Surprise, surprise. TEN is bumping Torchwood.
The show will not screen at its usual 9:30pm timeslot next Monday Aug 6th.
Instead it is being shifted to several hours later, 12am Wed morning.
It will be replaced by a special, Tomb of Jesus. a documentary about the 2,000-year-old “Tomb of the Ten Ossuaries”, found in Jerusalem.
Torchwood will then continue in its “new timeslot” of 12am Wednesdays.
When TEN launched the series with a blaze of glory it said it was committing to two seasons of the show. But ratings have slipped since a strong debut, last week down to 673,000.
Update: Tomb of Jesus will now screen at 9:30pm following a new SVU.
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Yeah i totally h8 channel 10. i know they r gonna put it on coz i read that they signed the rights 2 it. but who know this time it’ll probably be 1 in the morning
Good News! Torchwood Series 1 is starting in December on Foxtels UKTV.
To anon of 19/9/07 – yep I agree they can “shove their poll” where the sun doesn’t shine!
And true, all you feel like doing after a hard day is lose yourself in some great action/story lines (or bawl your eyes out like I did in the Captn Jack Harkness ep).
Msg for “Imagine”
Torchwood finalled last week 11/9 – the last ep where Jack “disappears” lines up with Doctor Who ep of 8/9 (yep TEN strikes again and doesn’t coordinate that well with Who of course).
So unfortunately we are all going to be going through TW withdrawals.
i agree, these programmers have no clue, whats this polling? no one asked me, they must ask at the sports bar at the pub. there any good program is taken off or pushed till late night, many ppl despise the same prime time show i do like reality tv,singers/bb/models , like its not me so why would i care, dont waste my time watching sports that most of us couldnt even bother to play(not even 10 percent of aussie “NORMS” are finatics, but those few getwho get what they want when they want. after a hard day i want to be able to loose my self in some good tv to forget what a crappy job i have,not wait till midnight.i may have to start downloading my fav shows from overseas & not watch the tv stations & show where they can shove thair poll!
I was mortifyed on sunday when looking through the paper at torchwood was not on at all this week. I checked the ten website and it stated not currently showing. what the….? some please tell me that’s because their putting on at a better time next week!How in the world can you get bad ratings at midnight? I’m sure people would rather watch torchwood than a paid presentation!
anyone with a clue whats going on?
In reply to CM – You poor bugger….I would’ve gone crazy realising the eps had played out later on and I’d missed them….
What a pain!
I won’t make it worse by telling you how good they were. Oops! Sorry about that. “Seriously” though, they were excellent, so hopefully you’ll download or watch the dvds. The crossover ep with Who was great.
Go in to http://www.ten.com.au and click on forums – you might like to read some of the myriad of comments about Torchwood and how Ten sucks!
totally heart broken
here i couldnt understand why torch wood was taken away half way through such an engrossing season of viewing
we even had torchwood nights where we’d get together and bliss out saturday with the doctor and monday torchwood
now after three weeks of withdrawal my mate from work told us its playing midnight, what lunacy is ten managed with. if you cant hold a show give away to those who can, at least the abc gives the theme its place for the fans.
ten youre a total farce, give it up for the fans sake
ps just another in a long list of great sci-fi delegated to the midnight crowd, lucky some of us go for the dvd season boxes and turn off the broadcasters, no comercials no disappointments
Carraigmichael
Torchwood Bumped! What are you thinking? There is so little Sci Fi on TV, let alone one with actors that can actually act that combines elements of Comedy, Fiction, Romance, Sex, Thriller and Action. It really is a crime to re-timeslot this program. I suppose it is to be expected, after all heaven help us if some other far superior program got bumped from prime time like dare I say it, The Wedge, or worse still, Neighbours. You finally had a reasonably good Sci Fi program and you dumped it. Very Disappointing.
I agree with Micky – c’mon Aunty – take it over……great follow on for Who.
I gather all of you saw the two part Who ep recently, with David Tennant as John Smith – absolutely excellent Who.
Gotta love Russell T Davies.
Bloody Ten they run festering crap like Big Brother and bump a decent programme such as Torchwood .. Ten should send the remaining shows to the ABC where people with brains can enjoy it..
Micky
Just do what I do download it from the net and watch them when you want … in the correct order and with out TEN messing with it… they wont care now as they bumped it for re-runs of rerun re-runs of Law and Order (a good show but after 3 times ..WE KNOW HOW IT ENDS)
WOW!
I am so amazed by the support that is being shown here for Torchwood and even more thrilled to find that I am not the only person who thinks like I do … something MUST be done about these incompetant fools at the Networks.
