Agree with you Hit man the C9 footy show is Sh## I would like a show that is just Footy I like the controversy corner idea but I cant see it working C9 and Fox have made it clear that football footage will not be released to them as it would be a conflict of interest so I don't know what will happen there, With Eddie at the helm of C9 and not KP I can see C7 going for broke in a bidding war to get league with Matty Johns, I think that they also wanted Matty's brother but the two haven't spoken for a while that is why Matty brought in Webcke
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Agree with you Hit man the C9 footy show is Sh## I would like a show that is just Footy I like the controversy corner idea but I cant see it working C9 and Fox have made it clear that football footage will not be released to them as it would be a conflict of interest so I don't know what will happen there, With Eddie at the helm of C9 and not KP I can see C7 going for broke in a bidding war to get league with Matty Johns, I think that they also wanted Matty's brother but the two haven't spoken for a while that is why Matty brought in Webcke
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Agree mate its a real shame looks like a Fast Foward will be our friend.
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Matthew Johns returns with new show - Newcastle Herald
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Matthew Johns returns with new show
BY JAMES JOYCE
13 Mar, 2010 04:00 AM
LESS than a year after he quit our TV screens in disgrace, Matthew Johns is ready to crack jokes again.
But are viewers ready to laugh again with the former rugby league larrikin?
Viewers will find out tomorrow when Prime screens the first promotional teaser for The Matty Johns Show, which debuts on March 25.
The Herald had a sneak peek at the show's first promo spot yesterday as overnight ratings revealed The Footy Show, which stars Johns's brother Andrew, ranked third in its timeslot in Newcastle when it returned on Thursday.
In his show's first promo, Matty Johns dons a fake beard to send up former long-time Nine Network star Don Burke with the help of Wests Tigers captain Robbie Farrah. While the skit is not terribly funny it shows Johns will be chasing laughs as he did playing Reg Reagan on The Footy Show.
Johns left Nine in disgrace in May last year after ABC TV's Four Corners exposed his role in a New Zealand sex scandal while a Cronulla Sharks player in 2002.
His switch to the Seven Network has sparked a war of words between the networks, with Nine CEO David Gyngell even accusing NRL chief executive David Gallop of "gross disloyalty".
In the 7.30pm timeslot on Thursdays, the Cessnock-raised former Newcastle Knights favourite has the potential to directly undercut The Footy Show's ratings.
Despite the return of respected commentator Peter Sterling alongside Paul Vautin, The Footy Show's first program of 2010 had fewer Newcastle viewers watching NBN on Thursday than Prime's Thank God You're Here reruns and US crime dramas on Southern Cross Ten.
The Footy Show ranked 20th on the night.
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Matthew Johns returns with new show
BY JAMES JOYCE
13 Mar, 2010 04:00 AM
LESS than a year after he quit our TV screens in disgrace, Matthew Johns is ready to crack jokes again.
But are viewers ready to laugh again with the former rugby league larrikin?
Viewers will find out tomorrow when Prime screens the first promotional teaser for The Matty Johns Show, which debuts on March 25.
The Herald had a sneak peek at the show's first promo spot yesterday as overnight ratings revealed The Footy Show, which stars Johns's brother Andrew, ranked third in its timeslot in Newcastle when it returned on Thursday.
In his show's first promo, Matty Johns dons a fake beard to send up former long-time Nine Network star Don Burke with the help of Wests Tigers captain Robbie Farrah. While the skit is not terribly funny it shows Johns will be chasing laughs as he did playing Reg Reagan on The Footy Show.
Johns left Nine in disgrace in May last year after ABC TV's Four Corners exposed his role in a New Zealand sex scandal while a Cronulla Sharks player in 2002.
His switch to the Seven Network has sparked a war of words between the networks, with Nine CEO David Gyngell even accusing NRL chief executive David Gallop of "gross disloyalty".
