Is The 7PM Project In Danger?
Say it isn’t so! I’ve decided I love The 7pm Project – if only for the awkward silences caused by the dude who is meant to hit the button that plays pre-recorded segments getting easily distracted and checking his Twitter account. Also, I think the potential for the hosts to snap at each other due to the highly stressful live factor is worth tuning in for.
I swear to God, Carrie Bickmore is gonna choke a bitch if her fellow hosts don’t let her finish her headlines without piping up with a joke. Seems I may be alone though, because most of the country is either tuning into Summer Bay (it doesn’t even have the lesbians any more!) and repeats of Two & A Half Men. I mean, really – Two & A Half Men? REPEATS OF TWO & A HALF MEN? That show was produced by Satan’s anus.
Reports the Herald Sun:
The 7PM Project, headed by Dave Hughes and Carrie Bickmore, attracted a healthy 1.2 million viewers on Monday night but dropped sharply. On Wednesday it averaged a disappointing 874,000 viewers – a fall of almost a third from its debut and way behind Seven’s Home And Away (1.28 million) and repeats of Two and a Half Men (1.2 million).
It is also well short of MasterChef’s two million viewers in the same slot last week.
Ten CEO Grant Blackley had acknowledged The 7PM Project was a big risk for the network, but Ten insisted it was sticking with the show and said the early weeks of MasterChef were also up and down.
“We don’t think it will do MasterChef Australia figures,” Ten’s program chief, David Mott, said. “It will take time.”
No shit, David. But stick with it! Because I really, really want Channel Nine to bleed enough viewers to warrant the axing of Two & A Half Men. I also want to see Carrie Bickmore go postal.
PS: Carrie’s on Twitter now. Within 24 hours she had nearly 10,000 followers. And she’s only made three updates! It really cheapens the whole Twitter experience for the rest of us who have slaved away at that damn social media site for months, sharing our most inane thoughts with strangers and republishing nuggets of wisdom from the likes of Shaq, Diddy, Liz Taylor, and Karl Lagerfeld.
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I have to disagree on all counts here sorry Jess. I was prepared to give the show a go, but that very awful Ruby Rose poser makes me switch straight away. Personality of a hemorrhoid, wooden TV persona and does her best work during the ad breaks. Wake up Channel 10 and let her go, so she can disappear to the cultural backwaters of MTV and rejoin her fan base of 13 year old idiots.
There is someting not quite right with the chemistry, as if they are all competing for air time instead of bouncing off each other.
….and lay off two and a half men. Its one of the only un-PC shows on commercial TV now and I for one like that, instead of us all being spoon-fed a congo line of reality TV muppets and Aussie cop show dramas (seriously – can Southern-Star Endemol make anything that does not involve a police uniform of some sort?)
C’mon…Ruby Rose: the only person on Earth who makes movie stars look like dogs.
And yeah, the show is shit, the stars have no confidence in the concept and it will be axed within two weeks from now.
You know, you make a decent point regarding the competing for air time aspect of The 7PM Project, but then go and defend Two & A Half Men…
“Un-PC”? How about just un-fucking-funny? And since you use the term spoon-fed, I could set my watch to the exposition/set-up/supposed punchline/canned laughter/sly aside/ more canned laughter/ REPEAT shoved down your throat every single minute of every 21 minute episode.
Yeah 7PM project is lame, cut down the host to three…or possibly sack all except Ruby Rose, I think she has lots of things to offer but cant cause its being hogged bt the panel. If she cant pull it off in 2 months then axe the show, its a waste of money!
2 and a half men cant be that bad. its speaks for itself 1.2Million viewers even on Re-Re-Re Run! This is the only comedy show for blokes and you want it canned? Chicks and queers will never like this show simply they are not BLOKES!
“The only comedy show for blokes”? WTF? Our entire SOCIETY(including and not limited to mainstream TV) panders to blokes!
Please Jess,
NEVER give up your fight to have Two and a Half Men removed from our screens. Painful, boring and quite frankly… constantly in my face. I have never laughed at anything on it… is it even a comedy?
I back you, I implore you, I beseech you… don’t stop.
Not yet, Marto – they can stop after they’ve remade Solo 1.
Two & a half men was filmed before a live studio anus
The 7PM Project is brilliant, unlike the terribly random cut & paste job that is “Thank God You’re Here”.
It’s kind of like Family Guy, but with terrible jokes, completely unfunny cultural references and absolutely zero interesting characters.
I was pretty disappointed with the 7pm Project. I was hoping for a “The Panel” style show, but the chemistry and format doesn’t work for me. It’s too much like, let’s regurgitate some news, and fire off some jokes, rather than a funny, warm, comfortable discussion panel.
Hi Jess, I really think you are being a bit harsh on Satan’s Anus – not even Beelzebub’s bunghole would produce something as rotten as Two & a Half Men
The 7pm Project fell to 656,000 last night (Friday), pushing Ten to fourth for the timeslot, and fourth for the night overall.
Unless it picks up a fair bit next Monday, I can’t see the show lasting much longer.
Test pattern please for this timeslot!
all the comments on how much you hate Two and A Half Men yet you must watch it. How would you know how much canned laughter there is down to the 21 minutes duration if you didn’t? Here’s somthing that probably wouldn’t occur to you….just don’t watch it!
The 7pm Project is ok… not great but not too bad.
Dave Hughes gets annoying though.
The only thing is that I can’t take Carrie seriously when she reads the news as I am expecting her to make some joke at the end like she did on Rove.
Maybe if they had used that concept, it would make the show funnier – and NOT AS WE KNOW IT!
