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Andrew Bolt has filmed Pilot for TEN

Andrew Bolt is believed to be heading towards a Sunday morning talk programme on TEN which could rival ABC's Insiders.

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Andrew Bolt is believed to be heading towards a Sunday morning talk programme on TEN which could rival ABC’s Insiders on which he has appeared for 10 years.

The Australian reports that Bolt has already filmed a Pilot and has a strong supporter in TEN shareholder, mining magnate Gina Rinehart.

Bolt has been one of several commentators utilised by The 7PM Project to supply a point of difference from the younger hosts. But if online forums are any indication, some guests on 7PM who are hired to invest debate, often trigger anger amongst the show’s youthful following.

A regular Bolt programme could see the audience turn even more hostile on the network at an especially vulnerable time.

The move could also raise questions about the power of new board members over Programming.

A TEN spokesperson said: “We’ve enjoyed working with Andrew Bolt on a number of network programs. We think he’s a great talent and we’re always looking at further opportunities for the people we work with.”

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  1. A Rightwing show produced with the blessing of the Rightwing owner hosted by a Rightwing commentator that will have Rightwing guests that will talk about how evil the Leftwing are,Oh yeah and Rightwing supporters.A regular love fest.
    Ho Hum how boring can you get

  2. Excellent idea Channel 10. I will certainly be watching, tho’ of course I will miss seeing Andrew on The Insiders. At least we will still get to see Piers hopefully from time to time.
    I am gradually losing interest in the 7pm Project because of the constant distinct left wing bias. They are so smug and yet so ignorant, it’s really quite alarming. I guess they are just too young to know and understand what they are talking about. A bit more maturity will hopefully enlighten them.
    Seems to me it’s just as well Gina became involved in Channel 10 – or I might have switched off for good!

  4. perhaps he could help Hadlee with his sock drawer and leave us alone. Lets face it – it would probably take the two of them to accomplish such a difficult task.

  5. Thanks Andrew. I used to waste Sunday mornings watching Offsiders but each time you come on I just turn off and go and do something in the garden. I used to think you were the biggest fool onradio and TV – but now I am convinced you are. I will not watch any program with you in it and I will not buy any product advertised on a station that supports you. Its really sad because Ten was getting really good with a mix that suited oldies like me and the younger generation.

  6. @ Armchair Analyst – it’s not actually a first – Alan Jones had his own show back in the 90s – it bombed horribly, partly because they were trying a talk radio style call in format which just doesn’t work on TV.

    I’m willing to give this show a chance, whatever else you think about Andrew Bolt, he is well researched and is able to argue his points using reason and logic, a skill that more commentators could use frankly.

    I quite liked that 7pm often has an old right winger on with the young kids, it exposes the audience to different viewpoints and makes it a more interesting show to boot.

  7. He’s arrogant, pig headed dismissive and just a touch conservative. But, god is he a breath of freash air to the rubbish harbour town left leaning sycophants who normally grace our screens and mikes.

    Try this, put to one side your hatred of the man, try, Try to ignore his attitude and non stop rhetoric and you may, may actually realise he makes valid points and never ever let’s a hypcrite off the Hook. And please if we label him an fear mongering ideologust, please, have you been listerning to carbon tax/global warming rubbish being strewn about.

    At least he has the strength to tell you how he feels and has no shade of grey, how many of us can look in the mirror and not see a little bit of hypocrite?????

  8. I am heartened by so many commenters that feel the way I do about Monsieur Bolt. Like I quipped on the other post 5am Sundays is the place for him! I already split my loyalties between Sunday Agenda on Sky and Insiders on ABC1. I would rather poke my eye out with a fork, and than endure more than a sixty second spot with Bolt on any of the multiple shows he continually pops up on. Next…..

  9. If this means he won’t be on the Insiders talking over everybody else and saying things like “That’s ridiculous” and “No, wait, that’s wrong” and thinking they are somehow cutting and incisive answers to everything, then that is great. Can’t wait for him to go fast enough. While he was meant to provide a balance for the Insiders panel, all he did was show what a bullyboy he is. Now if he takes Piers Akerman with him, that would be perfect. In Piers’ defence, though, at least he lets other people say their piece before he comments. Somehow Reinhardt has left-wing confused with ‘unbiased’ in terms of George Negus. Sorry, not everyone wants to be told what to think by the rich.

