The 7PM Project is taking a well-deserved week off air.
The show will be off air from December 25th and off air the week of the 28th (presumably to return January 4th, but that’s TBA.)
In its place TEN will air Jamie’s Family Christmas.
Yes, that’s right. A Xmas show after xmas.
In fact Jamie Oliver will be showing us “simple ways to get the main elements of Christmas dinner absolutely perfect – the best turkey in the world, the best gravy, the best roast potatoes, the best stuffing. Then he pimps the basic recipes with exciting new festive ideas.”
Umm, hellooooooo….. Xmas will be over by December 25, guys.
Guess that’s why they call it the Silly Season.
This will be the television equivalent of walking into a retail store in January and hearing them play “Santa Claus is Coming to Town.”
TEN will surely come to their senses on this daft idea. But for now it’s pretty funny…
At least with no late edition of 7PM, fans of Letterman get their show back at around 11:15 pm.
It would have to be the lowest rating week of the year (mostly caused by folks with people meters travelling for holidays rather than any actual drop in viewing) so it makes sense to burn off rubbish during that week – But Jamie Oliver – FFS – It’s over Ten, he is yesterday’s man(child).
All these cooking shows are basically fads, Ten would get more mileage putting Huey’s Cooking Adventures on for a week than they would out of this guy.
When are ch 10 going to realise no one gives a damn about Jamie Oliver anymore!? He is soooo boring, especially on reapeat 1,000!
They’ve really got to stop letting work experience kids make important decisions!
I’d prefer to see Nigella talk about her two Xmas hens for a few hours…. She’s quite something
I don’t think the week off is a bad idea for ratings. A lot of people are off for Xmas holidays that week anyway. Hopefully the 7pm project hosts and crew.
I Believe that the 7pm Project might need to go off air the week into Christmas 21-25 and then until 31st. They should then have a one hour special at 10:30pm-11:30pm on the 31st to look back at the years most touching/heart warming, best and worst news stories. They then take a break until February. or just go no hiatus.
Oh, so they have the same production crew for each episode? I thought they’d like work on a rotation system or something, lol.
Ok, ignore that idea.
George, and who is filling in for the production team? Give ‘em a week off let ‘em re-charge their batteries. Just don’t tell me how to cook the xmas turkey after xmas.
Wouldn’t it work better to have 7PM still on but with a fill-in host or something?
Rather Dumb to take off 7pm for a week.I would rather watch that than the dull as dishwater News Bulletins over at SBS or ABC.
It could have been worse though they bring back Friends,Seinfeld or Everybody Loves Raymond back and the 7pm Project goes to the scrapheap.Nooooo!!
Why don’t they have the week off of Christmas? They won’t work Christmas Day anyway. So take 21st-25th off instead. And then they can play Jamie’s Family Christmas.
Christmas will not be over on 25 December, Christmas Day. Christmas ends on 5 January.
Yes they deserve a break, but it seems a bit ridiculous to take 7PM off air for a week, when it is attempting to build a solid audience.