Two media releases, in quick succession and no doubt related, came from Nine in the past hour.
The first tells us:
PBL Media today announced that Mia Freedman will leave the business this week after twelve months in the position of Creative Services Director for the Nine Network Australia and Editorial Consultant for ACP Magazines.
Mia’s role will now be absorbed by Nine’s Head of Programming, Michael Healy.
And then the second announces:
The Nine Network Australia today announced that a decision had been taken to cease production on its weekday talk show, The Catch Up.
The final broadcast will occur on Friday 15th June, 2007.
Nine moved The Catch-Up to a new timeslot at the start of the week but nothing could save it. The Y&R timeslot still needs something for the stay-at-homes. What will they try next?
12 Comments
Yuppieville says:
QuizMonkey: Daytime Edition, anyone?
catbrain says:
The more I hear about slashing at Nine, the more I’m reminded of Satellite Five in Doctor Who – who/what will be left at the end of all this?
Adam D says:
A: Droids that exterminate everything.
There’s a lot of role ‘absorption’ going on at 9. That’s cost-cutting language, that is. CVC doesn’t see a television network, it sees an office.
catbrain says:
Oh, totally – it’s Floor 500 with the zombies at the terminals, I tells ya!
Adam D says:
Hopefully Captain Jack dies properly this time.
Ahem.
9 needs Sandra Levy back. If there’s anyone who can do cheap panel shows…
catbrain says:
Nine’s press release (my emphasis):
Adam D says:
Why do they abort quality in week 3 and leave the dross lingering for months? I’m aware The Catch-Up was cheap to produce but honestly.
Ross says:
Quote – “Viewed as a bold move earlier this year, The Catch Up was one of a number of initiatives that demonstrates the Network’s commitment to Australian programming.”
Viewed as a bold move? By who?
A limp third rate panel show The View ripoff is not in anyway a commitment to Australian programming.
Should have held on to The Young and The Restless while you could Nine.
Brett says:
Quizmonkey was a gala affair last night with all the crew in black tie and Kat looking fine on the occasion of the 200th show. Of course I only knew the crew were all in black tie because there were more gremlins in the phone system and they couldn’t actually play any of the games.
Kat was left to chat to camera operators and the floor manager – who does manage to get his mug on screen quite regularly – asking them what their fondest moments of the past 200 shows were – a question no one could really come up with a good answer for, resorting, instead, to the nice things that happen generally like viewers sending in their pictures and how good it feels when people win money.
We did get to glimpse the video feed on the autocue on the cameras, explaining why they never need to look away from camera to see the messages coming up on the tower.
I watched ten minutes of it before flipping but checked back later on and they had things working again.
Adam D says:
‘We apologise for the technical difficulties. Please bear with us while we entertain you.’
Bizarro world.
wilbert says:
Naomi Robson? Channel 7 is full but she’d be ideal as the dregs of Channel 9.
Adam D says:
I don’t know if anyone checks this far down the page, but this makes curious reading.
They’ve certainly ‘f—ed the joint.’