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HAMISH Blake and Andy Lee look set to become TV stars after signing a lucrative deal with Channel 10.
The hottest duo on radio signed during the week to produce a number of specials for Ten.
One insider said the Fox FM pair would fill the gap left by Rove McManus when he quit his decade-long show last year.
At this stage the deal is for Blake and Lee to produce specials for the network, but a weekly show is not out of the question.
Ten programming chief David Mott said the signing was a coup.
"It's no secret Hamish and Andy are the most keenly sought after television talent around," he said.
"It's great news for us and we can't wait to see what they have planned."
The deal will make the pair one of Australia's best paid acts.
Check out the recently launched website for Peter Helliar's new film 'I Love You Too' co-starring Brendan Cowell, Peter Dinklage, Yvonne Strahovski and Megan Gale
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That's right the annual TV Week Logie Awards are upon us once again, here's a step-by-step guide of 'how to vote' to ensure we cover all the Rove categories.
Last chance: VOTING CLOSES on Friday the 5th of March @ 11:59pm (AEST)
NEWS - Rove to appear on Chelsea Lately, again Added: Thursday 18th of February
According to an unconfirmed television listing, Rove will be making a second guest appearance on U.S comedy talk show Chelsea Lately. The episode is scheduled to be shown this Monday (22nd of February) @ 11pm U.S time.
Guest line-up will also include: Keshia Knight Pulliam, Loni Love & Michelle Collins (subject to change).
Should this information be accurate expect the episode to be shown on Foxtel's E! Entertainment (Channel 121) soon after.
Check your local guides: Presumption is it'll air on Tuesday (23rd of Feb) @ 10:30 pm.
Rove to host New Zealand's Cadbury Crunchie Comedy Gala in April, the event will also be televised on TV3
The NZ Comedy Trust has staged a coup and commandeered the hosting services of the ever charismatic Rove McManus, Logie winner and star of the hilarious TV3 talk show ‘ROVE’
Details: ASB Theatre, Auckland City - Friday the 23rd April, 2010
NEWS - Cameo appearance in a short film Added: Monday 15th of February
'IA: Interview Artist - Part Two' trailer - A mockumentary following the adventures of struggling teenage interviewer Sam Deloris Tool. Attempting to become the next big thing in the world of interviewing, Tool won’t let his lack of experience or basic people skills stop him from pestering various celebrities including Rove, Hamish + Andy, Tim Minchin, Arj Barker and others…
The short film is part of the Hillside Film Festival to be shown on February the 20th at the Cameo Outdoor Cinema, Belgrave (Victoria).
Rove will be turning 36 on Thursday the 21st of January, if you would like to send a birthday card or anything else for that matter the mailing address is:
Attn: Rove McManus
Roving Enterprises
PO Box 212,
Richmond
Victoria 3121
AUSTRALIA
THE TV footy show wars have exploded with Channel 7 poaching comedian Peter Helliar to host a new weekly AFL footy entertainment program.
Seven is tipped to screen Helliar's as yet unnamed show in a 7.30pm or 8.30pm midweek timeslot - before rival The Footy Show on Nine.
Nine wants to answer the challenge by moving The Footy Show to 8.30pm Thursdays this year - an hour earlier than its usual 9.30pm start...
Helliar's weekly live one-hour show will include pre-recorded comedy skits, interviews, match footage, a "heroes and villains" segment and even footy street parties. There will be no footy panel.
In a shock, Helliar won't be doing his popular comic creation, Collingwood-wannabe Strauchanie, on his new show. Instead, he will introduce three or four new comedy characters.
"It is time for a fresh start to create some new characters. I would like it to be a very family-friendly show," an excited Helliar said.
Continure reading the full article The Herald Sun (16/01/2010)
Additional information:
"LETHAL" Leigh Matthews is to help spearhead Channel 7's assault on The Footy Show with new football program The Bounce.
Matthews will join host Peter Helliar and former Richmond great Matthew Richardson in the three-man line-up for Seven's new show.
