Can Channel 7s current affairs show, Sunday Night, survive long-term in such a tough timeslot?
Let us know what you think in the Poll Box below. Seven had launched Sunday Night in February with much fanfare, having poached Munro from Nine to co-host the show with Chris Bath. Sunday Night was one piece in Seven CEO David Leckie’s master plan to grab big ratings at the start of the week. Border Security and City Homicide were moved from Mondays to Sundays to create what Leckie hoped would be a one-two-three knockout ratings combination. Start of sidebar. Skip to end of sidebar. End of sidebar. Return to start of sidebar. Twenty weeks later it was all over. Sunday Night was off the air and City Homicide returned to Mondays. The decision to stop Sunday Night was all the more mystifying because, after a shaky period in May when the program dipped to a low of 964,000 viewers nationally, it had been rating strongly. On June 28 it averaged 1.293million viewers and it outrated Nine’s 60 Minutes twice in its last month on air. The rumour mill swung into overdrive as soon as the ‘‘resting’
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