A petition calling for Channel 10 current affairs show The Project to be cancelled is gathering steam online.

The Change.org petition ‘Get The Project Cancelled’ accuses the left-leaning news program of airing ‘vile, un-Australian material’.

Its author, James Hamilton, also claims the hosts ‘recently accused a cricketer of racism before quickly retracting the statement’. 

Petition: A petition calling for Channel 10 news show The Project to be cancelled is gathering steam online. Pictured L-R: Waleed Aly, Carrie Bickmore, Lisa Wilkinson and Peter Helliar

The petition states: ‘Time and time again, Channel 10’s The Project has aired vile, un-Australian material and accused people of racism with no basis in fact.

‘Recently accusing a cricketer of racism before quickly retracting the statement, they have now made fun of the visually impaired mother of a fallen soldier.

‘Enough is enough. If something needs to be taken off the air, it is this show!

‘People are being attacked left, right and centre for expressing opinions, yet this show, full of unprofessional pseudo-journalism, wracked with mistakes, inflammatory comments and insults, is allowed to operate with impunity.’

The petition is on track to reach its initial goal of 500 signatures by Thursday morning, after which it may extend its target.

Outrage: The Change.org petition ‘Get The Project Cancelled’ (pictured) accuses the left-leaning program of airing ‘vile, un-Australian material’. Its author, James Hamilton, also claims the hosts ‘recently accused a cricketer of racism before quickly retracting the statement’

The cricketer mentioned in the petition is most likely South African wicketkeeper Quinton de Kock, who last month refused to take a knee in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement.

He was criticised by Indigenous ABC News Breakfast presenter and occasional Project panellist Tony Armstrong, who said de Kock’s actions were ‘racist’.

De Kock, who comes from a mixed-race family, later issued an apology and explained his actions by saying he felt his rights were ‘taken away’ after players were ordered just hours before the game to take a knee. 

Controversy: The cricketer mentioned in the petition is most likely South African wicketkeeper Quinton de Kock (pictured on October 23), who last month refused to take a knee in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement

Standing: De Kock is seen on the far left here electing not to take the knee before a T20 match against Sri Lanka last September

In response, Armstrong scaled back his criticism during an appearance on The Project, and said de Kock’s apology was ‘incredible’.

‘Full credit it to him for coming out with such a strong statement, really explaining what it was all about,’ Armstrong said.

Co-host Waleed Aly, who is of Egyptian background and is Muslim, also leapt to de Kock’s defence and said he understood the cricketer’s reluctance.

Criticism: He was criticised by Indigenous ABC News Breakfast presenter and occasional Project panellist Tony Armstrong (pictured), who said de Kock’s actions were ‘racist’. However, Armstrong later scaled back his criticism after de Kock, who comes from a mixed-race family, issued an apology and explained his actions

‘Especially when it came out that he was just told on the way to the ground and all of that sort of stuff,’ Aly said.

‘I think that there’s a thing that sport has to think about here, which is, it’s one thing for sport to take a stand…

‘It’s another thing when you compel every player to take the same stand, especially when you compel them a couple of hours before a game.’

Aly said it was unfair of Cricket South Africa to spring the directive on players and that though he himself would have complied by taking the knee, he understands why de Koch took a defiant stand.

Sympathetic: Co-host Waleed Aly, who is of Egyptian background and is Muslim, also leapt to de Kock’s defence and said he understood the cricketer’s reluctance after he was ordered to take the knee ‘a couple of hours before a game’

The petition’s reference to ‘mak[ing] fun of the visually impaired mother of a fallen soldier’ concerned an on-air gaffe that aired last Thursday.

The show aired a 30-second clip of Yvonne Sher, 65, who is the mother of a deceased army soldier, attending a Remembrance Day breakfast at the RSL in Doncaster, Melbourne, where she was seated next to Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

Comedian and guest host Nath Valvo mocked her as she sat with her back turned to the PM, while completely unaware she was visually impaired. 

‘Scott Morrison was at an RSL having a feed, as you do, and I think this woman had absolutely no idea – or did she?’ Mr Valvo said as the video aired.

Gaffe: The petition’s reference to ‘mak[ing] fun of the visually impaired mother of a fallen soldier’ concerned an on-air gaffe that aired last Thursday. The show aired a 30-second clip of Yvonne Sher (second from left), who is the mother of a deceased army soldier, attending a Remembrance Day breakfast at the RSL in Doncaster, Melbourne, where she was seated next to Prime Minister Scott Morrison (centre left)

As Ms Sher sat with her back facing Mr Morrison, Mr Valvo added: ‘She’s pulling up a seat. She is unaware… look at this, she’s even shuffling back, giving him the cold shoulder.’

‘Don’t know if she knows? He knows,’ he added, referring to the Prime Minister. ‘Oh! There he is. It’s the PM! Look at that.’

