Show Idea for Ch7

[soyouthink10]

This will probably get bagged but anyway...

One of my favourite shows this year has been Open Mike...

Ch7 had another interesting, low-budget, highly entertaining format for general programing this year called "Pictures of You".




I would love an AFL version of this. Maybe hosted by Bruce (who can interview) and have a different look at how past and present greats remember the pictures of their life.


Ch7 need more AFL content from shows. Have it on a respectable time on 7mate during the week, replayed at Ch7 at a 10.30pm timeslot then replayed as part of their super sunday line up in with Flashbacks.

 

[PattyKwasagun]

The issue with it is, unless they are icons of the game, only fans of the club they played for will care.

Seven needs some sort of a variety footy show next year. Any attempt at a completely serious one will fall flat, and there's a lot of potential for a well-made footy variety show. Right now we've got three - After the Bounce, Before the Game, and The Footy Show. You could include Marngrook too, but I'm not quite sure it's variety.

As things stand, two are bordering on idiotic, and the other is cut-away mad (to clips that aren't often funny), and has at the most two people on there who are genuinely funny and interesting.

The format could do with a complete shake up. It seems the norm to just have a player or two on and ask them about their clubs, but that stock standard approach is really pretty dull (unless they are characters or happen to play for your club).

For the joking segments, you could have a fake journo (played by a comic) who goes along to various press conferences, and show the highlights of their work on the show. You could also harness some of the genuinely funny guys who've been through footy, or the ones who are fun to laugh at if not with. Swan, Akermanis - people who won't just sit there and in a monotone say 'we're taking it one week at a time', but instead will give you something interesting and funny. You could do properly executed stitch ups of various AFL players. The Bounce on Seven tried to do this, and it was probably the only thing they did that actually worked. Kind of like an AFL Punk'd thing - not at all intelligent humour, but good for a bit of a laugh.

For the in depth segments, you could have behind the scenes specials - at the various stadiums around Australia, or at AFL House in general. You could have a five minute segment with Andy D each week discussing a specific issue of the game heading forward. Not just what's topical - that leads to just having the same questions and the same answers come up over and over. Instead, the segment could be on where we might expand to next, or how the NBN will change the way footy is shown. Interesting stuff that doesn't re-hash whatever's on the agenda, but instead creates it. You could do a few in-depth profiles into some of the year's possible draftees, and also get someone on to chat about rumours. Damien Barrett's segment on the Footy Show is often boring because his news is already common knowledge or is dull. Look at all the rumours that are spread on BigFooty - 99% of them are untrue, but they're entertaining. I'd be much more interested in hearing a rumour that the Demons want Pavlich that turns out to be completely untrue than hearing more about Travis Cloke doing nothing. Yet again, create the agenda and start discussion. I realise many of these segments are complete trash but I am writing this at 3am and they're just off the top of my head, but still better than Sam's freaking mailbag!

The issue really would be who would host it. Luckily, most of the Aussie TV and entertainment fraternity live in Melbourne and are AFL mad themselves, so take your pick. Wil Anderson could be a host, or perhaps Andy Lee. There's so many to pick from, and if asked, I could come up with a list of at least twenty personalities who I think would take the job and would be great at it.

This has been one of my biggest frustrations for years. Granted, we are far ahead of all the other codes in terms of the quality of our variety shows (the NRL Footy Show stands alone as the worst thing on television), but as someone who's done a bit of work in the entertainment industry, there is so much more that could be done with the shows. Instead, we're reduced to a few cameras pointing at a panel of people who are basically saying whatever was in the HUN that morning.

If there was a must-watch show each week that was interesting, funny, broke actual new news (even if there was only a 5% chance of it happening), and had very minimal time doing things of little interest to the average viewer, it would be an absolute hit. There are now more than enough forums to discuss the footy news - online, on Fox, on the radio, in the paper - that what is needed for a show to succeed is to not just be re-hashing old content, but instead looking at things that haven't been discussed.

Anyway, it'll probably never happen. Thread derailment over.