60 Minutes set for regular timeslot
Nine looks set to lock in 60 Minutes to 8:30 Sundays next year.
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60 Minutes will have a set timeslot in 2017, according to a report today.
It will most likely be secured at 8.30pm Sundays, News Corp notes.
The news comes after the show has been bounced around Nine’s Sunday schedule in 2016.
“That (timeslot changes) doesn’t help the show,” Director of News & Current Affairs Darren Wick says. “You don’t know where you are and the audience doesn’t know where you are. The audience just goes ‘see you later’.”
Now if only we could apply this to TV schedules across the board!
Meanwhile reporter Tara Brown has made an unhelpful and arrogant remark regarding the Beirut saga.
“A lot of that (criticism) has been generated by you (the media). I don’t necessarily think that matches what our audience says,” she suggests.
Wrong.
Ratings may have been a short term victim, but Tara Brown just doesn’t get that this was the biggest brand bashing a TV show has had in years.
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Presume that 8.30pm means whatever time the previous competition show finishes. Can’t see them truncating The Block et al just to make sure it starts on time.
Totally agree with everything written in the piece….
“You don’t know where you are and the audience doesn’t know where you are. The audience just goes ‘see you later’.”
Yes, that is exactly right! And not just with 60 Minutes. With every show! Bring back the junction free to air channels, or continue in decline for this very reason.
Well it’s a step in the right direction… As for Tara, she really shouldn’t still be there.
I’m not sure she would get a gig elsewhere, her peers seemed to round on her for letting a producer take the fall for the whole Lebanon debacle
It will most likely be “secured” anywhere within the 8:36-8:48pm time range is more like it.