2 days ago
- Entertainment
- AU Financial Review
Can Network Ten make current affairs work a decade since its last try?
In the early months of 2011, Network Ten decided to go all-in on news, luring veteran journalist George Negus to host a 30-minute, highbrow current affairs show that would compete with Seven and Nine's 6pm bulletins. Two months later, it moved to 6.30pm. Eight months later, it was gone.
'We did it proudly. We did stories that popped up on the ABC's 7.30 months later. I thought we were relatively competitive and did pretty well. But it was hard then,' Tony Ritchie, who executive-produced the short-lived 6.30PM with George Negus, says. 'It will be hard now.'
