Following up on the recent spikes in viewership comes news today that Network Ten will renew 7pm Project for a second season, through mid-way 2011.
Ten declined to officially confirm the news, but the newspaper [The Daily Telegraph] was told the decision was final and that production company Roving Enterprises would be advised.
The network’s [...]

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The 7pm Project which just months ago was written off as a ratings failure has proven that sometimes sticking to your guns can prove worthwhile.
The Logie award winning, almost one year old show beat all competition in the 7pm timeslot last night in total viewers and all demographics. 1.11 million viewers watched nationally, the most [...]

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The 7pm Project’s Carrie Bickmore left with a gong for ‘Most Popular New Female Talent’ at last nights 52nd Annual TV Week Logie Awards handed out at Crown’s Palladium in Melbourne. See her full speech below.
Her co-host Charlie Pickering’s other show, Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation, picked up two awards, including Most Popular Light Entertainment.

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David Knox over at TV Tonight gave a very good fair and balanced review of the first week of The 7pm Report and you can read it in full here. Below is the part that stood out most to me.
The casting of the five personalities is yet to prove diverse enough to warrant a nightly [...]

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What did you think of the premiere of ‘The 7pm Project’? Leave a comment and tell us what you think.

What did I think? Thanks for asking! Uneven but room to improve. I thought it was a respectable first outing, the team seems to gel fairly well.
The set is quite distracting, as is the shaky camera [...]

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WA Today writes about the process of creating 7pm Project and how far it has come.
THE 7pm slot has long been Channel Ten’s Achilles heel. In recent years Big Brother and The Biggest Loser pulled in viewers for some of the year but without them, ratings fell off a cliff. So, when Ten announced in [...]

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