A prime time platform for celebrities to be seen again. Sunrise and Today have daily coverage of celebrity interviews and chats but they are never given an opportunity to be seen by more people. Sure most are on The Project the same night but that doesn’t really have an audience.
A chat show on Seven could provide the opportunity for celebrities to have that wider exposure that The Project tries to offer but fails to do so.
I’d love a panel discussion forum show. Celebrity interviews, movie reviews and recommendations, opportunity for upcoming Australian artists to showcase their talent and maybe some sort of gameshow element to get the audience involved?
Yes and no. The idea of a 5 night a week national format with a one day a week format comes from how ABC used to have 7:30 Monday to Thursday nights and Stateline on Friday. It would also be cheaper than doing it the other way around.
30 minutes of a chair abruptly flipping backwards? As a format? At 7:30 PM on a Tuesday night on the supposed ‘top-rated’ network? Yeah, I’d rather have a game show or a poorly produced Project clone myself.
My take on ABC in 2025
6.00 ABC News Breakfast
9.00 ABC News Mornings
10.00 Educational
11.00 Educational
12.00 ABC News At Noon
1.00-2.00 Tenable/Drama Encore, Somedays Parliament Question Time
2.45 Children’s Programs
4.45 The Repair Shop
5.30 Antiques Roadshow
6.30 Weekly Panel Program
7.00 ABC News
7.30 7.30
8.00 Factual
8.30 Catalyst
9.30 Documentary
10.30 ABC Late News
11.00 The Business
11.10 Grand Designs Season 22 repeat
12.00-4.00 Classic Movies
4.00 Parliament Question Time (repeat)
5.00 Weekly Panel Show encore
5.30 7.30 encore
My take on the Australian network includes putting children programming back on the main channel with some ABC Me programming and some ABC Kids screened earlier in the day to slot it ABC TV afternoon and would put adult educational programs between Morning and Midday bulletins, also ABC is planning a new panel show before the state 7pm bulletins and if I was an ABC controller, I would have returned classic movies back into after midnight slot.
If viewers really desired more educational or children’s content, ABC could reformat the Family block to enhance the channel’s brand. This could involve filling the daytime hours with distinct blocks dedicated to ABC Kids, ABC Education, and ABC Big Kids content, structured similarly to how the ABC Kids and Fly TV channels operated. Additionally, ABC Family could then commence each night at 7:05 PM with a carefully curated program lineup. This would start with lighter programs and ABC TV encores, gradually progressing to more adult-oriented content until the channel’s closure at 3:55 AM.
ABC2 2024 revival
6.00 am-7.00 pm ABC Kids
7.00 pm Beat The Chef
7.30 pm Repeats from ABC TV channel
8.00 pm Heavy Rescue 401
9.00 pm Rhys Nicholson Hour
10.00 pm Louis Theroux
11.00 pm In For A Penny
11.20 pm Big Boys
11.50 pm Media Watch (repeat from ABC TV’s Monday broadcast)
12.05 am Rhys Nicholson Hour Encore screening
1.05 am Kitchen Commando
1.55 am Heavy Rescue 401 Repeat screening from earlier broadcast
2.55 am Close
A little thought i have had for channel 10 for the future. It would take some risks and a willingness to offer something different to all other networks in all timeslots.
Sunday
6:00 I’m a Celeb/Survivor/Traitors Australia/Masterchef/Big Brother
7:30 Good News Week
8:30 Live Nightly Talk Show
9:30 The Project
10:00 Sports Tonight
10:30 10 News
Monday
6:00 I’m a Celeb/Survivor/Traitors Australia/Masterchef/Big Brother
7:30 Would I Lie to You/Have You Been Paying Attention
8:30 Live Nightly Talk Show
9:30 The Project
10:00 Sports Tonight
10:30 10 News
Tuesday
6:00 I’m a Celeb/Survivor/Traitors Australia/Masterchef/Big Brother
7:30 Taskmaster/Cheap Seats
8:30 Live Nightly Talk Show
9:30 The Project
10:00 Sports Tonight
10:30 10 News
Wednesday
6:00 I’m a Celeb/Survivor/Traitors Australia/Masterchef/Big Brother
7:30 Australian drama
8:30 Live Nightly Talk Show
9:30 The Project
10:00 Sports Tonight
10:30 10 News
Thursday
6:00 I’m a Celeb/Survivor/Traitors Australia/Masterchef/Big Brother
7:30 Talkin’ bout your Gen/Gogglebox
8:30 Live Nightly Talk Show
9:30 The Project
10:00 Sports Tonight
10:30 10 News
Friday
6:00 Wheel of Fortune
6:30 Deal Or No Deal
7:30 RockWiz
9:30 The Project
10:00 Sports Tonight
10:30 10 News
Saturday
6:00 Wheel of Fortune
6:30 Deal or No Deal
7:30 Graham Norton Show
8:30 Saturday Night Live Australia
10:00 After the Final Siren
10:30 10 News
Yeah I guess I’m looking at it as if most of the viewership will come from BVOD from those shows and in this schedule they are no longer the draw card rather a platform to launch their 7:30-10:30 content.
