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TEN expands The Bolt Report

The Bolt Report expands to an hour as Meet The Press remains on Hiatus.

bolt_TEN is expanding The Bolt Report from 30 minutes to one hour while Meet the Press remains on Hiatus.

Bolt will return at 10am Sunday, March 2, with a weekly repeat at 4pm.

Hosted by columnist, Andrew Bolt, the expanded show produced for TEN in partnership with News Corp Australia will include a new News Watch segment which, according to a Press Release, will “put the media under genuine scrutiny.”

TEN Executive General Manager, Russel Howcroft, said: “As The Bolt Report enters its fourth year on TEN, it makes perfect sense to expand the show from 30 minutes to an hour.

“Half an hour was not enough. Expanding The Bolt Report to an hour will give the opportunity for more in-depth and extended interviews and analysis.

The Bolt Report is already one of Australia’s most-watched television programs on politics and the new format will only add to its appeal and influence,” he said.

Andrew Bolt added: “I am delighted to be returning to Network TEN in the expanded one-hour format. I will continue to talk to Australians about the things that matter to them, cutting through the spin without fear or favour. This new format lets me cut through the spin of so much of the media, too.”

It is unclear when long-running political show Meet The Press, which was produced by News Corp last year, will return from Hiatus.

26 Responses

  1. As a Tv presenter, Andrew Bolt is a rank amateur and so The Bolt Report is “so bad that it is good”. Andrew has no comcept of fairplay and it is quite laughable when the occasional rational guest that he has on the show doesn’t play ball and returns serve by dealing with the facts. Very funny watch Andrew shut them down.

  2. The Bolt Report costs next to nothing, is local content and keeps Gina happy.

    It doesn’t taint Ten because few of Ten’s target audience watch it, or any daytime TV on Sundays anyway. It is irrelevant and the complaints are just form people who don’t think that all conservative view points should be censored.

    The Blot Report is an irrelevancy watched by a few pensioners.

  3. LOL. All the media under scrutiny except of course News Corporation! This guy is such a clown and I agree that Ten is tainted by this. The chief executive is captive to Lachlan and News Corp. A good deal of the programming is made by News Corp subsidiaries. I agree it is the incestuous nature of all this which is killing Ten. It has lost its credibility with its audience.

  4. Ironic, that the head+quarters of News Limited is located right in the heart of ‘Inner city left leaning luvves’, Surry Hills, or in earlier times nicked named ‘Rough as guts Scuffy Hills’.
    How times have changed.

  5. Fantastic, this isn’t going to sway me away from media watch at all.
    I’ve watched The Bolt Report on a few occasions and honestly can’t stand the heavy right wing/liberal bias.

  6. “…..will include a new News Watch segment which, according to a Press Release, will “put the media under genuine scrutiny.” I have not laughed so hard in a very long time.
    I can see this segment as an attack on The ABC
    (Hey Mr bolt don’t forget about the other channels 7 & 9). I just hope that media watch does not get into a war with Andrew Bolt and co. …. Oh wait…..

  7. Let me guess, the ABC will feature heavily in the new News Watch segment. Seems like a direct shot at Media Watch to me so I hope the ABC fires back and extends the later to 30mins.

  8. @Sifter – Murdoch only supports the likely winner.
    Had Howard been ahead in the polls in 2007 he’d have ensured his organisation backed him and not Rudd.
    Knowing that Rudd was likely to sweep into power he begrudgingly got his organisation to pledge their support, just as he did with Blair in the UK in 1997, so as to ingratiate himself with the next PM for his own purposes.

    Even then his papers didn’t go so far as to photoshop Howard and the rest into Nazi uniforms as they did for Rudd last year.

  9. Hah, if I recall Andrew Bolt was a punchline on Gruen at least a couple of times…now Russell Howcroft is spruiking his show! I

    ‘m sure the majority won’t agree…but I think Bolt is an important balancer of the media in Australia. He leans a bit too far to the right for the most part, but he at least provides an alternate view that we generally don’t get. Even the supposedly right wing Murdoch papers are pretty balanced eg. they wanted Rudd as PM in 2007.

  10. and Ten’s viewing figures take another tumble…

    “Expanding The Bolt Report to an hour will give the opportunity for more in-depth and extended interviews and analysis.”
    Wrong Russell, expanding the Bolt Report to an hour will just give Bolt more scope to become Australia’s answer to V for Vendetta’s Lewis Prothero.

  11. Of all the things wrong with the Ten Network, the one thing that stood out above all others was that there just wasn’t enough Andrew Bolt. Well done Ten.

    Here’s an idea for what to do with One after Sochi, sell it off to News Ltd and rename it Rupert.

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