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The Footy Show was an Australian sports and variety entertainment television program which aired on the Nine Network. The show was dedicated to the Australian Football League (AFL) and Australian rules football. The show featured a panel of hosts and a rotating regular panel of guests.
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The Footy Show | |
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Genre | |
Opening theme | "More Than a Game" by Chris Doheny |
Country of origin | Australia |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 26 |
No. of episodes | 736 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Production locations | Melbourne, Victoria GTV9 |
Running time | 120 minutes (including commercials) |
Original release | |
Network | Nine Network |
Release | 24 March 1994 – 25 September 2019 |
Under the show's initial format, which ran from 1994 to 2018, The Footy Show was variously hosted by Eddie McGuire, Billy Brownless, Sam Newman, Trevor Marmalade, Garry Lyon, James Brayshaw, Rebecca Maddern and Craig Hutchison, with changes to the line-up throughout, and won eight Logie Awards for Most Popular Sports Program.
In December 2018, McGuire announced that the show would continue as a newly formatted show from 2019 and that he and Newman, the show's original hosts, would host several specials throughout the year.[1] However, on 9 May 2019, seven episodes into the new season and less than an hour after that evening's episode had aired, the Nine Network announced that the show would be cancelled due to poor ratings for the show. The show was hosted by Anthony Lehmann, Neroli Meadows, Brendan Fevola and Dylan Alcott in 2019.[2]
On 21 June 2019, McGuire announced that he, Newman, and Marmalade (the original hosts) plus Maddern would do a farewell Grand Final show 25.5 years after the show's first episode. It was filmed at Rod Laver Arena on 25 September.[3][4]
The Footy Show had its origins in 1993 when a special Grand Final edition of The Sunday Footy Show aired on the Thursday night before the AFL Grand Final (the name deriving from the diminutive form of the word football commonly used in Australian English). The program was then extended and started as a regular program in 1994 hosted by former Network Ten reporter Eddie McGuire, former Geelong player Sam Newman, and comedian Trevor Marmalade. They were usually joined by three current and former football players in a panel format. The show was broadcast live from Melbourne with a large studio audience "warmed up" each week by MC and comedian Michael Pope. From 1994 to 2010 (Seasons 1 to 17), the show was broadcast from Studio 9 at GTV 9 in Richmond. Following GTV 9's relocation to Docklands at the start of 2011 to 2019—rom Season 18 to Season 26—the show was produced from Sound Stage 4 at Docklands Film Studios.
Over the years, the show has also broadcast special live episodes from various locations, including Geelong, Sydney, Perth, Adelaide, Hobart, London (2001 and 2004) and Munich (2006).
In 2006, after McGuire's appointment as CEO of the Nine Network, he stepped down as host of the program and was replaced by former Melbourne player Garry Lyon and North Melbourne Football Club director, later chairman, James Brayshaw, as co-hosts. In a bid to reinvigorate the show[citation needed] in 2009, Trevor Marmalade was cut from the program to make way for former footballers Shane Crawford and Billy Brownless. In 2012, former Essendon player Matthew Lloyd was brought in, with Lloyd, Crawford and Brownless rotating each week.
The panelists discussed any news stories which arose during the week, reviewed the last round of matches, and previewed each match for the upcoming week, including showing the lineups. Before 2001, no footage of any AFL games could be aired by the show, as rival station Seven Network held the broadcast rights and refused to allow the show to air footage in an attempt to stall the program's success. From 2002 until 2006, Nine had the rights to AFL broadcasts, and footage was used liberally during the show. From 2007, they reverted to not using any game footage due to Nine having lost the rights to AFL broadcasting to the Seven Network and Network Ten until the end of the 2011 football season. From 2012 until the show's 2019 termination, footage was used from Fox Footy, who broadcast all of the AFL games every weekend.
The show's iconic logo is based on a famous photo of AFL legend Jack Dyer.
The AFL version of the show aired every Thursday.
VIC, TAS, SA, & WA
NSW, QLD, ACT, & NT
From 1994 to 2012, The Footy Show usually aired at 9.30 pm AEST. However, from 28 November 2012 to 9 May 2019, Nine announced that the show would air at 8.30 pm AEST.
In Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and Western Australia, the show aired on Thursday nights at 8:30 pm during the AFL season.
In 2008, the AFL version of The Footy Show could be seen live into most New South Wales and Queensland TV markets via the Nine HD channel. However, this was discontinued before the launch of GO! when Nine HD ceased breakaway programming. Since then, the show aired at 11.30pm.
A related program, The Sunday Footy Show (AFL), continues to air between 10.00 am and 12.00 pm on Sunday mornings.
Commencing in 1996, The Grand Final edition of the show was broadcast live from the Rod Laver Arena annually on the Thursday night before the AFL Grand Final in front of a crowd of around 12,000. The show includes the AFL Players Revue in which players dress up and dance to themes.
Despite the cancellation of the weekly show earlier in 2019, Eddie, Sam, Trevor and Garry did the last-ever Footy Show Grand Final edition, which aired on 25 September 2019, looking back at the show's 25½-year history.[7]
The Footy Show was nominated for the Logie Award for Most Popular Sports Program each year between 1996–98 and 2000–2018 (with no Logie awarded in the category in 1999).
Sam Newman, regularly a controversial figure during his media career, was by far the most controversial figure on The Footy Show and has been the subject of many complaints to the Nine Network. Some of his most controversial incidents on The Footy Show include:
Newman also had a number of well-publicised off-screen incidents that were often brought up during the show.
In 2018, on the last live episode for that year, Newman made a nine-minute farewell speech at the top of the show with no one else on set to the audience.[13] Almost immediately after the show went off the air, he was told he would not be a part of it the following year; he had been a part of the show for 25 years. Newman would not appear again until the final grand final spectacular a year later in September 2019, and he would eventually resign from the Nine Network in 2020 after he made controversial comments about George Floyd on a podcast.[14]
The program was previously shown in the United Kingdom and Ireland on Premier Sports the following night on Friday evenings at 8pm and live on Sky Sport in New Zealand on Thursday evenings at 10:30pm.
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