Ms Sher, whose son Greg, 30, was killed during a rocket attack while serving in Afghanistan in January 2009, was devastated when the segment aired last Thursday.

She told : ‘They’ve tried to make me look like an idiot who doesn’t know who the Prime Minister is – it was so humiliating.’

Channel 10 was not aware Ms Sher was visually impaired when it aired the clip with Mr Valvo’s commentary.

Error: As Ms Sher sat with her back to Mr Morrison, comedian and guest host Nath Valvo (pictured) said: ‘She’s pulling up a seat. She is unaware… look at this, she’s even shuffling back, giving him the cold shoulder.’ He did not know she was visually impaired

She has since received a phone call from one of the show’s producers, who apologised for what happened.

Mr Valvo also apologised to her daughter-in-law via social media, with The Australian reporting he wrote: ‘Huge sorry to you and the family… If we had known any of this, we would have never shown it.

‘It’s no excuse but please know the intention was to poke fun at the PM.’ 

Sorry: Mr Valvo apologised to Ms Sher’s daughter-in-law via social media, with The Australian reporting he wrote: ‘Huge sorry to you and the family… If we had known any of this, we would have never shown it. Pictured: Prime Minister Scott Morrison 

Even if the Change.org petition does reach or surpass its goal, Channel 10 is not obligated to cancel The Project. 

In fact, network executives may well be popping open the champagne.

Media writer Vivienne Kelly said on the podcast last week that TV bosses secretly love it whenever there’s a petition to cancel a show.

Ms Kelly said the outrage rarely leads to a show being pulled from the air, and execs instead tend to be thrilled with all the free publicity.

Despite months of worryingly low ratings, The Project and The Sunday Project will be returning to Channel 10 next year.

The network last Friday issued a statement about the future of the show in response to reports about its dwindling audience.

‘Recent media reports inferring that The Project will not be on 10 in 2022 are completely fabricated, false and misleading,’ a spokesperson said.

‘The Project has just celebrated its 12th birthday and is here to stay! At a time when information, context and understanding is more important than ever, The Project will continue to provide Australians with their dose of news delivered differently.’

It comes after the future of Channel 10 as a viable commercial network was questioned following a horror year which saw tentpole shows such as , and bomb in the ratings.

It comes after the future of Channel 10 as a viable commercial network was questioned following a horror year which saw tentpole shows such as MasterChef Australia, The Bachelor and The Bachelorette bomb in the ratings. Pictured: Brooke Blurton on The Bachelorette

In addition to a string of crushing defeats in prime time – including the failed launch of Making It Australia – The Project is losing viewers year on year, and Studio 10 and 10 News First are on a worrying downhill trend.

While 10 has a decent audience on its streaming platform 10 Play, it is struggling in the overnight five-city metro ratings, which remain a key metric for advertisers when it comes to judging a show’s success.

There are now fears the network simply can’t go on like this if the numbers don’t improve, with former TV executive Rob McKnight saying: ‘This is a network that is dying in front of our eyes.’ 

However, Channel 10 rejected these concerns, saying some of the figures being bandied about in the trade press were misleading – especially given that TV viewership is down across the board.

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Mr McKnight, a former 10 executive, said on the  earlier this month: ‘I know they’re making a play for streaming [but] how low can these ratings go before they can’t make revenue? I find it extraordinary. I just do.’

He added that 10’s American owners don’t seem to care about the dwindling ratings.

‘This is a network that is dying in front of our eyes. I always supported the idea that there could be three free-to-air commercial networks. What this is showing me is that that is not the case anymore,’ Mr McKnight said.

‘They’re all struggling but 10 seriously is the wounded animal limping and the fact is they keep running the same s**t and recommissioning the same s**t and it’s not flying with the public.’

There are now fears the ViacomCBS-owned network simply can’t go on like this if the numbers don’t improve, with former TV executive Rob McKnight (pictured) saying earlier this month: ‘This is a network that is dying in front of our eyes’ 

Perhaps the most alarming example of the ratings decline is The Project, which has lost almost a third of its audience since 2011.

The program, hosted by Waleed Aly, Carrie Bickmore and Lisa Wilkinson, has seen its metro ratings plummet to an all-time low of just 367,000 this year.

That’s a 30 per cent decline from its five-city audience of 538,000 a decade ago.

The national audience, which includes regional viewers, has also seen a similar percentage drop from 725,000 in 2011 to 490,000 in 2021.

These figures have made The Project commercial TV’s worst-performing nightly premium program.

The biggest losses have been on the east coast, which is considered the most important market from an advertising perspective.

Perhaps the most alarming example of the ratings decline is The Project, which has lost almost a third of its audience since 2011. Pictured (L-R): Tommy little, Peter Helliar, Hamish Macdonald, Carrie Bickmore, Waleed Aly, Lisa Wilkinson and Gorgi Coghlan

In Sydney, it’s fallen to just 96,000 viewers per night from a high of 130,000 in 2011.

