All Stories FeedThe 7pm Project: it’s official
It will be known as The 7pm Project.
It will start on July 20th and it will look at the day’s news live everynight.
Led by comedian co-hosts Dave Hughes and Charlie Pickering, The 7PM Project will be “the simplest new idea in television for a long time.” The news of the day will be brought to audiences by Carrie Bickmore. The show will have a team of correspondents delivering stories from around Australia and around the world into the studio every night. Ruby Rose will be bringing viewers all the latest music news. The media and sport beat will be covered by James Mathison.
TEN says “The 7PM Project is a place where people who are genuinely interested in the world around them come together to talk, offering genuine conversation in a space previously crowded by scandal and spin. While it’s not afraid to be serious, The 7PM Project can guarantee that there will be no miracle diets, no stories that ‘no parent can afford to miss’, and virtually no dodgy plumbers. The 7PM Project is the news un-spun. It is not a satirical newscast in the style of Jon Stewart’s Daily Show, but a TV show joining in the conversations going on in living rooms around the country.”
Rose and Mathison join the three names tipped by TV Tonight earlier this week for the show produced by Roving Enterprises. More names will be announced over the coming weeks.
Mathison recently stepped asided from Australian Idol although he was quoted at the time as saying, “I am not going to be on TV for a while now, not Dancing With The Stars or anything like that. I just want to explore other music opportunities while I am here in New York and at home.”
TEN Programmer David Mott said, “We’ve had great success in introducing brave projects to the Aussie TV landscape such as MasterChef Australia and Talkin‘ ‘Bout Your Generation and if we get this right, The 7PM Project could be a game changer for TEN in that very crucial 7pm timeslot. Not to mention our digital platform which plays a key role in the experience, driving content and discussions to the show, making it a truly integrated TV /on-line offering and a place for audiences to share their stories, opinions and interact.”
TEN has surely found 7pm success with MasterChef Australia and The Biggest Loser but it struggled with Taken Out and too often has had to rely on The Simpsons as filler.
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just on should they ban police chases . a stolen car is not worth a life but whats going to stop them from speeding and causing an accindent .if they know the police wont chase them they are going to do what ever they want and there will be more accidents and more loss of life…. they should not stop they chase they should change there tactics
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Just watching the program on suicide and would love it put out there you don’t need something to go wrong in your life to be feeling suicidal. I personally nearly get there and can’t put my finger on what I am depressed about. Put all the praotices into play to ‘get over it’ and have learnt from experience that for me I ‘need’ to speak to someone professional to help sort out my thoughts. Friends as you pointed out don’t know what to do or say. Let me tell you all now a show of friendship be it an invite to a movie a hug a phone call about anything just to 1. distract me and 2. make me feel wanted, worthwhile and or simply liked if not loved.
Alas you’re still not in contact with the show itself, but my good self.
You guys are harder to get in contact with than the Pope! A suggestion for a name for a town noth of Perth. If the USA can have Cougar Town, why can’t Australia have Akubra Town?
I dont watch much Commercial TV but have enjoyed the 7-00pm Project when George Negus is on. I totally support his views expressed tonight, 25/1/2010, on the Monarchy,Australia day and the Flag.Its a” no brainer” that the flag should be the Southern Cross with the Aboriginal Flag replacing the Union Jack.
yeah just commenting on the remarks about being bludgers on the 19/1/10
just spend a day with me and my boys scaffolding in north qld in this heat! and then get on national tv and say we are bludgers. have a bit of respect. australia is builtather on hard work weather you can see it or not……!
Watching your program this evening, the Queen on the train. Could you imagine on her arriving at the train station and asking ‘when would the next train be arriving’ the tram conductor says ‘at 7.30 Mam’ so the Queen waits patiently for 10 minutes and looking up at the clock , it says 7.25 thinking ok the train arrives in 5 minutes good, then looking up at the clock at 7.30, having a look to where the train drives through the tunnel, saying to Max perhaps being very concerned for lack of punctuality ‘ oh dear I wonder where the train could be’.
