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Axed: Everybody Dance Now

"We didn't get the format right," says TEN CEO.

TEN has axed Everybody Dance Now from its Sunday night line-up following dire ratings.

James Warburton, Chief Executive Officer, said, “As part of the renewal of Network TEN’s creative content, we are trying new formats and creating more programming options. Unfortunately, we didn’t get the Everybody Dance Now format right. Kelly, Jason and Sarah are fantastic presenters. Their professionalism and commitment to Everybody Dance Now was remarkable, and the many talented dancers on the show were amazing. Although we worked with FremantleMedia to reset the program, clearly it has not struck a chord with viewers.”

TEN has again revamped its Sunday night line-up as follows:

6.00pm – The Project
6.30pm – The Simpsons rpt
7.00pm – Modern Family rpt
8.00pm – Graham Norton Express rpt
8.30pm – NCIS rpt
9.30pm – Moto GP – Live from Czech Republic, round 12.

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63 Responses

  1. Nobody is buying this format not working excuse. The death of this show is a direct result of the toxic press following the failure of the first show, much like The Renovators never recovered.
    The lesson being don’t launch reality shows against the Olympics (or in the middle of MasterChef finales).

  2. JB…which of the commercial stations does currently know what Australia wants?

    They ruined the format and I’m afraid Sarah is just not a good host. The audience can’t connect with her at all. I actually feel a little sorry for her because I am sure she tries very hard, but…..

    The networks seem to trail after each other….X network gets overseas presenters/judges…Y network tries to do the same… rinse and repeat…and expect failures along the way.

    Someone said it here the other day…there was a time when we could be proud of Australian television and the relative risks that were taken…and the craft of creating a decent show. Hit and miss is now the theme throughout everything to do with Aussie free-to-air.

  3. wow that was quick! personally i think it was a little too hasty, they’ve already invested a crapload of money & time into it & do they have something to replace it with thats guaranteed to rate better?? They made obvious mistakes with the timeslot & its not the greatest show but surely the ratings would improve now its not up against top rating shows like Olympics & Howzat. Is it really that cuthroat they can’t give a show more than 2 episodes??

  4. And somebody had to tell Lachlan the news as well and the wasted $20 million.

    Going back when the list of current list of new shows on ten were named a number of months back, it cop flak from readers on this website from the word go and had the look of whats on the bottom shelf about it and proven correct so it be interesting what we get served new locally by ten in the next 6-12 months.
    In the meanwhile I’m just counting down the days till The Devil Wears Prada hits our screens again.

  5. All these comments about Ten have got me thinking. The last series I watched regularly on Ten was Rush.

    US series I used to watch on Ten I now tend to watch via other means these days. That way I don’t have to work out what time the show’s going to be on, whether it’s a repeat or not, how late it’s going to start, and I can watch a whole series at a time without it disappearing for weeks / months at a time.

    The other program I used to watch regularly on Ten was The Project, but when it was the 7PM Project. Now it’s on earlier I usually miss it.

    And finally after living in the UK and seeing the BBC’s MasterChef, I can’t watch the Australian version of Master-product-placement. It’s too irritating.

    Mind you, a lot of these comments also apply to our other commercial networks!

  6. Looks like it will be the first time this year that I won’t be watching TEN on Sunday night.
    Maybe it’s time to bring Rove or Talking Bout Your Generation back ? How about Thank God You’re Here ? Or 3 hours of The Project ?

  7. Heads need to roll in the programming department – they’ve got no idea what viewers want or what habits they have.

    EDN had problems, sure, but it wasn’t the worst show we’ve ever seen on Australian television.

    WTF were they thinking launching it against the Olympics, then the reboot at 8.06pm when they knew most of the show would be up against Kerry Packer’s War.

    Then they think Australians will turn into four different hour-long programs across the 7pm time slot, since abandoned with low rating repeats of Modern Family and being thrashed by a show they used to own!

    Why wasn’t another 7pm Monday – Friday ‘franchise’ show developed to take The Biggest Loser & MasterChef’s slot?

    Time for new heads to fix this awful mess they find themselves in.

  8. It’s not creative content when a lot of the new content Ten is trying to put out there,is just one form or another of these reality type shows,one after the other.It reeks of desperation and people can see through it.I’ve said it before,mix it up a bit and space it out better.Lastly,it must be said Ten have had a few good quality showings,but few and far between.

  9. Add that to the growing list of failures under Warburton’s leadership. Maybe he isn’t as good as what he thought he was and what people made him out to be. Seven should count their blessings, as it seems they dogded a massive bullet in not having Warburton as it’s CEO.

  10. I think Sunday night is a awful night for talent shows on Ten, first YTT struggled there and then EDN had even worse luck, Sunday nights just have really solid shows and it is hard to break through what the other channels have.

    Some YTT fans were hoping that when EDN was cancelled (when it become obvious it was in trouble) Ten would give the fate of YTT too, their own legal department has been telling people it was canned a month ago but the fans still have to sit and wait for the official word.

  11. How could anyone at TEN have looked at EDN and not seen it was going to fail ? The only good thing about it was the dancers. And who thought Aussies would want to watch a couple of Americans ‘competing’ with each other ?

  12. What a shock (not). Ten’s Super Sunday is now a lazy repeat-a-thon. Sunday will be another day of the week Ten will finish 4th! So glad I’m not a shareholder and at this rate I won’t be a viewer either.

  13. A revived SYTYCD would have been at the least, a modest success. Why tamper with a known format? And please don’t hire Sarah Murdoch for any more hosting gigs, and that includes ANTM. She had her chance with that show and she ditched it for this. Poor form.

    Look at Ten’s Sunday line up; repeats. Repeats rather than a new show. Just shocking. Ten need to go and spend some time in the naughty corner and think about their choices.

  14. A shame, as the idea behind the show was good, but the execution was clumsy. They would have been far better served reviving So You Think You Can Dance.

  15. It’s not even that they didn’t get the format right, they also tried to launch it when they knew the Olympics was rating well.

    Bring back SYTYCD I say. That’s a format that works.

  16. Just axe Channel Ten. It’s clear they have no idea what they’re doing, or what programs Australia wants. The network is now irrelevant.
    It knows how to do quality drama Rush, Offspring, Puberty Blues, but if it’d rather spend money on trashy crap like it’s been doing then what’s the point?

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