The show’s celebrated home of Melbourne has also been tuning out, with ratings down to 133,000 from a 2011 high of 180,000.

Brisbane has seen the worst decline of all, shedding almost half its audience from 120,000 in 2011 to just 68,000 in 2021.

These grim numbers are despite the fact Channel 10 is reportedly paying Wilkinson more than a million dollars as a panelist and host of the Sunday edition.

However, a 10 spokesperson said comparing ratings 10 years apart is ‘unfair’.

They pointed out that total TV viewing in the time slot is down a similar amount from 2011, with Seven down 26 per cent.

These grim numbers are despite the fact Channel 10 is reportedly paying Lisa Wilkinson (pictured) more than a million dollars as a panelist and host of the Sunday edition. However, a 10 spokesperson said comparing ratings 10 years apart is ‘unfair’

Ratings for Studio 10 have also fallen precipitously since peaking around 2016 to 2017 when the morning program absorbed some of Sunrise and Today’s viewership.

In the five years since, the show has fallen back to its launch figure of 42,000 metro viewers, with its audience collapsing in Melbourne and Brisbane.

Channel 10 again challenged this analysis, noting that overall TV viewing is down 15 per cent across the board in Studio 10’s time slot, with Nine down 10 per cent and Seven down eight per cent.

This year saw Studio 10 rebrand with a two-anchor format, hosted by Sarah Harris and Tristan MacManus, to bring it more in line with Nine’s Today Extra and Seven’s The Morning Show.

It was previously a panel show, but most of the panelists – including Kerri-Anne Kennerley and Joe Hildebrand – were laid off last year due to budget cuts.

Ratings for Studio 10, hosted by Sarah Harris (left) and Tristan MacManus (right), have also fallen precipitously since peaking around 2016 to 2017. In the event you loved this information and you want to receive much more information regarding situs judi slot paling gampang menang i implore you to visit our own web-page. In the five years since, the show has fallen back to its launch figure of 42,000 metro viewers

This year saw Studio 10 rebrand with a two-anchor format to bring it more in line with Nine’s Today Extra and Seven’s The Morning Show. It was previously a panel show featuring (L-R) Sarah Harris, Joe Hildebrand, Denise Drysdale, Ita Buttrose and Jessica Rowe

Things also aren’t looking good for 10 News First (formerly Ten Eyewitness News) which has shed 70 per cent of its audience since 2001, according to figures seen by Daily Mail Australia.

The 5pm news program recorded metro ratings of 1.07 million two decades ago, but now has a five-city audience of 363,000, putting it way behind Nine News and 7News.

A Channel 10 spokesperson again disputed this, saying it is ‘ridiculous to compare TV audiences from literally 20 years ago’.

Things also aren’t looking great for Australia’s third-place network in prime time. So far this year, Channel 10’s prime-time audience is down nine per cent in total people and 15 per cent in its target market of under 50s. Pictured: Brooke Blurton on The Bachelorette

New format Making It Australia, hosted by Susie Youssef (right) and Harley Breen (left), bombed in prime time and was shunted to the abyss of Saturday night

Things also aren’t looking great for Australia’s third-place network in prime time.

So far this year, Channel 10’s prime-time audience is down nine per cent in total people and 15 per cent in its target market of under 50s.

These declines are the same on a calendar-year basis and in terms of the TV ratings year. 

MasterChef Australia was down 39 per cent this year compared to 2020, and The Masked Singer was down 25 per cent in the same period. Pictured: MasterChef judges Jock Zonfrillo (left), Melissa Leong (centre) and Andy Allen (right)

MasterChef Australia was down 39 per cent this year compared to 2020, and The Masked Singer was down 25 per cent in the same period.

As for dating shows, The Bachelor’s audience plummeted by 29 per cent from last year, and The Bachelorette is so far down by more than 30 per cent since 2020.

However, it should be noted The Bachelorette is gaining significant numbers in BVOD streaming, which is only made public a week after overnight ratings come out.

As for dating shows, The Bachelor’s audience plummeted by 29 per cent from last year. Pictured: Jimmy Nicholson on The Bachelor

The Bachelorette is so far down by more than 30 per cent since 2020. However, it should be noted The Bachelorette is gaining significant numbers in BVOD streaming, which is only made public a week after overnight ratings come out

The only good news was Australian Survivor, which has maintained a steady audience year on year. The Dog House Australia has also done a serviceable job.

New format Making It Australia, hosted by Susie Youssef and Harley Breen, bombed in prime time and was shunted to the abyss of Saturday night.

The series premiered on September 15 to 474,000 viewers and didn’t even make the night’s ten most-viewed programs. 

The only good news was Australian Survivor (2021 cast pictured), which has maintained a steady audience year on year

The Dog House Australia has also done a serviceable job

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