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

<p>Groundbreaking commercial news and entertainment program to air final time on 27 June</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/jun/09/australia-news-live-whale-rescue-snow-stranded-pheobe-bishop-murder-body-weather-trade-us-albanese-ntwnfb">Australia news live: latest politics updates</a></p></li><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">breaking news email</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></p></li></ul><p>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.</p><p>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 following <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/channel-ten">Channel Ten’s </a>local 5pm news bulletin.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed">Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email</a></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jun/09/channel-ten-cancels-the-project-ntwnfb">Continue reading...</a>