We chose Rove McManus as one of our Best Dressed Australian men precisely because he doesn't dress like a talk-show host. He's as comfortable in a suit and tie as he is in jeans and a T-shirt and, like many modern men, he's aware of what looks good on him.
"I don't think I've ever been on one of these lists - it's quite nice actually," says McManus. "It's a pay off for all the times I took a gamble on wearing a cardigan with a suit when I thought it might be a bad idea, but maybe it wasn't."
ALSO Rove camero on The I.A Show - Episode 4 (the video should commence midway through @ the 11min mark where Rove appears by-passing the some bits, also check out 19min about getting into comedy)
RATINGS - Sunday 28th of June show Added: Monday 29th June
Preliminary Oztam results suggested a massive 1,629,000 viewers nationally tuned in for Sunday's show comprising of Bruno, PM Kevin Rudd, Matt Preston & Daniel Merriweather , making it the 4th most watched show on the day.
Revised: ROVE (8:36pm to 10:09pm) 1,544,000 viewers nationally winning in 18-49, 16-39 & 25-54 demographics, Channel Seven 1,081,000, Channel Nine 893,000
TWO years after Prime Minister Kevin Rudd appeared with Rove McManus on his live chat show, he is set to do it again - this time with camp star Bruno.
Mr Rudd will join flamboyant Rove guest Bruno, played by Australian actress Isla Fisher’s husband Sacha Baron Cohen, when he takes up a seat on the Channel 10 program this Sunday.
Earlier this year McManus told The Daily Telegraph he hoped Mr Rudd would return to the program even though his political career had taken off.
"The first time we had him on he had become leader of the opposition and was hoping to become prime minister," he told TV Editor Erin McWhirter.
"There’s no reason for me to believe that simply because he became the leader of the country that he was going to come back, but he did on this birthday of all days. So that’s hard to top."
Rove is about to take a four week mid year break. The last of the current shows will air Sunday July 12th.
This year the show started in February, earlier than its 2007 / 2008 seasons, so a decision was made to factor in a mid year break to allow the creative time to recharge.
Look for MasterChef Australia to take its place with a finale on July 19th. Might be a good time for a honeymoon?
Some questions over this year's ARIA Awards, the following are excerpts from TV.com
The figures just didn't add up, but will TV still come to the music industry's party?
Since 2002 Roving Enterprises has produced the country's annual music bash, the ARIA Awards.
But while TEN has walked away from the event due to the expense, so far there has been no word on whether they will be televised at all.
"To be honest the ARIAs were costing in the high end of $2 million, somewhere close to $3 million to produce for one night of TV," said Craig Campbell of Roving Enterprises.
Campbell recently said he wasn't sure of the future direction of the ARIAs but still has faith in the brand.
"I'd like to think it's still got a home," he said.
"I don't think it's dead by any means. You've just got to reinvent it. Over the years everything gets a cutback. You've just got to look at it and go 'how would we make it different now?' And there's always a way, because if you aren't going to do it, somebody else is going to come up behind you and do it."
NEWS - Congratulations! Added: Wednesday 17th of June
Rove McManus marries Tasma Walton in secret ceremony
ROVE McManus and Tasma Walton have tied the knot in a secret ceremony on a beach in Broome, Western Australia.
They were married yesterday and celebrated the day with a small group of close family and friends.
It was Tasma who proposed to Rove, having first asked his mother for her blessing. There are no honeymoon plans and both Rove and Tasma will be returning to the east coast for work commitments.
Tasma said: "The day was everything we hoped for: simple, quiet and intimate, in a beautiful Broome landscape with a small group of family and close friends celebrating beside us.
Rove said: "Tasma and I are very happy and look forward to that continuing for a long time to come. It was wonderful to get to share that happiness with both our families and friends around us."
Tasma wore a white, vintage 1970's sundress. Rove wore no shoes.
Full article continue over at The Herald Sun (27th June, 2009)
Ten has officially released some infomation about Roving Enterprises' new project, the following are excerpts from The Daily Telegraph - 'Ruby Rose gets her own TV show on Channel 10'
• The show will be titled 'The 7PM Project' (Monday to Friday) starting July 20th
• To be hosted by Ruby Rose, James Mathison, Dave Hughes, Carrie Bickmore & Charlie Pickering
SHE'S pay TV's top "it" girl and its most popular new female talent and now Ruby Rose will move into the big league with a nightly Channel 10 show overseen by Rove McManus.
Rose has signed up to co-host Ten's top-secret - until now - new series called The 7PM Project, running Monday to Friday and dissecting the day's news before a live audience.
Rose will be joined by Rove regulars including comedian Dave Hughes and Carrie Bickmore, as well as Talkin' 'Bout My Generation panelist Charlie Pickering and former Australian Idol presenter James Mathison. Ten's chief programming officer David Mott said The 7PM Project will mark a new direction for the network, which has struggled to find an all-year-round program for the timeslot.
"It's no secret getting the 7pm timeslot right is a focus for us," Mott says.
"As a network the timeslot is critical for us and what we needed was a show that can sit there five days a week for the whole year, like a soap."
Official Channel Ten & Roving Enterprises media release
The 7PM Project is a place where people who are genuinely interested in the world around them come together to talk, offering genuine conversation in a space previously crowded by scandal and spin.
