George Negus fronted this half-hour current affairs program from Network Ten's Pyrmont studios, broadcasting weeknights at 6:30pm. The veteran journalist hosted Monday through Thursday, with Hugh Riminton or Hamish Macdonald handling Friday editions, in a format designed to compete directly against A Current Affair and Today Tonight.
The program launched in January 2011 as 6PM with George Negus, shifted to 6:30pm in April, and never recovered from its initial ratings slide. Despite a $20 million investment from Network Ten to bolster its news output, the show averaged just 605,000 viewers for its premiere and quickly fell outside the top 100 weekly programs. By October 2011, with audiences stabilising below half a million, Ten executives pulled the plug after exactly 200 episodes.
The final broadcast on 28 October 2011 marked the end of Negus's brief tenure at the network, with the timeslot immediately filled by an extended version of The 7PM Project rebranded simply as The Project.
Production Details
10 / 1 Season / 200 Episodes / 2011
Producer(s): Ten News
Main Cast
