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The Age
30-06-2025
- Politics
- The Age
The Project has gone. Does its ‘serious news' replacement deliver?
Ten officially entered its News+ era on Monday night – and when you add that symbol to the name of your news service, it invites the critical question: News plus … what? From 6pm, we got the answer. We'd been promised evening news with a difference, and this was certainly that. In some ways, you might call it Ten News Minus: minus sport, minus weather, minus the traditional 6pm news fare of car crashes and suburban crime waves. In the opening, co-anchor Denham Hitchcock declared: 'We're not here to tell you what to think. We're not here to scare or depress you.' And in the fright-fest wasteland that commercial TV news often becomes in the early evening, this sounds like a welcome change for those viewers tired of the fear-mongering. So that's the subtraction; what's the plus? Quite a lot, in that 10 News + resembles neither its commercial news rivals on Nine and Seven, nor its predecessor The Project. There is not a comedian in sight. Instead, it's a tightly curated mix of news and current affairs that featured only seven stories on debut – the first, a lengthy investigation helmed by Hitchcock into the case of Debbie Voulgaris, convicted in Taiwan of drug smuggling. It was about 6.30pm before we moved to the second story, a wrap of July 1 cost-of-living measures, which segued into a by-the-numbers chat with Anthony Albanese, who was beamed in, beaming, from Canberra to give the new show his blessing. We learnt the PM would not call Donald Trump 'daddy'; that the NATO leader who did so is 'a bit of a character'; and that Albo would not be discussing his intelligence briefings on Iran – 'even on the first edition of your new show'. It was 6.43pm before we got to the ' mushroom murders ' jury deliberations from a reporter in Morwell, followed by a quick look at a former Greens candidate's claims of police brutality at a pro-Palestine protest. Then came the only story that resembled standard TV news fare – a teen surfer attacked by a shark at the weekend. The show wrapped with an interview with astronaut Chris Hadfield, in Australia on a speaking tour.
Sydney Morning Herald
30-06-2025
- Politics
- Sydney Morning Herald
The Project has gone. Does its ‘serious news' replacement deliver?
Ten officially entered its News+ era on Monday night – and when you add that symbol to the name of your news service, it invites the critical question: News plus … what? From 6pm, we got the answer. We'd been promised evening news with a difference, and this was certainly that. In some ways, you might call it Ten News Minus: minus sport, minus weather, minus the traditional 6pm news fare of car crashes and suburban crime waves. In the opening, co-anchor Denham Hitchcock declared: 'We're not here to tell you what to think. We're not here to scare or depress you.' And in the fright-fest wasteland that commercial TV news often becomes in the early evening, this sounds like a welcome change for those viewers tired of the fear-mongering. So that's the subtraction; what's the plus? Quite a lot, in that 10 News + resembles neither its commercial news rivals on Nine and Seven, nor its predecessor The Project. There is not a comedian in sight. Instead, it's a tightly curated mix of news and current affairs that featured only seven stories on debut – the first, a lengthy investigation helmed by Hitchcock into the case of Debbie Voulgaris, convicted in Taiwan of drug smuggling. It was about 6.30pm before we moved to the second story, a wrap of July 1 cost-of-living measures, which segued into a by-the-numbers chat with Anthony Albanese, who was beamed in, beaming, from Canberra to give the new show his blessing. We learnt the PM would not call Donald Trump 'daddy'; that the NATO leader who did so is 'a bit of a character'; and that Albo would not be discussing his intelligence briefings on Iran – 'even on the first edition of your new show'. It was 6.43pm before we got to the ' mushroom murders ' jury deliberations from a reporter in Morwell, followed by a quick look at a former Greens candidate's claims of police brutality at a pro-Palestine protest. Then came the only story that resembled standard TV news fare – a teen surfer attacked by a shark at the weekend. The show wrapped with an interview with astronaut Chris Hadfield, in Australia on a speaking tour.
