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A summer of Temptation

Nine's summer line-up announces Temptation to 7pm, Fringe to Mondays, ER & Gossip Girl for Wednesdays and McLeod's Daughters to Saturdays.

Move over, Charlie Sheen and Jon Cryer. Nine’s first week of summer programming indicates Temptation is returning to a 7pm weeknight timeslot. The network has two months of episodes up its sleeve, filmed mid year.

In other news, McLeod’s Daughters will become a Saturday night drama, clearly skewed to an older audience, which will compete with ABC shows. Fringe gets a Monday slot and Survivor will air both Mondays and Tuesdays. ER and Gossip Girl get Wednesday slots, but the latter is quite late (10:30pm) given its younger audience. Nine must be responding to the fact it has already aired to a large chunk of its fans via FOX8.

Old episodes of Monster House even sneak back into the schedule, as promised, late on a Friday night.

Its daytime schedule is dominated by cricket, but notable also for swapping The Ellen DeGeneres Show to 12pm and The View to 1pm from Wed Dec 3rd.

Sunday Nov 30
6:00 Nine News
6:30 20 to 1 rpt
7:30 Two and a Half Men rpt
8:00 The Big Bang Theory
8:30 Movie: A Beautiful Mind (updated)

Mon Dec 1
6:00 Nine News
6:30 ACA
7:00 Temptation
7:30 Two and a Half Men rpt
8:00 The Big Bang Theory
8:30 CSI rpt
9:30 Fringe
10:30 Survivor

Tue Dec 2
7:30 The Chopping Block final
8:30 Movie: The In Laws
10:35 Survivor
11:30 Girls of the Playboy Mansion

Wed Dec 3
7:30 10 to 1
8:00 Deadly Surf
8:30 CSI Miami rpt
9:30 ER
10:30 Gossip Girl
11:30 Just Shoot Me

Thu Dec 4
7:30 Emergency
8:00 The Waiting Room
8:30 Cold Case rpt
9:30 The Closer
10:30 Close to Home / The Strip (final, Vic)

Friday Dec 5
7:30 Australian Geographic
8:30 Movie: Miss Congeniality
10:45 Monster House

Sat Dec 6
6:30 Aus Funniest Home Videos summer series
7:30 Wife Swap USA
8:30 McLeod’s Daughters
9:30 AFI Awards 2008

64 Responses

  1. david, are you able to check with WIN to see if they’ll show Temptation at 5.30 like they usually did (since we have ACA at 7.00) ?

    Easily the best and most enjoyable classic quiz show, and I’ll be pretty pissed off if WIN don’t show its last batch of episodes.

  2. Yay for Fringe, ER and McLeod’s Daughters returning but Gossip Girl at 10:30, I bet it lasts about 2 weeks before it gets yanked! Even Monster House gets a return but what of the last two Canal Road???

  3. Gossip Girl has so much potential for Channel 9 and it has the potential to build quite a large audience. Channel 9 should at least treat it with some respect and air it at a more suitable slot.

    It won’t build up much of an audience in that pathetic timeslot. Do we really need more Two and half men, CSI and Cold case repeats?

  4. Thanks David..that’s a pity Temptation is a good show but i guess too expensive when rpts of 2.5 Men rate so well and get great demos.

    And agree about TBBT been waiting since last summer to see this little gem of a sitcom again.

  5. Personally, I think Gossip Girl should be on in an earlier timeslot.. don’t you think that 10.30 is too late? It should be moved to 8.30pm or even 9.30pm rather than being too late.

  6. Im sorry, they are premiering Gossip Girl for the first time on free-to-air tv, and show that is widely popular around the world, and they are putting it on at 10:30 at night?? Are they stupid? They are putting CSI Miami repeat on at a time where GG would fit perfectly?

    Wow, Channel Nine are really stupid. Channel 10 or Channel 7 might has well just buy the show now, preferably Channel 10. Now i know why i never watch Nine, besides for sports (cricket and footy).

  7. Thanks David. I didn’t notice the Chopping Block final before, so I guess blind is the answer ;).

    Looking forward to the return of Fringe (but have seen a couple of the episodes since it was removed by 9), and continuing Survivor, and I might check out Gossip Girl.

  8. you gotta be kidding me. why is it always me that has to be so negative. i can’t believe that people even watch sale of the century….sorry i mean temptation. and to replace such a great show like 2 & 1/2 men is crazy.
    Shame channel 9….shame

  9. Why switch Ellen and The View?

    Re Temptation it’s one of my favorite shows and a real shame the popularity of 2.5 Men has signalled it’s end. I’m not sure if I have missed a press release but has Nine officially axed Temptation??

  10. Pretty good line up for 9. Strong line up as well.. Temptation is pretty boring after a while! Cant wait until 90210 starts again. Good for TEN to put it in their summer line up.. its kind of a summer show.

  11. What, no Pushing Daisies in the lineup yet? There are a lot of repeats in there, not liking that. Atleast with a Saturday timeslot, Mcleod’s Daughters could possibly be played out into the ratings season, but it’s a shocking timeslot IMO.

  12. Yes! Temptation is back! At last a decent option at 7pm! Looks like summer is going to be better than ratings time with great shows like ER, 90210, Heroes, Prison Break, Fringe, etc showing.

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