Despite being short-listed as a replacement for talk show host Conan O’Brien, the Aussie comic yesterday laughed off losing the Late Night role to Saturday Night Live regular Jimmy Fallon.
Flattered to have been considered at all, McManus told Confidential he still planned to keep working towards his American TV dream.
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Tamaryn has some more thoughts on the “failure” to get the Late Night gig.
I understand the need to sensationalize. I understand the need to create publicity and speculation and report on what is in this case the downunderdog. I work in advertising; I get it. However, can’t we do a good job when we do [...]

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Arriving at the Studios
The show is filmed at Global Studios in Melbourne’s southbank, the area is quite nice (shame about the street side paid parking, with only a maximum of two hours. I’ll talk more about parking in a bit…).
We arrived 10 minutes late as the streets around the studios are extremely complicated to manoeuvre [...]

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TV Tonight does not think so, and I’d be inclined to agree.
[...]some press in Oz are reporting that Rove “failed” to land the hosting gig on Late Night after NBC confirmed it would go to Jimmy Fallon when Conan O’Brien exits (the Herald Sun actually couldn’t decide whether it was Jimmy Fallon or Jimmy Kimmel). [...]

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Gold Logie Winner Kate Ritchie
Comedian Judith Lucy
Faker performing “This Heart Attack” Live
Hamish & Andy

Then on Sunday 25th of May the guest line up includes… Sarah Jessica Parker, The Chaser Boys, Julia Morris, and Vanessa Amorisi performing her new single “Perfect”. H/T: TV Tonight

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Big Brother let Rove down, BB had disappointing ratings of only 1.050,000 and of those only 776,000 viewers nationally stuck around for Rove.
The big problem may be the fact that Rove starts at 9.00pm (or later if BB runs over) and the other networks start programs at 8.30.

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