Is Seven’s Winning Arvo utter garbage or utter genius?
Unpacking the cunning plan that is Seven’s Winning Arvo.
Is Seven onto a winning arvo formula?
There’s a new five-hour weekday block in Seven’s afternoon schedule. It has taken its most successful non-Summer Bay-based formats, tossed them in the air and sticky-taped them back together, William Burroughs cut-up style.
Winning Arvo runs from 1pm until 6pm each weekday, and is hosted by Alex Cullen. It’s a rolling mix of game shows — mostly imported from the UK — interspersed with news updates, and live viewer giveaways.
Such lowbrow programming has attracted the ire of Australian media, the most strident of which was a day-one review from TV Blackbox’s Robert McKnight under the headline ‘”Australian television just died”.
