Seven open to more TV romance
"We're not doing the saucier, trashier, 7:30 stripped stuff," says Seven's Angus Ross.
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With the long runs of Married at First Sight on Nine and The Bachelor on 10, could Seven be looking to more romance on the schedule?
Its sole remaining relationship show is Farmer Wants a Wife, but new offerings such as Ultimate Tag and, to a lesser extent Holey Moley, have struggled. Earlier this year TV Tonight asked Programmer Angus Ross about Seven’s interest in the genre.
“We’re not doing the saucier, trashier, 7:30 stripped stuff. In my view, there’s definitely a place for that -it delivers good Demographics, and typically delivers good Streaming numbers. It would be nice to find something new in that space for us, I think,” he said.
“But it’s also about finding the right place to schedule that sort of thing. There’s no point scheduling it up against Married at First Sight clearly, or up against Bachelor franchise.
“It’s about looking at the those parts of the year where you’ve got gaps and where the opportunities are.”
Farmer Wants a Wife, which was Seven’s biggest show in 2020, is due in coming months.
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16 Responses
so new season of Beauty & The Geek coming soon?
On Nine.
Maybe they should buy the rights to Bluey.
“There’s no point scheduling it up against Married at First Sight clearly, or up against Bachelor franchise.” Or The Block, or MasterChef or Lego Masters or Survivor or…or…or.
Well,they stuffed up their scheduling of First Dates and never gave that a good go.They should do another series of that.
Haha yeah, they’re not doing that trashy stuff. Cos the rest of their schedule is pure class.
My sentiments exactly!
I wish theyd love a trashier show with the ratings!
Bring back Bride & Prejudice! I loved the last season.
I reckon they should go the other way. Call a show ‘Payback is a bitch’ where a person gets back at another for wrong doings of the past. OMG l should sell that concept….
Why more romance shows?! First it was the cooking shows now this is that all tv executives can think of nowadays?!
Thank goodness for streaming
If Nine didn’t have the rights to Love Island, I would suggest Seven runs Love Island up against MAFS…
They had their chance. And it wouldve bombed in total people.
In my opinion, Seven’s start of year could have been very very successful – just needed some tweaks. Holey Moley was the right thinking, but if they’d just kept it on Sunday nights it would have held its launch number and consistently been delivering 900K+. Then if they’d combined it with stripped Big Brother or SAS Mon, Tue, Weds those shows would have been putting out around 700K… It would have been a killed one-two punch and a very different start. They have all the right pieces there.
I reckon that could be the alternative. Still have stripped shows, just not supersized
You’re absolutely right – they have all the puzzle pieces. Holey Moley + SAS would have been golden.