Season 6 2005

Rove Live Repeat The Most Requested Interviews Of Last Year Including Hilary Duff, Will Smith, Anna Nicole Smith And Magda Szubanski.

Special segments this week included a Simpsons look-a-like contest, plus Roving With Rove at the superhero conference. Also on the show were Big Brother evictee Rachael, and Jebediah performed live. And as part of a promotion for Clive James' "In London" magazine, they reunited a mother with her daughter who had been living in London for a couple of years.

Featuring the very funny Lano & Woodley, James Marsters & Anthony Stewart Head from Buffy, Shane Bourne in for the Rove Live Radio Serial, Big Brother's latest evictee Geneva and Tom Cruise. Also the USA All Star Cheer & Dance Ambassadors performed as did band Stereophonics. As always there was Peter Helliar and What The...?

Featured Glenn from Big Brother, Rove and Pete took a look at some of their favourite Hoffmail, and Caleb, a 6-year-old Slim Dusty fan Also included a new segment, entitled "Hit and Myth", as well as 2 Minutes in Your House, and another Ron's Review.

Featured Big Brother evictee Dean, more Hoffmail, as well as Bloc Party performing live. And Rove gave a couple of young boys a toy shopping spree as a part of a Target promotion - and then pulled an Oprah by giving away a huge toy package to every member of the audience!

Included a visit by Rove to the Taronga Zoo to be a zookeeper for a day, as well as the three latest Big Brother evictees, David, Christie, and Rita, plus a fake interview with Australian Discovery Astronaut Andy Thomas. Also more "Hit and Myth", as well as Pete reading excerpts from Bec Cartwright's wedding poem to Lleyton Hewitt, and Queens of the Stone Age performed live.

On this episode was one of Pete's DVD reviews, looking at a Scrabble documentary entitled Word Wars. They also launched a new segment, "This Week in History", with guest Tamsin Carroll. Also done several times throughout the show were "Frozen Moments", where Rove, Pete, and some of the guests made a pose or did something in front of a line of cameras to create a bullet-time shot. And Rove decared Isla Fisher to be the show's 1,000th guest!

Featured some circus acts, Big Brother evictee Melanie, and live crosses to the Discovery landing. Rove also spent 2 Minutes in a Live Lister's house, had a game of My Charader, and demonstrated the "Vinyl-o-pod" - an old-fashioned alternative to the iPod.

With Big Brother winners Greg and David, runner-up Tim, and final evictee Vesna, as well as a fake interview with Arnold Schwarzenegger, and a "live cross" to Randy the Panda (played by Pete). Also featured a Big Brother quiz, Roving With Rove, and a competition between two Live Listers to create a giant portrait of Megan Gale...using thousands of litres of ice-cream. And Alex Lloyd performed his single, "Never Meant To Fail".

Featured another "Hit & Myth", Ron's Review, and Rove calling for viewers to show off their most horrible jumpers!

Rove teamed up once again with Caleb (the six-year-old Slim Dusty fan with aspirations of becoming a real estate salesman) to try and sell a house. Also featured an interview with "Postman Cat" (played by Pete), 2 Minutes in Your House, and Rove even tracked down infamous "Talent Time" organist Wayne Miller to once again perform for the nation.

Rove Live's 200th episode! This two-hour show featured a number of highlights from past episodes and reflections from Rove, Pete, and Corinne. Also included Hit & Myth, a fake interview with Ricky Martin, a Live Lister trying to earn a performance by Manpower in her living room, some My Charader, and a brand new Video Request, with Rove creating his own version of Robbie Williams' "Feel"!

Ron returned with a review of the new "Dukes of Hazzard" movie, Rove went Roving to find out what office animal people were like, Rove picked out a couple of Live Listers (one Australian and one New Zealander) to take part in next week's show, and also an interview with the returning Jay LeFay (played by Pete), who was supposedly the wedding planner for Jordan and Peter Andre. And Rove attempted a Jackass-style stunt on Pete, but wound up making him explode!

As well as the array of guests, this episode featured some live lister fun, with two live listers going head-to-head in a "Cocktail World Cup", sliding down a ski ramp while trying to mix a cocktail. Also saw some special cameos from Michael Buble and Moira. Band Garbage performed "Why Do You Love Me?"

Included a hedge trimming competition between two Live Listers (assisted by Hamish & Andy), as well as a "From the Vault", done to what was (supposedly) the original Rove Live pilot episode.

As well as the line-up of guests, this episode saw Rove invading the new show "Australia's Brainiest Kid", a fake interview with "Steve Irwin", a new episode of the radio serial, Simple Plan performing live, and a challenge to Rove to see how many Tim Tam balls he could eat in 30 seconds!

An interview with the "Crown Prince of Greenland" (played by Pete), an investigation by Hamish & Andy into how many free samples you can grab from a supermarket, more AMAZING TALENTS, 2 Minutes in a Live Lister's house, and another Hit & Myth. Also, Rove went Roving With Rove to ask who is smarter, men or women. And finally Pete, alongside Ben Lee, took us back to 1983, when the first mobile phone was introduced into Australia.

Featuring the interview Rove has been wanting for months - The Hoff, live in the studio! Also, some Live Lister action, with Rove challenging a fan to bowl as many pins over as possible in 60 seconds (for money), and a musical edition of My Charader, with Sarah McLeod and Paul Mac. Mac also performed his single Sunshine Eyes. Plus some random sketches, with Rove and Pete listing off ways you could change the world, and an excerpt from a self-help DVD entitled the "3 Year-Old Kid Method", suggesting that simply throwing a temper tantram can get you anything.

Rove joins the circus for the day, Pete reviews the 50th anniversary of Eurovision special, Ron returns with a review of Pride and Prejudice, and a fake interview with Luciano Pavarotti. Also, Anne from Australian Idol, Grinspoon performing live, and the first ever vasectomy broadcast live on Australian television!

Featured Rove nabbing two Live Listers from their homes and maing them lick chocolate off people for money, a dress-up for Star Wars fans, Daniel from Australian Idol, and Bernard Fanning performing live.

Rove and Pete presented another "From the Vault", some Live Lister fun (with a competition between three LL'ers to find Rove within a field of garbage bins), and Dan England from Aussie Idol.

With the final three Australian Idol contestants, Lee, Emily, and Kate, 2 Minutes in Your House, Flick Your Switch, a "live satellite cross" to one of the producers of a new relaxation CD for animals (played by Pete), and Rove playing with an electric fly swat!

The 2-hour finale of Rove Live for 2005. As well as the line-up of guests, this episode saw a new Ron's Review (Chicken Little), My Charader, a "live satellite cross" by Pete to George Bush, an assistant dog helping present "What The...?", live music by The Strokes, as well as a video package showing some of the highlights of the 2005 season. As well as being interviewed, Bert Newton interrupted a product promotion skit by Pete and Moira (firstly the "Britney Spears Pop-O-Vac", and then the "Bert Newton Hyper-Colour Toaster"), to tell Moira that he has always hated her. And Rove was on the verge of shooting himself after attempting to give away six new Toyota "Yariseseseseses", repeatedly discovering that the viewers that had been picked to win were either idiots or ineligible for the contest.