It is time they learn that they are behind the times and out of touch with viewers and that the current Ratings system is no longer capable of measuring the true viewer preferences let alone be the bible for all their decisions!
Jack!
CHANNEL 10 GET YOUR F***ING HEADS TOGETHER!!!
I just read 47 comments left by people and only one was glad Torchwood was axed.
This is the 5th tv show to be axed/ or moved time slots because…. well I don’t actually know because no one’s stated anything that I’ve read or heard other than the “low viewers” crap!
First Torchwood, Smallville (what the hell happened to that?), Veronica Mars (moved timeslots then disappeared without warning!), Surface (it disappeared too!) and Threshold (that showed like 6-8 episodes maybe then bye bye)
I’m so sick of this happening, thank god for the internet and tv series on dvd!!!
Channel 10 go see the wizard and GET SOME F***ING BRAINS!!!!
I think that is everyone’s “beef” in that the networks (TEN in particular) don’t tell you when they are shifting a show to a later timeslot, so unless you are vigilant with the tv guide (and I’m sorry to say that I am one of those), you don’t know what is going on. And of course this only works anyway, when the tv guide is in fact correct.
I haven’t watched last night’s ep yet (taped it though), so I’m sure it is up to its usual standard….
What is it with Australian tv? Six Feet Under, Veronica Mars, now Torchwood… I never know when my favourite shows are going to be on. COMMIT TO A TIME SLOT ALREADY. Fair enough if a show is only likely to have a cult audience (like Jeremiah), AT LEAST PICK A TIME AND STICK TO IT. If there is no possible way to keep a show in its regular slot, at least let viewers know that it is moving. There was no advisement (that I saw) that Torchwood was moving. Because there was that Jesus’ Tomb special on, I just assumed it was off for a week for a special program and would be back next week (something TEN hopelessly did often with Supernatural), and I missed last week’s episode. How are viewers supposed to commit? Especially to shows where you need to see every episode or you get lost?
Mmmm that bit about the voting glitch was utter BS – what era are we living in? Aren’t we in the computer age where things can happen instantaneously? Just good ole Ten dragging out BB for the cajillionith time. Torchwood just didn’t stand a chance on Ten, and yep it woulda been much better on Aunty.
I say it again, Ten just sucks.
Channel Ten is one of the only channels I watch TV from. But they have lost my faith and my respect. Bumping Torchwood was a disgraceful move. Idiots.
It is hard to believe that a large majority of Australians prefer to watch lowquality shows such as Big Brother. This comes to show how deprived this country has become. And also, delaying Torchwood for 50mins!?!? because of voting glitch? This is typical of the stupidity that has dominanted the television station and also of the people who watch BB.
Bring back Torchwood and lighten my Monday nights
I could not agree more…not only do we get subjected to that jesus tomb shite but now we get a double whammy of all american crap to “replace’ torchwood! God u channel ten guys (or maybe girls) must be sooooo shit scared of losing your job and the ratings war. I sooooo wish that this was on the ABC!!! Why wasn’t it? I just hope someone sticks channel ten into a deep vault of antiquities for a zillion years only to be dug up again when they promise to play a whole series without ditching it half way through or (even worse) sneaking in the odd repeat just to insult our intelligence. Go away for ever Ten, just P#ss of and take ur US drivel with you…get the message! I’m off to download it all now so sod the lot of “you’s”
I was totaly disgusted with 10 for big brother going 45 minutes over time, My God, how depressing, a show for people with such misewrable lives that they have toi watch people with even more miserable lives on tv. It was pathetic Torchwwood was late but the worst was the change of time, as we are now all discussing. Het Towchwood is no Doctor Who and yes there are much better programmes. The gay and violent themes do nothing for me but I still watch and enjoy the show. Replacing Torchwood with no warning, and putting the Pathetic Jesus tomb programme,(which apart from being available in shops, has already been discredited anyway)really was a mental move by 10. Anyone get the ratings for the Jesus tomb progarmme? I expect it would have been far less than Torchwood. 10, this is one of only 2 shows I regularly watch on your station, the other being Medium which is good because it is not reality crap, a csi type thing and actually has storylines I can enjoy, a rarity in US programmes.I will get the DVD set of Torchwood, and now that Medium is finished for the season so 10 this means there are a total of ZERO programmes I watch on your station now. If 10 wonders why they rate poorly then they ought to look in the mirror.
Peter D
Well did you all catch last week’s ep in the end? I taped it on my dvd hard drive and just got around to watching it over the weekend.
It was classic Torchwood! Loved every minute of it…..the resurrection glove came back in to play, and there were some interesting one liners in there.
Ten really does suck hey? And obviously they will never learn!!!!
