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If Seven wanted to dare to be different, perhaps part of your schedule would work. People are getting used to Home And Away 2 nights per week. However, what if Seven changed it to screening double episodes Monday And Tuesday from 7:30pm in the same slot occupied by A Country Practice in the 1980s), Wednesday night launch a new situation comedy (noting previous successes - again in the 1980s - Kingswood Country and Hey Dad!) paired with a US Comedy, Thursday could be a new Australian drama (or a revived one - eg The Flying Doctors, Blue Heelers etc).

Reality TV could air at 8:30pm - look for concepts that are edgier.

An example of what they could do

Sunday
7:00pm Sunday Night
8:00pm Highway Cops
8:30pm Slated Reality show
9:30pm US Drama

Monday
6:00pm Seven News
7:00pm Today Tonight
7:30pm Home And Away
8:30pm Slated Reality show
9:30pm US Drama

Tuesday
6:00pm Seven News
7:00pm Today Tonight
7:30pm Home And Away
8:30pm Slated Reality show
9:30pm Interview series

Wednesday
6:00pm Seven News
7:00pm Today Tonight
7:30pm Miss Wilson (this is an example of a comedy not necessarily a goer- Spin-off of Hey Dad! - Julie MacGregors character in Hey Dad! - a bit like Hampton Court)
8:00pm Sunnyside (new NBC comedy series)
8:30pm Slated Reality show
9:30pm US Drama

Thursday
6:00pm Seven News
7:00pm Today Tonight
7:30pm New Australian Drama
8:30pm Slated Reality show
9:30pm US Drama

Friday
7NSW/ACT/QLD/NT; 7Mate Vic/Tas/SA
6:00pm Seven News
7:00pm Today Tonight
7:30pm Better Homes
9:000pm Movie

7Vic/Tas; 7Mate NSW/ACT/QLD/NT
6:00pm Seven News
7:00pm AFL
10:30pm Today Tonight

SA
6:00pm Seven News
6:30pm AFL
10:00pm Today Tonight

WA
6:00pm Seven News
7:00pm Today Tonight
7:30pm Better Homes
9:000pm AFL - Delayed Telecast

WA
7Mate
5:00pm AFL
8:30pm As currently scheduled

1292

I quite like that idea. In fact I like that idea a lot. However, to meet quota I think seven would require 3 1 hour blocks of Home and Away - even if you did that idea on a Thursday (that way they can get 6 episodes out for most of the year) and rest Home and Away when Thursday AFL games are on.

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1293

I’m a Celeb (5 Weeks), Survivor/Apprentice (14 Week Run)

Channel 10 May 2020 (14 Week Schedule)

Sunday
7:30 The Circle
Based of the UK Format this series will see a group of strangers go into an appartment building together without ever meeting
8:30 Sunday Act

Monday
7:30 The Circle
8:30 Have You Been Paying Attention

Tuesday
7:30 Dancing with the Stars

Wednesday
7:30 The Bachelor/ette
8:30 Australian Drama

Thursday
7:30 The Bachelor/ette
8:30 Gogglebox/Hughsey We Have a Problem

Friday
7:30 The Living Room
8:30 This Week Live

THEN (9-10 Week Run - Make Masterchef go less)

Sunday
7:30 Masterchef
8:30 Sunday Act

Monday
7:30 Masterchef
8:30 Have You Been Paying Attention

Tuesday
7:30 Masterchef
8:30 48 Hours Australia

Wednesday
7:30 Masterchef
8:30 Australian Drama

Thursday
7:30 Masterchef
8:30 Hughesy/Trial By Kyle

THEN (8 Week Run)

Sunday
7:30 The Masked Singer

Monday-Thursday
7:30 Come Dine With Me Australia

1294

What I was thinking was outside of the AFL season, Home And Away could air an extra double episode on Thursdays from early September through to late Match the following year with a short break in December-January. To illustrate 8 weeks of uninterrupted Thursday episodes of H&A from last week in January through to third Thursday in March. Then Thursday episodes of H&A resume in early September (approx 14 weeks) with any make up episodes screening on available days after 7 December.

The drama series I suggested could air during AFL series (commissioned up to 22 weeks with double episodes to ensure all episodes can air during the AFL season parameters). As an example this year there were 14 clear weeks without Thursday games during the preliminary AFL season - so there could be up to 8 double episodes. Alternatively, non-AFL states could screen episodes on Thursdays with AFL states screening catch-up episodes at a later date

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1295

A post was merged into an existing topic: Your dream TV network

1297

Channel Ten Saturdays:
6pm: Sports Tonight
6.30pm: Before The Game (or sports variety panel show)
7.30pm: Saturday Night Rove / Variety Program
9pm: Ambulance UK
10.15pm: Sports recap
11pm: repeats

Sunday:
6pm: The Project (6.30pm Weeknights)
7pm: Reality Programs
8.30pm: Australian Drama (New)
9.30pm: US Drama (New)
10.30pm: Sports Tonight (weekend recap)

1298

Nine Perth News 2020

3.30am-7am Today Show
7-9am Today in Perth
9-11.30am Today Extra
11.30am-12pm - Nine Morning News Perth
6-7pm Nine News Perth
7-7.30pm - A Current Affair: Perth

Would be better if STW revived a local ACA edition. Nine Perth did this in the late 00s but was axed in October 2009

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1299

A local version existed in 2014, presented by Tim McMillan, but it didn’t last long.

