5:00 10 News First
6:00 10 News First
7:00 The Project at 7
You heard it here first!
OK, I’m joking about the “you heard it here first” but this is what I think Ten is thinking. And it’s the best option.
By the way, to the above comment (“10 surely must be considering commissioning something new”) yes, you can’t get much more “new” than news.
No local Project at 6:30 - Local news rates better + Local Project is soooo expensive.
Neighbours or News is my pick.
I’d happily watch Burgo doing the game shows from Balls of Steel. Classification might be an issue though.
Just move News into 6pm - National Bulletin, should hold the 400k that watch News First @ 5 and a better flow into The Project at 6:30.
It’s also a brand that has the ability to grow and build in the slot. If a gameshow doesn’t fire it is unlikely to ever increase its audience.
For the 15 millionth time - NO!!! National news at 6pm does NOT work.
But they should do 10 News First at 5 and 6.
News is required. National or not it will do better than 150k. News at 5 right now is getting around 400k, Project is doing about the same, something to at least hold that audience is required which is News.
I don’t get why national won’t work but thats for another thread, 5pm is already local state based news, no need to repeat that at 6.
They need something for 6pm - 7pm that’s different from everything else news focused that’s already in the slot. A game show (Deal or No Deal, Sale of the Century) or perhaps some type of comedy show might be an option…
Do you get why the Herald Sun, Advertiser, Tele, Courier Mail are biggest sellers… The Australian not so much?
It proves…if this is correct…not just gossip spread from 1 tv gossip nut to another…that game shows don’t work at 6pm.
I wasn’t being serious lol.
Neighbours would do better than news at 6, they’d be better off doing local news after 8.30pm.
They have a lot episodes filmed so don’t expect a replacement show too soon.
What’s the point of axing if they arn’t taking it off the problematic timeslot it’s effecting??
They could even copy what Channel 4 does with Hollyoaks & E4 and have 10 Peach air the next episode immediately after the show airs on 10
Yes, I get that local works but 5pm is local. What’s your plan to differentiate the 5pm and a potential 6pm bulletin?
They tried that. It didn’t work.
Neither “did” Studio 10. It doesn’t mean you don’t keep trying and tweaking. Firstly, their “movie-length news” of a 90-minute single program is not what I have in mind. Back in 2011, the actual self-contained 6pm news was only tried briefly… and it didn’t do that badly considering how brief the experiment was.
Also, you should be able to recognise that Seven and Nine have since stamped all over Ten’s territory with local news at 4 and news all afternoon. It is entirely logical that Ten counter-attacks by stepping up its news brand. Look at any city in the US to see how this free market works.
The problem with the 6pm news, as I said continuously at the time, was they still did weather right before 6pm and gave viewers no reason to keep on watching so they maintained their habit of switching onto a different source, as many do, at 6pm.
There’s an attraction viewers have to watching Ten at 5pm then getting the different news source at 6pm with Seven/Nine. To break that Ten needs to develop a clear reason for viewers to stick around past 6pm (what will they miss out on with Ten that they won’t get on Seven/Nine?).