Torchwood is brilliant. I agree it was Big Brother that did it. ARE THEY STUPID OR WHAT!! Ten – you’re a joke!
SERIOUSLY TEN?
THEY MUST BE KIDDING
I set to record it on the gold coast and it wasn’t even on
Next thing they’ll ruin is the rugby world cup
I’m going for the $60 big pond unlimited and downloaing in future
I am very disappointed that Torchwood has been moved. That show has been the highlight of my week. I hope TPTB change their minds and change it back. In the meantime I suppose I had better learn how to program my VCR.
Trust Network 10 they are always doing this. Do you remember 4400, Battlestar Galactica and Jerico. No I did not enjoy all these shows but I find it highly anoying that we don’t get any notice of the changes. Network Ten,you could have a little voice over letting us know what timeslot our favourite shows have been moved to.
Channel Ten has done well at keeping its dubbed name of Australia’s lesser TV alternative. It’s surprising that Ten would pitch a BBC show in the first place. Surely they’d be aware that their typical BB audience couldn’t comprehend the inclusion of a “plot” in a show. You can blame Ten for trying, foolish as it was, but you can’t blame them for finally realising that they aren’t capable of displaying mature programming as their loyal audience is just too stupid. Are any of us actually loyal Ten viewers? Not likely. We just head there once a week for torhwood. Not anymore. It’s very easy to download, people.
Well, I left a comment in February (https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=510428054835308303&postID=2159633557564830734) stating that I hope this wouldn’t happen, but alas, it seems a ‘firm commitment’ by an australian tv network translates into ‘yeah, whatever, at the end of the day the dedicated fan can just f*$& off’. Luckily for me, Im in Cardiff at the moment, and still will be when Torchwood screens on BB2 in early 2008. Oh, and John Barrowman is gorgeous in real life, I was in the lucky position to be able to watch them film a scene for a season two story on the roof of my apartment building, and had a great time showing him around an apartment in our building
This really stinks, you did the same thing with surface last year which i watched with my two daughters. Now your doing this to Torchwood, which I watch with my elder daughter, which is so much better then the Big Brother drivel. I just won’t bother watching Ten anymore I’ll go and buy the Torchwwood DVD & line someone else’s pockets with a bit more money. You really are an appalling TV station, this would never have happened in the UK where I am from!!!
The execs/programmers at TEN are complete morons. The way they run things is just bad business. Torchwood for the last few Monday night viewings has been pushed back by either Big Brother or Law and Order – you have to be pretty committed to show to wait around watching the end of another show whilst a perfectly good show is probably starting on another network. Yeah, you look in the TV guide and Torchwood start at 9.30pm, so you put ten on but no Torchwood – you have to sit through the dregs of L&O or BB just to see whether Torchwood will actually be on. OH BIG FREAKING SURPRISE THERES A RATINGS DROP!
Then they don’t even advertise the new time – I thought it must have just been a week off for the James Cameron special, so of course I missed the last episode.
The only reason TEN stays in business is because they more or less (with the limitted number of other free-to-air channels) have a captive audience of people who can’t afford pay-tv.
Is it any wonder that Tens ratings for Torchwood fell last week. After Big Brother running more than an hour overtime who was going to sit up waiting for Tochwood to start????? Ten only has a few shows that rate well and Law and Order followed by Torchwood was one of them. What is there to watch on a Monday night now? Certainly not the ‘Tomb of Jesus’! Is it any wonder that Seven and Nine (even ABC and SBS) rate better than Ten?? Big Brother and Idol certainly don’t keep the majority of viewers at Ten. Thank goodness for video recorders and DVD rentals, because this is the only way we’ll be able to keep up with what is happening on Torchwood!
Congratulations channel 10. Nice to see some responsibility shown by Australian programmers.
Following the lead of other free to air broadcasters they are reducing the quality and variety of programs shown and hence encouraging us all to leave our lounges and take up more physical pursuits.
By not having to switch on the TV on a Monday night they are also saving me money and helping reduce greenhouse emissions.
Highly commendable Channels 7, 9 and 10, but why leave the job incomplete. Do us all a favor and stop broadcasting completely!
Anyone for tennis!!!!
I’d Like To Kick Who Ever Made This Decision Squarely In Their Nutsack.
Torchwood Rules! (And Gwen Is Hot!!)
I’m currently up to episode 10 of Torchwood. Guess who I’ve managed to do that.
Torchwood gets increasingly from the halfway mark, which 10 is just about to screen, and the final episode is a tie in with the current doctor who. I bet 10 does not sync them up….or show the final as it’s meant to be shown, as a double 90 minute special.
