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Seven packed with hits
It was the week ASTRA and Seven got into a stoush over AFL, gardening gurus came out fighting, SBS took its funding campaign to the people, Today Tonight apologised to a dating a dating agency and Lateline apologised to the Corbys, WIN TV sacked a news chief, David Koch stumbled over the marvels of “fasttracking v downloading,” we lost a veteran actor with a huge list of credits, and our first gardening celebrity, while actor Mark Priestley was laid to rest.
And it was another win for Seven, with 29.4% in Week …
Bumped: Alan Sugar The Apprentice
He’s not quite fired, but he’s not likely to get the job either.
The premiere of Alan Sugar: The Apprentice did not interest enough viewers last night, despite the massive promotion it received during the Olympics.
Following on from the 1.4m viewers of Criminal Minds, it plummeted to just 583,000 viewers. The Apprentice format is one that Nine put to rest some time ago.
Seven is wasting no time in addressing the matter by shifting it to 10:30pm as of next Wednesday, replaced …

