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The Project Axed
Jun 9^th, 2025 at 5:14pm

Channel Ten’s The Project, a groundbreaking news and entertainment program which made a success of “news done differently” in prime time has been cancelled by the network after 16 years and 4,500 episodes.

It will air for the last time on Friday 27 June and will be replaced by a new national one-hour 6pm news, current affairs and analysis show after Channel Ten’s local 5pm news bulletin.

Launched in 2009 as The 7pm Project with co-hosts Carrie Bickmore and comedians Charlie Pickering and Dave Hughes, the panel show won a 2015 Gold Logie award for Bickmore and for later co-host Waleed Aly in 2017.

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Frank Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 50859 Gender:	Re: The Project Axed Reply #1 - Jun 9^th, 2025 at 5:43pm Invalid Aly.
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Re: The Project Axed
Reply #2 - Jun 10^th, 2025 at 11:00am

Carl D wrote on Jun 10^th, 2025 at 10:54am:

No great loss there in my opinion.

I only see about 10 seconds of it before I change the channel after Deal or No Deal finishes at 6:30 (my elderly aunt likes to watch it and she likes Grant Denyer).

The Project seemed to start going downhill after Peter Helliar and Carrie Bickmore quit the show, I'm surprised it lasted as long as it did after they left.

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Re: The Project Axed
Reply #3 - Jun 10^th, 2025 at 11:00am

greggerypeccary wrote on Jun 10^th, 2025 at 11:00am:

Carl D wrote on Jun 10^th, 2025 at 10:54am:

No great loss there in my opinion.

I only see about 10 seconds of it before I change the channel after Deal or No Deal finishes at 6:30 (my elderly aunt likes to watch it and she likes Grant Denyer).

The Project seemed to start going downhill after Peter Helliar and Carrie Bickmore quit the show, I'm surprised it lasted as long as it did after they left.

Yep.

It's well past its use-by-date.

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UnSubRocky Gold Member Offline Crocodile Hunter: Origins Posts: 25057 Rockhampton Gender:	Re: The Project Axed Reply #4 - Jun 13^th, 2025 at 4:12pm I recall that we watched Behind the News back in the early 1990s for our primary school news weekly task. The Project ended up being some kind of news program for teenagers. The Project seemed very basic for a news program, "done differently". Too liberal.
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Re: The Project Axed
Reply #5 - Jun 14^th, 2025 at 10:34am

A bunch of loony lefturds laughing at their own feeble attempts at humour. Steve Price as the token conservative excepted. The only one who could give a sensible commentary on anything.

The Project never wavered from this pathetic attempt at news commentary by a biased left woke panel and guests. And will not be missed by normal viewers who have shunned this stupid show in droves. And laughably, the panel are in total shock at their demise, lol.

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Re: The Project Axed
Reply #6 - Jun 16^th, 2025 at 3:27pm

I thought The Project finished last Friday?

According to the TV guide in The Sunday Times magazine it's still on at 6:30pm Monday to Friday this week.

And, at least one of the online TV guides (ourguide.com.au) also says it's still on this week.

I wonder if they're going to repeat every episode right from the very start 15 years ago? lol.

Channel 10 is pretty good at that - their 10 Peach channel (Channel 11 here in Perth) has had endless repeats of Friends, Frasier and The Big Bang Theory running non stop for the past 7 or 8 years.

Edit: Oops, sorry... just read Greg's first post again. It finishes on June 27th.

Mind you, with the way the panelists were carrying on about it last week (I watched a few minutes each night after Deal or No Deal) one could be excused for thinking it finished last Friday.

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Frank Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 50859 Gender:	Re: The Project Axed Reply #7 - Jun 16^th, 2025 at 9:03pm Television news executives say that Ten’s new current affairs show risks being “a multimillion-dollar disaster” unless it immediately differentiates itself from the “woke ideology” that sank The Project after it spent years “giving Middle Australia the middle finger”.
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