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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Amanda Meade Media correspondent

Channel Ten cancels The Project after 16 years with new current affairs show to fill primetime slot

The Project hosts: top, from left to right Susie Youssef, Georgie Tunny, Sam Taunton, Rove McManus and Hamish Macdonald; and bottom, from left to right, Waleed Aly and Sarah Harris
The Project hosts: top, from left to right Susie Youssef, Georgie Tunny, Sam Taunton, Rove McManus and Hamish Macdonald; and bottom, from left to right, Waleed Aly and Sarah Harris. The Project will air for the last time on Friday 27 June and will be replaced by a new national one-hour 6pm news, current affairs and analysis show Photograph: Channel 10

Channel Ten’s The Project, a groundbreaking news and entertainment program which made a success of “news done differently” in prime time has been cancelled by the network after 16 years and 4,500 episodes.

It will air for the last time on Friday 27 June and will be replaced by a new national one-hour 6pm news, current affairs and analysis show after Channel Ten’s local 5pm news bulletin.

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