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Exec changes at Today Tonight

Exclusive: Today Tonight EP John Choueifate has left the Seven show following on-going speculation about ratings and behind the scenes tension.

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2013-05-17_0043EXCLUSIVE: Today Tonight Executive Producer John Choueifate has left the Seven show following on-going speculation about the show’s ratings performance and tension with Head of Public Affairs Neil Mooney.

“Choof” became producer of the show in February 2012, replacing former EP Craig McPherson. Prior to this he was a Producer on the show and has previously held senior positions in both Nine News and TEN News.

But Seven has brought in respected industry news man Max Uechtritz as a Supervising Producer who has decades of experience, including as Head of News and Current Affairs at ABC and Network News Director at Nine. He has been with Sunday Night for the last two years.

Sources tell TV Tonight Neil Mooney is Executive Producing the show from Melbourne.

Since relaunching Today Tonight earlier this year the Seven show has lost ground to Nine’s A Current Affair, but the last few weeks has seen some slender improvement.

Seven also promised to lift the tone of the show this year and while there have been internal questions about some of the content, this week it featured a 17 minute story on Syria, including with credited footage from ABC2’s Head First.

With Max Uechtritz on board Seven may have a better shot at lifting the tone after all.

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  2. I liked Helen Kapalos when she read the news, on 10.Seeing her now on her own show, she seems lightweight in comparison to so many other female presenters , both in Australia and overseas.
    In fact the whole show is light weight, especially the stories they regard as sensational.Most times these are the racist stories of conflict in Australia, they love to show to try and get bigger ratings.
    I think Helen’s personality lacks authority when she speaks

  3. So the experiment with Helen Kapalos presenting “meatier” stories has failed? What, you say it never started? Well they tried it the first night with an expose of bikie gangs but after that it was back to the same old dross.

  6. Still want to know how on Mondays episode, they were able to let two middle eastern men abuse each other using the “C” word several times uncensored. Were the censors asleep?

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