New chat show for ABC Fridays?
Speculation Leigh Sales, Annabel Crabb and Dan Ilic could host a Project-style show on ABC on Fridays.
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ABC has denied it is in advance development on a new Friday night chat show, to replace state-based editions of 7:30.
Fairfax reports a Project-style show featuring Leigh Sales, Annabel Crabb and Dan Ilic is in development under 7.30‘s executive producer Sally Neighbour.
A live audience, a desk, comedy and chat are said to be under consideration, with the format involving politics, interviews, investigative reporting, feature stories and “quirky/funny/human” stories.
Fairfax reports an eight-point agenda for a “workshop” indicates participants were asked to discuss the question: “What can we take from other models, e.g. The Project, The Feed, The Roast, Good News Week, 10.30 show [Lateline] etc?”
An ABC spokeswoman denied that any meetings had occurred, claiming: “This information is not accurate – no ‘planning workshop’ was held. Any speculation on programming decisions is premature.”
Since the axing of Collectors, ABC has had ongoing programming problems in its 8pm Friday timeslot, meaning a new format could even run for an hour to address two problems.
One producer of a state-based 7:30 edition told Fairfax, “They’ve not played fair with us. They’ve gone very sneakily behind our backs to construct the alternative to us without involving us in any way. I feel comparatively little loyalty to them. I do to the audience, and to the notion of public broadcasting, but not to them.”
ABC recently aired the Friday Night Crack-Up to much success.
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17 Responses
This sounds great…but would be v sad to see the state-based 7.30 Reports go. Always enjoy.
Secret Squirrel – I thought TV tonight reported Quentin was on a salary over 300K? My mistake … I thought the ABC paid just over 100K for an episode of Australian Story?
Dan Ilic? Really? So many more suited comedy writers (and I use the term loosely) who would compliment Leigh and Annabel better.
Leigh Sales is great.
@Derek – I’d like to see you try to make a weekly half hour of TV (anything) for $100k pa. And, no, attaching a GoPro camera to a dog doesn’t count.
Sales is the reason I stopped watching 730 … Bring back Tony Jones’ misses she was the best host since Kerry
Dan illic is a comedy writer… Not a host
Annabel is great as a guest but dull
The project is woeful … Wy can’t the abc come up with an original idea?
Quentins salary could,pay for 3x weekly studio shows … Everyone is replaceable
Agree…The Drum with and audience…Why?!?
Would be boring, their views would be too similar.
The ABC are losing the plot in trying to be a poor imitation of a commerial network.
Bring back local 30 mins of state/territory based current affairs please 7.30pm Mon to Fri instead, and leave the national politics to Lateline instead.
Save Stateline!
Another all too light weight panel show is definitely not needed.
the Project is executed smartly and does not need to be replicated guys.
The Drum, with all the intelligent bits removed presumably.
State based current affairs is part of their duties as a public broadcaster and meets their charter. They have already been reduced from 5 to 1 night a week. Now they want to ditch it for a The Project copy and deflect the blame from themselves to the Government’s budget cuts.
Of course it does save them from paying Quentin Dempster $300k p.a. (and well as some others) to host 30 minutes of content a week.
I think a smart panel show would be a great idea and a perfect fit for the ABC
Is what they proposing basically The Drum?
I think it oild be a good decision. Something alternative on Friday nights (especially during footy season).
Dan Ilic = Not watching.