Channel 10 axes several major shows from its schedule ahead of the new ratings year – including THREE reality programs
Channel Ten has decided to shake up its programming schedule ahead of the new ratings year.
The network has axed four major shows from its 2021 line-up, TV Tonight reported.
Australian drama series Playing For Keeps and reality shows Trial by Kyle, Celebrity Name Game and One Born Every Minute Australia have all been dumped.
Boned! Channel Ten has axed several major shows from its schedule ahead of new ratings year – including THREE reality programs. Pictured The Bachelor host Osher Gunsberg
Playing For Keeps, which last aired in 2019, focuses on the glamorous (and drama-filled) lives of the wives and girlfriends of the players on a fictional AFL team.
Celebrity Name Game, which is hosted by Grant Denyer, is also not returning.
The show sees teams of two trying to guess the names of singers, actors and other well-known characters with the help of a celebrity guest.
Gone! Australian drama series Playing For Keeps has been dumped. It focuses on the drama-filled lives of the wives and girlfriends of the players on a fictional AFL team
The broadcaster also decided to scrap courtroom-style reality show hosted by radio host Kyle Sandilands, Trial by Kyle.
The Judge Judy-inspired program helped contestants settle their petty grievances in the ‘court of Kyle’ and aired for a full season in 2019.
Meanwhile, One Born Every Minute Australia has also been axed.
End of an era: Celebrity Name Game, which is hosted by Grant Denyer, is also not returning
The reality show offered a behind-the-scenes look at all angles of a maternity ward, from the reception desk to the operating theatre.
However, mystery drama My Life is Murder will be returning, with production moving to New Zealand.
‘We will still broadcast My Life is Murder. I don’t think it will be this year but if it is, it wouldn’t be much before the end of this year,’ Channel Ten’s Head of Programming Daniel Monaghan said.
Unsuccessful: The broadcaster also decided to scrap courtroom-style reality show hosted by radio host Kyle Sandilands, Trial by Kyle