Seven is yet to announce its midweek timeslot - rumoured to be 7.30pm or 8.30pm on Wednesdays or Thursdays. Nine is still toying with moving The Footy Show to 8.30pm on Thursdays to answer the challenge.
The Bounce will be a weekly live one-hour show that will include recorded comedy skits, interviews, match footage, a "heroes and villains" segment and even footy street parties.
Seven aims to have The Bounce on air for the first round of the AFL home-and-away season, meaning a debut on March 24 or 25.
Continure reading the full article The Herald Sun (12/02/2010)
Taking top spot in the poll for 'Wedding of the Year'
IN the third part of the Choicies results, we reveal who you thought was the baby of the Year, the Wedding of the Year and the Gala event of the Year...
Rove McManus and Tasma Walton 18.51 per cent - AFTER proposing with a picture she painted for Rove McManus, Tasma Walton found herself dressed in a vintage sundress standing shoeless in the sand on a West Coast beach marrying one of the most recognisable men on Australian TV. Or as she calls him, the love of her life. The Broome do was attended by 20 and the snaps are yet to be sighted.
ROVE McManus has described his "two wonderful girls", Tasma Walton and Belinda Emmett, as the highlights of the past decade.
The former TV host, who married actor Walton in June, lost Emmett to breast cancer in 2006 just 18 months after they wed.
"No matter how bad it got, there was always a positive somewhere, a moment where you could laugh," he said of Emmett's brave battle against the disease.
"Otherwise you fall into a hole. I tried that, and it didn't work. I came out."
His decade highlights are revealed in Who magazine's Goodbye to the Noughties special that is released today as part of its Best & Worst of 2009 issue.
We have the pleasure of announcing that Kylie Kwong will host the Sydney Public Talk on the 3rd December and Rove McManus the Melbourne Public Talk, World Peace - Who is Responsible? on the 10th December.
Both have been supporters of His Holiness and Tibet for many years with Rove having been involved in a number of previous visits. We are delighted that he is once again showing his commitment to His Holiness and will bring his warmth and humour to the days events in Melbourne.
The Melbourne Public Talk is being held on a very auspicious day for His Holiness. Not only is it International Human Rights Day but it is the 20th Anniversary of His Holiness receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.
Details: Melbourne Convention Centre - Thursday 10th of December, 2009 (2pm-4pm)
...that success made a regular return all but inevitable. It also got Nine's rivals thinking the family variety format was a horse worth flogging once more.
According to the rumour mill, Ten has been giving serious thought to putting Rove McManus into a show along the same lines as Hey, Hey.
In early November, it was claimed that "a source close to" Rove said changes were being proposed to the show in the wake of Hey Hey's ratings bonanza.
"Things will be different (on Rove)," the source reportedly said. "It's possible to see a more encompassing variety-type format when we come back."
ROVE McManus has made his first television appearance since closing the curtain on his local variety show by talking about the male anatomy with US TV personality Chelsea Handler.
The 35-year-old comedian went head-to-head with cult favourite Handler on her chat show, Chelsea Lately, which filmed the first of four shows in Sydney tonight.
During the six minute interview McManus joked about recently becoming a "washed up" TV host after putting his Rove program to bed after 10 years and how he wouldn’t mind trying his luck in America or Poland.
"I was hoping to be Chuy’s stunt double," McManus said in relation to Handler’s side-kick when quizzed about his professional future.
The light-hearted and non-intrusive exchange also included McManus sharing tips on Aussie lingo and catching Handler up to speed on the rules of swearing and how erect penises were not allowed on the box in Australia.
Handler commented there was no point in displaying non-aroused male privates on the screen as she wanted to see action.
"Like looking at the last chicken at the chicken shop," McManus joked about non-inflated male privates.
McManus’s interview will be broadcast to more than 160 countries, giving him enormous exposure abroad, and will screen Foxtel’s E! Channel tomorrow night in Australia.
[ Update: Video of the interview has sinced been removed due to user violations ]
ROVE McManus has to date avoided Australian media and instead will promote himself to more than 160 countries when he appears on a US cable show next week, perhaps a nod to his plans to take his career to the US.
