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Sunday Night rumour mill

Media reckon David Leckie told the Sunday Night team they had 10 weeks to prove themselves or else.

sunniteSeven boss David Leckie is rumoured to have told producers at the Sunday Night’s launch it had 10 weeks to win and hold its audience and if it didn’t, it would be cancelled, claims news.com.au.

It is one of several media stories that has been speculating on the future of Sunday Night this week.

The new programme is now in its sixth week.

Any honeymoon the show enjoyed in its initial weeks has well and truly ended, particularly given it didn’t win its timeslot on Sunday. The axing of The All in Call didn’t help.

Of course Leckie was also attributed as declaring the show would launch late in 2008. So there’s another reference that has proven false.

The article again speculates on the working relationship between co-producers Adam Boland and Mark Llewellyn, and tosses Mike Munro and Chris Bath in as well. Lookout Grant Denyer and Monique Wright.

Source: news.com.au

28 Responses

  1. I think there a few things that I find about the show that turns me off. First I like Chris Bath (very hot) and certainly doesn’t seem a bad journalist. But Mike Munro just always seemed an odd fit. I mean you look at 60 minutes and these people might not work together but are just fine as individual reporters. I think keep one or the other. Pretty hard to work both unless you are working the news.

    Secondly, they need to get top flight journalists which I believe seven really doesn’t have. Im not saying 60 minutes is the best of the best of the best. But they have a few things working for them. They are more exclusive to the one show which I think makes it harder to undermine their credibility. As someone said Monique Wright is not a journalist. Her work with some of Seven’s trashier shows means how can one think she will be a hard hitting reporter. Why not take some new thorough journalists. Didn’t nine let people go from its Sunday programme.

    Finally I think as some have already pointed out, they need to take the lead of harder hitting journalists with well laid out research. If you look at Nine’s Sunday programme, I think it was just a terrible timeslot. It certainly won acclaim. Maybe Seven should just buy it and put it on in the same timeslot as Sunday Night.

  2. I was looking forward to hard hitting show like the old “sixty minutes” and decent discussion pieces but Seven dropped the ball.
    Memo to Seven – go back to original promo and offer up what you promised and folks will watch – otherwise you will become same as “current 60 mins” – puff pieces and cross promotion tripe.

  3. “Sunday Night” didn’t even make it into the Top 20 for two consecutive weeks in Melbourne, and but did “60 Minutes”. But we all know that nothing beats the latter.

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