The ABC’s Friday night chat show featured conversations with famous Australians and promised viewers there would be “no better way to spend your Friday nights”.
The comedian and long-time ABC personality has a solution to the national broadcaster’s youth woes:a late-night show with a new host every night.
Fran Kelly made her debut as a chat show host on Friday night. So,how did she do?
It’s the ABC’s first new chat show in nearly a decade,so what can Friday night audiences expect from Kelly and high-profile guests such as Adam Goodes,Tim Minchin and Magda Szubanski?
When the ABC decided on a host for their new Friday night chat show (featuring a live audience and a house rock band!),how was it that Fran Kelly was top of the list?
The former RN Breakfast host is returning to the ABC with a new Friday night chat show.
The theme for the festival this year is ambition,and one of its ambitions is for people to be able to get together to relish books,writers and ideas.
A frank Fran Kelly on what prompted her to call it a day,the ABC’s ‘left-wing’ bias and her single-word take on prominent pollies.
To properly assess the career of Kelly you could count the number of hours or number of interviews. Or,for a startling point of reference,the number of prime ministers.
You didn’t need to have met Fran Kelly to know her as your friend. After 17 years at the helm of Breakfast on Radio National,she’s decided to bow out. I’ve been privileged to have been first a listener - and then a colleague and personal friend.
After 17 years in one of the hot seats of Australian political journalism,the Radio National host is looking forward to switching off the alarm.