Janna
hey i love your show and thin that you should do a segment on the hospitality indrusty
for the love of Christ, or anybody you hold dear, i implore you Charlie to get an interview technique. this is the third time ive seen you cut off an esteemed guest or guests in mid-flow. its unprofessional, rude, embarrasssing for the guest and the audience and it puts me the hell off ever watching an interview on this show. i want to turn off for fear of a cringe attack. you dont deserve to interview the likes of Hale and Pace, or Clive James. you really are a shocking interviewer and as far as worst ever co-hosts go, you blaze a flaming trail. get with the strength.
dear 7pm pepole. I love you guys put some of the most famous celebrity’s for example pink!!! wow and Charlie oh my god you are the best if you were in a contest i would put you in 3rd place dave i’d put you 2nd and of course the lovely carrie 1st because you do the news your show is awsome keep up the good work.
hi im a big fan!!!
today say hi to shania, breanna and sharon plzz. i love you lots xoxo (mwa)!
yea im watchin it now it isnt that funni but its okay very boring thought! still im only 11 and thats wat i think bout it.
Today I celebrate my sisters 25 th birthday (Wednesday 28th October) only now I am living in Perth, so when your show attempts to berate those who seek to acknowledge malignant tumours due high voltage powerlines – in a discriminative fashion – I find it repulsive.
I left my thirty years of residing in Melbourne because such a cause is well beyond the comprehension of many of you.
Seek Georgis Kate Gartner and more than enough info is provided to disband your criminal arguements. Atleast 450 people acknowledged her funeral.
Nothing else would kill a six foot one inch twenty year old.
Goodluck with your show. Tis becoming a touch unsanitory.
It’s about the ban in hugging at school. I guess it is sort of inappropriate to hug or kiss or what ever with your boyfirend or girlfriend but i really don’t think it’s so serious that you have to give a detention or suspend students. At our school, just recently two people were caught kissing and they got suspended for two weeks. That is way over the top in my opinion!
hi my name is tayah reed i am ten yrs of age i would just like to say i Hate the new name i think it should be named
(123 yum yum ) it seems bad and i would also like to say you should put heros and normall people instead of celebs all the time thanks bye ps plz read this on ur show.
Kyle Sandilands reads:
I’m havin a piece of cheese on toast
I’m shovin it in me go
All I do is eat all day
Cause I haven’t got a job
I into the cakes and pastries
Knowing I’m fattening into a slob
Aha…that’s one more reason
I can’t apply for any job
I fix me face with chocolates
For the ones with nuts I’d rob
And then I’m Kyle hyperactive
‘n could chop wood for a job With butter’ n salt ‘n pepper
I smear sweet corn o’ the cob
So I can’t smile to goes for a job
I rip into a bottle of wine
‘n afore the days end I sob
Of man’s inhumanities to man
And how I’ve got no job
And if you think I’m hedgin’
Cause the thought of work is dear
P’raps your right, I’ll diet & diet
‘n get a job New Year!!
‘
Carrie Bickmore made some shocking comments regarding battery farm hens, now every time I see her I want to change stations. Carrie aside – the show is entertaining, and will be even better once the hosts loosen up a bit.
about the dolphins being killed and eaten in japan.I couldn’t access the broome shire council to show my disgust. do you have the site address
on the topic of equal pay,the question should be. men and woman who have the same job do they receive the same wage? the answer would be Yes
Charlie! you really need better skills in interviewing, what was that when you cut off your guest speaker on equal womens pay! you just and cut her off mid sentence! not that that was bad enough but you cut her off to cross to the dolphin loving freek!
Show some respect!!!! Please!! This is a serious issue!
Other wise love your work!
R
What a joke!!! Poor man’s Panel.Carrie looks about 45 – is she a a baby boomer??? Get a younger person
Carry,
I am astounded at your ignorance of how caged chickens are treated in order to give you “cheap” eggs given the salary you must be on. Educate your self pleaseand show some respect of animals that provide you with sustinance.
Helen
that blond lady, really p…me off, she obviously doesn’t know how much hens suffer in tiny crowded cages so people like her can have her cage eggs…
shame on her, wish she has to sit her whole life in a little cage where she can’t move…
Well this has to be the program we were crying out for and now we have it and what a terrific show it is.So who ever thought of it well done but to pick this amazing group of people to run it there is nothing to say but very well done we love it.
I still have only watched one episode of this show…becuase its still stupid and unorganised.
I dont see the point of them just basically repeating the news that was on only like half an hour earlier. It gets really boring.
Carrie and Dave should go back to Rove.
