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The Footy Show (1994)

The Footy Show poster
Original title
The Footy Show (AFL)
Country
Australia
Length
7 seasons, 128 episodes
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This is a talk show about Australian rules football. A panel of hosts and guests discuss the sport and share entertainment segments. It was a long-running program that won several awards.

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What happens

The Footy Show is 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. Under the show's initial format, which ran from 1994 to 2018, The Footy Show was variously hosted by Eddie McGuire, 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. 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. On 21 June 2019, McGuire announced that he and Newman, plus Marmalade and Maddern appearing as guests 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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