Eli Stone to sing on Seven’s summer
Seven will finally premiere Eli Stone in Australia as part of its summer line-up.
The US drama by Greg Berlanti (Brothers and Sisters, Dirty Sexy Money, Everwood) features Jonny Lee Miller as an attorney with an inoperable brain aneurysm -and a bit of a fixation with the catalogue of George Michael. Each episode is named after a Michael song, and the pop star even makes an appearance during one of the fantasy sequences, incorporated as one of Stone’s hallucinations.
Seven will also premiere British crime drama Holby Blue and (gasp) American Gladiators.
Scrubs will move to a new slot 10:30pm Mondays from December 1st (it isn’t clear how many eps), followed by the return of the American Kath & Kim at 11pm. The Rich List remains in its Monday timeslot.
The Amazing Race, Heroes, The Unit and Prison Break will continue (the latter to become twice weekly).
Ugly Betty will be back and Las Vegas fans will be pleased to hear of its return with “The Burning Bedouin” (Series 4 episode 14).
The short-lived US dance series Dance Machine is also in Seven’s line-up.
Better Homes and Gardens will move into a summer highlights series.
More shows are yet to be revealed….
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Finally! Eli Stone is awesome! Such a great little show!
So I’m guessing Michael Palin isn’t returning..:(
I’m very happy to see Las Vegas finally return but the rest is a bit meh..
It’s not a full list yet…
Any news on when Reaper will be shown??
Kath & Kim 11pm, way to hid the show Seven LOL
So no news on Knight Rider yet or are they saving that for 2009?
Beware American Gladiators. It’s hosted by Hulk Hogan. Don’t say I didn’t warn you
ooo american gladiators!
i might give Eli Stone a go as well..
I’ll have a go at Eli Stone and continue watching TAR. Until the more shows are revealed by Seven, that is…
It will be interesting to see what Seven will show at 7pm, now that they’ve finished their usual 7pm summer series That ’70s Show .
It’s irritating that they’ve put US Kath & Kim on so late. They’re just not prepared to give it a chance are they. Happy for the return of Prison Break & Ugly Betty.
I’d like to see That 70’s Show from season 1.
Can’t wait for the return of Ugly Betty and Las Vegas, two of my favourite shows, although I am sad to hear that season 5 of Las Vegas (which finished in the US six months ago) was the last.
I will continue watching TAR as well.
Eli Stone has one of the best pilots in a long time. A little bit Ally McBeal (in a good way!).
Cool to have Ugly Betty back - any airdate/timeslot confirmed yet?
yeh, any guesses for the 7:00?
i hope they do Earl reruns the first 2 seasons were great - and to my knowledge havn’t done any reruns yet. or maybe how i met your mother, or maybe thats where reaper is going. gawd i hope they don’t do something like a factual
does anyone remenber if the 7:00 show continiues through the Aus open?
i know that people are against reruns but i would rather watch a good show again than some of the crap new stuff that appears. I hope 7 puts reruns of 30rock, boston, and PTTR in prime time.
Don’t get too excited about Knight Rider. I caught a couple of eps in the US recently and it’s not that great…
David, can you find out what they are doing with new episodes of The First 48
Cheers
Yay! Las Vegas!
Sad it was axed in the US though
maybe they’ll show new according to jim at 7
As sad as it is, I wouldn’t mind checking out American Gladiators, I’ve only ever watched a few clips here and there on youtube. I hope Reaper gets a run and Ugly Betty is put back at 730 where is belongs. I also hope Lipstick Jungle gets played out I enjoyed the first series and with the show now axed who’s it going to hurt.
and they’ll probably bring back samantha who
Eli Stone - Finally the wait is over
Jerome Home and Away is usually back on around the same time as the Australian Open starts. David can you confirm this if possible.
Finally something to get excited about…..Eli Stone! Please don’t put According To Jim on in an attempt to capture 2.5men audience. They wouldn’t have the same audience anyway. 1 is good (not great) and the other is BAD (up there in the same calibre as My Big Fat Greek Life).
Rutzie, you are right, Home & Away usually returns in early Jan and is almost always on while the Tennis is on. Usually once a year the tennis goes over time, so they have to fit in the missed half somewhere. Either making one episode go for an hour of have one ep shown on Saturday.
American Gladiators is everything Channel 7 wished they had the budget for. It’s great.
I know one of the Aussie female Gladiators and she says there’s still been no word on whether or not there will be a second season.
Come December, there will only be two episodes of Scrubs left to show (Writers’ Strike). I suppose it’s safe to assume it will therefore be at 10.30 for two weeks.
Gladiators is rumoured to have cost Seven close to 1 million an ep.
For just okay ratings - I doubt it will be back for another season
That explains why seven didn’t want any more gladiators episodes. I forgot about the budget of it. I thought, 1.2m can’t be that bad, but with that price tag, i can see why.
Just saw a promo saying How I Met Your Mother was taking the 7pm weeknights
timeslot
Fantastic!! HIMYM is one of the best sitcoms ATM and it blows that horrible 2.5 men out of the water. Finally, a sitcom 5x a week with actual humour!! And class!! That’s great
Eli Stone’s pilot was mad, its good the series is finally seeing the light of day here, hopefully in an 8:30pm slot. I don’t see why they’re bothering with Las Vegas seeing as it was axed months ago and never even had a proper written finale in the US.
Good to see some fun serial slows (Heroes, PB, The Unit) on there, the question is where they’ll air. Will they continue stuck in 10:30pm timeslots or will they be given an earlier slot over non-ratings?
Also, will they be playing the 12 eps of Bones they skipped before? And what of axed shows like My Own Worst Enemy and Lipstick Jungle? If they’re doing it with Las Vegas, they should do it with some newer series too. They did it with Six Degrees last summer and that was great fun, even for a 10:30pm timeslot. Overall, fun lineup and much better than Nine and Ten. Good job Seven
are they new episodes??
Yay for Eli Stone but boo about American Gladiators. Why must we have the US versions of Oz hits? (only exception is SYTYCD US as that really is great!)
Finally, Ugly Betty. Its been toooo long
Ryan, I doubt HIMYM are new episodes, all the promos are showing footage from old episodes. I agree RichoTB, finally a worthwhile sitcom in the 7pm slot.
This summers schedule (between all networks) looks much more proising than last year.
@ richotb- what do you mean skipped bones episodes? they have aired every episode from what i’ve seen, although it takes them several runs at it to get through a season.
Ohh yay Las Vegas…i’ve only been waiting a good year…stupid channel seven. I bought season 4 and 5 from Amazon.com a long time ago…its a good final series. Very good infact. It’s a pitty that NBC axed it without a proper ending, however there’s talk of the Las Vegas stars appearing in an episode of Knight Rider (It has the same producer) to finish things off…Let’s hope that eventuates!
Any news on whether Las Vegas will continue straight onto season 5?
just saw an ad saying that how i met your mother is coming to weeknights, i assume home and aways replacment 7pm december 1
have you heard this news yet david?
oh just read the previous comments, here i am acting as if i got some breaking news.
very clever move by seven though. obviously, they’re gonna try to build a bigger audience with HIMYM repeats and then hopefully get good ratings with new eps next yr when ratings season starts. where have we seen this tactic work before to a networks complete advantage where their schedule was saturated with the bloody show it rated/rates so good? ch 9, 2,5 men