Comments on: Seven packed with hits

By: ducko

ducko — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:20:57 +0000

Fair point David. I notice in the Stay in Touch column of SMH it’s referred to as a Yasmin’s Getting Married moment (as was Taken Out)

By: ozgeek

ozgeek — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:33:50 +0000

Why is NCIS designated rpt in your summary? It was a first run this week.

By: David Knox

David Knox — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:33:15 +0000

It’s an “ok” figure for 9:30pm on the ABC. You have to compare it to how ABC performs in this time on a weeknight, not measure it against the commercials. Only Enough Rope did better last week.

By: ducko

ducko — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:05:59 +0000

Very Small Business did O.K? How did you draw that conclusion?

By: Bindi

Bindi — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:25:59 +0000

spunkeymonkeycaesar, primeval shouldn’t be on that list, it is an english show and aired in america in january and february, nine didn’t have to wait for it to air anywhere, they could have shown it ages ago. infact the dvd was supposed to come out last week but nine pushed it back a month coz they still haven’t aired it, not that a month is enough time to air 7 episodes, but maybe they’ll push it back yet again coz there is still no sign of it getting an airdate.

By: seanie

seanie — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:08:54 +0000

9 has definitely been pitiful the last few weeks. This week will be quite a test for them, with somewhat decent programing. I dont think they should be relying so heavily on fast tracked shows as well, im tipping Fringe to be a massive bomb here.

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:52:54 +0000

taking mcleods off air was a massive mistake, But nine are like that these days, it seems they panic all the time about shows. Just give them a decent run and raitings will pick up. Nine is going down hill fast. Not the station it used to be. Kerry packer would be outraged!

By: Benno

Benno — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 12:28:09 +0000

Nothing for channel 9 to show for another few weeks? Did you have a look at the old missing in action list? They had the most unaired shows in total. If they really wanted to, they could erase some shows from that list by airing some of them for the next few weeks ’til the rest come from the US. A lot of their movies have been doing rather bad in the ratings, worse than those other shows did before being taken off the air.

By: Craig

Craig — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:52:37 +0000

ch9 is stuck until some of it’s new US shows start up over there, it doesn’t seem to have much until the end of the month, maybe they should have stuck with McLeod’s Daughters for a few more weeks or bought on some of the shows it’s been holding onto for the last year to fill the gap? Showing movies mid week is not cutting it. For Gods sake show the final two Canal Road episodes, please!

By: Spunkymonkeycaesar

Spunkymonkeycaesar — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:25:32 +0000

I must say I have to disagree with you both David and Craig, as Nine really have had pretty much no choice but to “drip feed” us their new shows post Olympics. Many of their new shows; The Mentalist, Fringe, Primeval, Hell’s Kitchen and Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA they’ve been waiting on the US to air them before they can be Fasttracked.

As for their other shows which are locally produced, which Nine has control over they’ve already premiered; The Strip, Scorched, Hole In The Wall with Battlefronts to come next week, and The Chopping Block, and The Waiting Room to come soon.

Consequently, as a result of Nine having no control over this matter whatsoever yes they have given Seven new shows time to find an audience, and I’m sure Nine is well aware of the situation at hand, however can’t do anything to prevent that from occuring.

As for Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares, it will be an interesting test to see how it rates against City Homicide.

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:49:47 +0000

Makes you wonder why Samantha Armytage would consider leaving Seven for Nine. Although 60 minutes would be a plum job for her. Though Nine have a tendancey only to care about their female reporters until they lose their looks. If I were her I’d give nine a miss and get the TT job she is too nice for those back stabbers at nine.

By: Craig

Craig — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 05:39:04 +0000

I really dont know what Nine were thinking drip feeding us their new shows out of the Olympics, all its done is given sevens new shows a couple of weeks to find an audience, Nine should have tacked seven head on that Monday night after the Closing Ceremony, I think come the end of November when the year is being analysed they will regret not doing that….big test tomorrow night with the return of Gordon Ramsay to see whether they killed the goose that laid the golden egg by exposing him so much in the first half of the year…