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The 7pm Project: it’s official

UPDATED: Ruby Rose and James Mathison join Dave Hughes, Charlie Pickering and Carrie Bickmore for TEN's new show to launch July 20th.

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7pmIt will be known as The 7pm Project.

It will start on July 20th and it will look at the day’s news live everynight.

Led by comedian co-hosts Dave Hughes and Charlie Pickering, The 7PM Project will be “the simplest new idea in television for a long time.” The news of the day will be brought to audiences by Carrie Bickmore. The show will have a team of correspondents delivering stories from around Australia and around the world into the studio every night. Ruby Rose will be bringing viewers all the latest music news. The media and sport beat will be covered by James Mathison.

TEN says “The 7PM Project is a place where people who are genuinely interested in the world around them come together to talk, offering genuine conversation in a space previously crowded by scandal and spin. While it’s not afraid to be serious, The 7PM Project can guarantee that there will be no miracle diets, no stories that ‘no parent can afford to miss’, and virtually no dodgy plumbers. The 7PM Project is the news un-spun. It is not a satirical newscast in the style of Jon Stewart’s Daily Show, but a TV show joining in the conversations going on in living rooms around the country.”

Rose and Mathison join the three names tipped by TV Tonight earlier this week for the show produced by Roving Enterprises. More names will be announced over the coming weeks.

Mathison recently stepped asided from Australian Idol although he was quoted at the time as saying, “I am not going to be on TV for a while now, not Dancing With The Stars or anything like that. I just want to explore other music opportunities while I am here in New York and at home.”

TEN Programmer David Mott said, “We’ve had great success in introducing brave projects to the Aussie TV landscape such as MasterChef Australia and Talkin‘ ‘Bout Your Generation and if we get this right, The 7PM Project could be a game changer for TEN in that very crucial 7pm timeslot. Not to mention our digital platform which plays a key role in the experience, driving content and discussions to the show, making it a truly integrated TV /on-line offering and a place for audiences to share their stories, opinions and interact.”

TEN has surely found 7pm success with MasterChef Australia and The Biggest Loser but it struggled with Taken Out and too often has had to rely on The Simpsons as filler.

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  1. Not happy to see Carrie Bickmore in this lineup. She’s the only one I find irritating. Hughesy can be entertaining, and the others are pretty bright. I tend to agree with the poster who said that this willprobably become a joke-making fest about news stories, rather than any type of interesting or humorous debate. Good News Week has become a massive pun arena in a similar way. It gets old fast. Hopefully they have some interesting ideas to give this show some genuine energy and life. The promos they’ve showed so far on TV haven’t looked promising.

    On the topic of the promos, is anyone sick of the format Roving Enterprises uses on all their ads now? It’s driving me nuts. The wacky music and unfunny banter clip they play just says lame. Even the graphic they use at the end, and the style of promotional photo pose, is identical to Rove itself. It’s so old. The show may well be better than they’re making out, but you wouldn’t know from the ads.

  2. The show hasn’t even started and already I’m sick of it. A few smart a*ses sitting behind a cheap TV set cracking jokes – how original! And how come the women with the tats up her arm is always wearing a slieveless dress _is she doing a “look at moi, look at moi”. As if she is the only person in the world who has a tatoo.

    Come on Channel 10, surprise us and try something original – there is heaps of young creative talent out there .

  3. i cant wait to see the 7pm project. i also love the theme tune. does anyone know what the song/theme tune is called? if you do, just comment it on this site.

    Thank You

  4. this show will be crap if rove has anything to do with it. The comedians (so called ) are australias worst no talent,boring and sad.Rove is pathetic and this will be too

  7. Shut up all the people on this show rule! Great comedians!

    So yeah shuve it up your a**** you couldn’t do a half as good show as this so shut up 😀

  11. I’d rather watch grass grow.

    I’ve said it many times before and I’ll say it again – Carrie Bckmore is totally useless and does not have a comedic bone in her body. Will be interesting to see her take pot-shots at Ruby though as she does with all the good looking ladies on Rove.

    Also a show produced by Roving Entreprioses is, I assume, going to be geared at the same demographic as Rove is aimed at now which means all we can probably expect is 30 minutes of poo and wee jokes.

  13. Great idea. Wrong timeslot. IMHO it would be better at 6:30pm (move neighbours to 6pm), so you can watch it instead of the sh*t that seven and nine feed you.

    Actually, it will be interesting to see if TT and ACA clean up there act with the 7pm project going to air. I’ll still be watching ABC News (Qld) at 7pm myself.

  15. Hope they are putting enough writers on it, and not the same writers they put on all their other shows. Roving really need to go to an effort to make their shows different from each other in style. I don’t think Hughes is spontaneous enough to carry it off but I wish them all the best of luck. I really do hope Ten gives it a shot though and lets it find it’s feet. The Daily show ran for a year before they put John Stewart on it. I think the significant problem is that by the time anyone turns on the tv at seven all the obvious news jokes have already been done on radio and do we really want the water cooler conversation at night time? Time will tell. Still at least something interesting is being tried. Is it actually live or just a live audience?

  17. Hmmm, not sure how I’ll take this – the closest thing I can think with this is 180 on Sky News which seemed boring at first but now I tend to watch it on most nights, it’s a good news wrap.

  18. the panel without the talent. and they had a week to be good. there’s not enough writers to make these plonkers funny for one show a week, let alone five.

  20. This does sound boring. Do they think that having more hosts is gonna make it any less so? There is way too much topical stuff around as it is.

    Also, I think they’ve got their wires crossed. I might watch if it’s a comedy type thing, which one could be forgiven for thinking given the hosts, but apparently the aim of the show is the presentation of serious news. Those are two distinct market segments but you’re not really satisfying either of them. I suppose that’s the result of Roving Enterprises trying to do something serious.

  21. How was Masterchef a brave new project?
    It was a reality tv show using an already successful format- brave no.

    I’ll try this new show but hopefully they limit bug-eye’s time, he is the even more irritating version of Ryan Seacrest.

  23. Hi.

    Charlie Pickering is great talent, as he does well on the generation program and he was a fine presenter on Triple J. I also don’t mind James Mathison.

    What I’m not happy about is the inclusion of Carrie Bickmore and Dave Hughes, especially Dave Hughes. I don’t like how Carrie makes rude and unfunny jokes on Rove. Dave Hughes will now be on tv 7 nights a week, he as appears on the aforementioned Rove and is part of the panel of Before the Game.

    I would have liked to have seen some new or rarely used talent have a go.

  24. Grant Blackley confirming a 52 week run, even if it is a slow burner. Next year is going to be very interesting with BL and MC starting at 7:30 sure to cause headaches for the other networks especially if MC maintains or builds on this years numbers.

  25. I think it sounds pretty good. Everyone just doesn’t like new things so they say s**t about it. Stop saying it’s going to suck until you watch a few episodes.
    It’s going to be good to have new show on. All the new ones have been good lately.
    So wait for it to start before you criticize it!

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