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Gossip Girl, Pushing Daisies, Survivor: Gabon, Temptation, Fringe, ER, McLeod’s Daughters -are all coming to Channel Nine over summer.
Gossip Girl, the teen soap set in affluent Manhattan high school circles, has been screening on FOX8 (Pay TV has season two from December) but finally gets a Free to Air screening. Nine, which on-sold the rights to FOX8, will start with Series One. It is the second time the network on-sold a series by writer / producer Josh Schwartz, after it let TEN take The OC.
Also on Nine over summer is the long overdue premiere of Pushing Daisies. The quirky, colourful tale about a pie maker with the ability to revive the dead (or to end their life) with a touch of his finger was due to screen during the ratings season, but it didn’t eventuate. The series launched to much acclaim in the US before the writer’s strike, but now appears close to ending. It is created by Bryan Fuller (Wonderfalls, Dead Like Me) and produced by film producer Barry Sonnenfeld.
Survivor fans will get the Gabon series, which recently started in the US. It is expected to air at the end of Survivor: Micronesia.
ER is finally back with series 14, it’s penultimate season.
Other shows taken off air also return: McLeod’s Daughters, Fringe, Battlefronts, The Closer and the last (ever?) batch of Temptation episodes. Big Bang Theory returns from next week.
Another medical factual series The Waiting Room will premiere. Deadly Surf and Australian Geographic return.
But there is still more Two and a Half Men along with CSI, Cold Case, Australia’s Funniest Home Videos.
As always Nine’s summer programming is underpinned by its cricket coverage.
What do you think? A few treats to lure you to the box?
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I have to say finally give those 2.5 men a break and put something new and exciting on!!!!!!
You could make a modern day Price is Right or similar game show and show that at 7pm.
No More ACA Summer Editions better off using that timeslot for a proven comedy that has not been seen in Years.
Agree with Benno
starting to get really pissed off that they keep taking shows off air….
before they even start…..no wonder no one can get into it ….
so doesnt any one know when gossip girl will come on dvd
as always i have to wait for the dvd
Let’s see…..Gossip Girl – gone, Pushing Daisies – promised, then never came, Chuck (not here, but still), promised, then never came, Temptation – bowing out from decades of history in non-ratings in the AM, Fringe – brought back then cut short by a few episodes, McLeod’s Daughters – bumped from Saturday night to late Saturday night….
But forget all that…..Choose nine in 09……please……you know you want to, they won’t disappoint you….
this is great news although it is a bit disappointing it has taken them this long to get it on air on non pay TV. My friend already has the whole first season on dvd from overseas so i’ve already seen about 9 episodes.
It is annoying that it’s on at 10:30 though, i mean it is a bit late for TV…
and why hasn’t there been many advertisements?
i agree that it’s more a channel 10 show
Considering how long it’s been since Gossip Girl debut, I don’t think moving it to 10 would make a difference. Sure they may show it at prime time but I doubt it would rate now. And anyway, I doubt they would’ve shown it right away. They may not have waited as long as 9 but they still wouldn’t have “fast tracked” it.
9 missed a huge opportunity with Gossip Girl. If they had not have onsold it to Fox8 and just started showing it when they bought it they would have made a killing.
However, Gossip Girl would be much more at hoem on Chanel 10. They would promote it much better and show it primetime onstead of 10.30.
Anyway, 9 have left it to late, most of the audience have seen it on Fox or have downloaded it.
I am shocked that 9 are going to show The Closer. A little late though since I downloaded the episodes but for anyone who can’t download it, watch it. It’s an amazing show!
Great to see that Survivor: Gabon airing straight after Micronesia. I’ve been watching (through downloads), and the season as been great so far. Maybe, S19 (starts February in the US) could be fast tracked? The show has quite a good following here.
Anyway, will probably only tune in for Mcleods as I’ve seen most of the other shows through d/ls.
Great news about Gossip Girl and Pushing Daisies, although how well either will rate is yet to be seen :s
Finaly chennal nine is getting it right by putting survivor: Micronesia and Survivor: Gabon straight after it . Best News Ever.!!!!!!!!!!
Horrible lineup. Gossip Girl might be fun but the rest are turd. Get rid of freakin 2.5 men, do what you did in the Olympics and play Til Death in its slot Nine. At least its a break from that horribly overrated show. Looks like Seven’s running off with all the good content this summer. And where is Chuck and Moonlight, two quality shows?
@Andrew\
…..And you can add, Where is Moonlight to that list also……
Where’s Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles?
