Horoscopes start tonight on Seven News
Reliable tellers of future events have confirmed that Seven will begin airing horoscopes on its nightly news, beginning tonight.
The short segment will be hosted by Natasha Weber, otherwise known as AstroTash, who presents a regular astrology reading on Seven’s The Morning Show.
It’s part of new Seven news boss Anthony De Ceglie’s plan to shake-up the network’s news offerings.
He is rumoured to be testing new anchors during Mark Ferguson’s two-week break over the Olympics, with the likes of Michael Usher, Angela Cox, Angie Asimus, and Edwina Bartholomew expected to fill in.
Last week saw the debut of a new weekly satirical segment, The 6:57pm News, to be hosted by comedian Mark Humphries each Friday evening.
De Ceglie said, when announcing Humphries’ new segment: “When the nightly news is done well, it’s always been about more than just breaking stories, the latest crime incidents, sports highlights or world events. It’s also about making you think, sometimes making you cry and hopefully making you smile.”
Channel 7 journalist Sharyn Ghidella, who was let go with a phone call last week, after 17 years with the network, had a crack at De Ceglie’s new initiatives on her way out, saying: “It wasn’t quite how I expected it to end at Channel 7. Here’s hoping my horoscope for tomorrow will be for brighter times ahead.”
Seven News is routinely the country’s most-watched show each evening, but De Ceglie has reportedly urged staffers to “stop worrying about the traditional ratings war with rival Nine, and instead focus on taking risks.”
Mumbrella has contacted Seven for comment.
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Nathan Jolly is the Features Editor at Mumbrella. He joined the team in July, 2023.
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Why is channel 7 going to the rubbish dump and everything is a drama, if I wanted to watch a drama I’d watch home and away which I don’t what a sh*t television station it has become !
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Anyone remember “Network”?
Sybil the Soothsayer was just part of the disaster as network bosses ignored good sense in a panicked search for ratings.
And what happened … ?
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Given the plummet in Seven’s ratings that they didn’t see coming … maybe the ‘Horoscopist’ didn’t predict it.
Mark Humphries is a unique gem … big fan. But satire in the primary news ?!?!? Maybe it is Zig, Zag and Zero.
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Adriana Saucepan, is that you?
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Just going more broke by the micro-second
What are Seven thinking?
First a “comedian” who isn’t funny
Second Silly Horoscopes…
Where’s my facepalm emoji
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I wonder if Astro Trash,… oops Tash, can predict how long this segment will last.
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