In the 7.30pm timeslot on Thursdays, the Cessnock-raised former Newcastle Knights favourite has the potential to directly undercut The Footy Show's ratings.
Despite the return of respected commentator Peter Sterling alongside Paul Vautin, The Footy Show's first program of 2010 had fewer Newcastle viewers watching NBN on Thursday than Prime's Thank God You're Here reruns and US crime dramas on Southern Cross Ten.
The Footy Show ranked 20th on the night.
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Keeping up with the Johnses - Sydney Morning Herald
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Keeping up with the Johnses
March 15, 2010 - 7:01AM
Matthew Johns believes in second chances. "More importantly, I'm hoping other people do," he adds.
After a year in the wilderness following one of rugby league's biggest scandals in recent memory, the former heir apparent of Nine's The Footy Show has been hired by Seven to give them one of the few jewels their ratings-winning crown lacks - a prime-time league franchise. "It's been the best thing for me, just getting back out, working 12 hours a day and getting this show together," 38-year-old Johns says.
"I'm starting to feel normal again, just being back in the workforce."
He describes his year in the public sin bin as "bloody hard". If you've been living under a rock, here's the short version: on tour in New Zealand in 2002, several Cronulla Sharks players, including Johns, participated in group sex. Last year, the woman involved in the incident spoke to the ABC program Four Corners about the distress it caused her - and a media volcano erupted.
As the nation (or, more accurately, the media) wrung its hands, Johns was stood down by the Melbourne Storm - the premiership-winning club where he was an assistant coach - and Channel Nine, where he worked as a commentator and one of the hosts of The Footy Show, though not before Nine served him up for interrogation by journalist Tracy Grimshaw, who subsequently won a Walkley Award.
"The most difficult thing was every day seeing the pain that my family were going through and knowing I had caused it," Johns says. "What helped me, and is helping me, is that I didn't blame anybody else for the predicament I found myself in.
"Nine made the decision to stand me down and, looking back on it, I don't hold any grudges.
"Whatever happened, it was a result of my actions. Had I let it fester and blamed Nine I'd still be in a hole now."
Johns credits entrepreneur John Singleton with pulling him out of the abyss.
"He said, 'You may go back to Channel Nine or you may never do television again,' but he had the honesty to say he saw in me a bloke who had, in the year preceding [the controversy], become lazy and complacent in what he was doing and that's dangerous."
The Matty Johns Show - which, pending no further changes, will be the show's official title - will air on the same night as The Footy Show (Thursdays) but in the earlier time slot of 7.30pm. It's a gamble for Channel Seven, given it does not own the rights to NRL footage and because public sentiment for Johns is difficult to measure.
The format remains under wraps but it will be a panel show featuring Johns, former Broncos and Kangaroos star Shane Webcke and several unannounced co-panelists.
The show faces a huge challenge pitted against the established team of Paul "Fatty" Vautin, Peter Sterling and Wendell Sailor and Matthew's brother, Andrew Johns, who is contracted to Nine. But Seven hopes to win viewers with the earlier time slot and then fatigue them with the genre to weaken The Footy Show. The same brutally effective technique has already been employed by Sunday Night against 60 Minutes.
Johns doesn't see The Footy Show as a competitor. "If we were on at 9.30pm, it would be 100 per cent taking each other on. But this is 7.30pm. The humour is good and clean - it's got to be for 7.30pm - and this is a show that adults and kids can watch."
Navigating the limits of good taste has long been a challenge for sports panel shows on television. In the wake of the Four Corners report, as criticism of the players' conduct took the game to a crisis point, Nine's ageing Footy Show franchise struggled to tackle some of the more sensitive issues.
Johns admits he's been guilty of going "for the easy gag without trying to be clever".
"But this show needs a different tack, so we're very honest in the writing process. The writers will say, 'That's shocking, that's hopeless.' That's our safety net."