Although i like and admire your schedule to an extent. I am not feeling the Live Nightly Talk Show followed by The Project, Sports Tonight and 10 News. I think its too much of the same thing. I think I would rather see what you have scheduled between 6pm and 7pm Friday and Saturday screen 5 days a week with a sports based program between 6pm and 7pm on Sunday and look at a Hey Hey Its Saturday or Saturday Night Live style format between 6pm and 7:30pm up against the news. This could be encored on 10Peach at 8:30pm
I could see Ten going back to starting realities at 7:00pm and possibly look at factuals as fillers for the nights that these realities end before 8:30pm.
Im not saying your schedule needs a complete rework, I just think that you need some variety across your nights. And the reason why I say game shows 6pm til 7pm, most people dont get home until after 6pm and then they are usually winding down from work. by the time 7pm comes they could be eating dinner in front of the TV
Yeah I get you. My schedule isn’t a realistic schedule. I wanted something bold that hadn’t been done before. So I guess I wouldn’t look at those suggestions because I feel game shows have been tried and failed in those slots.
I do understand what you are saying though and agree. This would be the schedule for a network that wants to offer something completely different to the other networks and offer that alternative.
As for the 8:30-10:30 slots I would say that the nightly talk show would be just that - celebrity based, fun, games etc. the project would then be more serious - in a 30 minute bulletin it wouldn’t be focusing on sports or entertainment.
As for the realities at 6pm. I’m not using them as my big draw card. I’d see them as an anchor to begin the night. People can catch up on those on peach or on 10play. I wouldn’t want realities to be driving my schedule.
There is a way that your idea could work, but it would involve Ten moving away from the Comedy branding for 10Peach. The reality programs could air from 6pm til no later than 7:30pm, this could then be encored at around 9:00pm on 10Peach to make sure that the other realities on Seven and Nine have finished. A game show might work as a filler on the nights one is needed. i will admit still not sold on the nightly talk show but i am sure you have other ideas that could be used. i am thinking a talk show 2 nights a week similar to the concept initially used to replace Tonight Live when it finished on Seven years ago (i think that was Denton, but I could be wrong).
Just so you know I am not trying to hijack or be too critical of your idea because at one point I thought Ten, back in the days (around 2005) that Ten had Neighbours at 6:30pm on the main channel after The Simpsons, that they could launch the nightly schedule at 6:30pm and get a leg up on the competitors that had Today Tonight and ACA at 6:30pm in the metro markets. Obviously my idea would have involved Neighbours moving to 6pm (with a proposed encore at 3:30pm and Judge Judy at 3pm).
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Post you mock TV schedules here.
If New Zealand TV Networks follow the same TV model used in Australia and silimar line to Australian commercial channels and a taxpayer funded TVNZ 1 a New Zealand equivalent to ABC TV had happed from the late 1980s
TVNZ 1 alt prime time non-commerical
6.00 1 News At Six
7.00 Close Up
7.30 Fair Go
8.00 The Checkup
8.30 Documentary New Zealand
9.30 Lucy Worsley Investigates
10.30 1 News Tonight
11.00 Business
11.10 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces (rpt)
12.00 Anika Mia Unleashed (rpt)
12.30 Late Programs
TV2 privatised
5.30 2 News
6.30 Contact
7.00 Shortland Street
7.30 Australian Survivor
8.40 The Hundred With Andy Lee
9.40 Australian Crime Stories
10.40 2 News Late
11.10 Resident Alien (rpt)
12.00 Tokyo Vice (rpt)
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6.00 Newshub Live at 6
7.00 Ryan Bridge
7.30 Married At First Sight Australia
9.00 NCIS
10.00 Just For Laughs (rpt)
10.30 Newshub Late
11.00 FBI: Most Wanted (rpt)
12.00 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert
Sky Open
5.30 News First At 5.30
6.00 Escape To The Country
7.00 The Crowd Goes Wild
7.30 Australian Idol
8.40 Beyond Paradise
9.45 The Irrational
10.45 The Force (rpt)
11.15 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon