In this roundup from the Encore and Mumbrella Annual, we present the year’s biggest TV flops.
1. Everybody Dance Now
Rumoured to have cost in excess of $10m, Everybody Dance Now was the biggest flop of 2012. From host Sarah Murdoch’s stiff delivery to the flawed format, the show was a write off from episode one. Ten were keen to turn it around, shortening the episodes and rejigging the show’s structure, but not even Murdoch’s pleas on Twitter to get the public to give it another shot were enough to save this disaster.
2. Bikie Wars
From the producers of Underbelly, Bikie Wars should have delivered. Instead it gave us bad wigs, bad acting and was a poor man’s Sons of Anarchy.
3. I Will Survive
How could a talent show with the ultimate goal being to play the part of a drag queen in a stage show possibly be a ratings bomb?...
1. Everybody Dance Now
Rumoured to have cost in excess of $10m, Everybody Dance Now was the biggest flop of 2012. From host Sarah Murdoch’s stiff delivery to the flawed format, the show was a write off from episode one. Ten were keen to turn it around, shortening the episodes and rejigging the show’s structure, but not even Murdoch’s pleas on Twitter to get the public to give it another shot were enough to save this disaster.
2. Bikie Wars
From the producers of Underbelly, Bikie Wars should have delivered. Instead it gave us bad wigs, bad acting and was a poor man’s Sons of Anarchy.
3. I Will Survive
How could a talent show with the ultimate goal being to play the part of a drag queen in a stage show possibly be a ratings bomb?...
- 12/19/2012
- by Luke
- Encore Magazine
Network Ten Cancels ‘Everybody Dance Now’ Australia’s Network Ten has axed Everybody Dance Now, a reality dance show hosted by Sarah Murdoch, the wife of Ten chairman Lachlan Murdoch. The network pulled the plug on the show produced by FremantleMedia after airing just three episodes. The premiere, which featured U.S. “dance masters” Kelly Rowland and Jason Derulo, garnered just 598,000 viewers, which plummeted to 304,000 for the second episode. The winning team was to have received $A250,000 ($262,000). “We are trying new formats … Unfortunately, we didn’t get the Everybody Dance Now format right,” said Ten CEO James Warburton. - Don Groves Viacom’s Bakori Davis Named A+E Networks UK VP Commercial Ops A+E Networks UK, a joint venture between A+E Networks and BSkyB, has appointed Bakori Davis as VP of commercial operations. Davis is a Viacom Media Networks veteran who will be responsible for all linear and...
- 8/22/2012
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
I always thought that being a footballer must be one of the worst jobs in the world. Having thousands of people watching you up close and howling at your every error.
If I tried to cope with that in my day job, my spelling would be even worse than it is already.
But being a TV programmer must be worse.
There aren’t many gigs where millions of people judge your work every single day.
Every morning at 8.30am, the ratings come through – and we all find out if they are dunces or geniuses.
Right now, it’s the turn of Ten’s David Mott in the firing line. This year, he took a chance on several new pieces of Australian-made programming and so far most of them have not fired.
Which leaves the network struggling for audience share and facing dreadful headlines.
I’m part of that problem, by the way.
If I tried to cope with that in my day job, my spelling would be even worse than it is already.
But being a TV programmer must be worse.
There aren’t many gigs where millions of people judge your work every single day.
Every morning at 8.30am, the ratings come through – and we all find out if they are dunces or geniuses.
Right now, it’s the turn of Ten’s David Mott in the firing line. This year, he took a chance on several new pieces of Australian-made programming and so far most of them have not fired.
Which leaves the network struggling for audience share and facing dreadful headlines.
I’m part of that problem, by the way.
- 8/21/2012
- by mumbrella
- Encore Magazine
Ten’s dance competition show Everybody Dance Now has been cancelled after its last ditch reformat failed to bring in a bigger audience on Sunday.
No more episodes will air, with this Sunday’s episode dropped from the schedule.
This Sunday, the show rated just 385,000 down on the previous week’s.
The network has ruled out moving the FremantleMedia-made show to Ten’s digital channel Eleven. It was fronted by Sarah Murdoch and featured Kelly Rowland and Jason Derulo as team captains.
James Warburton, CEO of Ten, said in a statement: “As part of the renewal of Network Ten’s creative content, we are trying new formats and creating more programming options. Unfortunately, we didn’t get the Everybody Dance Now format right. Kelly, Jason and Sarah are fantastic presenters. Their professionalism and commitment to Everybody Dance Now was remarkable, and the many talented dancers on the show were amazing.
No more episodes will air, with this Sunday’s episode dropped from the schedule.
This Sunday, the show rated just 385,000 down on the previous week’s.
The network has ruled out moving the FremantleMedia-made show to Ten’s digital channel Eleven. It was fronted by Sarah Murdoch and featured Kelly Rowland and Jason Derulo as team captains.
James Warburton, CEO of Ten, said in a statement: “As part of the renewal of Network Ten’s creative content, we are trying new formats and creating more programming options. Unfortunately, we didn’t get the Everybody Dance Now format right. Kelly, Jason and Sarah are fantastic presenters. Their professionalism and commitment to Everybody Dance Now was remarkable, and the many talented dancers on the show were amazing.
- 8/21/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
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