Gotta give the show a good go.. but Dave Hughes can bore for Australia. Deeply and terminally unfunny, and can only be there for the bogan audience. What about someone likeJosh Lawson( hope name right). I reckon you have got to the end of this week to dump him, or the audience me included will dump you.
well you said that 45yrs is the new 60……Im now gunna tell u that the new 60 is 45 , us girls have a great time and 3 of us have just got fulltime permenant work with the govt & leave the so called younger girls for dead
Put your pen down Pickering!
So annoying…
so so boring.thank god for austar to switch over to while this boring news show drags on for 30 minutes. get rid of it and give fitzy his own show.
It’s bad enough having this show aired at 7.00pm without having a repeat during the afternoon. Can’t stand Dave Hughes. Have been disappointed with Rove lately as well, I used to love his show when he first started, but don,t bother to watch anymore. The best show you have had on for a long while has been Master Chef.
What do you like do the most?
Why do you like doing this show ?
i like the way you explane every thing?
i think that this show is better than master chef.
This show is really very bad – it’s very boring and not even remotely funny.
These comedians are funnier when allowed to be themselves – in a later timeslot…
I’ve resorted to Two & A Half Men as my background noise. 7PM Project isn’t even good enough to be background noise.
Sorry Channel Ten, this one’s no good….
Let us not forget the other things they relied on as Filler over the years
Seinfeld
Friends
Jamie Oliver Cooking Shows
Will and Grace
The Simpsons
Everybody Loves Raymond
People need to give the show a chance
Having Said that They should put on a Gossip Girl/OC Type show on at 7pm to provide a good alternative to Home and Away and 2.5 men for those tired of such programming
Really enjoying this… it’s a chance to cut the crap and have a laugh… but I do think the “panel” should have a bit more time to really have a good ol debate about stuff. Something a little more like the ABC “Panel”, but not that far. Hughsey’s one lines and rants are always welcome as well as general “taking the p***” from everyone, and I think that should stay, but some more time to really have a good ol natter about how stupid some of these news items really are (Like the baby shirts). It’s one thing to have a laugh, but when you take the time to look at something seriously, it adds a lot to the presentation, and gives the show a bit more respectability (Not that it needs it, but it can never hurt, Jon Stewarts Daily show being a prime example, behind the jokes, Jon Stewart is a genious, and a top bloke to boot)
I can see it getting a lot better as the guys settle in and get their timing together… but right now it’s refreshing and enjoyable tv, one of the few shows I’ll be tuning in for
Refreshingly entertaining ,,Yes I am missing masterchef bigtime but thought this show was something a little different
Why do people on channel ten have such trouble reading from an autocue? It’s Rove’s monologues all over again. This show is shite!! The hosts are all pretty funny individually but the scriptwriting sucks!!
i loved how fitzy came on 2nite more fitzy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i’m confused..serious news content followed by and at times interupted with snyde “barbs” from Dave Hughes..it is early days and these things take time,and given that it’s “live to air” and Mr Hughes may take some time to warm-up i’m willing to hang in there…it’s a shame they (the comedians) cant sit down before the show and workshop the “gags”
Boring!! bring back master chef, kim and david are more interesting. it:s rove 5 nights a wek.
Life is too serious and after watching 7pm project, I didn’t stop laughing. What a hoot! Julie from Master chef is just as funny being interviewed as she was working on MC. She is so down to earth. I’m sure anyone in Australia would like to meet with her. Julie seems to be everyones sister, mother, thats how she comes across.
Our family would love to meet with her and try one of her amazing cakes. My mouth is watering while I’m typing.
Okay, I watched the show’s debut and although it’s probably a little harsh to judge a show on one performance, here is my verdict: Crap!
Yes, it’s crass but the show deserves little more.
Hughes: Not funny: never has been, never will be.
Pickering: He may be okay on Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation but as a main host, he looks uncomfortable and doesn’t work.
Bickmore: Nothing good, and I mean nothing good, has ever come out of Rove.
Mathison: Should have stuck with Idol because at least people are used to that show sucking.
Ruby Rose: Arrrggghhh! Rarely has someone so easily induced vomit.
I will stick with The Daily Show and The Colbert Report on the Comedy Channel. As for the 7pm Project, may it soon find itself in Channel 10’s grave alongside the likes of Taken Out.
Wonder how long this rubbish is going to last for?????
Does anybody know whose house or where julie will be cooking tonight?
Ruby Rose you are hot……………..