SBS football comedy program Santo, Sam & Ed's Cup Fever will move to Channel Seven next year, with a new name and revamped focus.
The popular show screened on SBS last year during the 2010 FIFA World Cup and featured comedians Santo Cilauro, Sam Pang and Ed Kavalee, who has resigned from his radio gig at Nova. The revised format will be broader in its focus, with the new title of Santo, Sam & Ed's Sports Fever, and cover sports in general, not just football.
A posting on Cup Fever's Facebook page, which has more than 31,000 fans, said: "We had such a blast doing Cup Fever! that we couldn’t wait until 2014 to do it all over again. So now we’re back with Sports Fever! It’s exactly the same show – 3 blokes at a desk in front of a live audience - same segments and interviews, same shambolic mayhem.
"Only a couple of small changes – it’s once a week and will feature ALL INTERNATIONAL sports. Oh, and it’s on Channel 7… so the ads will be in English."
The posting said the program will start on 30 January on Seven at 10.30pm. A Seven spokesperson confirmed it will air on the network in 2012, but declined to give any further details.
Sports Fever is a Working Dog production, the company behind programs such as The Panel, Frontline, Thank God You're Here and The Hollowmen, and films like The Dish and The Castle.
279,000 on SBS ONE (216,000 metro viewers and 63,000 regional Viewers) and 40,000 on SBS TWO (34,000 metro viewers and 6,000 regional viewers). The highest rating episode on SBS ONE had a national average of 370,000 viewers, according to OzTam.
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