ABC Q+A is officially Bijerd – as the next movement of host Patricia Karvelas is revealed
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ABC’s Q+A -Show was officially executed in the broadcast after 18 years.
The show went a break in May in half a year and would return in August, but it will no longer be broadcast.
ABC’s news director, Justin Stevens, has said that the show had a major impact on the national discussion in Australia, but the broadcaster needed a ‘reconsideration’.
‘We are very proud of the great performance of Q+A over the years. The team has done a great job, including a strong performance during the federal election Campaign, “he said.
‘Stopping the program at the moment is not a reflection on someone in the show.
‘We must always continue to innovate and renew and in the two decades since Q+A started, the world has changed.
‘It’s time to reconsider how the public wants to deal with and to evolve how we can deal with the public to include as many Australians as possible in national conversations.
“We will work on how we can continue to promote the involvement of this nature in an innovative way.”
Patricia Karvelas (shown) is the current full -time host of the show
Host Patricia Karvelas will be used again to four corners and will continue to organize the afternoon briefing show.
“Patricia recently also reported for four corners, and we have now asked her to do more for four corners as time permits,” Stevens said.
It comes alongside a number of planned dismissal in the National Omroep.
Changes at the ABC only come a few months after Hugh Marks stepped into the role of managing director, David Anderson succeeded, who served for six years.
Marks had previously indicated a significant commotion and described the need for ‘a program of renewal and stimulation’ in comments he made in December.
Q+A has come under fire in recent years, after he was cooled by various hosts after the departure of Tony Jones, who left in 2019.
It has seen various changes in his hosting -line -Up, first with Hamish MacdonaldDavid Speer, Virginia Trioli, Stan Grant And the most recently Karvelas.
The number of episodes was also cut by ABC staff in 2024, from 40 episodes per year to just 24, and it was short shifted from his usual ending Monday evening to Thursday evening.
The ABC still has to publicly confirm that the long -term show had been taught
The show has also collapsed its reviews over the past five years.
Of a peak 600,000 viewers in 2020, Q+A crashed at a low point of just over 200,000 people who tuned in the five major capital cities in April 2021.
In August 2023, during the ‘Garma Special’ of the show, Q+A received the lowest reviews ever, with less than 84,000 metro viewers.
The political editor of Daily Mail Australia Peter van Onselen proclaimed the collapse of the show in 2023 and said it would not be missed if it did not return to ABC’s selection in 2024.
In an opinion piece for the Australian, he pointed out that Q+A had only received 203,000 views at the time.
“With figures this miserable in combination with how out of contact with mainstream Australia has become the program, it really needs to be put out of his misery,” he wrote.
“There have been enough failed reboot to finally justify it.”
Van Onselen said cracks began to appear after Tony Jones stopped hosting after a decade in the role of 2008 to 2019.
Q+A has had a steep assessment since the peak of 600,000 viewers in 2020
Former Q+A host Hamish Macdonald (photo) was on the project, which was taught on Monday
“It was not so long ago that the program was lively and interesting, with discussions that were good under the leadership of former host Tony Jones,” he wrote.
“I remember that I appeared on it then. Ratings regularly reached the one million Mark, which accelerated the discussion about changing his time slot. ‘
Van Onselen also stuck the show for not informative enough and hosting discussions that were ‘one -sided, uninteresting and rarely funny’.
He claimed that it was the ABC’s ‘stubbornness’ that saved the show to be linked forever, but that a replacement would be welcomed.
Q+A’s last episode this year was broadcast on May 19.
The news comes just one day after Network 10 had canceled the project, co -organized by short term Q+A Star Hamish Macdonald.
That show had been running for 16 years.
The project was in a Ratings free fall since Carrie Bickmore left its place as a host at the end of 2022.
It will be closed within three weeks after broadcasting more than 4500 episodes.
The ABC was contacted for comment by Daily Mail Australia.
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