Following his decision to quit his decade-old TV series on Sunday, McManus has dodged interview requests at home, even cancelling an appearance in the studio audience for a Michael Parkinson UKTV special filmed in Sydney on Tuesday night.
There is speculation McManus may pursue a career in US television after making three appearances with NBC's Jay Leno in the past two years.
That has now intensified with the revelation he will be the first Australian interviewed on the top rating cable talk show Chelsea Lately, fronted by the wickedly witty and ribald-edged comedian Chelsea Handler.
Rove will make what looks to be his first major appearance since the end of his show on 'Chelsea Lately' a Los Angeles based talk show that airs on E! (Channel 121 on Foxtel/Austar) both in the US and Australia.
It will air this coming Tuesday at 10.30pm AEDST in Australia, US viewers will need to check their guides or the Chelsea Lately website.
His scheduled appearance will be taped in Sydney where the show is broadcasting from Foxtel’s North Ryde Headquarters for the week. We will attempt to find video of the appearance when and if it surfaces.
WITH the media industry buzzing about what Rove McManus will do next, his ties to US television have continued to firm.
WITH the media industry buzzing about what Rove McManus will do next, his ties to US television have continued to firm. Talkshow heavyweight Jay Leno has paid tribute to the comic he helped champion internationally on his program, with his staff adding their congratulations online.
A posting on Leno's official website, written by the show's talent coordinator Bryan Branly, acknowledged Rove as "Australia's version of Jay Leno and a good friend to our show. Rove made a few appearances on our old show with Jay and we always appreciated his fresh Aussie perspective. Rove also brought us our correspondents Hamish and Andy'' (who appeared on the program during their recent US tour with the Caravan of Courage).
Entertainer Rove McManus is walking away from his self-titled variety television show after three gold Logies and a decade on air.
McManus made the surprise announcement at the beginning of Sunday night's episode of Rove.
"I know we've made jokes about this on the show before where I've just gone, 'Oh, I'm leaving', and it's was like, 'Oh, I'm going to come back after the break'. Not this time.
"So if you need to text somebody, if you need to get on the phone, if you need to email, if you need to tweet ... I don't even know if people phone anybody any more, if you want to send off a carrier pigeon and let people know, anyone who might otherwise be watching tonight and isn't, let them know. I would love for them to be on board to say goodbye.
"It is very short notice, I do realise that. But it's only a decision that I came up with very recently.
"And to be honest I didn't want a whole lot of fuss going into tonight as I don't going out the other end as well.
"I also think tonight's the perfect night for it and we've got the best setting possible.
"All our cast is here tonight to help wrap this baby up, you guys are at home. Will you help send me off tonight?"
The crowd erupted into cheers and applause.
McManus and Network Ten released a statement confirming Sunday night's show, which was the final for the season, would be the last.
"It was a difficult call to make but after 10 years it felt like time to step away from the show and take a break to properly reflect on what I want to do next as a performer," McManus said.
...it was a difficult call to make but after ten years it felt like time to step away from the show and take a break to properly reflect on what I want to do next as a performer," Rove said.
Rove's decision followed discussions with Channel Ten over the last couple of weeks.
"The relationship with David Mott (chief programming officer) and the team at Ten has given us the space to make a show that we are extremely proud of over the last ten years. It is more opportunity than most will ever get," he said.
"I thank them for their support and hope they have enjoyed the ride as much as I have."
The relationship between Roving Enterprises and Channel Ten will continue with The 7pm Project and Before The Game, both on Ten through 2010.
Mott said: "The end of Rove on Ten does not mark the end of Rove and Ten: a relationship that spans a decade is harder than this to switch off".
At the close of last night's show McManus said it was not a decision he had taken lightly and that it "just seems like the right thing to do".
"Let me say thank you to everybody who makes this show possible," he said, adding that the show members were like family to him.
"And also to the families it was not my idea to do the weekends."
In a statement he said he did not want last night's show to mark the end.
"I've closed a chapter and after I recover from the wrap party I will work out what's next," he said.
