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Axed: Download

After just two episodes, TEN's Download series has been dropped from the schedule.

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Network TEN has hit the “stop” button on its Download ‘internet clip show’ after just two episodes.

The Mike Goldman, Bree Amer and Ryan ‘Fitzy’ Fitzgerald series was in its second season, hosting video clips packaged together with commentary, competitions and special guests.

It will be replaced by Canada’s Ice Road Truckers effective from this Friday at 7:30pm.

Ten episodes of the show were filmed with the former Big Brother trio earlier this year. But last week it had 526,000 viewers.

The axing is a disappointment to TEN’s struggling Friday line-ups. Earlier this month TV Tonight interviewed Mike Goldman and Bree Amer about the timeslot and difficulty of winning an audience on one of TEN’s weakest nights.

TV Tonight: “Channel TEN are in a climate of taking things off air quickly if they’re not working. What if I was to say to you they played the show for three weeks and then took it off?”

Mike Goldman: “That’s not gonna happen, because it’s an awesome show! It’s not boring, it’s fun. I’ve got a copy of the first episode I played to a stack of kids the other day they p*****d themselves. Absolutely loved it. So I’d be very surprised.

Bree Amer: We’re pretty lucky to have a pretty good fanbase as well, through Big Brother.

Friday Night Live won Goldman, Amer and Fitzgerald ‘Best Action Show’ at the Kids Choice Awards.

TEN is yet to announce its plans for the remaining 8 episodes.

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  3. RE Phillip Hollins: I agree 90210 would have been good on a Friday.

    I like the Mike, Bree and Fitzy trio but I must admit I never once tuned into to what is ultimately a futile show.

    I do like documentaries, but not on a Friday night after a long week at school! 90210 = brainless fun! LOL

  4. There was a segment on the show called “Download Upload”, which asked viewers to create a funny clip and then send it in. This was a good thing but since the show has now been axed, every entry sent after its axing is in limbo. I feel sorry for those viewers.

    I hope that Ten find new projects for the three hosts.

  5. It say nothing about its appeal and everything about the attitude of programmers to the shows that many, many of us want to watch and have to endlessly download … (The majority of viewers tastes are NOT represented by the “ratings” on which the entire industry is based!)… “unappealing” shows do not make it to 10 Seasons (Stargat SG1)!!!

    The vast majority of viewers do not have HD and definitely cannot record HD shows to view later … it is still a secondary and impotent alternative in Australia. Classed as Summer Programs by the idiot programmers! The biggest problem is that shows are not given nearly long enough in a particular time slot to proove they can build and sustain an audience! When they replace the current programmers and fix the stupid ratings system!

    New Friday Night line up on 10:
    7.30pm: 90210
    8.30pm: Stargate SG1
    9.30pm: Torchwood
    10.30pm: Battlestar Galactica
    Everyone in my office here agrees they would prefer that to anything on at the moment…

  7. Fridayn night is something of a dead zone for television. I think part of the problem is that the networks key preferred demographics are all out doing other things. Friday night is not a good time for a youth oriented program like Download. Certainly Ten need to counter-program against the gardening type shows and the British crime thrillers that the ABC regularly transmits. Science Fiction is one way to go, another would be a strong game show. I know Eddie McGuire failed in that timeslot on Nine with 1 v 100, but an original local concept if put together with a charismatic host could work wonders.

    I notice that Fridays has also started to become a bit reliant on movies in the later timeslots and this is not the way to go, especially if the commercial networks only have about ten movies a piece that they like to circle through regularly. I suppose Mean Girls will be on again in a few weeks and we shall get a cycle through the Star Wars movies before Christmas. Download had problems, but the timeslot deserves better than something called Ice Road Truckers! That sounds like something almost on a par with Midget Tossing.

  10. why didnt they cut it down to 30 min eps and put it on at 7pm mon – fri? Maybe it woudl work…….cant do any worse than the dribble ten has on now or even recently

  13. It is a shame because mike bree and fitzy are great hosts but with ratings like that who can blame 10 for canning it instead of making download they should have made another series of Friday night games I hope ice road truckers is the first show to have no viewers at all

  16. Thanks goodness! Big Brother contestants should remain evicted from our screens. We’re not interested! Between Bree, Krystal and the rest of the endless vain airheads (guys included) it makes for nauseating TV.

    Australian TV networks need to raise the bar and focus their energy and money on talent!!!! We have so much in this country it baffles me as to why they all continue to pollute our airways with visual rubbish.

  18. Download was such great dumb fun for a Friday night. Ice Road Truckers is a good show, but Sydney and Brisbane viewers have seen half of it during the footy season when southern states had Before The Game on.

    Jack!…the fact that Sci-Fi is on HD only must tell you something about its appeal. Besides, if you have HD, it is hardly being boned. Most of the programs you mentioned were Summer programs anyway so you’re lucky that they’re even on free to air.

  19. Thank god for that … it was total crap!
    Why do they continue to waste good money and air time on this stuff and not support the great sci-fi shows that we love and have to tolerate being boned to HD only … Torchwood, Battlestar, 4400 etc … to name a few.
    Make it Sci-Fi Friday every week on 10 and the viewers will flood back.
    Jack!

  24. Bring back the Aussie version of Celebrity Poker please…

    It used to be on at midnight on saturdays and had a lot of Aussie comedians playing for charity.

    It was surprisingly entertaining and might be a cheap option for friday night.

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