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The Project: Feb 24 – 28

Guests this week on The Project include Chaz Bono, Richie Sambora and Stuart O'Grady.

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projectGuests this week on The Project include Chaz Bono, Richie Sambora and Stuart O’Grady.

Chaz Bono is a LGBT rights advocate, author, speaker and the only child of famed entertainers, Sonny and Cher. We speak to Chaz ahead of his performance at the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.

Former Bon Jovi member and rock legend, Richie Sambora joins us at the desk. Currently touring Australia, we talk to Richie about his amazing career.

Controversial cyclist Stuart O’Grady joins us to talk about the release of his autobiography, Battle Scars.

Plus, Carrie takes Charlie behind-the-scenes on the set of So You Think You Can Dance Australia.

6.30pm weeknights on TEN.

4 Responses

  1. I don’t know if the Russian anti gay laws have much to do with TENs current ratings problems. It is interesting they didn’t do more to support the gay community before and during the games.

    BTW I still enjoy The Project, record or watch it every night. I doubt TEN will axe it any time soon.

  2. Whoa Aussie, you badly need to take a cold shower.
    The reason very few Aussies stopped watching Sochi, was simply they were not into snow sports as the winter nations are. It had nothing whatsoever to do with bans and boycotts, which it seems amounted to nothing.
    Not that this is the correct forum for your outburst, but it should be pointed out that the Russian anti gay laws rightly or wrongly have the support of the vast majority of its citizens who number over 140,000,000.

    Also if the 10 Network wanted to rebuild its bridges, surely they would have chosen a show that people actually watch.

    1. Without delving into the incredible discrimination in these laws (and the condemnation from around the world), there is probably some truth in the suggestion Sochi has impacted on the TEN brand within the gay community. Not so much for broadcasting it, but for neglecting to address it as a corporate body. Yes it was raised on TEN News, The Project (and probably Wake Up), but I feel the network should have done more to distance itself from these laws with a public statement, and publicly support its own gay employees going to Sochi. Mid 2013 I suggested to a high ranking TEN exec to find a way to support the community as a gesture so the audience would be clear on its position re Russia, and was told “fair point… will take it on board.” Six months later when I went to follow up, no outcome and no interviews with exec were available to me. In my Programmer’s Wrap I again raised the issue with Beverley McGarvey who said it was better for TEN News to comment. Meanwhile we have SBS broadcasting Mardi Gras this weekend.

  3. Chaz Bono? Now that the disgusting, homophobic Sochi Games are over it will be left to The Project to try and rebuild the bridges between TEN and the gay community which were burnt by TEN management’s decision to go ahead with the telecast after the Russian anti-gay laws were brought in. No TEN, we haven’t forgotten how you wooed us by first supporting gay marriage, but then refusing to do any stories about the gay boycott of the Sochi Games. No wonder TEN’s ratings are so low. I am ecstatic that the rest of Australia refused to watch this disgusting spectacle.

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