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Rove plans TV return
EXCLUSIVE by Marcus Casey
March 08, 2007 01:00am
Article from: The Daily Telegraph
ROVE McManus is ready to make people laugh again and will return to television on April 1, five months after his wife Belinda Emmett lost her fight against cancer.
But he now faces his toughest career challenge yet as Channel 10 has moved his show variety/comedy Rove Live from Tuesday nights to 8.30pm Sunday, one of TV's most competitive hours.
McManus was told of Ten's decision in a four-hour meeting three weeks ago and decided to risk his reputation by taking on the challenge.
"It's really good to be back at work after so much time away," he said yesterday.
"It has been great to be thrown back into the chaos of producing our show.
"I assume this means Ten will pay us double time for working the Sunday shift - I got that at the bottle shop I worked at when I was 18."
The meeting came after McManus spent summer grieving in Perth with his family after Emmett died on November 11, eight years after being diagnosed with breast cancer.
Channel 10 and his colleagues at Roving Enterprises - which produces Rove Live, Real Stories and the ARIAS for Ten - weren't even sure if he would return.
"At the end of last year we shut the doors and turned off the lights," executive producer Craig Campbell said.
"A lot of our regular staff went off and got other gigs and some aren't around because they still have jobs they took on, because we seriously didn't know when he would come back or if he would want to come back.
"We've been together from the start (in 1999) and our understanding was that when he was ready to give me a buzz, he would."
That buzz came early last month when he told Campbell he wanted to return to his Melbourne office.
"It was a great moment for everybody, especially to see him again and the moment was definitely marked - it was a big welcome home," Campbell said.
Ten's network programming chief David Mott said the hotel meeting went for so long because he wanted to be sure McManus was ready to fire again.
"We didn't want to interrupt Rove during that time and until he was ready to chat. We wanted him to have the space he needed and I didn't want the big ugly network bearing down on him, so we left him alone until the meeting.
"He was very considered and in very good form given what's gone on in his personal life.
"Our meeting was incredibly enlightening, but more importantly he gave me a lot of confidence about him going forward - there's no doubt he is a great performer with enormous talent."
EXCLUSIVE by Marcus Casey
March 08, 2007 01:00am
Article from: The Daily Telegraph
ROVE McManus is ready to make people laugh again and will return to television on April 1, five months after his wife Belinda Emmett lost her fight against cancer.
But he now faces his toughest career challenge yet as Channel 10 has moved his show variety/comedy Rove Live from Tuesday nights to 8.30pm Sunday, one of TV's most competitive hours.
McManus was told of Ten's decision in a four-hour meeting three weeks ago and decided to risk his reputation by taking on the challenge.
"It's really good to be back at work after so much time away," he said yesterday.
"It has been great to be thrown back into the chaos of producing our show.
"I assume this means Ten will pay us double time for working the Sunday shift - I got that at the bottle shop I worked at when I was 18."
The meeting came after McManus spent summer grieving in Perth with his family after Emmett died on November 11, eight years after being diagnosed with breast cancer.
Channel 10 and his colleagues at Roving Enterprises - which produces Rove Live, Real Stories and the ARIAS for Ten - weren't even sure if he would return.
"At the end of last year we shut the doors and turned off the lights," executive producer Craig Campbell said.
"A lot of our regular staff went off and got other gigs and some aren't around because they still have jobs they took on, because we seriously didn't know when he would come back or if he would want to come back.
"We've been together from the start (in 1999) and our understanding was that when he was ready to give me a buzz, he would."
That buzz came early last month when he told Campbell he wanted to return to his Melbourne office.
"It was a great moment for everybody, especially to see him again and the moment was definitely marked - it was a big welcome home," Campbell said.
Ten's network programming chief David Mott said the hotel meeting went for so long because he wanted to be sure McManus was ready to fire again.
"We didn't want to interrupt Rove during that time and until he was ready to chat. We wanted him to have the space he needed and I didn't want the big ugly network bearing down on him, so we left him alone until the meeting.
"He was very considered and in very good form given what's gone on in his personal life.
"Our meeting was incredibly enlightening, but more importantly he gave me a lot of confidence about him going forward - there's no doubt he is a great performer with enormous talent."
