The Footy Show (AFL)

The Footy Show

The Footy Show logo used on 25 March 2009
Genre AFL program
Directed by Gary Newnham
Presented by James Brayshaw
Rebecca Maddern
Sam Newman
Starring Billy Brownless
Shane Crawford
Dave Hughes
Opening theme "More Than a Game" by Chris Doheny
Country of origin Australia
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 23
No. of episodes 652 (as of 10 March 2016) (list of episodes)
Production
Location(s) Docklands Studios Melbourne
Running time 120 minutes (including commercials)
Release
Original network Nine Network
Picture format 576i (SDTV)
1080i (HDTV)
Audio format Stereo
Original release 24 March 1994 – present
External links
Website

The Footy Show is a Logie Award winning Australian sports and variety entertainment television program, shown on the Nine Network and its affiliates. The show, which is dedicated to the Australian Football League (AFL) and Australian rules football, made its debut on 24 March 1994. The show has won several Logies. Originally hosted by Eddie McGuire, from its inception in 1994 to 2005, he was replaced in the 2006 season by Garry Lyon and James Brayshaw

The name The Footy Show derives from the diminutive form of the word football commonly used in Australian English.

Presenters

Supporting
Former

Scheduling

The show airs twice each week:

From 1994 to 2012, The Footy Show usually aired at 9.30 pm AEST, However, on 28 November 2012, Nine announced that the show would air at 8.30 pm AEST.

Thursdays

In Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and Western Australia, the show is 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 air's starting at 11.30pm.

Sundays

A related program, The Sunday Footy Show, airs at 11:30 on Sunday mornings now moved to 11:00am.

Origins and format

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 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 is broadcast live from Melbourne with a large studio audience "warmed-up" each week by popular actor and comedian Jeremy Kewley. 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, from Season 18 the show was produced from Sound Stage 4 at Docklands Film Studios.

Over the years the show has also broadcast special live episode from locations including Geelong, Sydney, Perth, Adelaide, Hobart, London (2001 and 2004) and Munich (2006).

In 2006, after Eddie 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 resurge the show 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 himself, Crawford and Brownless respectively rotating each week.

The panelists discuss any news stories which arise during the week, review the last round of matches and preview each match for the coming week, including showing the lineups. Before 2001 no footage of any AFL games could be aired by the show as the rival 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 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. Footage is now used regularly since 2012 as Fox Footy now broadcast all of the AFL games every weekend.

Segments

Regular segments

Occasional segments

Former segments

Grand Final spectacular

Commencing in 1996, The Grand Final edition of the show is 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. It has included performances and cameos from players such as Shane Crawford, Brodie Holland, David Rodan, Brendan Fevola, Campbell Brown (footballer), Aaron Davey and The Footy Show presenters, except for Eddie McGuire.

Awards

The Logie Award for Most Popular Sports Program has been going on since 1996 (except 1999 where the award was not given out). The show has won or been nominated every year since this award has been out.

Criticism and controversy

Sam Newman is the most controversial figure on The Footy Show and has been the subject of many complaints to the Nine Network. In May 2008, the Nine Network removed Newman from the show indefinitely following a controversy over allegedly sexist jokes. He was reinstated soon after.

Newman has also had a number of well-publicised off-screen incidents that are often brought up during the show.

In 2015, there were questions raised after Sam Newman made remarks about Mitch Clark's depression issues.

The Sunday Footy Show

International broadcast

The programme is currently shown in the United Kingdom and Ireland on Premier Sports the following night on Friday evenings at 8pm and Sky Sport in New Zealand at 10:30 p.m. Thursday Live.

See also

References

External links

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