I’d love to.
Do it then. Mock schedules forum.
Program Q1, then people will reply with ratings and you have to make instantaneous decisions based on those ratings that appease the general audience and the MediaSpy members.
You must get it right 100% of the time or you fail the experiment.
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I never said I’d be good at it. But that is what this forum is all about isn’t it? A discussion, critique and opinions about media and ratings. Not sure why people can’t have an opinion and why you have a problem with it.
Not really. There were non ratings periods where they pretty much only showed repeats and flops so they were only really effectively programming for 40 weeks of the year.
This was their way of saying they were aggressively programming for 50 weeks of the year instead.
I didnt say that either. I merely suggested a few folks programming 50 weeks of the year, you accepted the challenge… I laid down the rules for said challenge and now you’ve bitten back.
Pot. Kettle.
I often post in the mock schedule…
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10 is going into a very strong last quarter for 2019. They’ve done really well with their reality and entertainment shows for the last half of this year.
I do believe the confidence from the general viewing public has grown this year for the network.
I can finally say that 10 has turned a corner after 6 years of dismal management and bad programming decisions.
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Still a few stupid decisions but they have come a long way.
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And now 7 is having problems…?
If they’d publicly announced their intention to do so, then yes, I’d expect them to back it up 
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My take:
10’s Mondays - Thursdays: 
(for obvious results/reasons)
Fridays and Sundays: 
(one or two tiemslots do well, but the rest tanks and hard with no live sport in prime time or leading-in to).
Saturdays: (completely uncompetitive on a night nobody’s interested in FTA, with usually just lots of movie offerings and the might of Seven’s AFL - Seven News/Nine News helps those networks too)
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This week marks halfway through season 10 of Gogglebox with 5-6 episodes left. When it finishes at the end of October, I think either Trial by Kyle or One Born Every Minute should air in the Thursday post-8.30pm timeslot.
Although as it’s been said before, the Saturday night programming on all networks (apart from sports & election coverage) has been “Must Miss TV” for the better part of two decades. If Ten are…
…then it isn’t the end of the world. A bigger priority for the network at the moment needs to be improving their news/sports departments.
If this season of Gogglebox is for 11 episodes like the one earlier this year was, Ten will probably air the 2019 finale on October 24.
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To be fair, all three of you are right about your interpretations of 10’s 50 weeks pledge/strategy. Let me explain how that’s possible:
This is how Beverely McGarvey introduced it when she announced the network’s 2019 summer plans just over a year ago:
“Today’s announcement is a key part of our plan to give viewers and advertisers 50 weeks of first-run, locally-produced shows every year.
The network said the same thing at their upfronts last year:
Cooking, dancing, dating, surviving, renovating, laughing, crying, learning, racing – Network 10 will deliver first-run, locally-produced content across 50 weeks of the year from mid-January right through to Christmas.
However, something different was said a few months later in 10’s 2018 ratings wrap-up press release:
Finally, just for good measure - this is how Paul Anderson described it during a Financial Review interview in February:
"We have a strategy of 50 for 50; general entertainment for under-50-year-olds for 50 weeks a year.
In short, because 10 have described their 50 week pledge/strategy in a number of ways - it’s unclear to pinpoint exactly what it is and therefore how to judge whether they’ve met it or not
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Some good quotes… so they’ve always said 50 weeks, the start date was Jan 13 and more often than not they said first run local content. I was pretty close in my interpretation of their strategy. They even said premium in one of the quotes I’m guessing my years end they would have lied. I hope they prove me wrong.
They have almost met it in terms of having local reality across the 50 weeks, but the problem is, in the real world, prime time lasts longer than 60 or 75 or 90 minutes (depending on the day).
Well when they said they would run to weeks of first run, locally-prudced shows show every year they could be just saying a show every night. If they were saying prime time in general they failed that in the first week. They have had Instinct, NCIS, Law and Order SVU, Bull etc all in 8:30 slots.
I think 50 weeks of premium content can still refer to US content. It is premium. It isn’t cheap to buy.
Premium means really good content, not how much it costs to buy. Plenty of shit shows cost a lot to buy where networks are willing to spend.
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The Project is first run and local.