After her new gig on The Wrong Girl, Madeline West says:
Due to the extension of Today, Today Extra will be starting at 10am tomorrow.
Amelia Adams hosting with David on Wednesday Sonia is away sick.
Georgie Gardner hosting with David on Thursday & Friday this week.
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Sonia has returned from sick leave today and is hosting with Ben Fordham.
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Georgie was great and showed how much better the show could be.
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It was a mistake when they changed the name to Today Extra and Sonia Kruger being controversial has hurt ratings.
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Also the other problem with this show is the content is bloody shit,most days at the start of the show you get some trival entertainment story with Richard Wilkins.At least Studio 10 know how to mix it up correctly with a mixture of serious news /entertainment segments.
On the days that Georgie Gardner is hosting her professionalism and class can make shit shine !
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Couldn’t agree more.
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Today Extra is on the slide.
[/quote] Can’t wait for the day when Nine’s axes this show and Sonia Kruger.
Didn’t this used to be your preferred morning show in its Mornings days?
Preferred, no. But, when I liked it was in early 2015 when they launched the new set and Sonia was on maternity leave. Wendy and Georgie were great co-hosts. I stopped watching after Sonia’s first week back.
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Really hoping for it to be axed. But what would Nine run in its place.
Perhaps they should run the afternoon programming from 10-11.30/12 and try to run a rival show in the afternoons against The Daily Edition. That way, Nine aren’t doing another morning show (in a market which is overcrowded IMO) and it might improve their afternoons (probably axe Nine News Now). Go for a Studio 10 type show, with a live audience. I don’t know, what do you guys think?
Could always air the morning news bulletin from 9-10AM, or extend Today until 9.30 and have the news air until 10.30.
TEN did something like this with Breakfast, didn’t they?
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Exactly what I was thinking. I think it would do really well at 9am like Ten Morning News did. Something completely different to TMS and Studio 10 and will probably avoid or at least limit Today starting those stupid consumer/lifestyle stories post 7.30.
Yeah mate. From the August relaunch of ‘Mornings on Ten’, Breakfast was 6.00-8.30 and the Morning News was 10-11 (which meant it wasn’t head to head with either Seven or Nine which aired their morning news at 11.30 and 11 at time respectively). Ten Morning News actually had many timeslots from 9 am right til 11, IIRC.
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Then what will air between 10.30m-12pm?
@nationalnews Nine will not want to lose to lose the revenue generated from advertorials during Today Extra.
See that is the problem.
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nationalnews Nine will not want to lose to lose the revenue generated from advertorials during Today Extra.
[/quote] That is why I am suggesting an afternoon show. Or even if they want Nine could run the morning show (new show without Sonia Kruger pleeeeeease!) from 10-12 for something different.
I’d look at extending Today to 5.30-10, then Today Extra from 10-12 with a midday news (or Nine News Now @ 12). Then Ellen.
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Cap of the current (logoless version, but I’m sure we can all imagine what it would look like with an orange Nine or Nine HD logo on) Promo Endtag for Today Extra:
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This might be overkill, but maybe they could keep their current news bulletin at 11.30,
and air an hour long bulletin from 9-10AM as “Today News”. It keeps the Today look and feel but acts as a traditional news bulletin of news, sport and weather (I guess similar to how Today Perth News works)
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Leave the morning schedule as is. And at 12pm, i’ll have a “Today at Midday” (aka The Midday Show type of show) type of show air. After this show, they can air an extended “Nine News Now” to a 2pm start to go against the Daily Edition.
So the only show that isn’t a news type show between 5am and 7.30pm is Hot Seat at 5.30pm.
It’s becoming that way anyway! lol