Perhaps the show's biggest challenge will be that it airs on a rival network to the holder of the NRL rights. And if we believe even a fraction of what we read, Nine's hostility to NRL boss David Gallop's publicly stated support for The Matty Johns Show means it will apply a heavy legal hand to the use of footage and access to players.
"The challenge is trying to make it entertaining and informative with as little as we can get," Johns says. "One of the things in my favour, or in this show's favour, is that I know the players well and I know a lot of them have a lot of spark and personality, which you don't necessarily get to see these days from professional athletes."
Johns is optimistic for his show and for rugby league itself. "The game has gone through some really difficult periods recently off the field, which I am a part of, but on the field as well," he says.
The fear that it would lose its biggest drawcards to rugby union hasn't fully materialised, Johns says.
The "superstars" - Jarryd Hayne, Greg Inglis, Billy Slater, Benji Marshall and Jamie Soward among them - haven't defected. "I think there's a definite reason why [Seven chief executive] David Leckie wants NRL back at Seven; I think we're heading into a fantastic period in the game's history and they want to be a part of it."
And what of Johns's own future? "I pick up, I move on, I get on with life," he says. "Have I changed? What I would say is I've developed quite a thick hide. I don't know where it is going to lead to, I don't know how successful it is going to be, but one thing I can guarantee is I'm going to have a good time while I'm doing it."
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Keeping up with the Johnses
March 15, 2010 - 7:01AM
Matthew Johns believes in second chances. "More importantly, I'm hoping other people do," he adds.
After a year in the wilderness following one of rugby league's biggest scandals in recent memory, the former heir apparent of Nine's The Footy Show has been hired by Seven to give them one of the few jewels their ratings-winning crown lacks - a prime-time league franchise. "It's been the best thing for me, just getting back out, working 12 hours a day and getting this show together," 38-year-old Johns says.
"I'm starting to feel normal again, just being back in the workforce."
He describes his year in the public sin bin as "bloody hard". If you've been living under a rock, here's the short version: on tour in New Zealand in 2002, several Cronulla Sharks players, including Johns, participated in group sex. Last year, the woman involved in the incident spoke to the ABC program Four Corners about the distress it caused her - and a media volcano erupted.
As the nation (or, more accurately, the media) wrung its hands, Johns was stood down by the Melbourne Storm - the premiership-winning club where he was an assistant coach - and Channel Nine, where he worked as a commentator and one of the hosts of The Footy Show, though not before Nine served him up for interrogation by journalist Tracy Grimshaw, who subsequently won a Walkley Award.
"The most difficult thing was every day seeing the pain that my family were going through and knowing I had caused it," Johns says. "What helped me, and is helping me, is that I didn't blame anybody else for the predicament I found myself in.
"Nine made the decision to stand me down and, looking back on it, I don't hold any grudges.
"Whatever happened, it was a result of my actions. Had I let it fester and blamed Nine I'd still be in a hole now."
Johns credits entrepreneur John Singleton with pulling him out of the abyss.
"He said, 'You may go back to Channel Nine or you may never do television again,' but he had the honesty to say he saw in me a bloke who had, in the year preceding [the controversy], become lazy and complacent in what he was doing and that's dangerous."
The Matty Johns Show - which, pending no further changes, will be the show's official title - will air on the same night as The Footy Show (Thursdays) but in the earlier time slot of 7.30pm. It's a gamble for Channel Seven, given it does not own the rights to NRL footage and because public sentiment for Johns is difficult to measure.
The format remains under wraps but it will be a panel show featuring Johns, former Broncos and Kangaroos star Shane Webcke and several unannounced co-panelists.
The show faces a huge challenge pitted against the established team of Paul "Fatty" Vautin, Peter Sterling and Wendell Sailor and Matthew's brother, Andrew Johns, who is contracted to Nine. But Seven hopes to win viewers with the earlier time slot and then fatigue them with the genre to weaken The Footy Show. The same brutally effective technique has already been employed by Sunday Night against 60 Minutes.
