Ten makes room for The Biggest Loser in an evening reschedule
Channel Ten has made its first programming changes for 2012 with a reworking of its weekday evening line-up to make room for The Biggest Loser.
The biggest move has Ten shift The Project, now an hour long, to 6pm from its previous 7pm timeslot. The show will air Monday to Friday with a half hour episode on Sunday.
Returning to an hour-long format, Ten News at Five will run Sunday to Friday.
These movements free up the 7pm slot for The Biggest Loser which will be stripped from Monday to Thursday.
Paul Franklin, Shine Australia’s director of programming told Encore he expects this series of The Biggest Loser to be a real “page turner”. The series will feature overweight singles looking to reclaim their love life.
Of the juggling of shows, Ten’s chief programming officer David Mott told Encore’s sister publication Mumbrella: “We want Ten to be the corner stone of early evening with a very credible alternative to traditional news offerings. But we don’t expect to be consistently winning the 6pm time slot. There are great shows on other channels and we can’t compete on the same level. Which is why we’ve gone down this alternative route.”
Mott said there was no decision yet on the fate of The Renovators.
