User blog:Telco/Television Today - The Record, 1st March 2023

FOX to be put down on Monday 13th March?
FOX is set to be relaunched as TV4 later this month, and it's starting to look incredibly likely that the new look schedule is set to hit screens in 12 days' time on Monday 13th March. Provisional schedules are stating that the centrepiece show of the rebrand, mental-health themed endurance show Go Hard or Go Home has been bumped up to start on this date in a prime 9pm slot.

The reality show, in which "twelve Euroish people between the ages of 17 and 25 to spend the hardest seven weeks of their lives on an island to endure physical and psychological challenges" has proved controversial before it's first episode has aired, with Ian Knetter - presenter of the same channel's First Take - criticising the show's premise as "exploitative" and "potentially damaging".

The show is currently being promoted on the channel - albeit as a FOX show, although this does not guarantee that Go Hard or Go Home will either be shown on FOX or be the first show of a revamped look and lineup.

Monday 13th March's schedule also includes Fox Headline News and Liquid News in their new time slots of 6.00pm and 7.30pm respectively, with Fox Headline News listed as TV4 News from Tuesday 14th March, which could point towards a 9pm relaunch on Monday ahead of the debut of Go Hard or Go Home.

The following night (Tuesday 14th March) includes the new series of Waterloo Road at 8pm, and Friday 17th March brings a new Friday night schedule with Top of The Pops at 8pm and The Singer Takes it All following it at 9pm. With these shows all mentioned in the press release for the relaunch of FOX as TV4, it is looking very likely that the rebrand could take place then.