Johns doesn't see The Footy Show as a competitor. "If we were on at 9.30pm, it would be 100 per cent taking each other on. But this is 7.30pm. The humour is good and clean - it's got to be for 7.30pm - and this is a show that adults and kids can watch."
Navigating the limits of good taste has long been a challenge for sports panel shows on television. In the wake of the Four Corners report, as criticism of the players' conduct took the game to a crisis point, Nine's ageing Footy Show franchise struggled to tackle some of the more sensitive issues.
Johns admits he's been guilty of going "for the easy gag without trying to be clever".
"But this show needs a different tack, so we're very honest in the writing process. The writers will say, 'That's shocking, that's hopeless.' That's our safety net."
Perhaps the show's biggest challenge will be that it airs on a rival network to the holder of the NRL rights. And if we believe even a fraction of what we read, Nine's hostility to NRL boss David Gallop's publicly stated support for The Matty Johns Show means it will apply a heavy legal hand to the use of footage and access to players.
"The challenge is trying to make it entertaining and informative with as little as we can get," Johns says. "One of the things in my favour, or in this show's favour, is that I know the players well and I know a lot of them have a lot of spark and personality, which you don't necessarily get to see these days from professional athletes."
Johns is optimistic for his show and for rugby league itself. "The game has gone through some really difficult periods recently off the field, which I am a part of, but on the field as well," he says.
The fear that it would lose its biggest drawcards to rugby union hasn't fully materialised, Johns says.
The "superstars" - Jarryd Hayne, Greg Inglis, Billy Slater, Benji Marshall and Jamie Soward among them - haven't defected. "I think there's a definite reason why [Seven chief executive] David Leckie wants NRL back at Seven; I think we're heading into a fantastic period in the game's history and they want to be a part of it."
And what of Johns's own future? "I pick up, I move on, I get on with life," he says. "Have I changed? What I would say is I've developed quite a thick hide. I don't know where it is going to lead to, I don't know how successful it is going to be, but one thing I can guarantee is I'm going to have a good time while I'm doing it."
I am excited about this and will definitely watch it. I have my doubts about whether it can be a success but I have missed hearing what Johns thinks of what's going on in the NRL and he usually has alot of intelligent things to say. It will be more entertainment based and really I preferred him on the roast where they talked seriously and then just muck around abit without silly skits but still should be good.
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Forgiving bad behaviour absolves us of responsibility - Sydney Morning Herald
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Forgiving bad behaviour absolves us of responsibility
JEREMY BASS
March 17, 2010
It's a given that the long-suffering wife, who allows her drunken, philandering man back through the door bearing roses and apologies, will suffer again. So, too, will she be complicit in that suffering. Because while she might feel she's doing the right thing, she's sending him the wrong message. Namely, that he can do that and all will be forgiven.
We all know to err is human, to forgive divine. But some acts of forgiveness just aren't appropriate. They're the ones people who know about these things refer to as "enabling".
Two cases in point: the return to television of disgraced former Channel Nine Footy Show luminary Matthew Johns, just a few weeks after disgraced 2GB announcer Chris Smith's readmission to air in January.
The common thread here may come as a surprise. For in the role of the divine doling out the forgiveness is none other than John Singleton. Australia's best known larrikin is a big enough shareholder in Macquarie Radio Network, 2GB's parent company, that Smith wouldn't be back without his approval. Singo is also bankrolling The Matty Johns Show, which sees our man cartwheeling back on to our screens in rival Seven's prime-time footy-skewed variety hour - the next shot fired across Nine's bow in the savage ratings race between the two.
The stories behind these two blokes' respective falls from grace bear much in common in the abuse of alcohol and women. Johns lost his Footy Show gig in May after ABC's Four Corners revealed his involvement in a group sex incident on tour with Cronulla in New Zealand in 2002.
