Agreed. Angus needs to move on.
7 needs to return to being the “drama” network like it was. It’s costly but if they get it right, they will benefit,
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2020 will be the year for Seven thanks to AFL, Tokyo 2020 and Paralympics.
2020 Summer Olympics will be huge with multichannels going to soar to new heights and even outrating TEN’s primary channel. Due to the similar timezone, this will provide strong numbers on 7, 7Two, 7Mate and even 7Flix (with News taking priority at 6pm).
Sunrise will stay Number 1. Morning Show will be Number 1 in all 5 cities.
The thing is bout AFL - if Seven produces better quality games across strong-performing teams, then this will drive better ratings during Primetime.
Seven might expand on more entertainment, comedy and drama during primetime.
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I generally hate calling for people to be sacked. However, if Ross isn’t going to step down - Warburton should be asking for his resignation.
If Ross was a sports coach and he did to them what he’s done to Seven’s programming lineup/strategy, he wouldn’t have survived 2017 let alone still be coaching now…
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Want to save a lot of what I want to bring up/discuss until closer to the upfront.
However, what’s clear is Seven’s programming strategy can’t consist only five words (MKR, House Rules & sport)…
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Two of the trio possibly joining Seven.
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I think Angus has done a wonderful job for Seven. It is like coaching a number 1 team on top for a decade. The team or in this case the shows are aging and Seven will remain Number 1 or tie or miss out by half a percent. It’s close whatever way. Angus and the whole team just need a rethink and refresh and regroup. The Switch show and Bride and Prejudice worked okay last year but this year Switch failed. A lot if shows have been huge for Seven but the tent poles and on docs are not working now.
Home and Away needs a rethink on how it’s scheduled. Triple episodes are not how the show is supposed to air. The episodes are poorly scheduled in Adelaide and Perth.
Bring someone like Jana Wendt back for current affairs credibility.
Angus has the skills understanding and knowledge to be Number 1. He has done it with Worker before and will do it again.
I’m not too fusey with what Seven brings, as I watched their news, sports, lifestyle and other entertainment/reality programs all day long !
Knowing Seven, they arent going back to Aussie drama, most of their new dramas are co-productions with world wide appeal.
I hope they renew proposal again in 2020 as that is my favourite show this year.
Channel 7 will probably expand with several documentaries next year. I can see that they are looking for different content to broaden the Seven Network. With promising ratings for AGT, they will more likely to renew it for 2020 season. AGT has performed satisfactorily this season thanks to Ricki-Lee as host. They are trying to be more competitive against Nine.
I can see that Channel 7 will take out the ratings year for 2020 (by a significant margin over Nine) in all 5-cities thanks to the Tokyo Olympics, Paralympics, the AFL. As well with this, Seven News will be Number 1 due to the Tokyo Olympics in the middle of 2020 and will win in all 5 cities.
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Secret Bridemaids’ Business and Between Two Worlds are in-house productions but with an overseas actor.
In the past five years Seven only commissioned four documentaries: Australia: The Story of Us, Michael Hutchence: The Last Rockstar, Jimmy Barnes: Working Class Boy, and Undercurrent. I doubt Seven will make another doco for 2020.
News Corp reports today Seven is planning to reboot Packed to the Rafters, with producers currently negotiating contracts to lock in key cast members. It is understood if the cast are locked in, filming would commence in early 2020.
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Of course they are, not many original ideas there.
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How awful. Leave it in the past.
If they want to do a show about a family, then create a new show about a new family.
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Yikes, really doing all they can to avoid having to come up with original concepts (Nine is just as guilty too with Seachange mind you!)
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Packed to the Rafters really suffered the Mcleods daughters curse. Too many key cast wanted to move on and it was too hard to replace it because it was about that family.
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I hear that the multi-channels are going to be re-named (excluding 7food Network) and also more specific genre based also that 7 SD is being switched off , part of the bandwidth will go to the new “sports/movie/general entertainment” based channel the rest will go to the existing multi-channels on a variable split.
Seven are gonna push all these changes after “the summer of cricket” (so end of February) and will make the changes once the Olympics and Paralympics have completed (so start of September).
My guess is that 7mate (which will be renamed) will be the 2nd HD MPEG4 channel.
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So announce the channel names in February, promo the changes for six months then change the names in September?
If as you hear Seven SD MPEG-2 is being switched off leaving Seven HD MPEG-4 (?), then Seven may as well make all their channels MPEG-4.
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They better be careful.
They don’t want a 10 Boss/Bold debacle or to pick a rubbish name like 10 Peach. 
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I would’ve thought that the 7mate & 7Flix names were generic enough for them not to need a rethink?
7TWO on the other hand…I can understand why the network might want to get rid of that one because “channel number” brands have been on the way out for some time now with Foxtel about to go down that road and the other FTA networks having already done it (although Nine’s multichannel names were never channel number based).
With the main channel only being available in MPEG4 HD?
Fair enough if it makes sense in five years time but if something like that happened now (or fairly soon), surely a not insignificant proportion of viewers would be without Channel Seven?
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bit early for a new packed to the rafters
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Agree.
I don’t know why they’d want to mess with changing 7mate. It resonates with viewers and the ratings aren’t bad. So why bother?
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I don’t think doing Packed is a bad idea if they get all the cast back maybe as a more limited series run. Good family dramas are good to see, I’d prefer to see a Always Greener reboot though. The next generation kids with kids and the grandparents.
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