ER stopped mid season 13 so Im hoping Nine intend to show the rest of season 13 prior to season 14 as [spoiler] get married towards the end of season 13. Fingers crossed 9 give these shows a chance to garner an audience. Taking things off after 2 or 3 episodes is signing their death sentence.
The Closer
ER
Fringe
GG
PD
Its about time we got to see these promised shows (although I have seen them all, like Neon Kitty. My patience had worn very thin).
Fringe – if that’s the best NINE have to offer this summer, and it is, then NINE may as well forget ratings all together. Maybe they should do away with their whole business model of playing good shows at popular times, for advertising’s sake.
Heck, just play KAK for 23/7, and the overall amount of BS shows of NINE would remain the same, yet their costs would go down considerably…
Am I crazy, or am I just being cynical?
i know we’re not supposed to talk about ratings during not ratings, but do people realise how bad some of these shows will go.
take fringe for example. it was getting in the 600’s in primetime, now subtract downloaders, people that were tricked by the “epic new drama” ect. and never liked it anyway, people that simply cbf watching again, people that don’t know its on, people that prefer a competing show, people in bed (assuming 9 will put it on l8r than 8:30) and people on holidays. and then of course the lack of trust that it might be axed again and never seen again.
can’t wait for mcleods, ch9 will have to air it twice a week if they want to play all 20 eps.
good to see them continuing 2.5, maybe this will help speed up its downfall =)
Is Christmas With The Australian Women’s Weekly back this summer? Not that I watch it, but it always seems to make an appearance.
Excellent schedule. A shame that these weren’t shown during ratings period though. Gossip Girl is reaaaally good. It’ll be great to re-watch the whole season. And finally! Pushing Daisies. Can’t wait till Fringe or Big Bang Theory either. But where are Terminator, Moonlight and Chuck?
arghhhh where is moonlight!!!! i have waited a whole year, literally for them to show the last 8 episodes, this cannot be happening, please tell me this list is not complete.
Hanging out for Gossip Girl, but the fact that Nine axed the OC in the summer after only 2 eps plus the fact that many may have seen it on FOX8 does not bode well.
and Reaper?
I just hope the Cricket doesn’t mess with the programing too much.
Just in case anyone from Nine is reading: where is Chuck?
Yay! Australia will finally get to see Gossip Girl!! I love this show sooooo much!!! Axe it and i will die.
Any treats there to lure me to the box? Hmm, let me compare with my 1 terabyte downloaded-TV drive…
ER: season *15* episode 6
Survivor Gabon: episode 8
Big Bang Theory: season *2* episode 6
Pushing Daisies: season *2* episode 5
Fringe: season 1 episode 7
Gossip Girl: season 2 episode 10
What on earth would have been around to tempt me to the box if I waited for all of this to be screened by Nine?
And I’m still amazed that ER and McLeod’s Daughters (though the latter I personally have no interest in) were abandoned by Nine. I know many people who were upset and mystified at their removal. ER particularly, since Nine then proceeded to re-run an old season of it in the latter half of the year!
Nine summer lineup looks far better than Nine’s continual Ramsay& Two and half men over saturation.
Odds are Nine will still “only show 2 to 3 eps in a row, then change timeslot so unless we visit this site, we will have no idea.
P.S. Can’t wait for Nine’s pubicity machine to get into gear.
- Most popular drama in the US
- Best drama since….
- Outstanding comedy event…
- Show that changed the way TV was viewed…
Blah, blah, blah…
Instead of ..we previously took it off air as we did not have guts to give it decent run and out network flunkies and their kids just loved Ramsay & Sheen.
Hmmn, maybe we can get Gordan & Charlie to star in comedy set in restaurant ??
Gossip Girl is awesome everyone should watch it…..survivour; gabon, er and fringe i will probably be watching channel nine in the off season than in reatings period
yay gossip girl! looking forward to it but it belongs on ten. might give pushing daises a go as well
Pleasing to see there are some quality shows returning to both 7 and 9 over the summer, especially for those who don’t have access to downloads.
I agree that Season 14 ER should have been on long before now – most of us die hard fans are already downloading the final 15th season, but I know some people who have been eagerly awaiting Season 14…
I wish survivor have captioned and it’s not fair we are deaf, unable what they saying and please put captioned on. It is very frustrating because the survivor is on late around 10.30pm. Please make it earlier. Thanks
Let us not forget that most of these shows on 9 will be shown and then interrupted by the Cricket season, first Tests and then One dayers, so while it will be good to see some shows it will likely be one week on and one week off most of Summer.