Smith was suspended from his afternoon show in December after it was revealed he'd groped and tried to kiss several female colleagues at last year's Christmas party, in what he later claimed was an alcoholic blackout.
Sin-binned for a few months and a few weeks respectively, Johns and Smith have mumbled all the hackneyed damage-control lines about "facing their demons" to a media meekly opening the door and letting them back in again.
Human beings have a dismal record for modifying bad behaviour without appropriate motivation. We don't change while the people around us greet our serial misbehaviours with the tacit approval intrinsic to such forbearance.
Facing our demons is unpleasant. The hope of avoiding it keeps Catholics out of the confession box. It keeps alcoholics drinking and chronic gamblers embezzling. And as long as their loved ones and employers and friends keep saying, "Okay, come back in, but just don't do it again" they remain in a holding pattern of transgression and temporary remorse. When the heat's off, their egos rebuild like that mercurial cyborg in Terminator 2 and off they go again. For as long as others continue accepting the unacceptable, nothing changes.
The only chance such people have to genuinely face their demons comes through unavoidable personal cost. To date Smith's and Johns' sins have cost them very little. According to a report in the Sunday Telegraph, Smith is no longer an alcoholic, just suffering from a mild form of bipolar disorder. Maybe so. The proof of that pudding will be in the drinking.
Johns, who made his showbiz name with the help of a lecherous alter-ego called Reg Reagan, has promised to cut the smut and raise the tone on the new show. As a token of his good faith he has put Reg out to pasture.
But what do these stints in the off-air naughty corner and slaps on the wrist say to the next generation of drunken gang-bangers and Christmas gropers?
And it's not likely Johns' former code has fully expunged that problem yet. It takes a lot more than promises and a quick squeeze to wring dry a culture as drenched in grog and all that goes with it as the NRL's.
If their return to air points to anything, it's the amorality of corporate decision making. Never mind Singleton's personification of the hard-working, hard-playing Australian bloke with a hard-earned thirst and an eye for a sheila. In business, he's an iron fist in an iron glove and forgiveness only comes to those who make or save him money.
How they might be doing that could be explained by February's Roy Morgan survey of the nation's drinking habits. It attributed 53 per cent of the nation's alcohol consumption to just 17 per cent of legal drinkers. One demographic was over-represented within that group: single, well-paid tradesmen. Hard-working, hard-drinking blokes, 18 to 35 years old. NRL heartlanders; the 2GB listeners of the future.
Disregarding Singleton's hopes of spinning a buck, and questions about program quality aside, there's not a lot positive one can glean from Smith's and Johns' reinstatement on air. Smith has toned down the feral Ned Flanders act in his treatment of other peoples' social, sexual and artistic transgressions - at least for the time being. And Johns, a man not without wit or acting talent, may put on a very funny show.
But content, entertainment value and ratings notwithstanding, the mere fact of their return to air carries a loud, clear message: don't expect much to change for a long time yet. Not individually. Not culturally.
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Forgiving bad behaviour absolves us of responsibility
JEREMY BASS
March 17, 2010
It's a given that the long-suffering wife, who allows her drunken, philandering man back through the door bearing roses and apologies, will suffer again. So, too, will she be complicit in that suffering. Because while she might feel she's doing the right thing, she's sending him the wrong message. Namely, that he can do that and all will be forgiven.
We all know to err is human, to forgive divine. But some acts of forgiveness just aren't appropriate. They're the ones people who know about these things refer to as "enabling".
Two cases in point: the return to television of disgraced former Channel Nine Footy Show luminary Matthew Johns, just a few weeks after disgraced 2GB announcer Chris Smith's readmission to air in January.
The common thread here may come as a surprise. For in the role of the divine doling out the forgiveness is none other than John Singleton. Australia's best known larrikin is a big enough shareholder in Macquarie Radio Network, 2GB's parent company, that Smith wouldn't be back without his approval. Singo is also bankrolling The Matty Johns Show, which sees our man cartwheeling back on to our screens in rival Seven's prime-time footy-skewed variety hour - the next shot fired across Nine's bow in the savage ratings race between the two.
