Nine Cuts Catch-Up

14Jun07

As predicted last week on Media Hunter the Nine Network’s struggling day-time program The Catch-Up has been cancelled, with the last episode to air this Friday.

NEWS.com.au reports that staff involved with the show were informed at 1pm yesterday as the show finished that the show would not continue. This follows the resignation of creator Mia Freedman from Nine and sister company ACP after 16 years.

The axing of the show is another step in new owner CVC Asia Pacific’s plans for the network, which included the dropping of 2GB breakfast presenter Alan Jones’s morning monologue on the Today Show.

The program, modelled after the American ABC network’s The View, premiered in February, controversially replacing The Young and The Restless, which moved to Foxtel’s W channel.

The program was hosted by Libbi Gore, who headed a panel including radio presenter Zoe Sheridan, author and documentary maker Mary Moody and Lisa Oldfield, outspoken conservative and wife and member of One Nation co-founder David Oldfield.

The program has suffered dismal ratings, and was even dropped by Nine’s main regional affiliate WIN, albeit in a battle over program supply agreements and control of at least two stations.

The Catch-Up was shown on NBN in northern NSW.

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