If you say so. My guess is any idea you come up withis gold AND everyone elses is garbage. Iāll just leave you to it.
Mate, Iām open to all ideas - but this one feels like it was pitched from a āpre-internet and pre-live sport TV coverage on a Friday nightā laboratory.
Itās also off topic.
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Haha. The red alert siren is gone And a tombstone is now there.
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Iāve fully caught up with the posts now in this thread after only skimming last night - boy that was a ride.
Iām not trying to provoke or deliberately stir the pot, but I do think it is worth reckoning with the āwokeā claims against The Project and perhaps journalism that leans towards more āadvocacy journalismā as a whole. This didnāt always use to be the case, but there has been a real pushback against it in recent years. In same ways itās a case of ārules for thee but not for meā, given the noise from right-wing advocates who have plenty of their own content doing the same but I do think itās a real mark on our society and itās not good either way.
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To me The Project didnāt āgo wokeā because itās never really changed. What changed was our society becoming more extreme and less tolerant, and minority right wing views becoming more mainstream.
The Project stayed the same while others like 7News changed with changing times, pandering to the audience thirst for being outraged, becoming more sensationalised, simplified, one-sided, and exaggerated.
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Very good analysis.
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Back in May, on election night, you could see the difference between the 10 and 9 coverage. 10 seemed to be more balanced whereas the coverage leaned towards the Liberal-National Parties with one example being Karl Stefanovic talking to Peter Dutton like best friends in a corridor before we found out that Labor were returned to power. Yes i know his brother, Peter Stefanovic works for Sky News, but still you need to bring a more balanced coverage to your audience.
I did hear ABCs coverage was accused of being leftist, amongst other things.
The Project tried to be balanced but in some situations aka the Brittany Higgins/Brune Lehrmann saga hijacked the program - which the case outcome had it been different, Lisa and the team would most likely be commended rather than condemned
The brand is tainted, forget it. A once a week live news-tainment/ variety show could work though. Something incorporating parts of formats like The Project, Good News Week and Hey Hey Itās Saturday.
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It probably didnāt help that it was ādifferentā either (despite that being a basic tenet of the brand to do news differently), and it didnāt largely conform with what other news/caff programming is out there and people donāt like that. We also see this with people who rail against the ABC (and SBS to a lesser extent), although the additional factor there is that theyāre government-owned/funded.
Our media has conditioned us to expect a level of homogeneity in news output, and that anything that deviates from the ānormā is somehow bad.
Some of the advocacy journalism that the Project undertook was just misguided, too - and it kind of started with the promotion of slacktivism through the Kony āexposeā in 2012.
I think the failure to change is problematic, too - but itās also incredibly hard for a show on a low-rated network to attract new viewers.
To me, this is when Ten should have pulled the plug - they became the story rather than reporting the story and risked serious reputational damage.
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The biggest factor in ending the show was that the demographic that watched in the early years and 10 in general have deserted traditional TV viewing. The younger viewers are getting their news delivered differently by other means. That might include an occasional tune in of The Project or watching a social media clip but it didnāt develop enough revenue to support the production costs any more.
10 decided to pivot and the new offering will be hoping to get enough of the remaining FTA audience to cover a lower production cost of the new offering. If they do, it might bite into the audiences watching the other news shows which will be interesting.
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No it wasnāt. Newscorp, Sky News, Blackbox and clickbait media told me it was ātoo wokeā āLisa is evilā āWaleed is toxicā so it must be true, even though I havenāt watched a single episode in 10 years. Thatās why the show ended. 
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Err Yuck!
Itās a shame people like you would rather American trash on our screens rather than good old fashioned Aussie humour like on Hey Hey! God forbid anything isnāt PC humour anymore!!
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Ten should have time this better with Sam pang so he can take over the entertainment interviews
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where did u get that from?
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Excuse us?
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He wasnāt talking to you.
How do come to that conclusion? Iām an advocate for Australian programs. I prefer Australian shows to imports. I probably watch more Australian content than most Australians.
I donāt think we need to recycle humour or content from the 70s and 80s in 2025.
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I mentioned Hey Hey only because they could incorporate elements from the format. I never said they should recycle the humor or content. There is plenty of scope for more live variety in the current television landscape.
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