Bumped: Californication, The Office.
Another fastracked US series has taken a hit, with Network TEN indicating it will push Californication back an hour beginning this Sunday.
Instead it will squeeze a repeat of NCIS into 9:40pm with a repeat of “Hometown Hero.”
Californication will start an hour later.
Sadly, this means The Office won’t start until 11:20pm either, which is very late for a school night. That’s likely to anger fans who have been waiting for months for the show to return. Some even suggested it would get better ratings at 7pm than Friends. But TEN treats the Steve Carell comedy as something of an acquired taste. Then again, Two and a Half Men was a flop for Nine until they just left it on over summer and it boomed.
As for the David Duchovny drama, it rated 543,000 viewers on Sunday, on track with its season premiere of 546,000. It did have a good lead in with ARIAs 1.13m.
‘Seriously,’ how many viewers does TEN expect to get at 9:30pm on a Sunday?
We watch with some scepticism to see if NCIS can travel past 750,000 -otherwise what’s the point of all the anguish it will cause?
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It’s a bloody half-hour show! Surely they could fit it in somewhere earlier in place of all that other crap that’s filled their schedule? And the time that The Office is being showed is absolutely atrocious!
Why don’t people get it through their thick heads not to watch repeats of NCIS!? It encourages them to show more and more repeats. That’s why 7 keeps repeats of Criminal Minds on after the new episode.
they’re desperate to get their overall numbers up because they’re in 2009 advertising rate negotiation time … throwing ncis, one of their few hits, into another timeslot per week is part of that strategy
shame that sunday nights have all of a sudden become a lot less cool
jener
we were a yr and 2 months behind 30 rock.
that started in october 2006.
we got it in december 2007…
Jener,
I doubt very much at all 10 would air season 4(The Office) at all- at least straight after season 3 is finished up.
They have treated this show badly, numerous times it has been removed from their schedule, put in strange timeslots(late sunday night’s,monday nights after season 1 of Califonication etc).
If Rove is ch 10’s biggest drawcard then they are in even biger trouble than i thought!
Earthquake – there is no russian chick in NCIS, Ziva is from Israel and has been in on the show since Kate was shot.
There were a couple of eps at the start of this series when she was back home in Israel but she has never left the show.
THANKYOU bitttorrent , this doesnt matter to me cause i download both shows anyway but come on ten nowonder your losing in the ratings , you suck
I’m just worried that Ten would edit The Office like they’ve been editing Friends if they put it in the Friends timeslot.
Are Ten (once they finally get to it) going to air the one hour season final as one episode, or cut into two? And IF they then go ahead with the fourth season will they do the same with the first four that are also hour long episode?
And we were only 5 months behind 30 Rock. That may sound like ages, but when you consider The Office is 26 episodes (about 1 year and 9 months) behind…
californication isn ‘t just 10 minutes later. it’s a whole hour later.
it was only on at 10:15 last week cos of the aria’s
it’s time slot is usually 10pm.
and it should stay that way
F***ers!
David – do any of the C9 / C7 / C10 schedule planners ever come to this site and read the valid posts & points people put up here? Are they paying attention to how disgruntled the viewers are getting? The amount of programme bumps/cuts/axes is reaching a feverish level…….just like headless chickens……….to calm things down a bit, all they’d need to do is take some pointers from us mere mortal viewers in our posts….
Cali 10mins later than normal…what’s the big deal? Stupid, but not problematic. The Office is too niche for an early timeslot, but it’s also wasted that late at night. W&G should be good as we approach summer. We’re starting to get to the not so grand episodes of Friends!
Why is it that the programmers at 10 think repeats or films get better ratings than new series of shows. Case in Point, the moron in the programming department think repeats of will and grace will do better than season 3 episodes of The Office.
What a Joke. Until all of the networks,including the abc, stop treating the viewers so arogantly, people are going to get their tv shows from other means.
