EXCLUSIVE: HEY Hey It's Saturday is back - 10 years after fans were left lamenting when it disappeared from our screens.

Channel 9 has commissioned two live reunion specials of the legendary variety show.

Host Daryl Somers and Nine yesterday promised the two shows, to be screened later this year, would be a blend of nostalgia and new material.

If they rate well, Nine and Somers look certain to negotiate a new series of Hey Hey.

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25831645-661,00.html

I hope it does well, was funny as.

yeah hey hey was great but... are people really dying to see plucka duck and dickie knee after all these years

yes

I hope it does well, was funny as.

im pretty sure when you revisit hey hey, you will realise it wasnt really "funny as"

it was extremely lame

and in some of those lame moments that's what made it funny..

such grumpy old c***s on here these days

Some things are best left as rose coloured glass memories. Darryl Sommers = cringe.

let dead dogs lie

awesome news, hey hey rocked.

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red faces > australien idle & so you think you're a dancing nancyboy.

I love Hey Hey they should bring it back permanently there is just nothing like it anymore. I don't mind if Darryl doesn't host as long as he's still in it, but what are the odds of him willing to play second fiddle?
They should also bring back the old hostesses like Jackie McDonald and Lavinia (?) Nixon.

Larry Ender > Daryl Summers

a rock > daryl summers

the specials are on a Tuesday night ?
Sean Micallef might be a good host for a new HEY HEY
and the ChikChik Boom girl as the zany sidekick.

I want to see more live music on TV.
That 7PM thing on TEN needs to feature 1 live band every night.

7pm project is still very iffy... It's like they are trying just a bit too hard with the humour..

Heh, I was only thinking about hey hey yesterday, dunno why but I was!

heh, yeah I think it's best to leave this as a memory as well.

I used to enjoy it as a youngster, not sure how it'll do second time around

7pm project is still very iffy... It's like they are trying just a bit too hard with the humour..

its dave hughes

he was awesome when he was first on the scene as a comedien

but now, hes spread too thin and hes just not funny

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Yeah I've never found him funny.

dickie knee ftw, at least he was hilarious when I was 10.

Better than australias funniest home videos

Anyone remember on Red Faces some kiwi's come on stage and did the haka to "Old Macdonald Had A Farm". I remember LMFAO on the floor.

ive got the best of hey hey dvd and for me its just as funny today as it was all them years ago.
if not funnier as the fashions and attitudes of the time are a crack up.
the way they used to pay out on molly meldrum was classic.
i hope they still have andrew fyfes cartoons and denise 'ding dong' drysdale as host.
a new format will be what makes it fail.
the dreaded revamp.

as for the 7p.m project. these comedians seem better at scripted humour (other than charlie) and are trying to hard to just make stuff up on the spot.
a band on the show once a night is a great idea.
allthough, the problem with the australian live t.v circuit, is that its the same band from overseas on every show that has live bands for the week they are (overseas band) in australia.

it's a s*** show and will fail hard.

Better than australias funniest home videos

i'd rather look at Shelley Craft for an hour than sit through not funny crap

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heh, as much as i dont like to admit it, i still get plenty of laughs from funniest home videos

oh and shelly too

Larry Ender

Ender?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Emdur

Pass, don't like him or O'Keefe or Koch.

I remember giving s*** to any c*** who watched hey hey its saturday, it meant they were sitting at home instead of being out socialising.

I think the other issue would be that Channel 9 don't really have a popular male presenter...

They have...
Bert Newton
Eddie McGuire LOL
????
Jules? LOL
Karl? LOL


Ch 7 have O'Keefe
Ch 10 have Rove, Micalef etc.


So there isn't really anyone else apart from Darryl who could host it anyway.

i'd watch it if they put matty john's hosting it.

I remember giving s*** to any c*** who watched hey hey its saturday, it meant they were sitting at home instead of being out socialising.

i guess todays version of that is posting on forums at any time of the day !!!!!

Hey Hey it's Saturday was a good night out in itself. I've got plenty on VHS tapes still, I've copied a lot of them over to AVIs - one day I will go through an torrent that s*** if torrenting is still perfectly legal then.

Hey Hey it's Saturday was a good night out in itself.

yeah, no.

Funniest home vids and Hey Hey, perfect Saturday entertainment for old people! (I secretly can't wait)

Matty Johnns as host FTW

it's a s*** show and will fail hard.

You are a fool, hey hey was great when it was around. Only show of its kind back then. How old were you when it was on tv?

I think a revamp may fail as well though, best to leave the classics alone.

heh, as much as i dont like to admit it, i still get plenty of laughs from funniest home videos

my fav categories in priority order are:

1. kids being hit by swings
2. teen on skateboards getting polled in the nuts
3. nans falling out of boats/off jetties
4. attempted dog humpings.

This will join the list of dancing with the stars, fatty is dancing, big brother, of reasons why FTA tv just isn't worth watching. Re-hashing a 10 year dead variety show? you're that out of ideas at ch9?

Well i guess ch10 did run a "we saw these videos on youtube" show for a few months.

if molly says no to the reunion then he's a poof

hes a poof either way

Screw hey hey, bring back Its a Knock Out ffs!

Used to love getting up on Saturday mornings and watching Hey Hey Its Saturday. Then they moved it to the nite and was even better......not sure how it will fair now but does have great memories.

Speaking of the funny home videos, was too slow with the camera on Saturday to catch my neighbours Malteses trying to dry root my 9mnth old as she crawled around the floor, had me in hysterics.

^ sorry dude but Interspecies Erotica is NOT cool!

i do remember hey hey coming to cairns for the first time (we only had ABC and a hybrid channel)

i remember thinking "when is this show going to end?" but it just kept going and going for like 2 hours!

Does anyone still have old VHS tapes of Hey Hey It's Saturday episodes (any) from 1992 to 1993?...

^ i wish....
so you're an old cairns kunzi spook?
i lived in westcourt for 10 years.
i remember when it was just abc and qtv........