It’s Thursday night anywhere between 1994 and around the 2013 mark. You’ve got your Pizza Hut box next to you and it’s about to hit 9:30.
That means one thing: Footy Show time. It’s time for Mailbag, Street Talk or whatever else is getting thrown at you tonight. Without thinking, you switch over to Channel 9.
It’s a familiar feeling to football fans across the country. But that feeling hasn’t happened in a long, long time, right? So, what the hell happened to the Footy Show?
Well, a few theories have been thrown around. Channel 7’s The Front Bar is the obvious, ‘politically correctness’ also gets a mention, but if we look only a year and a half back the Footy Show wasn’t doing too bad.
Sure it wasn’t booting them from 50 but it was still winning it’s timeslot and doing well enough to be haled a success.
Soon enough in 2017 however, Hutchy got boned and ‘Eddie Everywhere’ McGuire was back, fresh from a 12-year break hoping to breathe new life in to the show.
This hasn’t happened. The show has bombed, big time. Why’s this? There’s a simple answer, it is boring.
In 2018 the show has moved away from it’s traditional variety show format and quietly has changed into a watered down talk show. Viewers are jumping ship in droves to Maher, Molloy and Pang over at Channel Seven.
Whether, the format change is a cost cutting measure or just an attempt at a ratings surge is anyone’s guess. However, if you ask me the Footy Show needs to be fun, funny and not a slightly more light hearted version of Footy Classified.
This is how the Footy Show came to become one of the most popular sports shows on Australian television. Despite changing times, by sticking to what they do best it could return to the top – but changes need to be made.
Who knows maybe the next 25 years are the best to come?
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