No one watches it because it is exactly the same as the segment they have on Rove…recycling a smaller segment and making it into a 30 min show. It’s old, boring and been done. Not to mention it just sloppy from the awkward silences to the guy in the backroom not hitting the play button for the clips soon enough.
I dont suppose “ROVING ENTERPRISES” has something to do with it…I’ve never watched the show to the end to look. Just get rid of it ch10…its a joke.
7:30PM project is the boring show I ever never watch in my life time. I am going to shutdown my TV next monday if they gonna come back or otherwise consider watching another channels.
Personally, it’s very addictive. Firstly, let’s review the hosts- individually, they represent great personalities, but together they constitute an incongruous tin of sardines, packed together for the sake of ’saying something’ on the show. Their humour works best as an innate, spontaneous reaction, especially Hughesy, but I feel they have been deprived of that- Like Hughesy thinking twice about everything, ends up not saying anything whilst other cast members with their academically superior background with some form of journalism disect the news in a way which in attitude and content, neglects Hughesy completely. The poor guy looks like his mourning a relative’s death on the show-a fatal punishment. Hughesy is too funny for the show, and the show is too academic for him. Pickering is too annoying and ‘unfunny’, I cannot comprehend the logic or reasoning behind Roving enterprises making him the lead host; whilst Carrie who is an entertaining character herself seems not quite ready for daily primetime tv and her lack of confidence dims the light-hearted and somewhat spontanously entertaining factor (as advertised) of the show. It is also infinetely irritating how Ten has decided to corrupt the comical element which has made Bickmore famous, the satiric, tongue-in-cheek remarks of the news. I don’t find Ruby Rose annoying, she is another incongruous dish on the table- for some reason, ten has decided to capitalise on her overnight fame and shoved her into this tin of unconfident sardines. Ruby does not align with comical news dissection and nor does the show need another ‘entertainment’ segment which is barely substantial- 30seconds of airplay, into its already hectic schedule- news, entertainment, music, the list goes on; and one person who reflects this absurd attitude is the very laid back and carefree James Mathison, in fact, a little too carefree for my liking and entertainment value. The masterchef interview? I was cringing for those kids who were bullied by Mathison and felt embarassed for him, making so many enemies live? Woah, the show is just spiralling out of control and entertainment value.
Well, at least the comprehensive news coverage is great, I actually feel, I don’t need to rush to a ten news update now, but what follows is awkward and insufficient. There is no news dissecting or analysis, it’s either Hughesy struggling to say something funny, and other cast members awkwardly trying to patch it up with tangents- hightly irrelevant information. This is due to the conflicting backgrounds of the cast members and their lack of confidence.
It’s obvious it was proficiently planned and organised, with the humourous segments such as the weekly ‘wrap up’ but as with every other slightly comical piece, it quickly evaporated off our screens- 21 minutes of brilliantly pre-ordained live airplay that the hosts cannot live up to equals dissapointing tv.
I’d rather watch them than the grim aca or today tonight, its not fantastic but its better than anything else in that time slot. Give tham a chance please.
When are we going to get rid of this tired and parochial TV format intravenously fed to us for 20 years by Australian TV producers and executives. It’s the same old faces with the same old jokes – and absolutely nothing to say between the lot of them. They’re about as in touch with the general population as the TV executives that lead them down this merry path they call a career. Is this really all we’re good for in Australia now? A barely informed bunch of comedians dictating how our society views the world. It is so predictable most of us have simply chosen to watch anything but this porridge of thought and substance. Even though I’m a 35 year old self employed white guy with 3 kids and a very comfortable life indeed, it has become abundantly clear that few positions of power in Australian TV are led by anything other than post war elitest 65 year old priviledged white men who have much more important agenda’s at hand than providing decent, informative, factually correct television that provides some benefit to our society. I’m sure I speak for most when I say it will be a great day when this older generation of businessmen bent on leeching the lives from us all move on and leave business, and the rest of the world, to those of us who actually have a social and environmental conscience, and a finger on the pulse of real Australian society, in all of its multicultural splendor.
Ch 10 should bring back ‘The Panel’ … now that was entertainment!
i love 2 half man….sorry u guys only obsessed by it. hahaha
I love the show just can’t catch it every night, grab it on torrents when I miss it though.
The fact that it’s partially interactive has got me.
People have been talking to their tv’s for years and i never understood them, now they can do it promptly in real time.
I am so over seeing the usual suspects on the telly…for me they are just hanger onners..they just seem to hang on and hang around like dags off a sheeps bum…I reckon get rid of them all..including Rove and get some fresh new talent. They just aren’t that funny. Channel 10 get some fresh blood please.
Neil Mitchell of 3AW and his listeners enjoy 7pm and the repeat in the afternoon.
Excellent Work.
I’d rather set my head on fire and put it out with a hammer than listen to Dave Hughes. My dog has a better grasp of world affairs than this gap-toothed buffoon. Good riddance to the moron, I say.
Ruby Rose could be very smart and entertaining , but we’ll never know because every time she speaks the rest of the boring cast either interupts her or looks at her as if she just jumped out of a space ship .They are boring morons ,Hughsey’s great appeal has always been that he has an i.q. of about 4 and somehow he tries to make that funny and James Matheson is even worse , what a slow moving brain he has . Let Ruby take over the show , at least it’ll be something new .
the show is absolute crap the formula doesn’t work and never will, OBVIOUSLY TENS DELAYING THE INEVITABLE, SACKED !!!
It’s not bad, and I have fun watching it. Hughes is a weird choice for a panelist but other than that, there’s little better on at 7pm and if the alternative is regurgitated unfunny US sitcoms, I hope 10 let this ride for a good while yet.