Also in 2014, QTQ launched local morning and afternoon news bulletins, but while the latter survived, the morning bulletin copped the axe in 2017.

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1300

Local A Current Affair was also trailed in Adelaide when WIN O&O’ed NWS-9 but that too was axed reverting to the national edition hosted by Grimshaw.

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1301

Think most of this makes sense, except if you’re going to do a local version of Today in Perth, maybe start it at 6? Can show the full Today show during the summer months, and chop off the last hour during the winter months.

At the same time, I don’t see the value in having a local version of ACA. Seems unnecessary.

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1302

10 line-up from October
Sunday
7.30pm The Masked Singer
9.00pm Beecham House

Monday
7.30pm The Masked Singer
8.30pm Have You Been Paying Attention?

Tuesday
7.30pm Trial by Kyle
8.30pm Body Hack (remaining episodes of season 3)
9.30pm NCIS: Los Angeles fast-tracked

Wednesday
7.30pm The Bachelor/ette
9.00pm Playing for Keeps

Thursday
7.30pm The Bachelor/ette
9.00pm Gogglebox

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1303

Nine during the day:
5.30am: Today
9.30am: Morning News
10.30am: Extra (Entertainment show)
11am: Ellen DeGeneras Show
12pm: Today Extra
2.30pm: Tipping Point UK / repeats
3.30pm: Nine News Now
4.30pm: Afternoon News
5pm: Hot Seat/ Game Show

Mix up the daytime schedule a little.

1304

This is how I would like to see the three main channels scheduled during the day in 2020.

SEVEN
Weekdays
5:00am Sunrise

8:30am The Morning Show

10:30am Seven Morning News

11:00am The Chase UK

12:00pm Midday Movie

2:00pm The Daily Edition

3:30pm Home And Away (encore)

4:00pm Seven Afternoon News

5:00pm The Chase Australia

Saturday Mornings
6:00am Sunrise

8:30am The Morning Show

10:30am Seven Morning News

11:00am Sportsworld

Sunday Mornings
6:00am Sunrise

8:30am The Morning Show

10:00am As Scheduled (AFL states);(NSW/QLD) Sunday Night (encore)

NINE
Weekdays
5:00am Today

8:30am Today Extra

10:30am National Nine Morning News

11:00am Ellen De Generes

12:00pm Midday Show with David Campbell

1:30pm Extra

2:00pm Nine News Now

3:00pm Tipping Point UK

4:00pm National Nine Afternoon News

5:00pm Hot Seat^

^ Possibly replaced by Tipping Point Australia second half of year

Saturday Mornings
6:00am Weekend Today

8:30am Today Extra

10:30am National Nine Morning News

11:00am Good Weekend

Sunday Mornings
6:00am Weekend Today

8:30am Today Extra – A look back at the week that was

10:00am As Scheduled

TEN
Weekdays
5:00am Ten Early News

5:30am Entertainment Tonight

6:00am The Talk

7:00am Ten Morning News

8:00am Studio 10

10:30am My Market Kitchen

11:00am Good Chef Bad Chef

11:30am Ten Morning News

12:00pm Dr Phil

1:00pm Afternoon Edition

2:00pm The Price is Right US

3:00pm Jeopardy US

3:30pm Celebrity Name Game

4:00pm Judge Judy

4:30pm Bold And The Beautiful

5:00pm Ten News First

Saturday Mornings
6:00am RPM

7:00am Australia By Design

7:30am Business Week

8:00am Studio 10

10:30am My Market Kitchen

11:00am Weekend Edition

Sunday Mornings
6:00am I Fish

6:30am Escape With ET

7:00am The Living Room

8:00am Studio 10

10:30am Meet The Press

11:00am Weekend Edition

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1305

I never did think ROVE was the answer to 10s Saturday problems.

I think if they want some form of live content, run The Project at 6:30 for an hour as per every other day of the week. Use a weekend team which would also do Friday. Have a musical performance at the end of the show each week.

Following that, Ambulance: Australia followed by a police version / One Every Minute etc.

I’d run new eps of NCIS / NCIS: LA and NCIS: NO in then post 8:30 slots.

I’d attempt a Graham Norton style show either 8:30 Fridays or Monday 9:30.

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1306

If they ever do that, they should rename it “The Weekend Project” to put it in line with other weekend programs such as Weekend Today and Weekend Sunrise, even though both those shows take place in the morning.

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1307

Agreed, The Project needs to air across the week. Film out of Sydney like Fri/Sat.

I wonder if 48 Hours AU could work well in the Saturday 19.30 timeslot followed by procedurals.

I’d like to see The Chaser on Monday 21.30, would be a great lead-out from HYBPA and could probably hold a sizeable chunk of that audience.

