Farewell, Enough Rope!

Sad news, fans of penetrating insights into the minds of visiting celebrities/infamous folk! Andrew Denton has announced that his acclaimed interview series on Our ABC will be coming to an end in 2008, and he plans on taking his inimitable ‘mad skills’ over to the other side of the camera.

Andrew Denton has announced that the current season of his popular Monday night interview program on the ABC is the last. The final episode of Enough Rope With Andrew Denton will screen on December 8.

And what does Andrew have to say about all this?

“It’s a good time to finish,” he says. “Not everybody gets to finish in their own time and on their own terms, and I certainly feel very lucky.”

SAID THE ACTRESS TO THE BISHOP, ETC!

Ahem. Where were we?

Denton had indicated to the ABC’s director of television, Kim Dalton, early in the year that this season of Enough Rope was likely to be its swansong.

“Andrew has been saying for some time that he’d wanted to spend more time developing a range of projects in an executive producing capacity,” he says.

“He wants his company, Zapruder’s Other Films, to be a broader-based production company. This program’s had an exceptional run, but not everything can go on forever.”

True dat, as they say in the classics. One of my favourite things to do on the internet (well, one of hundreds…) when I need something to aid my procrastination is to pop onto the Enough Rope website and read transcripts of old interviews.

Therefore, in honour of a marvellous six years on the air, I’m gonna go and read the transcript of rock legend Tim Rogers’ time in the hotseat.

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