PETER KOHN

I DIDN’T have time to watch the second reunion special of Hey, Hey, It’s Saturday this week, letting my recorder do the viewing ahead of me. As I said in last week’s blog, I like the show a lot.

But when I heard that on the Red Faces segment, an act calling itself ‘Jackson Jive’ had sent up the Jackson Five and Michael Jackson, using the old vaudeville prop of ‘blackface’ makeup, I caught up with the footage.
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PETER KOHN

A RATINGS figure more than double that of rival Ten’s kitchen reality series Masterchef, has shown Nine that bringing back the live variety cult classic, Hey, Hey, It’s Saturday (albeit on a Wednesday night) for a reunion special last week, was a great idea.

Perhaps the decision to axe the hugely popular Hey, Hey in 1999, because it was flagging somewhat in the ratings, was one of those shortsighted blunders that collectively led to Nine’s demise as the big banana of Aussie TV, a decline explored by Gerald Stone’s tell-all book, Who Killed Channel Nine?
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