James Packer was smart, and sold 9 while TV still has a tiny amount of value.
I too am very disappointed in channel 10. Letting Big Brother run over by 1 hour because there were too many votes to count – my arse that was the reason. Of course ratings for Torchwood would be down it seemed like BB was never going to end so loads of us lost interest in waiting for Torchwood, taped it and watched it the next day. I can’t see how showing repeats of Law and Order (whichever their putting on instead of Torchwood) is going to rate better than a new episode of Torchwood. I too will now be downloading Torchwood and boycotting Ten. Hopefully ABC will purchase Season 2 seeing as its unlikely Ten will now.
Yep we’ve got a good ‘ole “I hate Ten” fest going on here. But hey, I agree with all these comments.
C’mon Ten do the right thing by Torchwood and its fans (no wonder Ten’s ratings suck all the time; when they do have viewers, they push them away…..they’re only interested in BB or Idol – big woop de doo!)
I have been looking forward to Torchwood all week, and only just found out it wasn’t on tonight! Typical Channel 10. They made me watch 45 minutes of BB last week (or at least have it on while waiting for Torchwood), and now they move it so late in the night it will be impossible to watch.
This is the first time I have blogged on anything. Channel 10 doesn’t even have a complaints channel for email.
I hate it – buffy stargate etc….torchwood.
I am sick of shows being bumped not just a timeslot but to 12am!. I have a40GB download limit know so bugger you 10 ill download all the shows I want..
yeah, i agree.
why didn’t ABC get the rights? it only makes sense, seeing as it’s from the bbc, and that’s where pretty much all bbc shows go.
commercial tv gives me the shits. they concentrate too much on ratings, but they don’t realise that a whole bunch of repeats aren’t really going to raise the ratings either.
idiots.
What a stupid move by Channel 10. Although even more stupid is the ABC for not buying Torchwood in the first place.
Just like Dr Who, Torchwood should be seen without commercial breaks. Regardless, Channel 10 really should have given the show more time to find an audience.
I actually think they may have wanted it to die putting it up straight after that banal program Big Brother.
The BB audience wouldn’t be allowed to continue to watch Torchwood, isn’t it way past their bed time? Wake up Channel 10!
Channel 10′s decision to bury Torchwood at midnight just reinforces my opinion that the TV stations put SF on so late because they believe only SF fans know how to program a VCR. *sigh*
Mmmmm, pity old Aunty didn’t get the rights to it, then we could’ve had Torchwood straight after Who on a Saturday night….and at least Aunty would’ve given it a go.
Commercial tv sucks in general – look what Seven did with Alias….the list goes on and on; they show no respect whatsoever to their loyal viewers.
I just have to say channel ten programmers should be smacked around the head with a cactus. I love Torchwood and am absolutely fuming about their ridiculous behaviour. They need to actually give a show time to gather an audience and with the BB fiasco last week I’m not surprised ratings were lower – it screened an hour later than it was meant to.
Really pissed off with Channel 10. After the MASSIVE advertising campagin and hype surrounding Torchwood, they had to do this.
We had to sit through 50+ minutes of Big Brother last week- because there was an apparant ‘glitch’ in the counting of the votes. It’s so crap! I mean come on. It’s a computer. Computer counting results. They made it sound as though ‘Big Brother’ himself was sitting at a table counting card after card. Heh.
As if they don’t just ‘flip the coin’ half the time.
So annoyed at Channel 10 for bumping Torchwood to the graveyard shift. If Big Brother hand’t run almost an HOUR over time, the ratings would’ve been up. WHO THE HELL WANTS TO WATCH SUCH CRAP AS BIG BROTHER. I flicked onto it, countless numbers of times that night to see if TW had started, and I saw some kind of ‘pantomine’ and Grettel going on about ‘THey’re still counting.. BUT AFTER THE BREAK IT’LL BE OVER’ and it kept going.
It was complete. . Utter, rubbish!
Channel ten manages to have SIX different CSI shows, Repeats of every stupid crime/law n order show, and BIG BROTHER for hours upon hours a day- I mean… COME ON!
Who wants to watch Big Brother up late ‘Let’s all sit around watching ordinary people sit on a couch and talk… Or lets watch them on Big Brother up late- when they’re all in bed, with the LIGHTS OFF! Murmuring stuff about their lives. WHO CARES! IT’S reality tv gone to the dump. I hate Big Brother, always have- and how many times do we have to sit through it.
It’s not fair.
BRING BACK TORCHWOOD TO 9.40 MONDAY!
Channel Ten.
You suk
Yeah I agree, what the **** are channel Ten doing freaking changing around the time of channel ten, it sux crap big time.
