Nine picks up Australia’s Got Talent
Nine Network has announced that it has picked up Australia’s Got Talent after the talent show franchise was dropped by Seven.
Although the show was included in Seven’s highlights reel for 2013, the network has now indicated it does not have a place for it in its schedule. Seven also airs The X Factor, which has been rating far more strongly than the last series of AGT.
AGT, produced by Fremantle Media, was hurt by running in the same period of Nine’s The Voice, which is produced by Shine.
Are there enough singers, dancers, magicians and entertainers in a pool of 22 million people to sustain XFactor, AGT, The Voice AND Australian Idol? Surely one of them is going to suffer?
Simon
http://www.TwoCentsGroup.com.au
@Simon – is Australian Idol coming back??
Why CHannel 9, why???
*calls stockbroker*
You know how I said let’s buy some shares in Nine: surely they can’t get any lower?
I was wrong.
*click*
I havent heard about Oz Idol. AGT will not make it on Nine. AGT was a fun show and only slipped because of new competition.
AGT only bombed due to the voice. It could work on 9 played post Voice
Simon searching for talent is no longer a priority for these shows so the bed rock dry talent pool means nothing when the programs focus purely on the vain glorious judges.
Ten bought American Idol so they have the format – Aus Idol will be here in 2013 (and will fail horribly).
It will be good if Oz Idol will be great. Look at the crop of young singers coming up both here and internationally. American Idol was a polished show with the contestants dressing up like X factor compared to their poor cousins in The Voice.
@Dante. Ten really have got nothing to lose if they do. They are already so far behind the other networks in ratings as is. Personally, I wouldn’t mind watching ‘Australian Idol’ – that would be an improvement over dreck like ‘The Shire’ and ‘Being Lara Bingle’.