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TEN moves Bold & Beautiful to primetime

TEN is still tweaking its summer line-up, moving The Bold & The Beautiful to 6pm, dumping Will & Grace and adding The Ex-List.

Here’s a bold (but how beautiful?) programming move by TEN. The network has just announced some significant changes to its summer scheduling.

Afternoon US soap The Bold and The Beautiful is officially moving to primetime, winning a new 6pm timeslot from Monday December 1st. It will be replaced by Judge Judy at 4:30pm.

TEN has also bitten the bullet on its under-performing Will and Grace episodes, axed for the return of Friends at 7pm. It returns with S6E12 “The One With The Joke.”

The timeslot has been a crazy game of musical chairs recently, including Bondi Rescue, Taken Out, Friends, Will and Grace and back to Friends. Is it any wonder viewers have given up?

Dumping the sitcom at 7pm will also see a planned extra summer episode at 7:30pm Mondays replaced with another Friends.

TEN has also announced the premiere of already-axed The Ex-List for summer. The drama follows a woman (Elizabeth Reaser) who learns from a psychic that she has already been romantically involved with the man of her dreams. If she doesn’t reunite with him in a year, she’ll never marry her true love. Only 4 episodes aired in the US.

It premieres at 9:30pm Monday December 1st.

Replacing Judge Judy at 3:00pm weekdays will be repeats of Everybody Loves Raymond.

Amended summer schedule:

Sun Nov 30
6:30pm America’s Next Top Model S8
7:30pm 90210
8:30pm Movie: School of Rock
10:40pm The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
11:10pm The Office

Mon Dec 1
6:00 The Bold & The Beautiful
6:30 Neighbours
7:00pm Friends
8:00pm Rules of Engagement rpt
8:30pm Army Wives
9:30pm The Ex-List
10:30pm Out Of The Blue

Tue Dec 2
6:00 The Bold & The Beautiful
6:30 Neighbours
7:00pm Friends
7:30pm Special: Britney: For The Record
8:30pm NCIS rpt
9:30pm NCIS rpt
10:30pm Out Of The Blue

Wed Dec 3
6:00 The Bold & The Beautiful
6:30 Neighbours
7:00pm Friends
7:30pm Don’t Forget The Lyrics
8:30pm House rpt
9:30pm Rush rpt
10:30pm Out Of The Blue

Thu Dec 4
6:00 The Bold & The Beautiful
6:30 Neighbours
7:00pm Friends
7:30pm How to Look Good Naked
8:30pm Law and Order: CI rpt
9:30 Law and Order: SVU rpt
10:30pm Out Of The Blue

Fri Dec 5
6:00 The Bold & The Beautiful
6:30 Neighbours
7:00pm Friends
7:30pm The Simpsons
8:30pm Numb3rs rpt
9:30pm Law & Order rpt
10:30pm Orange Roughies

Sat 6 Dec
6:00pm The Simpsons rpt
6:30pm Big Cat Diary
7:30pm Movie: Back To The Future
9:50pm The Wedge
10:20pm Orange Roughies
11:20pm Movie: TBA

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90 Responses

  1. well that frees up some space on my PVR, i’ve been recording will & grace to burn to dvd and make my own set but i was waiting to see how far they get before burning any to dvd, although starting at season 2 was a bit off. but now i hope i win their competition to win the whole set on dvd coz i don’t really want to buy it, hence why i was making my own (which is perfectly legal). but now i’ll just delete them all, and possibly not even bother watching the remaining eps as i saw them the first time around. but i definitely won’t be watching friends as i do already have that on dvd. also b&b does not interest me. they have had nothing but positive feedback on this site about the idea to put on macgyver, why don’t they do that?

  2. Bold and the Beautiful is definitely not prime-time material, no matter whether it rates well earlier. Friends repeats again? They have to be kidding. Why are they leaving the hilarious everybody hates chris out of prime-time? Just try it 10, heaps of people like Chris Rock’s material. Season 4 is currently airing in the states and i’m fairly sure 10 hasn’t even started the 2nd season. Who is making these decisions? Well, i have lots of TV show episodes on DVD and brand new torrents just ready to be watched this summer.

  3. B&B @ 6pm! OK, well thats something different I suppose. It is #1 in Australia @ 4.30pm apparently and is the highest rating show in the world ( 500million viewers a day or something crazy like that) so it’ll be interesting. Maybe TEN should do a who’s who/ done what to who show to interest new viewers?

  4. Having read through the offerings for the first week of December, I know now I won’t be turning on Ten all Summer.

    Hopefully the other networks will have something better to offer, otherwise we’ll be catching up on the boxed sets we’ve bought through the year for times like this!

  5. Yay for Judge Judy moving to a later time slot, hopefully Southern Cross Ten will finally start showing JJ instead of the infomercials they usually show at 3pm. Our Ten Sydney reception is a bit dodgy in our house so I usually have to go without JJ.

    PO’d about them cancelling Will and Grace, I friggin hate Friends.

  6. with a choice of how i met your mother, temptation, and will and grace i was going to watch W&G when home and away finished. they kept it on for this long they should have waited atleast one week into summer. but i guess they still have my viewing. i will be watching friends, and imagine most of the W&G fans / some H&A fans will aswell

  7. Ten are showing ‘Britney- For the Record’?? That is awesome. I want to watch that. Thank you Ten.

    No Simpsons at 6pm?? Wow, thats big. But i dont mind B&B even though i watch the news at 6pm :p

  8. This is quite a strange move, which i dont see working. What are they thinking, Bold in primetime. Friends repeats, oh god please stop. Yt they couldnt put OOTB on at 7pm (even if it had to be slightly edited) is beond me. Aussie drama in the pits at 10:30, 10 year old repeats of friends in an anchoring primetime slot. As for Bold, have Ten thought about what damage this could do to ten news. Bold ourates both 7 and 9’s 4:30 news and regulary pulls close to 500k, creating a strong lead in for ten news. If ten want to fix 6pm, they should do a ACA style show out of ten news, if it can at least hold the news numbers which are sometimes as high as 1mil and rerely under 800k, then ten could start winning nights, they have the daytime advantage and dont take it to primetime

  9. ver interesting, am dying to see the figures…and seriously, school of rock again!!! My god, TEN should go get a video card and hire some new flicks from their local video store. Play some classics like Edward Scissorhands or Sister Act or something different. Would love to see the National Lampoons flicks again

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