QTQ-9 Riverfire's coming home

Channel Seven in Brisbane have had the rights to Riverfire, since 2007. While 07 and 08 were successes, 2009's was a flop, due to bad scheduling. Simply, it rated well, but was outrated by football.

Nine's simply picking up what it created, and bringing it back home...

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[kuttsywood]

Same here. BTQ's been acting lately as if late 2000 (and Local Edition), never existed.

Somewhere in Seven's Brisbane "branch office" is a unaired pilot (which never even made it in front of Seven execs), for a second attempt at 5:30 post Local Edition.

If only Seven could have learned from history, to avoid the ghost-town MicMogul has mentioned... We'd be talking up Seven, a lot more.

Ten year old promises are hard to make, even harder to keep.

[pugsley2005]

Totally agree - what's up with Seven in Brisbane????.I would have thought that the rights to Riverfire were too good to hand over. Although top ratings might not been delivered, the perception of being 'part of the community' seems to be absolutely ignored by Sydney execs of the network. I guess they need to find the cash for their newsreaders.

[kuttsywood]

Exactly. Nine is expected to waste $12million on Hey Hey's planned 20 episode run, yet won't scrimp up $2million for 220 episodes (equivalent to 44 week season each year) of a much loved local program.

$600k per episode of Daryl's folly, or a tad under $10,000 per episode of Brisbane Extra. I'd take the cheaper route and tell Daryl, Mic, that the dream is over.

[MicMogul]

That's all great, but how about a consistent day-in-day-out commitment to localism?

How about a show that all up costs less than $2M/yr?

How about a show called Extra?

Oh no, too much for the southern beancounters who keep ACA going yet claim Extra was too advertorial.

Coal for Christmas for those people - Brisbane doesn't forget and the 5:30 ghost town reflects that.