Fringe disappearing from Nine’s schedule wasn’t the only change within the programming department today.
It made switches to its Friday line-up from next week too.
Instead it’s bringing movies back to Friday nights, specifically, the Harry Potter series.
Harry Potter & the Philosopher’s Stone will air next Friday Oct 24 at 7:30pm. Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets airs a week later, Friday October 31st.
As a result a Friday edition of Wipeout and Hole in the Wall are out of schedule and plans to return Motorway Patrol are gone -thank goodness.
oh and pretty woman, no shit, the previews they shoiw has her with a WALKMAN, tells me its at least 20 years old, my cousin asked “Whats That?”
i guess the chance of Hey Hey It’s Saturday is looking a little better. Itran for what 28 years, always rated, in a shitty timeslot but becama a favorite. That is unless they decide to replay the best of red Faces. Wasn’t there supposed to be a reality show about hairdressers and salons a la “Shear Genius”?
Channel 9; still the one to f*$# you off!!
brisvegas,
you can add “Pretty Woman” on seven to that list.
For all intensive purposes Wipeout eps were rpts.
Not sure why Nine ran them re cut in the first place.
Wipeout Oz will do well.
Hole in The Wall should have been a segment in a show – not a show, has failed worldwide.
didn’t they already show it this year how lame
harry potter to nine is like Mean girls to ten lmao.
David how many episodes of Hole in the Wall and Wipeout does this now leave unaired?
hahaha true JM. Don’t forget About A Boy, thats one that has really been overkilled past its expiration date. Nine are a bit better though when it comes to showing movies, they usually try and keep it fresh, pity the same can’t be said about their TV shows (2.5 men, Ramsay, Attenborough, CSI…)
RichoTB i think Ten have already done that with Mean Girls & Love Actually…….. they must have been shown 50 times at least
I like Motorway patrol too. Made me homesick for the old country.
Can I say yay? I’ll never shed a tear over garbage shows like that but 9 are really starting to get out of hand pulling shows off every which way. And if you’re going to take something off then at least replace it with something worthwhile! I love the HP movies but they weren’t on very long ago. There are stacks and stacks are movies that have never been shown on TV. They don’t even have to be recent ones. Just show something that hasn’t been on a million times before would suffice!
If 9 continue on like this, they’ll have nothing to show.
Finally. HITW and WO are utter tripe. Channel Nine has gotten what it deserves for those two. I am so glad that Nine is dying. What’s great is they’ve already commissioned an Australian Wipeout, which surely will flop like the US version.
And as people above have mentioned, all Nine has left is 2.5 Men (which hopefully will die too) and CSI (see 2.5 Men). Goodbye Nine.
As for the HP movies, I would have thought that would make more sense as a build up to the release of the sixth movie, but that doesn’t come out until July 2009.
Just another bit on Mark’s comment:
If the current NINE owners can’t manage to get enough cash together for the next interest payment – I can guarantee you NINE will be airing the test pattern.
Watch that space.
Travis – Battlefronts on Friday night makes sense to me too.
If NINE put it there … it may steal away a few Better Homes viewers – and due to the “game” part of the format – might also entice a few viewers away from TEN who are missing their fix of Friday Night Games.
But then again – I’m no programmer.
I liked Motorway Patrol. That’s all I have to say.
what bro ? no Motorway patrol ? how else am i gonna see my cuz on tv ?
there’s multple quality movie series 9 could start putting on which would fit their current lineup , the die hard trilogy , rush hour trilogy, police academy series, american pie series, hell even national lampoons ! (back to the good old days) or the nightmare on elm street series !
Are Nine going to make Harry Potter the 2.5 men of movies??
Motorway patrol like most Kiwi (follow the officers around) shows was always good for a laugh and certainly broke up that dead boring 7-30 pm Friday night slot.
Can we rake bets now that in 3-4 weeks, after Potter movies, they will try something else, then dump that after 3 weeks, then……on it goes…
Bugger I liked motorway patrol and no I am NOT joking
they already had a harry potter marathon earlier this year! Nine is really heading downhill
Motorway Patrol is ok ,not great but not bad. I’d prefer if Nine put Airport back but you would think the Potter movies will do better.
Nothing beats ye good olde Harry Potter replay.
How many times has 9 shown this movie? 5… 6 or so?
God channel 9 are arseholes!
They only have 1episode left of Hole In The Wall to show and they take it off.. So when will we see this unaired episode? Or will we never see it?
It’s already up on youtube as episode 4 or something but they skipped it because it didn’t have big enough stars? Blondes VS Brunettes.
screw channel 9! they better play it or I’m complaining!
No more Hole in the Wall? *Tilts head upwards*
“Thank you!”
Motorway Patrol is the biggest bore of any tv show, so glad there are no plans to put it back on – lets hope it doesnt get put on in summer.
No surprise considering these shows did poorly last week and probably do no better tonight or at least no higher than 850,000.
Harry Potter is a good choice though and gives the kids something to watch considering Seven do not have anything on for them very often and Ten is the alternative with Download and hopefully family movies.
Nine could have bumped Fringe to Fridays or put on McLeod’s Daughters instead.
werent the first 4 films on in consecutive weeks like a month ago?
feels that way
does this mean they have rights to #5 now, if they do can’t they just skip to that, surely anyone that is interested would have seen it the first 4movies the first 4 times around, especially the philosophers stone
as for HITW, WO, MP: meh, not surprised but that makes two overhyped shows axed in a day (HITW) i sense redder faces at nine
I thought Wipeout and Hole in the Wall were two of ch9s big hopes, then again Fringe was being promoted as the next big thing, so was Canal Road, which I still have a copy of the promos.
So what does this leave ch9 with 2.5 Men and a bunch of CSIs? Well we have Cricket to get us through the summer.
They should use Battlefronts. It can’t do any worse.
Why doesnt channel 9 just put the test signal on fulltime??