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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It 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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137 Responses
Well this has to be the program we were crying out for and now we have it and what a terrific show it is.So who ever thought of it well done but to pick this amazing group of people to run it there is nothing to say but very well done we love it.
I still have only watched one episode of this show…becuase its still stupid and unorganised.
I dont see the point of them just basically repeating the news that was on only like half an hour earlier. It gets really boring.
Carrie and Dave should go back to Rove.
Gotta give the show a good go.. but Dave Hughes can bore for Australia. Deeply and terminally unfunny, and can only be there for the bogan audience. What about someone likeJosh Lawson( hope name right). I reckon you have got to the end of this week to dump him, or the audience me included will dump you.
well you said that 45yrs is the new 60……Im now gunna tell u that the new 60 is 45 , us girls have a great time and 3 of us have just got fulltime permenant work with the govt & leave the so called younger girls for dead
Put your pen down Pickering!
So annoying…
so so boring.thank god for austar to switch over to while this boring news show drags on for 30 minutes. get rid of it and give fitzy his own show.
It’s bad enough having this show aired at 7.00pm without having a repeat during the afternoon. Can’t stand Dave Hughes. Have been disappointed with Rove lately as well, I used to love his show when he first started, but don,t bother to watch anymore. The best show you have had on for a long while has been Master Chef.
What do you like do the most?
Why do you like doing this show ?
i like the way you explane every thing?
i think that this show is better than master chef.
This show is really very bad – it’s very boring and not even remotely funny.
These comedians are funnier when allowed to be themselves – in a later timeslot…
I’ve resorted to Two & A Half Men as my background noise. 7PM Project isn’t even good enough to be background noise.
Sorry Channel Ten, this one’s no good….
Let us not forget the other things they relied on as Filler over the years
Seinfeld
Friends
Jamie Oliver Cooking Shows
Will and Grace
The Simpsons
Everybody Loves Raymond
People need to give the show a chance
Having Said that They should put on a Gossip Girl/OC Type show on at 7pm to provide a good alternative to Home and Away and 2.5 men for those tired of such programming
Really enjoying this… it’s a chance to cut the crap and have a laugh… but I do think the “panel” should have a bit more time to really have a good ol debate about stuff. Something a little more like the ABC “Panel”, but not that far. Hughsey’s one lines and rants are always welcome as well as general “taking the p***” from everyone, and I think that should stay, but some more time to really have a good ol natter about how stupid some of these news items really are (Like the baby shirts). It’s one thing to have a laugh, but when you take the time to look at something seriously, it adds a lot to the presentation, and gives the show a bit more respectability (Not that it needs it, but it can never hurt, Jon Stewarts Daily show being a prime example, behind the jokes, Jon Stewart is a genious, and a top bloke to boot)
I can see it getting a lot better as the guys settle in and get their timing together… but right now it’s refreshing and enjoyable tv, one of the few shows I’ll be tuning in for
Refreshingly entertaining ,,Yes I am missing masterchef bigtime but thought this show was something a little different
Why do people on channel ten have such trouble reading from an autocue? It’s Rove’s monologues all over again. This show is shite!! The hosts are all pretty funny individually but the scriptwriting sucks!!
i loved how fitzy came on 2nite more fitzy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i’m confused..serious news content followed by and at times interupted with snyde “barbs” from Dave Hughes..it is early days and these things take time,and given that it’s “live to air” and Mr Hughes may take some time to warm-up i’m willing to hang in there…it’s a shame they (the comedians) cant sit down before the show and workshop the “gags”
Boring!! bring back master chef, kim and david are more interesting. it:s rove 5 nights a wek.
Life is too serious and after watching 7pm project, I didn’t stop laughing. What a hoot! Julie from Master chef is just as funny being interviewed as she was working on MC. She is so down to earth. I’m sure anyone in Australia would like to meet with her. Julie seems to be everyones sister, mother, thats how she comes across.
Our family would love to meet with her and try one of her amazing cakes. My mouth is watering while I’m typing.
Okay, I watched the show’s debut and although it’s probably a little harsh to judge a show on one performance, here is my verdict: Crap!
Yes, it’s crass but the show deserves little more.
Hughes: Not funny: never has been, never will be.
Pickering: He may be okay on Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation but as a main host, he looks uncomfortable and doesn’t work.
Bickmore: Nothing good, and I mean nothing good, has ever come out of Rove.
Mathison: Should have stuck with Idol because at least people are used to that show sucking.
Ruby Rose: Arrrggghhh! Rarely has someone so easily induced vomit.
I will stick with The Daily Show and The Colbert Report on the Comedy Channel. As for the 7pm Project, may it soon find itself in Channel 10’s grave alongside the likes of Taken Out.
Wonder how long this rubbish is going to last for?????
Does anybody know whose house or where julie will be cooking tonight?
Ruby Rose you are hot……………..
I want Julie making “Love” in my gourmet kitchen……..
it would be great to have julie to cook for my family
We would like Julie to cook for us please
Fantastic, can’t wait!!! My favourite comedians and I’m sure their ‘take’ on the news will be far more informative and inspiring than those other news shows. Masterchef, what a winner. Can’t wait to see Julie interviewed. I loved her from the start and just knew she would win. It’s a great win for all we Domestic Goddesses out in the ‘burbs’ who just know we can and will amount to great things. Please, please, ask Julie to reserve 3 copies of her, yet to be published, book for me. I desperately want it as do my 2 teenage daughters. I’d also like to get in super early and book a table for 6 in her, yet to be opened, cafe. I believe I can win a night of Julie cooking in my kitchen – oh please, make it easy to win, she’s my idol and I’d love to meet her and taste her sensational cooking. I just know tonight will be an awesome show for the whole team – so – break a leg – and I see you at 7pm sharp! Love you guys x