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1308

The Chaser back at 9:30pm could work for Ten as a weekly comedy show.

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1309

I am starting to think that Nine needs to re-invent its secondary channels. The two options I feel Nine should consider:

Option 1 Turn channel 93 (metro) and the regional equivalents into a infomercial entertainment and lifestyle channel and reduce infomercials on Nine main channel and 9Gem

Option 2 Remove infomercials between 6:30am and 8:30am and after 10:00am every day and move these Infomercials to 9Go at 10:00am weekdays (1 hour) and screen at 1:00am to 2:30am everyday

9Gem schedule could look like this
6:30am Creflo A. Dollar
7:00am Nine News
7:30am Ellen De Generes
8:30am Infomercials
10:00am Movie
12:00pm ER (or My Favourite Martian if movie ends after 12:10pm)

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1310

Mock for Channel 10. Assumes a German Style 365 day Big Brother, and a crack at the AFL rights.

Weekdays
4am: Relay of NZ Breakfast
6am: Ten Breakfast News
7am: The Breakfast Project (Different Crew to the Project)

Two options:
Option 1:
8am: Studio 10
10am: Kerri-Ann (Chat Show)

Option 2:
9am: Studio 10 (Breakfast Project would extend to 2 hours)

Then
11am: Ten Morning News
12pm: Dr Phil
1pm: The Talk
2pm: Ten Afternoon News
3pm: CBS The price is Right
4pm: Judge Judy/The Bold and the Beautiful
5pm: Ten Evening News
6pm: Big Brother Daily Show
7pm: The Project

Gap for Nightly specific programming

10pm: Ten Late News
11pm: Big Brother: Up Late
12am: Stephen Colbert
1am: James Corden
2am: CBS This Morning

Mondays
8pm: Big Brother Nominations

Tuesdays/Wednesdays/Thursdays
8pm: Aussie Drama/Sitcom/Reality
9pm: CBS Drama/Sitcom

Fridays
Big Brother Friday Night Live

Weekends
4am: CBS This Morning
6am: Ten Breakfast News
7am: The Breakfast Project
8am: Studio 10
10am: AFL/NRL related show
11.30am: VFL/SANFL/WAFL etc
2pm: AFL
5pm Ten Evening News

Gap for Nightly specific programming

10pm: Ten Late News
11pm: Big Brother: Up Late
12am: Stephen Colbert
1am: James Corden
2am: Best of the Project

Saturdays
6pm: Before the Game
7pm: AFL

Sundays
6pm: Big Brother Daily Show
7pm: The Project: Presents (I like the idea of some of the longer form interviews and investigative pieces going here)
8pm: Big Brother Live Eviction

Some General Thoughts
Firstly, it’s hard to do the formatting here, which makes it a PITA

I used the AFL as easy weekend filler, plenty of options for saturday night if not the AFL

The idea with the 365 day Big Brother is that you rotate people through constantly, evictions every 2nd or 3rd week. Would keep 12 to 16 in the house for the majority of the year

The News bulletins would be market specific except for the late news bulletin at 10pm.

I like the idea of using CBS/NZ1 between 2am and 6am over infomercials. Would be low cost, and especially in the case of NZ breakfast, give viewers up to date news without needing a functioning news room so early.

I also like the idea of 10 trying to have a sitcom night, like you see on NBC in the US. Would be interesting to see if Australia could produce a show along the lines of the office, parks + rec etc. I think Utopia fits into this mould, but is a bit more niche. HYBPA could go to 8pm on one of those nights instead of a NCIS replay etc.

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1311

Channel 10 in 2020

18.30 The Project (7 days a week)

19.30pm
Week 1-4: I’m a Celebrity (Sun-Thu)
Week 5-14: Dancing with the Stars (Sun), Australian Survivor (Mon-Tues), Bachelor in Paradise (Wed-Thu)
Week 15-26: Masterchef Australia (Sun-Thu)
Week 27-34: The Masked Singer (Sun), Australian Survivor (Mon-Tues), The Bachelor (Wed-Thu)
Week 35-36: The Masked Singer (Sun), Australian Survivor (Mon-Tues), The Bachelorette (Wed-Thu)
Week 37-40: Big Brother (Sun-Tues), The Bachelorette (Wed-Thu)
Week 41-50: Big Brother (Sun-Tues), The Amazing Race (Wed-Thu)
Friday: The Living Room
Saturday: 48 Hours Australia

20.30pm
Sunday: Australian drama/sitcom
Monday: Hughesy (5-14), HYBPA? (15-50)
Tuesday: Trial by Kyle (5-14), Would I Lie to You? (15-26), Drag Race AU (27-36), Todd Sampson’s Body Hack (37-40)
Wednesday: Australian drama/sitcom
Thursday: Taboo (1-4), Bondi Rescue (5-14), Gogglebox (15-22), Police Australia (23-30), Gogglebox (31-40), Ambulance Australia (41-50)

The Chaser’s War on Late Night TV (Monday 9.30pm)
Roy & HG’s The Final Siren (Tuesday 9.30pm)