The stories behind these two blokes' respective falls from grace bear much in common in the abuse of alcohol and women. Johns lost his Footy Show gig in May after ABC's Four Corners revealed his involvement in a group sex incident on tour with Cronulla in New Zealand in 2002.
Smith was suspended from his afternoon show in December after it was revealed he'd groped and tried to kiss several female colleagues at last year's Christmas party, in what he later claimed was an alcoholic blackout.
Sin-binned for a few months and a few weeks respectively, Johns and Smith have mumbled all the hackneyed damage-control lines about "facing their demons" to a media meekly opening the door and letting them back in again.
Human beings have a dismal record for modifying bad behaviour without appropriate motivation. We don't change while the people around us greet our serial misbehaviours with the tacit approval intrinsic to such forbearance.
Facing our demons is unpleasant. The hope of avoiding it keeps Catholics out of the confession box. It keeps alcoholics drinking and chronic gamblers embezzling. And as long as their loved ones and employers and friends keep saying, "Okay, come back in, but just don't do it again" they remain in a holding pattern of transgression and temporary remorse. When the heat's off, their egos rebuild like that mercurial cyborg in Terminator 2 and off they go again. For as long as others continue accepting the unacceptable, nothing changes.
The only chance such people have to genuinely face their demons comes through unavoidable personal cost. To date Smith's and Johns' sins have cost them very little. According to a report in the Sunday Telegraph, Smith is no longer an alcoholic, just suffering from a mild form of bipolar disorder. Maybe so. The proof of that pudding will be in the drinking.
Johns, who made his showbiz name with the help of a lecherous alter-ego called Reg Reagan, has promised to cut the smut and raise the tone on the new show. As a token of his good faith he has put Reg out to pasture.
But what do these stints in the off-air naughty corner and slaps on the wrist say to the next generation of drunken gang-bangers and Christmas gropers?
And it's not likely Johns' former code has fully expunged that problem yet. It takes a lot more than promises and a quick squeeze to wring dry a culture as drenched in grog and all that goes with it as the NRL's.
If their return to air points to anything, it's the amorality of corporate decision making. Never mind Singleton's personification of the hard-working, hard-playing Australian bloke with a hard-earned thirst and an eye for a sheila. In business, he's an iron fist in an iron glove and forgiveness only comes to those who make or save him money.
How they might be doing that could be explained by February's Roy Morgan survey of the nation's drinking habits. It attributed 53 per cent of the nation's alcohol consumption to just 17 per cent of legal drinkers. One demographic was over-represented within that group: single, well-paid tradesmen. Hard-working, hard-drinking blokes, 18 to 35 years old. NRL heartlanders; the 2GB listeners of the future.
Disregarding Singleton's hopes of spinning a buck, and questions about program quality aside, there's not a lot positive one can glean from Smith's and Johns' reinstatement on air. Smith has toned down the feral Ned Flanders act in his treatment of other peoples' social, sexual and artistic transgressions - at least for the time being. And Johns, a man not without wit or acting talent, may put on a very funny show.
But content, entertainment value and ratings notwithstanding, the mere fact of their return to air carries a loud, clear message: don't expect much to change for a long time yet. Not individually. Not culturally.
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^ Who is this moralising wanker?
Agreed, what a dick. Plus there is a reason Johns kept apologising to his family and not her. Johns has grown up alot in recent years and seems like the type of guy to put his hand up if he was in the wrong (which from his family's perspective, he certainly was). This girl though was most likely very interested in the situation, reportedly bragged after to her friends and is obviously a little nuts. Lets not forget that she was quite happy to go to a room with at least 2 players anyway.
I still think Johns was hung out to dry here due to a season of bad pulicity for the game. He was forced to take the brunt of everyone's indiscretions, which is unfair since his was 7 years earlier and questionable to say the least.
