ABC TV boss Kim Dalton tells staff: There will be redundancies as we focus on prime time
The ABC director of TV has told his staff that a decision to drop much of its arts programming has been driven by falling audiences, “financial pressures” and a bid to focus on prime time shows.
Among the shows axed are The New Inventors, Art Nation. Collectors will be “rested”. Staff will be cut from the ABC’s production pools across most states.
In the email to ABC TV staff circulated late yesterday afternoon, Kim Dalton said:
Dear All
Those shows should have been axed years ago.
The ABC needs to come up with some new and exciting program ideas.
Auctions? Sounds like Antiques Roadshow rehashed.
Surely taxpayers dollars are better spent on original ideas!
Put your thinking cap on Aunty!
The New Inventors – I loved that show.
Not great news for production staff. Desk jockeys will be fine to keep checking Facebook and looking out the window. Carry on.
Making television in the contemporary media environment is a collaboration. Could all production staff please bend over.
Can we expect even more externally produced ratings disappointments in 2012?
A la Angry Boys & Crownies.