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Burn Notice… bad news week

At the risk of raising the ire of fans, TEN is taking Burn Notice out of schedule again, to make room for GNW.

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Burn Notice fans are not a bunch to quietly. Last time TEN took the show off air they protested so much the network did a backflip within 24 hours. Part of that was also due to the good ratings it won during the Olympics.

But it seems they just don’t have enough fans. How else do you explain that it’s being rested by TEN -again.

One more episode will air next Monday, “Rough Seas” episode 7 of the second season. Three more eps will go begging for now.

The drama also didn’t air this week due to erratic scheduling by the Brownlow Medal and the Emmy Awards.

Instead on October 6 Good News Week returns with “The Second Coming” at 9:30pm following 90210 at 8:30pm.

Last time Burn Notice aired it had 539,000 viewers, a long way behind Bones’ 1.31m in the same slot.

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  3. Oh well…you had your chance 10. It was simple enough just to screen the show and make fans happy but that just seems beyond you. Back to the internet it is. Now don’t cry foul that you are getting killed in the ratings…

  5. I’m just happy GNW Is coming back, at least with Burn Notice you can just download it if you really want to see it – GNW is Aussie so we’re only able to see it when it airs here on Ten. So excited to have them back again – I just hope they promote it and it rates ok in a 9.30pm timeslot. If I recall Mondays at 9.30 was where it was initially buried all those years ago when they axed it 🙁

  7. Another reason i think fringe went worse than expected last week (aside from years of mistreatment of their programs) is that within 3 days, 60 minutes went 10-12 minutes overtime, and people expected kitchen nightmares and csi ny – replaced at last minute by a repeat movie. I think they will have to somehow sacrifice a bit of themselves in the ratings to regain credibility of a trusted network. With the fall season officially starting this week, they’d better get their act together and make people trust them again as people have many alternatives. New episodes of heroes, prison break, how i met your mother, and big bang theory sound good this week.

  8. With those sort of ratings, I really can’t blame 10 – every other commercial channel would have done the same long before this. However bumping or shuffling it to another night would help appease viewers who have stuck with it. It would also help convince viewers that new shows are worth investing time because they won’t be yanked off the air mid season.

  9. Well ch10 dropped Rules of Engagement 3 eps before the season final ’cause it had no more Back to You to support it.

    IMO they need to define what fast tracking is, will ch7 promote Prison Break as fast track when it’s over a month since it aired in the US. At the beginning of the year they promised to fast track Desperate, Greys and B&S but those shows look like they won’t come up until Feb 09.

    Haven’t the networks learned viewer are not idiots, they will fin what they want to see, when they want it not months or years later!

  10. Since no-one has explicitly defined a fast-track, and it will always be relative, i think yes it can be counted. Although not fast enough with spoilers abound on the internet, combined with their inconsistent scheduling and timing.

    Here I was thinking 10 was trying to regain credibility yesterday by playing the last 3 eps. How wrong I was.

  11. Meh… It’s a great show, one of my faves, but when it pulls numbers like that what the hell do people expect?

    Seriously… those figures make “Taken Out” seem like a success.

  12. GNW did around 900,000 every week when it was up against Des H.Wives and Sea Patrol. BTW, I watched the Heroes double episode premiere. It kicked ass. The show we know and love is well and truly back. Its fantastic

  13. Rating wise I can understand why they are doing it but eps 8 & 9 are the 2 last eps before it returns in the US in January.

    David how did GNW do the last time it was on?

    Guess this means back to the old BT friend…

    OT – I just did the math and realised Heroes will be more than 2 weeks old by the time it airs on ch7, is that fast tracking?

  15. Fair dinkum Ten.

    Get into your thickhead that viewers want continuity not run for 2 weeks then disappear for weeks then back on then off again.

    Ten,Nine,Seven take note.

    You ask viewers for loyalty to your shows.
    How about you being loyal to us.

    Or is that just too hard.
    Little wonder that viewers desert your shows and bombard sites like this voicing disapproval.Wish there was “Set criteria” that says ALL SHOWS must be seen for 4 continuous weeks/days before can be dropped/moved out of schedule.
    I wish someone would make these muppets at networks called programmers accountable.

    P.S. Waits next media spin from networks, due to shuffling,time restraints,live events,unforeseen circumstances etc…

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