Sam Pang is creating and starring in his very own weekly show on 10.
Daniel Monaghan, SVP Content and Programming, Paramount Australia said: “Sam Pang has been part of the 10 family for over a decade and we’re delighted to have commissioned his brand-new show for 2025.
“Sam’s quick wit has kept Aussies laughing for years, and we know his fresh new program will give audiences exactly what they want.
“We are currently in the final stages of development, and we can’t wait to share it with viewers in the new year.”
Seven haven’t done much outside of reality apart from the cop and border shows, news, H&A, the odd drama, and sport.
They tried a comedy last year, but it wasn’t that good so better leave it to a network which is well known for comedy programs these days (especially if Working Dog is behind it).
Only shows Seven does outside of Melbourne are Front Bar, Talking Footy - basically AFL.
Apart from that, there are the local weekend lifestyle shows, but those are mainly funded by sponsors, and aren’t really national programming (apart from repeats on 7Two).
It says “weekly show” above but also that it’s in the “final stages of development”. So I’m a bit confused on what sort of show it is going to be.
Given that Sam was such a great host of the Logies, I was hoping that it would be some sort of evening variety show (or even a format similar to the US comedian hosted late night type shows) that Australian TV lacks these days.
I can’t see this being as long as HYBPA and The Front Bar either.
Perhaps an initial 6-10 episode run. And if successful, then have a longer run the following year.
I wonder what type of weekly show this will be. I can’t see 10 having three “the week that was” type shows in it’s schedule, with HYBPA and The Cheap Seats. Perhaps a relaxed-type interview type show?
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That would be the untitled Sam Pang project which is still in development. All we know is its unscripted and not from the Working Dog stable.
Pang will be producing. “We trust him,” said McGarvey. There are not many stars you could take to market for a project without a name or format. Pang is one of them.
“The thing that we’ve learned with comedy is that you’ve got to let the people who are making comedy do it.
“And we do really trust Sam. And honestly, he just won’t tell us. But we’re okay with that.” [Laughs]
“He’ll have a network EP, but we really want to let Sam make the show that he wants to make because we think it will be better.”