While it’s not afraid to be serious, The 7PM Project can guarantee that there will be no miracle diets, no stories that ‘no parent can afford to miss’, and virtually no dodgy plumbers.
The 7PM Project is the news un-spun. It is not a satirical newscast in the style of Jon Stewart’s Daily Show, but a TV show joining in the conversations going on in living rooms around the country.
David Mott, chief programming officer, Network Ten said, "We’ve had great success in introducing brave projects to the Aussie TV landscape such as MasterChef Australia and Talkin‘ ‘Bout Your Generation and if we get this right, The 7PM Project could be a game changer for TEN in that very crucial 7pm timeslot. Not to mention our digital platform which plays a key role in the experience, driving content and discussions to the show, making it a truly integrated TV /on-line offering and a place for audiences to share their stories, opinions and interact."
"The 7PM Project is an earthy, real and fun approach to discussing the news. It’s a long term venture and we expect that over the coming months people will make The 7PM Project appointment viewing, every night, to hear what our team have to say about the news of the day and to hopefully add a smile to the end of it!"
Craig Campbell, executive producer, Roving Enterprises asserts, "As we have worked more and more in the development of this project we have realised what a rich vein we have struck. Australians are opinionated and this is a show about opinions – we may not tell you something you don’t know already but we’ll make sure you know what our team thinks about it."
"TEN is a great place to develop a program like this, it will take time for people to get their heads around this show and TEN have a reputation for giving shows room to grow. They gave Rove room to grow and we are still here 10 years later."
IMPORTANT: Due to copyright infringement claims by third parties the primary YouTube channel has been suspended, my sincere apologises for any inconveniences caused.
ROVE McManus has another trophy for the pool room after his conservation efforts were recognised with an Australia Zoo Wildlife Warrior award.
At the annual VIP breakfast this morning, Rove took to the stage at the Sunshine Coast-based zoo at Beerwah alongside zoo director Terri Irwin and her children Bindi, 10, and Robert, 5, to accept the award which honours the legacy left by Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin who was killed in a stingray attack in 2006.
Terri said that Rove, who was recently appointed vice president of the Fauna & Flora International (FFI) Australia along with conservation legend David Attenborough, had demonstrated a passion and commitment to the cause. "I really admire Rove and his passion for conservation," she said.
''He is one man who uses his personality and celebrity to raise awareness for worthy causes and he is bringing the issues of wildlife and wild places to mainstream Australia."
TWITTER Added: Monday 2nd of March (UPDATED: 8/04)
"Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates (known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length."
'Rove has recently become a Vice-president for Fauna & Flora International, and has spent the past few months traveling around the world with our teams to check out some of the FFI projects hes now involved in...'
Excerpts from AAP via News Limited - 'Rove McManus makes US prime time debut'
Rove McManus has made his prime time TV debut in America with a show poking fun at the bizarre ups and downs of Hollywood celebrities in 2008.
Filmed in a studio overlooking New York's Times Square, McManus' hour long show debuted on America's ABC network on Tuesday night...
Regular visitor to the site Anniea has blogged about her experience at the season finale of ROVE (live from Sydney)
Waiting around, sipping on my lemonade, RO gets pulled away by Rove's assistant Lucy Lisa [Admin correction]. At this point we're all thinking "Oh sh** ...are we in trouble?" Not that we should have been worried.
She was just coming to tell her that Rove would like to meet us.
Let me repeat that just in case you didn't read it properly.
ROVE WANTED TO MEET US.
I was starting to think that the paper bag would have been a very good idea after all.
I don't know where he popped up, but all of a sudden, the man, the myth, the legend was standing behind us. He shook RO's hand and spoke to her a little bit before she introduced me. And my first words? They were "Hi. I blog."
*insert embarrassment* Rove kindly agreed to take photos of us...
VIDEO - Rove's 3rd appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (29th Sept)
From The Daily Telegraph (30th of October)
BEING asked to appear - a third time - on the highest - rating chat show in the US is an honour but there were other incentives for Rove McManus to head stateside this week.
"I have been waiting for the right time to come back over and as soon as I saw the Aussie dollar hit 62c I pounced," the TV funnyman joked before his appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last night.
Describing his return visit to the New York set of the variety show as, "As good as it gets", McManus has rekindled speculation he intends to set up his own gig there.
While his handlers have denied the move in the past, claiming the comedian is just "extending his global contacts", perhaps the third time will be a charm
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Rove & Tasma new members to The Free the Bears Fund
Free the Bears Fund Inc. has many devoted supporters and members that strive to provide bears all over the world with a better life. As a non-profit organisation, Free the Bears relies on the dedication and determination of our 'family' to spread the word about the plight facing bears across the globe.
... both Rove and Tasma are extremely conservation minded and are truly passionate about protecting and preserving wildlife. It was our pleasure to be able to inform our VIP's about the threats facing Asian bears, whilst allowing them some 'up close' encounters with our two orphaned cubs.
... on the conclusion of their visit, Rove and Tasma were ecstatic when it was announced that our two young Asiatic black bear cubs, one male and one female, would be named in their honour. And after this, of course, they couldn't resist one final visit with their bear counterparts, helping to give the cubs their last feed of the day before putting them to bed!
Free the Bears are pleased to welcome our newest members – Rove McManus and Tasma Walton – to the family!
I hear my episode of Talkin Bout Your Generation is on next week 
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