Network Ten attempts to follow success of all-women US chat show The View
Network Ten is launching its version of the popular all-women chat show The View, two and a half years after Nine’s failed attempt to emulate the US show’s success with The Catch-Up.
The Circle, which premiers February 9, will air weekdays from 10am, hosted by Denise Drysdale, Chrissie Swan, Yumi Stynes and Gorgi Coghlan.
It will replace the weak rating 9am with David & Kim show, with the two hosts last year announcing that they would be leaving the programme.
In a tweak to the schedule, the network’s morning news bulletin will move to 9am, airing ahead of the new two-hour long chat show.
Nine’s The Catch-Up was modelled around the format of US show The View which features an all-women panel led by Whoopi Goldberg.
The short-lived Australian version, created by former Cosmopolitan editor Mia Freedman, was axed in June 2007.
David Reyne, the co-host of 9am with David & Kim show, announced in August 21 last year that he would be quitting at the end of the year.
The day before the announcement the show had just 56,000 viewers compared to The Morning Show’s 210,000 on Seven and Kerri-Anne Kennerley’s 139,000 on Nine, according to OzTam data.
Reyne has previously been mocked for comments made on the show, including not knowing the meaning of placebo.
The panellists of The Circle are TV veteran Denise “Ding Dong” Drysdale, Australia’s first female Big Brother runner-up Chrissie Swan, travel, sports and lifestyle reporter Gorgi Coghlan, and Max Music TV host Yumi Stynes.
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That’s right David, a Placebo is a pretend drug, just like you were a pretend tv host…
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where can we find these placebos? maybe they’re in this truck!
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Oh dear. I am actually a fan of The View but the reason it is a success is that the hosts actually have something to say and at times can be quite funny. I am really not convinced that ‘Ding Dong’ is going to have the intelligence or wit to match Ms Whoopi. Time will tell.
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I enjoy the shit out of David Reyne, on the rare days that I’m both home and awake to catch 9am.
I think his acidity and dark sense of humour are hilarious – especially compared to the saccharine tone of most morning television. I even love boozy Mum Kim.
Here’s my vote in a nonexistant poll for more jerks on TV.
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Wow … the barrel has truly been scraped to within an inch of its life for this “celebrity” panel.
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Wow thanks for explaining that David. All the while I thought Placebo was an alt-rock band whose daytime jobs were as doctors conducting medical trials.
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Is it just that broadcasters are too scared to devise their own program formats or that they are basically lazy. All that money and not an original idea between them. Besides this, watching TV in the morning makes you stupid….it is the only way I can understand why so many people watch the rubbish.
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This show will fail. Bank it!
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Good job Ten. You’ve taken what could have been an insightful, interesting and entertaining discourse. Instead settling for the cheap and cheerful, no-brainer fix that is Drysdale and Co.
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The reason that ‘The View’ is so popular is because it is American, well produced and being American, everything is bigger and better. Leave it to the Americans to have their view and come up with something original!!
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The UK do a version called Loose Women which has a much smaller budget than the American show, but I have to say it is quite good. It all comes down to the quality and chemistry between the presenters. If the 7pm project is anything to go by I just don’t see this bunch getting it together.
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I would always like to see an attempt to produce something local worl , rather than just buy in a US show. But unfortunately for some reason I just do not see this working. I would really like to know why I have such reservations, apart from the woeful selection of presenters. The fact they are just using an american format. It sems tired, the View although ‘so popular’ is more popular because everyone hates each other on the show – their unbridled anger and arguments and actually saying what they think is typically an American way. I cannot see this really working here. I really hope it works; but the dice are really loaded against it.
I would be better to have no stars and spend the money on guests and the show look instead.
I would remind TV execs to look back to Clive Robertson and his remastering of the Late News on 7 he had. (Oh and thats not a get Clive back, its a look he did something with nothing.)
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Man, I had a massive crush on Yumi back in the young days of pay TV.
Let’s hope she goes ok – I can’t imagine she’s on a winner with The View being an ultra shite show – let’s just hope this comment comes back to bite me.
Good luck yumi…you might need a placebo after the 1st week…whatever that is…
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