It would therefore include the production staff and everything. Doubt they would be getting anywhere near half a million each per episode.

    I think most of you are over-reacting.

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