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Bumped: Young Talent Time

TEN's Super Sunday suffers a blow as the ambitious Young Talent Time revival is bumped to Friday nights.

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TEN has pulled Young Talent Time from Sunday nights and bumped it to Friday nights at 7pm from Friday March 30th.

The move is a major blow to TEN’s Super Sunday and ambitions to revive the iconic talent show for a new generation.

The show’s ratings had slipped from its million plus debut, to 689,000. But significantly it was down in key demos. The show also had next to no lead-in from TEN’s insistence on a Sunday edition of The Project.

While the young talent has been solid, and host Rob Mills has received good reviews, it hasn’t been able to attract the kind of buzz afforded to Australia’s Got Talent. In an era of Reality-driven talent shows, having an optimistic family-friendly show has been a challenge.

David Mott, Chief Programming Officer, Network Ten, said; “As we move through the year we will continue to reinvigorate our Super Sunday line up and our move this weekend of The Biggest Loser

“We’ve built Friday nights for family-friendly entertainment, fun light programming and now the perfect for Young Talent Time as it heads into the big semi final and final weeks. The first Friday is a Michael Jackson special and audiences are going to love it.”

TV Tonight understands TEN has an option for three seasons of the talent show.

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  1. The show is so horrible, I can’t watch it for more than a couple of minutes at a time while channel surfing. It just tries too hard. It gets pretty cringe-worthy at times.

  3. It could be worse, it could have been bumped to Saturday nights, but Friday is just as much a wasteland. With only a few weeks to go, this is obviously a major move to slowly run down the clock.

  4. Yep biggest loser 6.30 sundays now. It will be the weigh in and elimination on sundays just like last yr. Thank god cause 6.30 there was nothing to watch

  5. At least TEN is sticking with it and not shafting it to ch11.

    I assume they will pair YTT with Glee followed by a movie?

    So are they clearing the way for the f1, yes I know that won’t start until around 9:30 in the evening.

  6. This is good news, it might lift their fridays.
    This show is a young teen show, i mean who wants to watch 13 yr olds on stage- 13 yr olds
    They really should bring back so you think you can dance Aus cause that shat all over this show.

  8. Why the Team haven’t released a single yet – which would be great promo for the show – I have no idea. It would be a big boost on the net, on radio, and on music TV (On Eleven anyway).

  12. I’m feeling dizzy from all that spin. YTT isn’t the problem, and the ratings were up a little from the week before (as were a number of shows). However, it was never going to appeal to the amped-up iGeneration – it’s needs to be OTT not YTT.

    The problem is The Project and it’s clearly not working on Sundays – a case of too much of a mediocre thing. Its lead-in is hobbling YTT. A gameshow would prob work better.

    Anyway, I don’t think TBL is going to do much better than YTT, altho’ the demos might be a little more favourable. I think that the people who currently watch TBL during the week might have already had their fill.

  13. The talent on YTT is quite good, and I think MIllsy does a good job as host, but I can’t stand the scripted banter that goes on between Millsy and the cast before and after each song.

  14. I’ve only watched a bit of one episode, but I really can’t stand the sound of young kids singing, it’s so high pitched and screechy. Then there’s the vocal gymnastics so prevalent these days, nobody can reach for one note without going through half a dozen other notes to get there, warbling all over the spectrum. It’s just bad singing.

  15. The Project should be gone, not YTT. Why are they so insistent on this program. The Simpsons would have been a great lead in. I guess they are the channel that was.

  17. Might as well moved it to Saturday night up against Funniest Home Videos which also gets the same ratings (500,000-900,000) but with most revivals it always fails just like Hey Hey It’s Saturday.

    Fix the show up and make it like the originals.

  18. so they are happy to p** off 689,000 viewers by moving it. I’ve enjoyed YTT, i think its a really slick production and the kids have got talent. I’m enjoying the competition element too. I must admit i’ve missed a few weeks as haven;t found it is “must see tv”. I imagine the key demos would be watching Home and Away at 7pm.

  19. I lost interest very quickly. I didn’t enjoy how they were trying to create the young cast into superstars overnight. With the constant fake audience cheering every time one of the kids were asked a question was just too much. Let them do their ‘job’ don’t quiz them or try to create funny stories around them ect.

    Let’s hope TEN do get the NRL rights, therefore there can be at least some consistency programming on Fridays for once.

  21. David Mott has no idea what he’s doing. He said the following only a few weeks ago

    “The one that thrilled us the most was to get over a million viewers for YTT and even the encore did well with over 500,000 against the tennis.We know there will be a lot of Sport for a while yet, but it just feels tonally right for 6:30 on a Sunday.That line-up won’t move. It will be a rock solid schedule for a long time to come”.

    So when he says “a long time to come” he actually means a few weeks.

  23. I thought everything about it was horrid. Who are these people giving it good reviews?

    The judges were bland, the set was daggy, the team had no talent, the forced banter was painful, the competitors were the same ever week, and rob is annoying and thinks he is funnier than he is.

  24. Significantly, a “Michael Jackson tribute special” on “Young Talent Time” that moves into the Programming Graveyard of Friday night.

    Significant? Well, yes – both items are deceased.

  25. Will it be for an hour or an hour and a half? Because if it starts at 7pm then the next show will begin at a silly time of 8pm if it’s only for an hour. Unless they plan on putting a half hour show there.

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