Dancing With The Stars doesn’t make sense. It is old skewing.
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It did state in the report, that they would make changes to skew to a younger audience.
What changes could they make?
The concept of DWTS is washed up celebrites from yesteryear doing ballroom dancing - both factors are very old skewing concepts.
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It’s only in Australia that Seven has seen the show’s ratings drop and end up missing with younger audiences. IN the US, even though audiences are down the show still usually wins its timeslot in the demos and even beats Ninja Warrior.
The show isn’t just washed up celebrities from the past. Last year’s US season was all athletes - which could easily translate to Australia - the winner as 28. The previous year the winner was 23.
I would say that it would most likely because they had Shane ‘Boring’ Bourne as their host and MKR ‘star’ Ash Pollard as their contestants which led to their demise in 2015.
It doesn’t excite me, but they could run DWTS on Friday or Saturday nights to attract an older skewing audience who typically watches TV on those nights where they struggle to capture audiences up against live sports etc.
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It was also that those youngins were all watching The Voice that year. On a typical Sunday night in 2015 The Voice would have more than 1.4 million and Dancing was just half that at 700,000; it was wiped out by the newer format.
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As @TV.Cynic alluded to, you pick the cast for the viewers you want. Seven was aiming for a broader demographic so got identities of different backgrounds and ages. Ten could skew that lower if they wanted in both contestant and host. Three has done that quite well in NZ, age wise.
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Either during the winter sport months OR from September to end of November
DWTS did well for Seven as an end of ratings year schedule ‘filler’ for a few years before they decided to in 2015 air it in the middle of the year which led to The Voice soundly beating it in the ratings (as TV Cynic outlined above)
Ten could re-jig the afternoon schedule to include at FCTV style program at 1pm on the back or Dr. Phil and then screening whatever reality show screens at 1pm now at 2pm - Judge Judy and ET could follow - a cooking show and Morning News could screen at 11am (if the did want to shorten Studio 10 to an 11am finish - but to finish it at 11am, I believe a 8am start would be in order on the back of say a 1 hour 7am news service)
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The answer to Ten’s woes has been staring us all in the face, but only one man saw it
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I think Ten could and should air either a Saturday edition of The Project, be screened in the same format as the other 6 nights OR produce an edition of The Project called The Project Weekly - which would have the more important/relevant stories and issues from the week. Perhaps have a different host present it each week.
We don’t need more of The Project, more new ideas for programming are needed.
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I like and have been an advocate for a Saturday edition. It is tens primetime news program. Its not like seven or nine break their news on Saturdays.
With Family Feud Sundays gone in a few weeks time, then there will be a good chance for Sports Tonight to take over at 6pm sundays. I don’t want to have Sunday Family Feud as it has bombed so badly in ratings.
But without any sport in summer on Channel 10, there needs to be more stuff to be on. I think its time that TEN needs to consider carefully of Ninja Warrior UK. Surely that this can be good during the summer (unlike the Australian Ninja Warrior) and could potentially push ratings further up. @William_C wouldn’t be worried about the UK version when aired during summer.
last we heard was that it was going to be this month, as to when Sports Tonight might air.
Dont think sports tonight will be airing at 6pm…maybe later
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Sound like an hourly based format at 9.30pm
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and hopefully on the main channel too with a late night encore on ONE