HE may have missed out on this years Gold Logie, but Rove McManus has been named the kids favourite Aussie at this year's Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards.
The popular TV host beat competition from Australian Idol star Jessica Mauboy, Bindi Irwin and movie star Hugh Jackman to win the prize voted for by more than 1.2 million viewers of the pay-TV channel Nickelodeon.
McManus was also named favourite TV star. It is the second year running he has taken home the two prizes...
...perennial kids' favourite McManus showed off his burping contest winner's belt, saying he'd been practising and was determined to hold on to it.
"I take it really seriously, far too seriously for an adult,'' McManus laughed.
The 7pm Project's Charlie Pickering and Carrie Bickmore, at their first Kids' Choice, said they couldn't believe the excitement.
"I think it's the showbiz event of the year,'' Pickering said...
TV talk-show host Rove McManus was dumped in a pool of a slime as he took out the top prize at the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards for the second year in a row.
The perennial kids' champion Rove descended from a slippery slide into a slime pool as he was announced the 'fave aussie', dragging in Australian Idol host Andrew Gunsberg with him.
He beat the likes of Bindi Irwin, Hugh Jackman and Jessica Mauboy for the title.
It was certainly McManus' night.
He earlier beat Gunsberg in the famed burp off competition, and took out fave TV star.
As he went up to accept his award McManus was mobbed by children grabbing him in the audience.
"I need to tell you something, someone touched my bum," McManus laughed on stage.
"... And that's very inappropriate.
RUMOURS about the future of Rove McManus at Channel 10 were flying again yesterday after a tip-off that staff on his TV show were told this week to look for alternative work next year.
Ten's publicity department later denied production staff were advised to look elsewhere for jobs.
"We have checked with Roving (Enterprises) and no such discussion was had. As for what changes may or may not be made with Rove for 2010, this will be announced on the show this Sunday, stay tuned."
Sunday night's program is the final for the year.
McManus was last Friday spotted dining with Merrick Watts and Peter Helliar in Sydney, prompting talk that he might return to radio in 2010.
On the same day, Watts' longtime radio partner Tim Ross ended his radio gig with Nova.
Speculation from Sydney's The Daily Telegraph relating to Kate Ritchie & Tim Rosso's decision to leave their breakfast radio gig on Nova 96.9 FM
...while news of the double departure spoiled the station's plans to stage manage the exit, it sparked a new round of wireless whispers, including speculation that Rove McManus and Peter Helliar had tested to take their place.
Industry sources said the TV duo worked well with Merrick Watts, the last man standing when the Merrick and Rosso and Kate Ritchie show signs off next month.
Station insiders said management believed only a "mega name" would narrow the [ratings] gap, with McManus or Helliar likely to broadcast from their home base of Melbourne.
ROVE McManus is no climate change sceptic, saying things have certainly changed since he was a kid.
"When we were kids ... you could turn the hose on in the backyard with the sprinkler ... and ... get wet," the 35-year-old television funnyman said.
"Kids can still run around the backyard, but it's not the same when they are having a bucket of grey water thrown on them."
The host of Rove Live made the comments at the launch of a new book about climate change by Australian Greens leader Bob Brown.
The 500-word self-published mini-book, Earth, is a series of photographs taken by the senator in his home state of Tasmania, accompanied by short statements, words and poetry about climate change.
McManus, who serves as the vice-president of the world's oldest conservation foundation, Flora and Fauna International, says global warming is a big issue.
"It's a beautiful planet, but Bob (Brown) sums it up very well ... we have to be careful we don't destroy it.
...when Bob asked me to launch the book I said to him 'does this mean I have to read it?' Bob told me it was a book of photographs and I said I'm in."
Brown thanked McManus for launching the book, because he brought humour to the event.
"It is not something (humour) I have bucket loads of," Brown said. McManus later signed copies of the book. Goanna's copy is signed by McManus saying "I just turned up today, that's about it, really...
ROVE McManus is going to live life on his terms and he doesn't give a hoot what TV executives, the media, or even you think about it.
It's an "I'll do it my way" attitude that's won him a legion of fans, a thriving production company and a successful TV career for 10 years.
Aussies love his boyish persona and integrity and understand he's fiercely protective of his private life.
A case in point is his recent marriage to actor Tasma Walton. It was a family gathering and even close friends such as Dave Hughes and Carrie Bickmore weren't invited.
... Another example of that "my way" spirit is McManus's decision to delay the return of Rove in 2010 until April/May. The 2009 season finale is on November 15, so the 35-year-old will have nearly a six-month break.
Rove will be off air until April / May 2010.
The host confirmed the hiatus in an interview with news.com.au.
"This show is my love and my passion and it’s always what I've wanted to do. If everything else fell down, as long as I still get to do this thing I love the most then I’m happy," he said.
"We have that (a connection with the audience) at the moment and I think that’s where my enthusiasm is coming from."
...McManus winds up Rove on November 15 with a giant outdoor BBQ.
Continue reading over at TV Tonight - David Knox (3/11/2009)
There's been some messages from YouTube viewers located in Canada, U.S, France, NZ & Hong Kong all stating that they are no longer able to view the full show via Channel Ten's RoveDaily website.
If you're one of them, try contacting the show directly to see if they'll reverse the decision on regional restrictions: mailroom[at]rove.com.au
Update: "Hearing a lot of people outside Australia are having problems accessing our website or are getting blocked. Not our doing but we're onto it" - Rove via Twitter
NETWORK Ten is planning to "rest" its flagging show Rove before a major overhaul that may turn it into a Hey Hey It's Saturday-style variety program.
The network denied rumours Rove will be axed completely, despite the show hardly featuring at the network's 2010 programming launch last week.
Ten's head programmer, David Mott, said Rove would not return at the start of the year but he would not comment on the reason or when the next season would screen, The Sunday Telegraph reports.
A Ten spokesperson later said: "Rove will be back on Ten in 2010."
CHANNEL 10 will be without its star performer, Rove McManus, when next year's ratings season begins in February.
McManus has decided to delay the return of his self-titled talk show until later next year.
He will wrap up Rove for this year with his final show on November 15.
Ten will have had a total of 36 episodes of the show this year, however, with his delayed start to next year, it is likely that the network will have less than that for next year's season.
No light could be shed yesterday on McManus's decision to delay the return of Rove to Ten's schedule...
David Knox interview with Roving Enterpries's Creative Director/Executive Producer Craig Campbell - 'Ten years with Rove'
Back in the late 90s it was Channel Nine employee Rob Brearley who first brought Rove McManus to the attention of director Craig Campbell.
"Rob saw Rove on Channel 31 and kept leaving me VHS tapes on my desk," Campbell tells TV Tonight. "And I never got to watch them because of my workload. Finally I put one on and said ‘wow’ and watched another and another."
That was more than ten years ago. Campbell, who now manages Roving Enterprises with McManus, was working at Channel Nine at the time...
When news broke on June 17 that actress Tasma Walton, 35, had married TV host Rove McManus, 35, in a private ceremony a day earlier on the famous beach at Broome, WA, it took the showbiz world by surprise. After all, there had been no official engagement announcement to get publicity warmed up.
In her first interview after the wedding, Walton tells WHO, "He'd gone to the States and I just missed him, and it was strange for me because I'd never viewed myself as the marrying type, really."
She did a painting for McManus that said "Marry me" and wrapped it as a gift. And? "He said yes."
As Walton explains to WHO, the low-key nuptials were exactly what they wanted. "We were very happy. It was a really great day."
Walton is now enjoying a holiday with McManus. "We travel really well together, actually, we go away a bit for our FFI [Fauna & Flora International] work. We both love animals and are passionate about conservation, so it works."
And those trips are far from five-star excursions, reveals the down-to earth Walton. "It's camping in the Cambodian jungle. I found it a little bit disconcerting at night time," she confesses. "I was just praying I wouldn't need to go to the toilet. I held on all night."...
Source: Current issue of WHO magazine - Kate Halfpenny (pg 34-35) 29 July, 2009
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)
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."
'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...'
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...
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!
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