Meh, as for The Office – I gave up on TEN airing that a long time ago, I’ve seen every episodes and bought all the DVD’s from the USA. And in regards to Californication, as long as TEN air it I don’t care – I’ll just set the PVR – its the way I watch most of my TV anyway so it isn’t going to cause me much harm, Hell 10.30 was still too late a timeslot for me considering I wake up at 6 a.m. to get to work.
i think the NCIS repeats rated well on tuesdays coz they were right after the new episodes and people couldn’t be bothered switching off, but i really doubt fans will go out of their way to seek out a repeat episode.
wow, ncis on sundays 9:40? weird move by ten.
Geez, does anyone actually bother to watch and follow shows on FTA anymore? Downloads are the only way to enjoy a series!
How dissapointing. The Office has not even aired yet and it gets pushed back. Shame Channel 10, it would be a ratings winner on a Thursday night which is pretty limited at the moment.
Let’s hope your profits fall further until you realise you can’t treat your viewers with such contempt.
As if Will and Grace repeats would rate better than the office at 7pm – Ten should just wait until Summer, give the office a good timeslot, and see how well it does.
I used to watch Californication live on Ten but now my Tivo will record it for me and I’ll watch it another time.
NCIS jumped the shark when they brought in the Russian chick. Now – they’ve changed the Russian chick to someone else? Looks like the motorbike still had some of the tank to go.
Oh God. WHY TEN, WHY?! We don’t need more bloody 90s sitcom repeats!!! >:( Why couldn’t they have bought King of the Hill? It might actually be compatible with The Simpsons/Futurama/Sit Down, Shut Up/Cleveland if they promoted it right (for next year).
BTW, Jener, most episodes of The Office seem to be PG or even G rated (from what I’ve seen). I think the Diversity Day episode 1 was rated M, and I may be wrong on this, but the DVDs may contain footage that weren’t included in the original U.S. airings; but Ten can just skip those and air them in a later slot (like with what Nine has done with 2 1/2 Men).
Can’t say I’m surprised…. just very disappointed.
I reckon TEN need to go through and just redo their entire prime-time lineup each night.. Better to get it all fixed in one big lump rather than moving shows around one at a time and in return shoving good shows at 11:20PM on a Sunday night.
That sucks. I just hope it has nothing to do with the religious nutter group “Salt Shakers” succeeding in having ten companies withdraw their advertisements from the show. They include Just Car Insurance, the show’s major sponsor, from 26 October onwards. The list of these companies can be found on their website. Write to them/email them and ask them why they place the views of a tiny organisation that believes Harry Potter lures children into witchcraft ahead of those of the 500,000+ viewers who have tuned into Californication over the past three weeks.
Nick on October 21st, 2008 8:47 pm R, is will and grace going to start on ten next week?
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Yes, starts next Monday the 27th. Ten are airing short (and i mean short) promos at the end of most of their shows. It’s also been confirmed on the MediaSpy forums. (see the Network Scheduling Thread)
channel ten here are some pointers for you
1. repeats are bad. very bad. we already know whats going ot happen so why bother repeating it??
2. why not use ten HD to is full potential instead of just simulcasting everything other then after 10:30
3. bumping shows to a later timeslot will lose viewers. then before you know it. the show will be off.
4. axing shows after 4 weeks of being on the air is not cool. give the show time to settle.
5. replacing new episodes with more repeats is also bad. because then i switch off and think new eps wont be here for ages.
in conclusion. channel ten u need a serious readjustment before the ‘09 season or bad things might happen
30 rock was a year late here. and on too late to get enough viewers. I’m with you tho.
30 rock is awesome
90210, Fringe, Californication…and what is the reason I shouldn’t download TV shows?
Wait, my Office season one and two DVDs are rated M, so wouldn’t that mean Ten wouldn’t be able to put it on at 7 without editing it?
