The Go!! Show
History
History
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When the Melbourne\-based *Go Show !!* premiered in August 1964, the other major competing television popular music show series *[Bandstand](/wiki/Bandstand_%28Australia%29 "Bandstand (Australia)")*, was made by the [Nine Network](/wiki/Nine_Network "Nine Network"), which was made in Sydney. While that series had been an important outlet for the first wave of Australian rock'n'roll, it did not engage strongly with the so\-called "Beat Boom" acts which emerged in the mid\-1960s and onwards; *Bandstand* subsequently settled into a more mainstream musical variety format aimed at a broad general audience.

Unusually the main competition for *Go!!* was broadcast on the same station: in December 1965, ATV\-0 commissioned a second pop show, *[Kommotion](/wiki/Kommotion "Kommotion")*, produced by the [Willard\-King](/wiki/Willard-King "Willard-King") organisation and hosted by popular Melbourne radio and TV personality, [Ken Sparkes](/wiki/Ken_Sparkes "Ken Sparkes"). It was broadcast with five episodes each week day.

*The Go!! Show* focussed on the more sophisticated youth market and tended to concentrate on local solo performers, while *Kommotion* (which was in part modelled on the American series, *[Shindig!](/wiki/Shindig%21 "Shindig!")*) pursued a more group\- and chart\-oriented format, as well as featuring a troupe of [go\-go](/wiki/Go-go "Go-go") dancers and a regular team of young performers who mimed to the latest overseas hits.


What was the name of the second pop show commissioned by ATV-0 in December 1965?