What the hell channel Ten, you guys keep changing timeslots or cancelling shows mid season on ALL the good shows, I reckon we should have an australian wide ban of channel Ten cos I am sick of their $*%@.
Finally, a post where i can have a rant, i’ve been seething ever since monday night when i had to endure swtiching over to big brother for an hour to see if torchwood had started. I love this show, I enjoyed Doctor Who but I enjoyed Torchwood even more and was great to see Cardiff look so sexy. I’ve never been able to use my VCR as a recorder but luckily I have cable TV and broadband so there won’t be much chance for commercial tv to get any ratings out of me.
Channel 7 did this to buffy and angel as well so i’m not really surprised.
It’s just a pity it wasn’t a doctor/lawyer/cop show or something starring Lisa McCune, it would have been given priority screening.
It was nice to see something on chanel ten that wasn’t american or reality tv. I don’t see why they are screening crap about jesus in a timeslot where no one will watch it. Sigh…. Channel 10 can bite me.
Typical Channel TEN. Torchwood is about the best thing on Monday night TV after 9.30. And what do they do…move it to the programe graveyard. Good one guys!
It’s hardly a shock, considering the ratings. Surely everybody knows how to program a VCR by now…
Screw you channel 10, i hope your station DIES!!!!!!!!!!!
You can get the torchwood series at
http://tv-links.co.uk
WORST NEWS EVER
Ten must be run by complete idiots…i mean, after getting the criticism they got for cancelling Jericho & moving Veronica Mars everywhere, you would have though they’d learn?
apparently not….this is just as good, if not better,than Dr. Who…aimed right for Ten’s key audience…what else is there to watch(apart from Enough Rope)?CSI repeats in Nine?!?
What can you expect from people who applauded Kyle’s short-lived BB visit?
What about SVU???
Tomb Of Jesus is already available at the DVD store to rent!
Jack!
Well, what can i say that hasn’t already been said …
Aussie programmers are morons! Fire them and let us do it!
Just as Torchwood hits it’s stride, they trash it to midnight … commit to a full 13 weeks at a decent time or DO NOT BUY IT! Fools!
If BB had not gone on so late and it commenced at 9.30 this week it would have rated very well indeed!
Yes, this is another reason why a rapidly increasing number of people download what they want to watch … that would be a far more accurate “ratings” than the lame and inaccurate Ozstam system they use as their excuse.
Don’t give up on Torchwood, it has some great episodes to come and next year will be a real ripper!
Jack!
Sorry, but this show sucks, Its not half as good as Dr. Who, Cpt. Jack and the whole Torchwood organization really do not work well with out, well the Doctor.
Im really not suprised that it is being moved, watched the first episode and was really turned off it.
I am more surprised that it ever got on that slot on channel 10, I don’t know how anyone could watch an episode and think, Wow people might really go for this and not just think this is going to flop.
that tomb of jesus thing is from James Cameron, who showed that jesus was buried, and wasn’t “resurrected.”
Please update us about the ratings for “Tomb Of Jesus” – somehow I can’t see it out-rating Torchwood unless the select few on Oztam’s ratings team happen to have been chosen because they fit the Jesus-freak demographic.
I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve said this, but it bears saying again for the record: I’m very, very glad I “illegally” downloaded Torchwood. *Last year*.
I agree with anonymous (30 July 2007 19:17) I hate Australian TV (programmers)..
I have actually watched Torchwood a few times with my 58 year old father, we both like the new Dr. Who, and this is the first time I’ve come close to watching something remotely “gay” with him. LOL
Australian TV programmers are foolish ratings Ho’s.. who care nothing about the audience. No show can ever build an audience, it must be guaranteed within 3-4weeks or the bump it to the grave yard shift.
They all suck, Viva La’ Resistance… Bring on the higher broadband speeds, and IPTV/WebTV/YouTube/etc.!!
WE will watch what WE want if you can’t commit to a serious relationship with your audience! LOL
GOD I HATE AUSTRALIAN TV!!!
Having worked in it on and off for nearly 30 years I think I’m just about to throw in the towel. It is full of sooooo much drivel and tripe that whenever something at least half decent comes along people that CARE (like myself) balk at starting to watch because we know it won’t last. West Wing, Battlestar Galactica, Enterprise, Six feet Under, The Sopranos, it just goes on. I shuddered when I heard TEN got it as I knew this would happen. I give up, get cable, get a HD-DVD player and everyone please TURN IT OFF! Networks and, dare I say it, our lame Producers who turn out reality pap, do not deserve your custom.
Now I’m REALLY hoping that it rates well tonight after the BB finale so Ten can give this promising show a slot in primetime.