Rove McManus will host the Breakthrough Awards, organised by the Los Angeles Based ‘Australians in Film’ on May 13th. The awards go to stars yet to breakthrough in Hollywood. Chris Hemsworth and Ryan Kwanten will be among the recipients. AIF will also announce at the ceremony the 2010 winner of the Heath Ledger Scholarship. The [...]

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‘The Bounce’, the family friendly AFL show hosted by Peter Helliar is being ‘rested’ or put on hiatus until the AFL finals series around September according to the Herald Sun and TV Tonight. Head of Programming and Production for Seven Network, Tim Worner had this to say about the announcement: “We didn’t think it was [...]

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Rove has been in New Zealand recently as part of a comedy event and has appeared on his favourite New Zealander’s show ‘John Campbell Live’ on TV3. You can watch the chummy interview on the TV3 website. RoveOnline has a great wrap up of media interviews while he is over there. Including this one from [...]

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Digital Spy reports that Rove and wife actress Tasma Walton have bought a $1.2 million Los Angeles mansion with hopes of expanding their careers in the United States. Rove who has appeared three times on E!’s Chelsea Lately has reportedly had talks with host Chelsea Handler for a permanent hosting gig. The Australian chatshow host, [...]

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The ratings are in for ‘The Bounce’ which screened last night at 7.30pm on Seven in the AFL states (Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia). It scored 546,000 viewers across those three states, besting ‘The AFL Footy Show’ which had 437,000 viewers. The Herald Sun also gave it a review following its premiere: PETER Helliar [...]

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Hamish & Andy have reportedly kicked in $1000 to C31 following yesterdays story from Crikey and reported here. Hamish and Andy dig deep for Channel 31, kind of. Crikey’s story yesterday highlighting struggling Melbourne community TV station Channel 31’s desperate plight produced instant results, with Austereo comedy duo Hamish Blake and Andy Lee kicking in [...]

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