Andrew Bolt in talks with TEN
Controversial News Limited columnist Andrew Bolt is in talks with TEN about a new on-air role.
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Controversial News Limited columnist Andrew Bolt is in talks with TEN about a new on-air role, according to The Australian.
Bolt, who already appears occasionally on The 7PM Project as well as ABC’s Q & A and more regularly on Insiders, may have to leave the latter if a new role conflicts.
On yesterday’s ABC programme he told viewers, “It’s nearly 10 years that we’ve been on air and I’ve come to really appreciate and rely on the support I’ve got. I love ABC viewers, thank you very much.”
But Bolt is still booked in for an appearance in three weeks’ time.
An ABC Spokesperson told TV Tonight, “He appears on the program from time to time, and will continue to do so until such time as any other media commitments he has rule him out.”
Where Bolt could finish up isn’t yet clear: The 7PM Project (there isn’t much room to expand his current role), 6:30 with George Negus (unlikely to accommodate two opinions) or TEN News (it’s possible it could add an editorial segment). There is also Sunday morning’s Meet the Press (an Insiders rival) or a potential new programme.
Bolt is currently appearing in a high-profile litigation case being conducted under claims he has breached the Racial Discrimination Act.
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I now avoid the 7pm Project because I don’t want to watch hate-spewing extremists being given airtime. Ie – Andrew Bolt & Steve Price.
They’re both vicious and venomous; sometimes towards groups and people who can least afford it.
Channel 10, don’t give Bolt a platform. We don’t need more of his bile.
that man scares me.
If Bolt does this show they need to think hard about the format as doing anything like what he does on MTR where he and Price nod in agreement on everything just won’t work. He needs to have someone from the left challenging him to make it interesting.
I have trouble stomaching him in small doses on Today or 7pm or Insiders. He hogs enough air time. I respect that people have different views, but he, like Gerard Henderson and Piers Akerman never disclose their liberal leanings. I find him close to insufferable, except when a David Marr or Charlie Pickering take him to task on a view. Get rid of Steve Price and install Bolt on 7pm Tuesdays, and i will find something else to watch switching back to Kitty Flanagan and her special brand of nuttyness. Better still give him a show 5am Sunday mornings!
It’s bad enough his on 7pm Project. At least he quit Insiders. Him and Piers should just go away.
oh dear. next 7 will be giving neil mitchell a show.
He’s a smart guy, but no thanks. His deliberate and clever bending of the truth isn’t something we need more of on TV.
It’s so depressing that an unabashed press shock jock like Bolt is even being considered for a bigger on-air role. He’s such a divisive influence on any subject.
Just one more step in this direction and TV’s sad slide to the dark side will be complete.
it’s not the 1st anymore. not funny dude.
Give him a show with Ray Hadley – then call it Bolts and Bolt.
Ten sure do have a few screws loose….
Tell me this is a late item that was missed last Friday.
Ten need to avoid him like the plague.
@iconic reference: We don’t need 2 Glenn Becks in the world.
I saw the end of yesterday’s Insiders & I thought his little statement was to do with his defamation case currently before the courts. I swear I almost saw a tear drop form too. Ten years is a long time in television. Like most here, I don’t agree with him much, but he always made Insiders fun to watch.
Well we’ve seen just how successful MTR have been in Melbourne. I turn off 7pm when Price or Bolt are on and I imagine a lot of other people do the same. I can’t see him working on television. He may be Australia’s most widely read columnist but let’s be honest most people buy the herald-sun for the sport.
“Bolt is currently appearing in a high-profile litigation case being conducted under claims he has breached the Racial Discrimination Act (tickets from Ticketmaster).”
@Big V
Thats explains everything – I wondered why magically all the IPL advertising had disappeared off ONE
Words fail me. Actually, no they don’t.
Please don’t give anymore airtime to this right wing lunatic who wouldn’t know a ‘fact’ if it jumped up and bit him!
God help us
Andrew Bolt, What could possibly go wrong.
Its not that there is no room. Its the fact that the FTA networks do not want a right wing loud mouth to alienate there viewers and sponsors for fear of loosing them. America has many left wing commentators with there own shows but they are mainly on cable. There are non on the networks like CBS ABC & NBC because it would most likely damage there core audience. I would expect Bolt to find his way on pay tv just like Paul Murray.
Oh lord please let him use a blackboard. Please Gina!
As there is currently a significant legal dispute between The Board of Control for Cricket in India (which owns and controls the commercial rights in the Indian Premier League) and the company through which Network Ten secured the Australian broadcast rights, Network Ten has decided Not to broadcast the IPL.
The matter is currently before the Court in India so we will not be making any further comments at this time.
(Source: From ONE’s Facebook status about coverage of the IPL)
It looks like Gina Rinehart may already be influencing the programming!
Just give him his own show “Bolt’s Beat Downs” it would be like in America and those news pundits.