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Daryl in talks for Hey Hey’s return

Daryl Somers hoping for more Hey Hey, including with much-loved cast members Molly and Russell Gilbert.

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Daryl Somers has been in ‘continuing talks’ with Nine about another return for Hey Hey it’s Saturday, reports claim.

News Corp reports new host of You’re Back in the Room is still keen for Hey Hey to return, including with Molly Meldrum and Russell Gilbert -both of whom have been battling health.

“I understand Russell is feeling much better,” Somers said. “I’d love him to be part of Hey Hey when we do it. Molly too, but that could prove more difficult.”

Russell Gilbert has been released from hospital after undergoing emergency surgery for a brain aneurysm, and is in recovery.

Meanwhile Jo Beth Taylor has been attracting new fans on TEN’s I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here.

The last revival in 2010 did not sustain solid ratings, but the show is not considered to be cheap.

Somers’ new hynopsis game show is due to air in April.

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  1. The show was great in its day…but so were many other shows. TV was more relaxed back then. Times have changed. People expect better production values now. And Hey Hey in 2010 looked and felt exactly the same as it did ten years earlier. Same bright set, Same bright lighting, same people (but older). The show needed a fresher look and feel. Fresh set, fresh look. and fresh people. And Daryl as owner of the program should have realised it. Unfortunately egos got in the way. Get a great new talent as host, have chairs rather than a desk, Daryl…give your self a segment…but as owner of the program, it would have had a better chance of being a hit and could still be on air to a new generation of fans….And you Daryl could be a huge success again as owner of the show. There is still a market for live TV with a “spontaneous” feel. People love it when things could go wrong..and love it…

  4. Sorry Daryl, time to move on I think, most of the people who grew up watching HHIS have, and when it was on air last time, It wasn’t really a ratings success. Don’t think HHIS should return, personally.

  9. I think part of the reason why it kind of failed with its last comeback was because there wasn’t enough money thrown behind it and so the show tried too hard to be funny all the way through with its narrow set of segments. If we remember back to the old Hey Hey, it was a show that was a rollercoaster. It had entirely different segments at stages throughout the show, whether it was interviewing someone popular, whether it was something of a serious nature. But certainly it did have more ‘variety’ which is what was lacking in the last reboot which kind of felt more like a game show.
    It’s important to have that rollercoaster in a 2 hour variety show. It needs that randomness, the fluctuation of emotion and fun which is what the original always used to have.
    But for that, it needs the money. So I hope they throw a lot more $ behind it than the last comeback.

  10. Daryl’s ego astounds at times.

    YBITR will be cancelled/relegated to Go! within a couple of weeks, so Daryl will presumably be under contract. Guess they have to find something for him to do.

  11. Why do channels keep trying to hold on to the past, for goodness sake start looking to the future and new programmes which are more appropriate to todays viewers, or maybe the hosts are just running short of cash and want a top up.

  12. Seriously, Daryl?! The show was old and tired in 1999. It was one thing to have a nostalgia-fest reunion show, which was guaranteed to rte through the roof. Then the 2010 revival was proof that nostalgia isn’t enough to get an ongoing commitment from viewers (the same reason I’m struggling to get through ‘Fuller House’).

  13. Nostalgia is a funny thing. Hey Hey was great in it’s day. It had a great run. Then they bought it back. It didn’t work. Why would it work now? To quote a famous song…Let it go!

  14. Well since no one is bringing about a replacement for what hey hey and rove provided, might as well bring back the original. Could always bring new hosts into it too. Daryl does not always have to host it. There were times that others such as Larry emdur and lano and woodley hosted it.

    It’s really kinda bad that no one has brought around a replacement for what shows like hey hey and rove offered. Closest thing we have is morning TV and short moments on the project.

  16. Like many others of my age and those in the generation since, Hey Hey was a vital and endearing part of our viewing memory; but as the last one received such mixed reactions and ratings; another go will look that much more tragic than the previous one. I don’t often say this, but let it go!

    1. It’s not even a horse any more. It’s a half-cooked lasagne but Daryl keeps beating his meat in the vain hope that it’ll get up again. It’s now just sad.

  18. Now we have more channels than ever to fill with content, I can’t see why a shoe like Hey Hey couldn’t be on TV. Of course it would need to be modernised and not just a rehash of what used to be like what the revived series ended up being. The world had already moved on at that stage.

    1. Nine already has 2 modernised, non-rehashed versions of Hey Hey – they’re called The [AFL] Footy Show and The [NRL] Footy Show.

      Sorry Daryl, you’ve been outdated and replaced by Sam Newman & Fatty Vautin…

  21. Why? Dear God, Why?! Didn’t they learn their lesson last time? The days of shows like Hey! Hey! are long past. A one off special was all the format could manage . If Nein really has nothing else to air, put on another of the endless procession of informercials or just go to black for an hour. It’d attract more viewers than another attempt at resurrecting Hey Hey.

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