{"id":93564,"date":"2025-08-25T01:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T01:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/93564\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T01:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T01:45:09","slug":"abc-schedule-under-scrutiny-tv-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/93564\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC schedule under scrutiny | TV Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\t\t\tABC is still looking to get its 6-7pm schedule right, whilst also interrogating durations and timeslots of other shows.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

From today ABC puts Spicks & Specks replays into a 6pm timeslot as it tweaks its 6-7pm scheduling with Antiques Roadshow moving back to a 5pm start.<\/p>\n

ABC had dabbled with its hour prior to the 7pm News bulletin for some time, recently commissioning Claire Hooper\u2019s House of Games, based on a UK format. It got around 100k viewers less than repeats of Hard Quiz, which remains at 6:30pm.<\/p>\n

Prior to this it commissioned A Bite to Eat with Alice which screened across 2024 and, in 2025 at 5pm.<\/p>\n

Director of Screen, Jennifer Collins tells TV Tonight, \u201c6pm to 7pm for us is very important, leading into our 7pm news. We\u2019ve tried a number of things in that slot.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got a strong daytime audience, so our offer is holding that audience and building on it with more entertainment \/ lifestyle. We\u2019re not commissioning something new for that slot at the moment, we\u2019re putting our priority and our dollars into prime time. But we did have that opportunity to commission House of Games as a fixed run.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Managing Director Hugh Marks has also been looking at the broadcaster\u2019s schedule, in terms of timeslots and nightly genres to see where more change can be made.<\/p>\n

Question Everything is not returing while Planet America moved to Mondays<\/p>\n

\u201cMonday nights are great. I think our Wednesday nights have been really strong in entertainment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

But ABC has also been commissioning less original content after 9pm on Wednesdays. What\u2019s the future look like?<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are looking at Wednesdays from 9pm, knowing that we\u2019ve got a captive audience that comes through our Wednesdays. There\u2019s light audiences that only come on Wednesday, and they\u2019re looking to stay for the evening. So we are looking at that post 9:00 timeslot.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery night is under analysis,\u201d Marks continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince I\u2019ve joined, we\u2019ve been having scheduled discussions about \u2018What does Sunday night look like, ideally, going forward? Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday night, etc?\u2019 We\u2019re looking at every show.\u201d<\/p>\n

Collins added, \u201cWe do lot of half hours on the ABC so we\u2019re interrogating the duration of the shows, we\u2019re looking at the run of the show. We\u2019re looking at the shows themselves. We\u2019re looking at the nights. So we\u2019re doing a lot of work on the schedule.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ABC is still looking to get its 6-7pm schedule right, whilst also interrogating durations and timeslots of other…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-93564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}