  11. The program should be thus:

    Andrew Bolt versus George Negus in a cooking show hosted the Mufti Sheik Hilali. The three judges: Mark ‘Chopper’ Read, Ross Garnaut and Ricky Nixon.

    In a fiery cooking encounter, Andrew denies his oven is getting hotter (despite it being turned up to 11) and subsequently charcoals a bemused Phillip Noyce. George makes a noble attempt to baste and consume his own moustache but realises he’d get a more substantial meal by calling Merv Hughes.

    In the first episode, Negus lightly pan fries an obscure middle eastern desert rodent in a left leaning jus whilt Andrew roasts, purely with the venom of his own breath, a Sunday Turkey (Julia Gillard).

  13. @susan: I have no problem with anyone that is conservative but wow, you really do sound like of the those extreme News Ltd right wing readers. Suppose you listen to 2GB or MTR and went to the carbon tax rally. Calling the government communist is such Jones or Bolt move.

  14. Bolt must be a monster. Imagine being so terrible as to illicit that kind of response from such noble, tolerant and enlightened folk as the TV tonight comments people.

    My God, what are channel ten thinking? There are thirty five comments here so far. Thirty Five. And nearly all of them quite rightly hate Bolt. That tells you everything right there. It’s not possible for him to have an audience in this country when the thirty odd of us hate everything he stands for.

    Well, he’ll get racists, fundamental Christians, green bashers, homophobes, non recyclers, murderers and people so old that they’re on life support, but that’s it. Nobody wants to hear about the bloody tories. If they did, then they’d have voted for them or be supporting them in the polls and that isn’t happening anywhere in the country.

    David, don’t just rely on the networks visiting this site for them to learn what Australia thinks. I really think you should send these comments directly to them (and maybe to Rupert Murdoch so he finally realises why no one buys his papers or visits his blogs).

    Thank God this low life is leaving Insiders. If we can only get rid of the rest of the right wing ideologues we’ll once again be able to have a fair and honest debate on our ABC.

  16. cant wait. I watch Channel 10 in the mornings because I cannot abide, Koshy, and the revolting Carl and the ever smiling Lisa, Channel 10 is balanced with its news and doesnt cut normal people off if they happen to disagree with the Communist Governmentof Australia and the head vulture Commisar Gillard

  20. I dont like this any more then anyone else who commented on this forum, however this is not anything new in the US there are many commentators like Andrew Bolt who have their own show, but never on Network tv. This is indeed a first for Australian Tv. If this does not pay off then ten will go deeper into the hole that they are already in. However if it does i will not be surprised if Alan Jones gets his show on 9 and so on.

  21. I’d like to think that people could make up their own minds that Andrew Bolt is a prejudiced, ignorant and inflammatory dolt who sets out to stir things up. From that position I would defend his right to spew forth his revolting views if a network sees fit to see an audience for them, as people will simply switch off once they hear the crap that comes out of his mouth.

    However, in my experience the more oxygen is given to those types of views (as witnessed in recent history with the Hanson phenomenon) it’s not difficult to whip up xenophobia or racism when someone is given a public platform and air time to do so. Some folk see that platform as giving those views greater credence, and that’s the rub. So I’m just hoping that good minded people actively switch his program off, starve it of oxygen, and it will die a quiet death.

  22. Bolt is a fear-mongerer, a right-wing ideologue and highly pretentious.
    It’s amazing how the ABC and now Ch.10 are keen to give him a platform to spew his drivel.

  23. Gina Rinehart obviously doesn’t have enough money yet, so she needs to stuff Channel Ten full of right wing climate change deniers in the hope that this will influence public opinion in favour of her own vested interests. What a truly inspirational women she is.

  24. This is sad but predictable. These days as many people will tune in to be outraged by that unspeakable man as will turn off in disgust. It won’t be lost on Ch10 TV programmers that the Bolt threads on TV Tonight have raised so many comments. They don’t care whether you watch him to cheer or boo as long as you watch.
    Personally I’d rather eat my own foot than watch/listen to Bolt in any circumstances.

    @Dan & CatFan
    It’s got nothing to do with Bolt having alternative viewpoints. Disagreement is good for democracy. What people object to about Bolt is his arrogance, bullying and intentionally inflammatory tactics. He exists simply to rub people up the wrong way and like others of his ilk (Sandilands, Latham, Jones, Laws etc) far prefers to be hated than to be ignored.
    Bolt is the one who cannot accept any other person’s point of view.
    His is the objectionable intolerance, not ours.

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