shifted from its usual slot of Monday night, to Thursday night, a move that was eventually reversed by the ABC.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\nThe show also has seen its ratings collapse in the last 5 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n
From a peak 600,000 viewers in 2020, Q+A crashed to a low of just above 200,000 viewers across the five major capital cities in April 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In August 2023, during the show’s ‘Garma Special’, Q+A received its lowest ratings ever, with fewer than 84,000 metro viewers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Daily Mail Australia’s Political Editor Peter Van Onselen said the program would not be missed if it didn’t return to ABC’s roster in 2024.<\/p>\n
In an opinion piece for The Australian, Van Onselen said Q&A, hosted by Patricia Karvelas, had received just 203,000 views nationally.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘With numbers this woeful coupled with how out of touch with mainstream Australia the program has become, it really needs to be put out of its misery,’ he wrote.<\/p>\n
‘There have been enough failed reboots to justify finally axing it.’<\/p>\n
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The ABC is yet to confirm publicly that the long-running show had been axed<\/p>\n
Van Onselen said cracks started to appear after Tony Jones stopped hosting after a decade in the role from 2008 to 2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘It wasn’t all that long ago that the program was vibrant and interesting, with discussions well led by former host Tony Jones,’ he wrote.<\/p>\n
‘I remember appearing on it at the time. Ratings regularly hit the one million mark, which precipitated the discussion about changing its time slot.’<\/p>\n
Van Onselen lashed the show for not being informative enough and hosting discussions that were ‘one-sided, uninteresting and rarely funny’.<\/p>\n
He claimed it was the ABC’s ‘stubbornness’ that was saving the show from being axed for good but that a replacement would be welcomed.<\/p>\n
Q+A’s last episode was aired on May 19.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The news comes just one day after Network 10 cancelled The Project, co-hosted by short term Q+A star Hamish Macdonald.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The show had been running for 16 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Q+A has suffered a steep ratings decline since peaking at 600,000 viewers in 2020\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Former Q+A host Hamish Macdonald (pictured) was on The Project, which was axed Monday<\/p>\n
The news show, was in a ratings free-fall since Carrie Bickmore left her seat as host at the end of 2022.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
It will wrap up in 3 weeks after airing more than 4500 episodes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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