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7PM Project divides critics
This week Channel TEN’s 7PM Project notches up 8 months on air.
After repeated attempts at developing a show to fill the timeslot, including Taken Out and even the infamous Yasmin’s Getting Married, TEN has held its nerve with the Roving Enterprises show, despite figures which many assumed would sound the death knell.
Last week it averaged 653,000 viewers, and has doubtless impacted on TEN’s early evening schedule.
But has it found its feet? Has it improved its mix of news and comedy and is it time for audiences to revisit the show?
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I dunno about you, but I always thought of Channel [V] as a music channel.
Apparently it’s a little more youth-based than purely music, as evidenced by replays of Taken Out, Flight of the Conchords, and its interstitial contest Cash Cab.
B430 is another show that broadens its horizons, literally, as a kind of hip version of Getaway. It’s the locally-produced travelogue that takes you to 9 hot spots around the world deemed must-see destinations before you turn 30.
It’s also a show that reminds you TV travel hosts have the best bloody …
Cougar Reality series for Channel TEN?
Is this TEN’s next hit reality series?
Ten teams of desperate cougars are berated by Red Symons, on their journey to the title of the next big celebrity chef. An elimination ceremony is based on a challenging obstacle course which appears to have been borrowed from Gladiators. Hosted by Dicko.
No it isn’t.
And neither is this:
A bunch of singing contestants undergo routine humiliation by Kyle Sandilands, to win the prize of Australia’s next teen idol BMX stunt rider. A weekly live show includes a guest musical act completing a sadistic lie detector test. …
Conveyor Belt of Love
Only in America? Maybe not…
ABC just aired a new dating game show in which single men appear to single women on a Conveyer Belt. Yup.
The speed-dating Endemol show looks an awful lot like TEN’s failed Taken Out, with a slightly snappier format, and a clever power shift in its game play.
It looks really, really trashy. The reviews are hideous.
And I so wanna watch it….
Taken Out turning Japanese
It was unable to work in Australia, but the dating format Taken Out, will launch later this month in Japan.
Under the name Take Me Out, it has since travelled to Denmark, Indonesia, the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland and Spain, and has recently been commissioned by ITV in the U.K.
The format was developed by FremantleMedia in France, and was first commissioned in Australia hosted by James Kerley for TEN.
Patrick Schult, the CEO of FremantleMedia Asia, said: “Take Me Out is really gathering some momentum internationally. It’s a unique, fun …
Why 7PM won’t be Taken Out anytime soon
There continues to be discussion about the slim figures for The 7PM Project, which last night fared at a disappointing 764,000.
On radio, online and in print the word “axe” is being frequently associated with the show. While last night wasn’t the lowest the show has taken (that was Friday at 656,000), it isn’t a great start to the week. Generally speaking, Mondays are a big night when regular shows attract their best following. It also lost viewers from Neighbours, at 868,000.
And while we’re on the subject, it was also beaten by …
Time for change
It was last year that TEN decided to move on its 7pm timeslot, first with an attempt to revive early evenings with a revamped dating show, Taken Out. It learned very quickly that the idea was no perfect match with the audience.
Now, in the first of a two-part interview with TV Tonight, TEN chief programming officer David Mott talks about the network’s new slice of news, set to air live, five nights a week from Monday.
“We put it out to tender and Roving Enterprises came back with a tone we thought …
The 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 …
Roving hosts for new Roving show?
The Sunday Herald Sun reports today that TEN’s new unnamed 7pm show, to be produced by Roving Enterprises, could have a different host each night.
James Mathison, Carrie Bickmore and James Kerley are some of the names being mentioned.
As reported earlier, the show will be “news-based.”
“We don’t have hosts yet. We do have a very definite idea of what it should be. It is loosely news based, and it is live and it is daily. And it will require a team of about 42 if I count correctly,” producer Craig Campbell …
Bumped: ANTM. Returning: Taken Out.
More changes from Network TEN offer some relief to fans of disappearing shows.
Bumped episodes of America’s Next Top Model have been rescheduled to appear at 12:15am Sunday January 18 (or late on Saturday night, if you prefer). It continues at 12am the following Sunday morning, including a 2 hr edition on January 25. At least viewers who were watching the show now have some hope of continuing.
Lucky it had only been reported as “Gone” and not “Axed.”
Meanwhile TEN is also bringing Taken Out back to screens in a late night timeslot. …
Returning: Britannia High
Sometimes when shows are pulled they actually find their way back to screen elsewhere (case in point: America’s Next Top Model, Taken Out).
Seven has a fairly good track record of finding a slot for pulled programmes further down the track.
Britannia High which was dropped after just one episode in December, will return on Saturday arvos at 12pm from January 31st.
The UK drama is something of a lightweight Fame and features Australia’s Adam Garcia and Mitch Hewer from Skins. Some of the songs are by Gary Barlow and Guy Chambers (if you …
TEN moves Bold & Beautiful to primetime
Here’s a bold (but how beautiful?) programming move by TEN. The network has just announced some significant changes to its summer scheduling.
Afternoon US soap The Bold and The Beautiful is officially moving to primetime, winning a new 6pm timeslot from Monday December 1st. It will be replaced by Judge Judy at 4:30pm.
TEN has also bitten the bullet on its under-performing Will and Grace episodes, axed for the return of Friends at 7pm. It returns with S6E12 “The One With The Joke.”
The timeslot has been a crazy game of musical chairs recently, …