Channel Ten have today announced that Paul McDermott will be returning the former public broadcast turn commercial success ‘Good News Week’ to the stable of programs in 2008.
This follows the nostalgic paths that Nine started in 2007 returning ‘Burkes Backyard’ be it only season specials but Seven followed suit with a return of Gladiators and now Ten have confirmed a new series of Good News Week.
Genius management or stale programming?
Gladiators was never a ratings success, Burkes Backyard was dropped because it appeared stale and Don Burke was ‘too old’ while Good News Week was superseded by The Glass House and The Chaser.
To some it will please them that GNW is back, all that is now missing is GMA with Bert Newton and Hey Hey It’s Saturday with Daryl Summers.
Never say never... the path the commercial networks are taking and with the impact of the USA Writer’s Strike taking effect our commercial networks face the challenge of not having content available to screen.
Should this trend of resurrecting programs from the grave continue, then we could be flooded with all sorts of ideas... Hey Dad, A Country Practice, Water Rats, Police Rescue...
Anyone thought of that?
