David Tench Tonight
Ep # Airdate Guests
01 17 August 2006 Patrick Rafter , Ella Hooper
02 24 August 2006 Nelly Furtado , Nick Lachey
03 31 August 2006 Claudia Karvan , Mark Holden
04 7 September 2006 Ronn Moss , Toni Collette
05 14 September 2006 Shannon Noll , Amanda Keller
06 21 September 2006 Jimmy Barnes , Daniel MacPherson
07 28 September 2006 Layne Beachley , Matthew Reilly , Meat Loaf
08 5 October 2006 Georgie Parker , Jason Stevens , Troy Cassar-Daley
09 12 October 2006 Mick Molloy , Tara Moss
10 19 October 2006 Anthony Field and Murray Cook ( The Wiggles ) , Gia Carides
11 26 October 2006 Guy Sebastian , Kate Fischer , Matt Welsh
12 2 November 2006 Adam Gilchrist , Kate Ceberano
13 9 November 2006 Marcia Hines , Father Bob McGuire
14 16 November 2006 Ronan Keating , Liz Ellis , Angry Anderson
15 23 November 2006 Johnny Knoxville , Andrew Gaze , Julia Gillard
16 25 December 2006 This special Christmas episode featured all of David Tench 's 35 past guests
Episode list and guests
David Tench Tonight was a short-lived television talk show created for Network Ten in Australia. The series featured David Tench, an animated fictional character, as host. The name Tench is a partial anagram created from the name Channel Ten. The actor behind the digital Tench was Australian actor Drew Forsythe. Tench conducted interviews with various celebrities including Jimmy Barnes, Meat Loaf, Toni Collette, Nelly Furtado, Johnny Knoxville and future Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard. The 2006 season finale (episode 15) was shown on 23 November 2006. A Christmas special aired on 25 December 2006 at 10:30pm. On 5 April 2007, the show was axed.