The Footy Show: Face from show’s glory days set to return in 2018
THE Footy Show’s revolving door is continuing to spin with significant changes quietly occurring behind the scenes at the iconic Channel 9 sports show.
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THE Footy Show revolving door is continuing to spin with significant changes quietly occurring behind the scenes at the iconic Channel 9 sports show.
As the show heads into its 25th and most important season, there has been a major off-season shuffle of producers with a name from the program’s glory days returning and a seasoned campaigner shifting network camps.
Returning to the program after an absence of 20 years is Harvey Silver, who will be The Footy Show’s supervising producer.
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Silver was the founding producer of the show but departed in 1998 after five years and headed to Channel 7 to build an early rival Live and Kicking.
That program ultimately failed, but Silver has since built his own production company Silver Spoon Productions.
JAM TV, producers of The Footy Show, insist his return to the show is not a case of back to the future.
“It’s great to have Harvey back on The Footy Show team,” said show host and JAM TV chairman Eddie McGuire.
“We’ve had a lot of laughs remembering the formation of the show with Nine boss Ian Johnson back in 1993.
“When the show was given six weeks to work or else by our bosses in Sydney, who’d have thought we would all be coming back together 25 years later. But one thing hasn’t changed and that is our love of footy, television and live variety.”
An interesting departure has been highly regarded executive producer Adam Rowe, who is understood to have taken a production role at The Front Bar — The Footy Show’s dire rival.
Meanwhile,Shane Crawford is understood to want to step away from the show this year.
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