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Hey Hey back to Saturday?

Posted by: 3AW Breakfast | 2 July, 2010 - 8:36 AM

Daryl Somers tells Neil Mitchell that Hey Hey! It's Saturday has a future, but not on a Wednesday night? It could move to Saturday night.

PLAYING NOW: Hinch discusses the below press release put out by Channel Nine.

Hey Hey it's Saturday will complete its extended first series of programs on July 21 with the return of Kylie Minogue to Australian television screens.

"Daryl and the Hey Hey team have done a terrific job with the show in a really competitive environment," Michael Healy, Nine Network Programming Director, said today.

"We always planned for the season to be in two bursts at the beginning and end of the year and it is a great tribute to the team that they have secured Kylie Minogue, one of Australia's most outstanding performers, to appear on the final show for the first half run."

"Negotiations for an exclusive Kylie edition of the show started back in early March so we are thrilled it's finally happening,” Daryl Somers said today. “It's a great way to finish our first season before we recess and plan for the second half."

LAST WEEK: Hey Hey It's Saturday looks to have a shaky future after it returned another dismal set of ratings figures on Wednesday night.

Hey Hey's popularity has taken a steep dive with only 800,000 viewers tuning in this week less than half the number that watched last year's reunion specials.

It was soundly beaten by Spicks and Specks, Highway Patrol and the unbeatable Masterchef.

Entertainment Reporter Peter Ford says the show has disappointed audiences.

Blog comments Your Say

  • The biggest victim of this dated bile will be Daryl's monstrous ego. It may never recover.

    The Serial Pest Friday 22 October, 2010 - 12:26 PM

  • Hey Hey It's Saturday was funny... once. The potential is still there, but sad to say the show and it's host haven't moved on from 25 years ago.

    The joke has gotten old.
    Stuck in a timewarp regards.

    Russell Thursday 14 October, 2010 - 8:27 PM

  • it would be a bit late for a prude like neil mitchell to stay up past half past six on a sat and watch hey hey

    bob bunker Monday 12 July, 2010 - 10:50 PM

  • Axing is too good for this show. Let it have a slow and painful death.

    arkie Thursday 8 July, 2010 - 4:18 PM

  • Well look at Hey Hey's ratings when Masterchef wasn't on...

    Week 16:
    2nd with 1,521,000

    only just beaten by The Pacific, but look at the slide that had.

    Granted it should return to its old slot on Saturday. It would blow the ratings out of the water there.

    For all those who diss Hey Hey, they obviously don't have any idea of what real television is, Hey Hey is good clean family entertainment that everyone can sit down and watch. I think it is all about ratings, which brings me to the question, can we really trust what the ratings say, are they accurate? A better system is needed in my opinion. Hey Hey the other week averaged under 1mil, but peaked to 1.4mil.

    So how is that bad?

    Good on you Daryl for trying hard to keep it on air. You are a legend.

    Haydo Thursday 8 July, 2010 - 1:42 PM

  • Love the show this is so typical of todays journalism take the negative and blow it up regardles of if there is truth in it or not

    jan mercer Thursday 8 July, 2010 - 12:36 PM

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