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Axed: Taken Out

We all knew this was coming. TEN finally turns out the light on its own dating show to be replaced by The Simpsons.

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Channel TEN has finally pulled the plug on its latest game show, Taken Out.

It is to be replaced by The Simpsons effective from tonight.

After tracking its performance in a week of single guys, TEN has been forced to turn out the light on its own show. This week it started with 610,000 but last night was at 533,000 viewers. TEN is mindful that last Friday it dropped to 465,000 viewers. Meanwhile Seven News had 1.44m viewers while Nine News had 1.1m viewers.

For a show whose biggest audience was younger females, the show also didn’t make the top ten 16-39 programmes in Australia last night. By contrast, Neighbours was #7th.

TEN had always sought to revisit the dating / game show genre with Taken Out but the show wasn’t even keeping the Neighbours audience before being moved from 7pm to 6pm.

FremantleMedia, which has also produced the hit dating show Farmer Wants a Wife, also had on-going casting issues with a low turn-out of single men.

A TEN spokesperson said no decision has been made on airing remaining episodes. The network was pleased with the performance of host James Kerley, who arguably managed to keep the show moving with not much to work with.

The show shoots its final episodes next week.

Tonight TEN returns The Simpsons to its trusty 6pm timeslot with the episode “Mr. Plow.” That name again, Mr Plow.

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98 Responses

  1. I would have thought you would have at least aired the final episode for this week! Really annoying for those that might have made plans to get together to see the episode their friend was on. Really bad tast after the amount of time they put into it, especially to see a re-run of the simpsons that we can watch anytime.

    Thumbs down on the decision coming into effect without notice in particular!

    Thumbs UP to James hosting BB09!!!!!!!!

    At least post the episodes that have been filmed on the internet so we can see our friends!!!!!

  3. Stop complaining about it taking over the simpsons and friends- if you want to watch them over and over, get foxtel (where james kerley has been hosting shows for years). Bring back taken out or put something decent on- like the office.

  4. I loved taken out! It was the only show on at the moment that I liked!

    I even watched all the episodes that I missed on the net.

    Why did they have to take it away? WHY?!

  7. please bring a dating show similar to taken out but with a slightly faster pace.

    kerley was good but there was way too much padding and analysing of intermediate results. Ad breaks were really annoying but i guess that’s a necessary evil huh

    oh and obviously you have to have time to personalise people with people but surely there’s a more efficient way?

    i could really relate seeing as im a young guy 21, im really sad there are not many dating shows around anymore, not even on mtv!!!

    thanks for reading

  8. As I had posted previously – we had ben watching the show and enjoying the laughs. At least it provided an alternative, wasn’t a repeat and was meant to be fun television. It is a shame that it didn’t get enough support to keep it on air.

  11. 🙁
    That is very devastating. Taken out was a great fun and light hearted show that i enjoyed. When i watched the first episode i though it was pretty terrible but i got into it. James Kerley was a magnificent host and i hope he stays on channel 10 to do some other work 😀

    goodbye taken out! great show u were!

  12. YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY BYE BYE TAKEn OUT
    BRING BACK BIG BROTHER THREE TIMES A WEEK LIKE THE US DO, YOU MIGHT GET MORE RATINGS…….

    UP WITH NEIGHBOURS
    HHAHAHAHA AXE TEN NEWS BTW.

  14. Strewth when they axe shows these days they don’t mess around do they it is a shame for James from what I have read hear it appears that was a good host 10 should stop making these shows and plow the money into a longer series or maybe even 2 series of the biggest loser which seems to be the only show that can come close competing against HAA and 2.5 men

  16. I am a proud contestant of the show, and sad to see it go.

    We did not get paid, was absolutely voluntary, and was awesome fun to work on.

    I will still endevour to watch it and encourage all to watch it as it airs during the off season.

  17. Hi David,
    Just a quick update. I’ve spoken to the TakenOut people, and while the show’s not going to be on over the next few weeks, it will/should air over summer and we’re also now filming a “flashback”/memento episode next week like a special.

    #Contestant 11

  18. This was a terrible show, all the contestants (male and female) seemed so shallow! I’ve been out of the dating world for over 10 years but if that’s what it’s like nowadays, how terrible! But, James Kerley deserves a better vehicle, he was so good on Cash Cab, which was my favourite show on [V]. Actually, it was the only show I watched on [V].

  20. It had to happen. Too bad a weak format let it down, because James Kerley was a fantastic host, like Steve Jacobs was with Power of 10. Both great hosts, forced to work with poor game show formats. I wouldn’t mind seeing this show return in the future with a reworked format.

    As for the rest of the episodes, put them on Ten HD only at 7:00 or release them on the internet on the Taken Out wesbite.

  23. Hank Scorpio was on a Saturday night a few weeks ago.

    James Kerley should host an Australian version of Don’t Forget the Lyrics at 7pm. It couldn’t be worse than this show.

  24. Contestant #11 great to hear you had fun, and it was also good TEN had a go at something new in the timeslot. But I can also tell you FremantleMedia were very pressed for single guys, personally telling me they really, really, needed more applicants….

  25. Mr Plow is no more rerun then other episodes and it’s a classic. Nothing funnier then Homer crossing that rickety old bridge only to look over and see a brand new bridge ..d-oh!

    Oh and Zambora..never,EVER wish for the return of Tench!!

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