Bizzy029
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has anybody else noticed it clashes with NRL Tatics on Foxsports on thursday nights
Really enjoyed that show when it was "NRL Teams" and i really like Andy Raymond but I just can't watch NRL Tactics.
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Watch the preview for Matthew Johns' new show on Channel 7. - Herald Sun (blog)
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Blog with Annette Sharp on Channel 7's The Matty Johns Show
March 25, 2010 6:42PM
HAS Matthew Johns made a triumphant return to TV with his first-ever show after walking away from Channel 9 following his very public interrogation about his role in a group sex scandal.
Blog now with Sydney Confidential's Annette Sharp about Matty's new show below.
The Matty Johns Show on Channel 7 is his first since his very public interrogation from Tracy Grimshaw on A Current Affair about the scandal when he was a player with Cronulla.
"A month ago, I was saying I wasn't nervous," Johns said. "I thought everything that's happened in the last 12 months had left me emotionally barren or something. But the more stuff we've shot, the closer we've come, the nerves have come back."
He will appear alongside retired forwards and regular panelists Shane Webcke and Jason Stevens. Controversial star Willie Mason and cult heroes Nathan Hindmarsh and David "Wolfman" Williams will also feature on the debut show.
What did you think about Johns' new character? Reg Reagan has been replaced by a spoof of Nine gardening guru Don Burke.
Then, blog live with Matty Johns at The Daily Telegraph tomorrow at 2pm here.
Johns did his last run-through on Tuesday night, on a set that looks a touch like Rove Live and like the interior of an exclusive nightclub.
It was the last of several pilots shot in front of anxious Seven executives in recent weeks. Indeed, industry insiders report there has been conflict between Johns and network suits over the final product.
While he's wanted greater football content, they've demanded broader appeal for a prime-time slot that has just watched a long-running soapie.
Source:http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=...437806&usg=AFQjCNHLJt6-S4K2vJQcSEEqHySzKItWVw
Blog with Annette Sharp on Channel 7's The Matty Johns Show
March 25, 2010 6:42PM
HAS Matthew Johns made a triumphant return to TV with his first-ever show after walking away from Channel 9 following his very public interrogation about his role in a group sex scandal.
Blog now with Sydney Confidential's Annette Sharp about Matty's new show below.
The Matty Johns Show on Channel 7 is his first since his very public interrogation from Tracy Grimshaw on A Current Affair about the scandal when he was a player with Cronulla.
"A month ago, I was saying I wasn't nervous," Johns said. "I thought everything that's happened in the last 12 months had left me emotionally barren or something. But the more stuff we've shot, the closer we've come, the nerves have come back."
He will appear alongside retired forwards and regular panelists Shane Webcke and Jason Stevens. Controversial star Willie Mason and cult heroes Nathan Hindmarsh and David "Wolfman" Williams will also feature on the debut show.
What did you think about Johns' new character? Reg Reagan has been replaced by a spoof of Nine gardening guru Don Burke.
Then, blog live with Matty Johns at The Daily Telegraph tomorrow at 2pm here.
Johns did his last run-through on Tuesday night, on a set that looks a touch like Rove Live and like the interior of an exclusive nightclub.
It was the last of several pilots shot in front of anxious Seven executives in recent weeks. Indeed, industry insiders report there has been conflict between Johns and network suits over the final product.
While he's wanted greater football content, they've demanded broader appeal for a prime-time slot that has just watched a long-running soapie.
El Coconuto
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Currently watching The Matty Johns Show. What a breath of fresh air! Thoroughly enjoying it MUCH more than The Footy Show. Kudos, Matty and Channel 7!
Murphy
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i would have to agree
willie interview went down well,
whos that wanker from the telecrap,what a wanker
willie interview went down well,
whos that wanker from the telecrap,what a wanker
El Coconuto
Great White
Haha it was Paul Kent. Was surprised by how well Willie handled Kent's subtle rebuffs. Maybe Willie is starting to get it.
