Channel 7’s foray into a Panel-esque chat show just didn’t cut it.
Channel 10 was having a huge success with Working Dog’s Wednesday night talk show The Panel, consisting of the former team of The Late Show & D-Generation. If you can’t have the show, why not make your own?
The internet was on a fast 56kbps dialup, and websites and mIRC were the bees knees. Why don’t we jump on the internet bandwagon and make a show of it?
That’s what Channel 7 did, and in early 2003, they knocked on the door of Austereo, the largest commercial radio company in Australia, and asked for their breakfast show talent to host a panel show on a Tuesday night. Mainly Melbourne based talent of Matt Tilley as the host, followed by panel seat warmers Tracy Bartram, Amanda Keller, Peter Berner and any other various comedic talent, it was close to a visual radio breakfast show.
After awkward interviews and topics, plus as it was Melbourne based, it excluded most of the other states content wise, it was canned after 3 episodes.
They kept their breakfast jobs though.