It’s my dream that Ten would treat The Office the way Seven treats 30 Rock; on at a steady timeslot, and up to date with America. That’ll be the day.
R, is will and grace going to start on ten next week?
OOhhh for Gods sake ten, what u think by doin this its gonna help u??? by now u shouldnt care, u should just leave stuff exactly where it is and run it through its whole season. Try to be the network with the brains and leave GOOD programs on at one time, What are you going to achieve, seven and nine will still win sorry to say. You got new NCIS on 8.30 tues, theres no need for anymore. That p**** me off too, whatever slot is failing on a network they just shove one of their top rating shows in there until u got one on evry night of the week, people get sick of it and then dont watch it!
Great now i’ll have to stay up later to watch it. Thank you very much Ten.
and ten wonder why they are struggling so much… Take a risk ten! All year they have served up tried and true formats- they have to realise that viewers are tiring of the same thing year after year. Now with will and grace at 7pm they have missed their chance to find a new hit.
they could’ve at least tried the Office at 7pm Weeknights, rather than buying the rights to that terrible excuse for a sitcom “Will and Grace”, which a 2 second promo just told me is starting next week in that slot..
Terrible move, they deserve to fail miserably
And so it begins.
I’m still hoping they’ll air all the remaining s3 episodes of The Office, but I’m not holding my breath.
I kind of wish they’d just put it on HD (even though we don’t have digital) at a regular decent time, because then at least it might have the chance to build an audience. I’ve already seen every episode from, um, alternative sources anyway.
Think Zambora has said everything I wanted to say
Is there any particular reason why they have decided to do this? And I hope NCIS doesn’t turn into a new Two and a Half Men.
This is insane but I don’t care, I already record Californication so I’ll just set the time an hour later!
NCIS on Sundays after Rove is not going to rate much better IMO
On the bright side maybe they won’t need to censor the show in a later time slot?
Tut tut Ten. Maybe Leckie was right and Ten are running around like headless chooks. The answer is staring you in face Ten.
1/ If you want to persist with Idol – cut it back, pare down meaningless judges comments,interviews, let the talent (kids) be judged just on their singing ability. Sunday show finished by 8.30 PM (Mon results show 30 mins tops)
2/ ROVE is your major network star.Put him on at decent time and give him more latitiude…90 mins show to finish right on 10 PM
3/ Make 10 pm -12 pm Sunday night your night for unusual (how to categorise shows – Californication, The office etc…
I love NCIS but Iwont be watching a repeat on Sun night. I might watch californication or The Office or Bev Hills 90210 or…one of your other unseen ehows..Ten – cut out the repeats…
Yes 2.5 Men was a flop in 2007 but when it first started it was a hit getting around 1.5m viewers. So basically it’s back to where it began ratings wise..
As for NCIS I can’t get enough so I’m happy with this move.
Brand loyalty…..as confirmed yet again that this concept is foreign to our FTA networks.
Actually, Californication usually starts at 10.20pm following Rove’s lead in, so 540k viewers is pretty damn good, IMO.
This is an INCREDIBLY stupid move on Ten’s part. How can they possibly expect Californication to build an audience when it’s already in such an inconsistent timeslot? Plus, NCIS isn’t even remotely compatible with neither Rove nor Californication, so Cali’s ratings will only continue to dip further. At least Cali and The Office are somewhat compatible because they’re both drama/comedies.
Not happy, Ten. And as if it wasn’t bad enough that they continue to BLATANTLY censor the show.
You sons of b****** Ten.
You’ve lost a viewer for a while until you win me back. Never touch Californication!! It’s now on way too late. You’re going to end up giving it the old Ch 7 Scrubs / 30 Rock treatment.
I dont have much hope for The Office when it returns, If anything, it will probably turn up on their HD channel only(I am a bit surprised that it hasn’t as yet).
10 are doing some much brand damage chopping and changing at the drop of a hat – pulling the pin way too soon on a lot of these shows, its a recipe for disaster