The controversial British commentator was flown out to appear on Big Brother VIP and, before even entering the mansion, made headlines for flouting mandatory hotel quarantine rules.
Then there was the estimated $200,000 paid for the Katie Hopkins fiasco. It’s been an expensive and controversial year for Seven’s shows … CLOCKWISE: Katie Hopkins, Sam Burgess, Thomas Markle Jr, Omarosa. Finally, we’ve found the one thing that hurts more than standing barefoot on a tiny Lego brick. (Sidenote: puns are the worst but it’s delightful to imagine all those suited-up TV execs sitting around Kerry Packer’s old boardroom table and repeating the word “Bricksmas” over and over).Ĭhannel 7 paid one million bucks to get beaten by a piece of Lego and then ridiculed on the internet. That’s a respectable figure for free-to-air TV these days but it’s not so great when you realise it was beaten by the locally produced novelty reality show Lego Masters: Bricksmas Special, which pulled in 804,000 metro viewers for Nine. When it finally hit Australian TV screens on Sunday night – after a days-worth of internet mockery about the Doran debacle – it pulled in 747,000 metro viewers. The network was only allowed to air the special a week after the US and, by then, everyone had already read about the juiciest Oprah revelations and watched the best bits in clips on the internet.
With or without the Matt Doran sit-down, the package deal was not worth one million dollars to begin with. The deal was like a value-pack of Vileda sponges - said to have included the concert, an Oprah interview plus an exclusive sit-down between Adele and Channel 7 reporter Matt Doran, who flew to London, did the chat, got outed for not having listened to the singer’s new album and then had his interview footage held hostage by furious record label execs.
Jaws dropped when The Sunday Telegraph reported Seven had paid one million dollars for the rights to air the Adele: One Night Only special in Australia, only to cock it up by not following through on the one basic condition. And news of this week’s million-dollar Adele bungle caps off a year from hell. The network is forking out cash for controversy in a series of expensive mistakes. If Australia’s TV networks were a family, Channel 7 would be that bogan cousin who works at the mines and splashes their cash around on boats and really big TVs, flaunting it in the face of your uncle Channel 10 who can’t even afford to see a dentist.
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