Seven unveils new formats as boss vows to be number one until at least 2020

Seven’s management team at today’s upfronts.

Network Seven’s CEO Tim Worner has vowed that the TV network will remain number one until at least 2020, at a 2015 Seven Upfronts event held for media buyers today.

Mumbrella understands Worner made the promise to a select group of top media buyers and marketers at a star-studded event, being held over two days at Fox Studios which saw the TV network roll out its major TV stars and spend millions of dollars on what buyers described as “a slick extravaganza” that included a helicopter with the Seven News team and Cathy Freeman re-running her famous 2000 Olympic race, with Bruce McAvaney calling her gold medal win.

Among the major programming announcements which will be made to media tomorrow are a new Rules franchise called Restaurant Revolution, in a similar vein to its 2004 franchise My Restaurant Rules, a Gallipoli special believed to focus on Australian recipients of the Victoria Cross, called The Power of Ten Gallipoli, an ‘Underbelly style’ drama on serial killer Ivan Milat, called Catching Milat, and a new drama series starring former Packed to the Rafters star Erik Thomson, called 800 Words.