TEN announces new talent, dating shows.
TEN confirms 4 new shows: I Will Survive: Priscilla, Everybody Dance Now, Come Date with Me & Don’t Tell the Bride.
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TEN has announced four new shows for 2012 and beyond.
They comprise a mix of talent and dating shows: I Will Survive: Priscilla, Everybody Dance Now, Come Date with Me and Don’t Tell the Bride.
Everybody Dance Now, produced by FremantleMedia Australia, will see dancers of all ages, professional and amateur.
TEN says, “Two celebrity captains will handpick their teams from 120 eager dancers, then send their chosen dancer into a head-to-head showdown. Watch the fireworks begin. Can a ballroom-dancing 8-year-old take down a sensational modern dancer? Can a hip-hop master survive a battle with a tap dancing Aussie sweetheart? One-on-one, head-to-head, until the audience picks their favourite and decides the ultimate winner.”
I Will Survive: Priscilla, also produced by FremantleMedia Australia, will premiere later this year with the winner sent to Broadway.
I Will Survive: Priscilla searches for Australia’s ‘next Triple Threat – Singer, Dancer, Actor.’ Performers will travel on board the Priscilla bus from Sydney to Alice Springs with performances at outback Australian locations.
Come Date With Me, from the producers of Please Marry My Boy and Four Weddings, Granada Media Australia, combines food and love. The ITV reality title will be a prime-time series for TEN’s upcoming schedule.
Don’t Tell the Bride, produced by Endemol Southern Star, sees brides having no say in any aspect of their wedding day, as their grooms and the best man plan every detail without telling them.
Network TEN Chief Programming Officer, David Mott, said: “This year we have deliberately set out to re-invigorate our schedule and firmly position TEN as the home of entertainment.
“These four new programs are bold, irreverent, fresh, innovative and noisy.
“Never before have we had so many new and dynamic shows to offer Australian audiences. It’s an exciting time for us and we look forward to seeing these shows come to life throughout the year.
“I Will Survive: Priscilla, Everybody Dance Now, Come Date with Me and Don’t Tell the Bride are the perfect mix of fun, high energy shows and will complement our already strong line-up for the coming months.”
Casting for I Will Survive: Priscilla is now open for all male performers 21years and older at www.Iwillsurvivetv.com.
36 Responses
I’ve got an idea for a new program….Ten’s Next Best Programmer. If Ten think Mott is the best there is, throw open auditions and find out. Reckon half the people on this site could apply and would do a better job than Mott.
awful-absolutely, bloody awful!
Lol you can tell this was prob james warburton’s ideas All looks like shows that would be on 7 and honestly what a total bore! Is this crap surposed to lift Ten? lol
@steve sydney – yes, it appears Don’t Tell The Bride appears to be a UK format currently shown on Lifestyle. I actually think out of all of them this could do surprisingly well (but not brilliantly), much along the lines of the well-recieved ratings for Four Weddings
And you expect to get your money back on these programmes ?
Channel ten you are simply unwatchable !
Why can’t we have a fly-on-the-wall reality series based around TEN itself? That’d be good for a laugh.
I will give the dancing one a shot seems though I have deeply missed SYTYCD Australia since TEN put it in a terrible time slot and then axed it, but the rest just aren’t going to be very good on TEN. I said on the Prescilla article the other week that it doesn’t suit the TEN target audience that Lauchlan Murdoch tried to re-establish the channel with (more so for SBS, LifeStyle YOU, STUDIO or even Nine), and dating shows are quickly loosing their popularity. Sure the shows might do OK if they were on LifeStyle YOU who would be lucky to get 20,000 on a show (and I’m sure TEN would be lucky to get 200,000).
I hope they secured the rights to the song Everybody Dance Now to play over the credits of Everybody Dance Now
Jusding by these new shows TEN = Trash Entertainment Network
There was an iCount survey around 1-2 months ago asking about a new show in development called ‘Everybody Dance Now’. It sounded absolutely horrid…guess I was the only one that thought so.
When will they bring back Perfect Match?
Did they not learn from Yasmin’s Getting Married and Taken Out. They really need to come up with original or at least different ideas. Maybe they should look at what they are doing overseas. There are so many innovative, interesting and entertaining shows being created and shown overseas. Also, I do think nowadays that Australians shun lame rip offs of successful programs peddled by other rival networks as well.
Everybody Dance Now sounds so much like the dancing version of the voice almost. Yes it’s not blind but the format after the blind auditions are so similar to the voice. This is just blatant poor programming from TEN if you ask me. They should have brought back So You Think You Can Dance. Now Ten has opted out expect to see it resurrected on Seven or Nine in the near future.
TEN bosses Mott needs to go now! Doesn’t today’s poor profit show this already? For gods sake. The Australian public could run it better than he can.
Wow, not one thing there I would want to watch. Come Date With Me sounds like Dinner Date, so not much originality there.
There is so much spin, no, utter BS in what Mott says that I don’t know where to start. In fact, I won’t waste my time as it’s patently obvious to just about anyone that it is devoid of any real meaning or information other than there being four of these new shows.
I hope for Ten’s sake that they’ll be on at 7:30 at the latest because the target audience for these shows will be in bed by 8:30.
“Home of Entertainment” – that has about the same level of credibility as Nine’s ‘Home of Laughter’.
Everybody Dance Now is obviously geared to replace SYTYCD so I wouldn’t dismiss it so swiftly. It’s an original FMA format. Don’t Tell the Bride is an international format and together with Come Dine, sorry Date, With Me are tapping into the kind of shows Seven has had success with. May work as early evening light ent. Not sure about Priscilla until I know more. Unclear if it will be branded entertainment a la It’s a Knockout.
Sorry “ten”, they all sound like rubbish. Back to the drawing boardn you go if you want any viewers.
Well, looks like I’ll be watching TEN even less now, or not at all if they dump The Good Wife.
Didn’t TEN’s new CEO say at the beginning of the year that he wanted the network to shift away from ‘tent pole reality’ programming? These all will be slated for after MC no doubt.
The “Don’t tell the Bride” show sounds like a straight off copy of a UK show that was airing on one of Foxtel’s Lifestyle channels a few weeks back
This is exactly what i was talking about in the Ten’s profit story.
All of these sound like absolute crap. Add that to The Shire and Lara Bingle and Ten are dreaming if these are their great hope to lift ratings. Seriously Ten get rid of Mott now.
“These four new programs are bold, irreverent, fresh, innovative and noisy.”
No they’re gutter trash programs based on other tv shows that have been mildly successful on other networks. Who is he kidding? They’ve all got fail written all over
LOL! So sad.
Ten the new female/gay network.
Worst new announcement of TV shows I have Ever read of in the history of coming to this site and that has been a long long time!
I would have expected this calibre of programmes from one of the foxtel channels!
lol – bit late for Apil Fools.
Where are the real shows as opposed to this guff spat out by the ‘Generic TV Idea Generator’ (patent pending)
“Bold, fresh, innovative”. Sounds more like poor man’s rip offs of other shows already on the other networks.
Ugh. No thanks.