(Maybe)
(Maybe)
Murphy
Great White
kent he was on a fishing trip made himself look bad i thought
jason stevens is on 2
jason stevens is on 2
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Stevo's missus is hot
you could tell the IQ level was at a higher level then the footy show
willie got grilled on controversy corner by Paul Kent..can swear
, liked that segment, PK didnt hold back on grilling big Willie..
another segment was 2 players from the club of some fan roam that persons house while they are out and see how passionate they are..started with the eels with hindy and grothe..person then has to answer 3 questions about what they saw or what the players did..
Ahn Do [how ever the **** you spell it], can impersonate a cabbie...
house band also has some class about it..
roam for improvement and more enjoyable then the footy show
you could tell the IQ level was at a higher level then the footy show
willie got grilled on controversy corner by Paul Kent..can swear
, liked that segment, PK didnt hold back on grilling big Willie..another segment was 2 players from the club of some fan roam that persons house while they are out and see how passionate they are..started with the eels with hindy and grothe..person then has to answer 3 questions about what they saw or what the players did..
Ahn Do [how ever the **** you spell it], can impersonate a cabbie...
house band also has some class about it..
roam for improvement and more enjoyable then the footy show
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i might get attacked here but oh well, i thought the show did bring fresh air but footy show still ranks MUCH MUCH MUCH higher, dont get me wrong matty and webcke are awesome so are the guest which i liked more players and more but give it time and i think this show might do something. Willies part was the best i thought!
watched matty's show and thought it was quite good, had some good entertainment and humour.
Like the intro with ahn do.
Only improvement needed was maybe a little more talking about the footy.
All in all good first show
Like the intro with ahn do.
Only improvement needed was maybe a little more talking about the footy.
All in all good first show
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Jury still out after Thomas KO - Halifax Evening Courier
Source:http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=...831.jp&usg=AFQjCNEcArkjSQhWx8cdIfce5IAIuKoaZw
Jury still out after Thomas KO
Published Date: 25 March 2010
By James Roberts
<EDITED>
BY the time you read this, Matthew Johns, the former Newcastle, Wigan,New South Wales and Australia stand off, will have taken the first steps towards resurrecting his television career.
Johns, who was forced to quit Channel Nine's brilliant 'Footy Show' last year after a sex scandal that dated back to his spell with Cronulla in 2002, was unveiling a new league vehicle on Channel Seven that will, no doubt, showcase the same ribald humour and feverish imagination that made him such a success first time round.
At the moment, of course, no one in the UK can see anything remotely connected to the NRL because there is no TV contract in place.
For me, that means resorting to internet radio on a Friday morning for live match coverage.
It's not the same really and is a constant source of annoyance.
Surely someone, somewhere is going to do a deal soon and we can all welcome Johns and his broadcast colleagues back into our front rooms.
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Source:http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=...831.jp&usg=AFQjCNEcArkjSQhWx8cdIfce5IAIuKoaZw
Jury still out after Thomas KO
Published Date: 25 March 2010
By James Roberts
<EDITED>
BY the time you read this, Matthew Johns, the former Newcastle, Wigan,New South Wales and Australia stand off, will have taken the first steps towards resurrecting his television career.
Johns, who was forced to quit Channel Nine's brilliant 'Footy Show' last year after a sex scandal that dated back to his spell with Cronulla in 2002, was unveiling a new league vehicle on Channel Seven that will, no doubt, showcase the same ribald humour and feverish imagination that made him such a success first time round.
At the moment, of course, no one in the UK can see anything remotely connected to the NRL because there is no TV contract in place.
For me, that means resorting to internet radio on a Friday morning for live match coverage.
It's not the same really and is a constant source of annoyance.
Surely someone, somewhere is going to do a deal soon and we can all welcome Johns and his broadcast colleagues back into our front rooms.
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