The non ratings period is no guarantee of a long run over summer, I’m still pissed at 10 with Psych last year.
Moonlight was stopped with 8 eps to air. They only made 16 in the US with the strike.
An awesome summer line-up from Nine. I’ve been waiting for Gossip Girl and Pushing Daisies for so long, not to mention Temptation. I hope that is this last batch of eps isn’t the last ever!
But I wonder where they’ll put Temptation if they’re still airing Two and a Half Men over summer?
Nine always has the best summer programming because of the amount of shows they shelve so I know I’ll be watching a lot this summer
Why is it that shows like ER get shafted to summer, while they program rubbish like 20 to 1 during the year??? At least it’s back on, but yes Bruce – they did leave it halfway through series 13 (had to download the rest – I couldn’t have waited this long!!!)
David, any chance nine will finish off Moonlight sometime over summer also? How many episodes were still to be screened of this now axed show?
Thank god for that.
Now those who do not have pay tv will be able to watch gossip girl legally.
Hopefully nine keeps it on….they should as it’s “non ratings”
Please Please Please
Never rest Two and a half men
That show is great
And besides the cricket it’s the only reason i watch Channel 9
I thought 9 stopped ER halfway through season 13 or did I miss them showing them rest ? From memory it was a mid season cliff hanger with Luka on the roof with Forest Whitaker’s character…
FInally, Pushing Daisies is going to air! I’ve been desperately waiting to see this after Nine realeased the CD with the first episode teaser! It was a great episode and left me waiting more!
Also doing a happy dance on the news that Fringe will be making a come back in Summer. I know they said it would when it first went off air but, well, who trusts anything these TV scheduling execs say anymore!
It’s a shame funniest home videos hasn’t disappeared yet, or at least moved out of prime dinner time slot (who wants to see the kids eat or doing something gross just as you put a slice of pizza in your mouth)!
Slim pickings. And no sign of Chuck. Still no reason to watch anything on Nine.
Jake is annoying (like most teenagers!) but in a funny way. In the beginning he was just cute but now he’s lol funny. One of the best kid actors around IMO he has such a dry way of delivering his lines that is hilarious.
Nine missed the boat with Gossip Girl, now one season behind, I hope it rates but I bet come Feb 09 it’s gone leaving viewers hanging mid S1, at least this might mean the DVD will be coming soon?
I’m waiting on Fringe to come back, but they only have a hand full of unaired eps to show since ep 9 look like the last before the US break. Better than nothing I guess.
Can Santa grant my wish and kill off 2.5 Men over the summer, start with the kid who is not funny anymore, just annoying!
Meh Gossip Girl is a great teen series but I bought the DVD from the US and I watched the first half of the Season on fox 8 and the second part (after the strike) via downloads.
Season 2 I have all the eps on my PC but yet to find time to start watching them.
I am looking forward to Pushing Daises and hopefully ER gets a decent slot e.g 8.30.
Hopefully they won’t bring back that awful Monster House.
Here I thought we would avoid the plague that is 2.5 Men over summer. It might be good in the long run though, keep flogging it Nine because it will eventually die.
This is an example of how rights to TV shows should work – Nine have delayed showing Gossip Girl for a couple of years, which they are entitled to do, but for those who wanted to watch the show earlier (soon after it aired in the US), you have FOX8. So many shows have been completely ruined for me because only FTA networks have been able to show them.
I’m only excited about ER. Everything else I’ve seen or not that keen on.
I’m already up to episode 7 of Survivor Gabon and it’s an excellent season thus far. I couldn’t wait for nine to screen it as you never seem to know when they will, like with Micronesia. I’ve had it with the programmers with the networks, so I’ve decided to program my own schedules.
Great news about survivor. Gabon is the first shot in HD too isn’t it?
And a lot of people have already seen Gossip Girl season one! I hope it gets good ratings though so they can fast-track a season 3 in the ratings periods, and save everyone a lot of hassle.
Good Luck Gossip Girl. I hope Nine wont axe it like the did The OC. Though, GG would be better off with Ten.
As usual Nine has the best summer line up though I couldn’t care about Gossip Girl. Looking forward to finally watching Fringe which I missed thanks to it’s time slot & the long overdue return of the excellent The Closer.
And of course repeats of 2.5 Men and CSI are always welcome.
But how long will they stay on the air?
Can’t we give ‘Two and a Half Men’ a break? Enough is enough.
Surivor Gabon
Better late than never
Survivor Micronesia is awesome thus far….
Finally, reasons to watch NINE again