What did I think? Thanks for asking! Uneven but room to improve. I thought it was a respectable first outing, the team seems to gel fairly well.

The set is quite distracting, as is the shaky camera work in Ruby Rose’s segment. The shaky handheld camera effects were not needed and viewers usually find it nauseating and unnecessary. That needs to be dropped. The key (image) behind Ruby of Sydney should also be a little less distracting. Keep it still basically.

The content itself was fine, mostly light hearted entertainment-like topics, I hope they branch out to other types of stories too. Carrie was solid, although I was waiting the punchlines after the news stories.

Charlie needs to loosen up, the studio audience needs to wake up and be a little more vocal (no applause coming to and from breaks was a bit weird, as was the delayed applause for Julie) and Dave – well Dave was his normal self.

I was surprised by James Mathison, he is a good addition to the panel, although I have a feeling he won’t be there every night.

Overall it was a strong start, we will just have to wait to see what Australia thought of it. It’s back tomorrow and every Weeknight at 7pm on Network Ten.

Update: Ruby Rose clarifies what she calls the ‘drunk cameraman’.

Thanks to everyone who watched the 7pm project sorry about the “drunk camera man” during sienna it wasn’t us it was a junkit. Odd I know. X

A few of which are featured in this video featuring the best of 2005 uploaded by RoveOnline.

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These include some of the ‘Live List’ features, which involved live stunts and with cast members such as Hamish & Andy and Haydo you’d think some of these members could be used on location for fun events such as this.

Another feature from the video are the giveaways, which weren’t exactly funny they were entertaining and good television. In the current climate this sort of thing would probably be a nice complement to the show. It’s fun after all seeing people get something nice.

The Cutout interviews, Peter ‘interviewing’ fake celebrities voiced by Rove were usually very entertaining and could be integrated into the existing ‘PeteSpace’ segment.

‘Roving with Rove’ was always fun talking to regular people, you could even use another cast member such as Dave Hughes to do it.

Regular sketches! Rove all the way back in 2009 had hilarious sketches and in that video ‘Super Barry” and “Australia’s Brainiest Kids” were both funny. Bring back the good old traditional sketch!

These are just my ideas from the one video, you may have your own suggestions about previous or brand new segments that would complement the show as it stands in 2009.

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A small word from me… 5th Grader is back in 2009 despite those figures for the finale. To be fair Ten’s ratings across the board have been less than stellar for the last few months and last nights ratings were following that trend. One thing that will not help is that Ten will be airing the American version of 5th Grader over summer. Way to get people sick of the formula Ten.

The Demo’s are listed below.

Rove
21:06 – 22:17
Metro commercial share
18-49 16-39 25-54 Ttl Ppl
TEN 43.6% 49.3% 38.3% 1.0m
Nine 37.4% 33.7% 41.3% 1.2m
Seven 19.0% 17.0% 20.5% 692k

The moving of the show to different time slots is hurting the show again. Surely Australian Idol can run 60 minutes and not 90, 95 or 100. Next week it airs a 9.15pm… yes that’s right 9.15 – that isn’t going to help the figures, it rules out most people who don’t watch Australian Idol from watching as they will tune into something else from 8.30pm or 9.30pm. The Melbourne airing of Underbelly only took 20k from last week’s Rove so that wasn’t really a factor and next week is the final Sunday airing of the show.

Gaining 400k viewers from your lead-in is not an easy task.

Not too bad, a little lower than last week, but Thank God probably did not do as well as some thought, and America’s Next Top Model (which previously screened on FOX8) only recieved 710,000 viewers. Rove won the demographic once again so Ten will be happy with the performance.