Are you there, God? It’s me, Lushy. I just wanted to say: I love your work, because you’ve brought long-suffering Australians two long-awaited miracles in the same week: both The Project and Q+A have been axed.
And there was much rejoicing in the land.
(For the cream on the cake, there’s also been the comedy gold of an MSM journalist getting pinged in the leg by a rubber bullet live on camera. Truly, our cup runneth over.)
I have no doubt your own versions of The Project and Q+A across the ditch were/are every bit as awful as our own, so you can well imagine Australia’s collective sigh of relief.
All we need now is for the cast of The View to spontaneously combust, mid-anti-Trump fishwife shrieking, and our lives will be complete.
Channel Ten’s The Project, a groundbreaking news and entertainment program which made a success of “news done differently” in prime time has been cancelled by the network after 16 years and 4,500 episodes.
I’m sure that one person in Thornbury (Melbourne’s pink-haired, fat lesbian central) who still watched it is really upset. There won’t be cask white wine and cat litter enough to compensate.
Oh, and if you cocked a sceptical eyebrow at ‘groundbreaking’ and ‘success’ in the same sentence as The Project, just remember, that’s the Guardian talking. The only truly groundbreaking thing was that it somehow managed to escape the axe for so long.
Project creator Craig Campbell, whose company Roving Enterprises (co-owned by Rove McManus) produced the show for Ten, said in a statement on Monday that 16 years ago he could not have dreamed the unique entertainment show would become part of a “grown-up news cycle”.
Well, guess what: it didn’t. It was never anything other than gossip TV for inner-city wokeists. Everybody else went looking for Simpsons re-runs. The greatest success The Project ever notched up was the spectacular self-immolation of Lisa Wilkinson’s TV career.
Like The Project, Q+A was another ‘woke gibberfest’ that was notable only for how long it managed to stay on life support. But even a network unfettered by the demands of actually making money by getting people to watch it can only splurge taxpayer’s money on a complete woke elephant for so long. Sooner or later, some semblance of reality had to bite.
The ABC has axed its long-running political panel show Q+A as part of a restructure under newly appointed managing director Hugh Marks.
Mr Marks will reveal major changes on Wednesday morning, including cancellation of Q+A, the network’s once-flagship political discussion program that has aired for 18 years.
This being the Ultimo Sheltered Workshop, though, no one will actually be out of a job. They’re public servants, doncha know. So, they’ll just keep bobbing around in the taxpayer-funded punchbowl.
Key members of staff from the show are expected to be redeployed across the ABC […]
The ABC’s last redundancy round came in June 2023 under Mr Anderson and resulted in 100 job losses.
So a whopping two per cent staff reduction. Well, whoop-de-doo. A bloodbath it ain’t quite.
But then, these are people for whom having to waddle two floors to the in-house barista is an ordeal akin to the Kokoda Track.
