Channel Ten’s groundbreaking news and entertainment program, The Project, has been cancelled by the network after 16 years and 4,500 episodes. The show, which made a success of “news done differently” in prime time, will air for the last time on Friday 27 June. It will be replaced by a new national one-hour 6pm news, current affairs, and analysis show following Channel Ten’s local 5pm news bulletin.
Launched in 2009 as The 7pm Project with co-hosts Carrie Bickmore and comedians Charlie Pickering and Dave Hughes, the panel show won a 2015 Gold Logie award for Bickmore and for later co-host Waleed Aly in 2017. Aly, who is still on the show’s desk with co-hosts Sarah Harris, Georgie Tunny, ABC radio presenter Hamish Macdonald, Sam Taunton, Susie Youssef, and Rove McManus, gained a lot of attention for his Something We Should Talk About editorial segments.
Project creator Craig Campbell, whose company Roving Enterprises produced the show for Ten, stated that 16 years ago he could not have dreamed the unique entertainment show would become part of a “grown-up news cycle.” Campbell added that an extraordinary team makes the show every day and that this news will hit them hard.
The show won 11 Logie awards and one Walkley award. Network Ten highlighted The Project’s contribution to progressive conversations about marriage equality, animal welfare, disability awareness, NDIS, and domestic and family violence.
“The show has successfully balanced humor and heart with poignant discussions about current affairs and celebrity interviews that had the whole country, and sometimes the world, talking,” Ten said in a statement. The Project has significantly impacted the media and entertainment industry, countless careers, and Australian society and culture.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jun/09/channel-ten-cancels-the-project-ntwnfb
