Axe Falls On Channel Nine’s Vagina Fest ‘The Catch-Up’

Even the saga of Lisa Oldfield’s cat’s bum mouth wasn’t enough to keep the homemakers of Australia interested in watching The Catch-Up, it would seem, with the show being canned by an increasingly bone-happy Channel Nine.

Staff of the Monday to Friday program were told it had been scrapped today at 1pm just as the four hosts came off air. The final episode of the live show will air on Friday.

The axe fell minutes after the girlie gab-fest’s creator Mia Freedman resigned from Nine and PBL after 16 years with the company.

It was the latest upheaval at the network since it was taken over by new management and follows last week’s announcement that Alan Jones will be leaving the Today show after more than 20 years.

The Catch-Up was launched in February with Libbi Gore heading a panel including radio presenter Zoe Sheridan, author and documentary maker Mary Moody and Lisa Oldfield, outspoken conservative and wife and member of One Nation co-founder David Oldfield.

Vale The Catch-Up. Your up-to-the-minute live crosses to the Woman’s Day newsroom (a place renown for being a hotbed of serious investigative journalism) will be sorely missed by all three viewers.

Note to Libbi Gorr – please do something a bit ace now. We like you!

PS: “Something ace” may involve beating The Nation’s Jackie O to a bloodied pulp. METAPHORICALLY OF COURSE, WE DO NOT CONDONE VIOLENCE.

PPS: (winks conspiratorially)