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Nine’s “first quarter” in ’09

Underbelly, Crusoe, For Richer for Poorer, Wipeout Australia, Sea Patrol, and Ladette to Lady will be coming sooner rather than later on Nine.

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Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities, Wipeout Australia, Aussie Ladette to Lady, Sea Patrol, Flashpoint, Crusoe (pictured) and Local Heroes are some of the shows Nine intends to air in the ‘first quarter’ of 2009.

Also due early in the new television year are the Jules Lund-hosted For Richer For Poorer, which seeks to find the perfectly wedded couple. Amongst the contestants on this show are a gay male couple.

What’s Good For You is back, now with new host Dr Andrew Rochford (The Waiting Room).

Also in the first quarter Nine will also screen the US version of Who Do You Think You Are?, Secret Millionaire (an Aussie version is due), and Bert Newton hosting both When I Grow Up and 20 to 1. Others due soon include Farmer Wants a Wife, Domestic Blitz, The Mentalist, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Crime Investigation Australia, CSI, CSI: NY, Without a Trace and Cold Case.

And there is still more Two and a Half Men coming in the first quarter, meaning Home Run, Nine’s new 7pm reality show is unlikely to launch before April.

Other shows expected after April will likely include Eleventh Hour, Singing Bee, RPA, Little Britain, Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares, Trouble in Paradise, The Unusuals, Seven Deadly Sins, Missing Pieces, CSI: Miami, Rescue Squad, Toasted & Roasted, Hell’s Kitchen, The Gift, Animal Emergency, Random Acts of Kindness and Missing Persons Unit.

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  1. absolutely nothing that i am excited about. this just makes me want to see 7’s lineup even more. 2009 i am predicting will be a big deja vu for 9 only worse.

    9 seems to go around a carousel of new flops ever y year. last year = “monster house, my kids a star, power of 10, the chopping block, ramsay x3, canal road, fire 000, and search and rescue,” this year = for richer or poorer, when i grow up, wipeout australia, local heroes, crusoe, L2L aus.

    20 to 1 and domestic blitz are both returning? which one will take the 6:30 sun slot. DB might stay in its monday slot. the choice will be important because it will probably be up against sunday night, which 9 will be wanting to destroy (good luck).

    if sea patrol and underbelly were returning in a few weeks you would think that there would be a bigger promotion atm.

  3. US Who Do You Think You Are,surely another show they will bury.Can’t see where it fits with their desire for younger demo’s.

    Belongs on its natural home – SBS.

  4. also does this mean that us melbournians will see season 2 underbelly before season 1. will we ever see season 1

    i’m assuming that 9 will now show the seasons in time order and air season 1 after season 3 if the ban is lifted by 2010.

  5. Not really anything much there to get me interested.

    Crusoe, i really will be surprised if this lasts or makes it on the air. I saw the first episode, and while I did enjoy it, it fits into the xena, Hercules type category of, a bit cliche, just a fun over the top sort of family adventure show. I will watch though, i just don’t see it being something the mainstream would enjoy. Timeslot would be crucial for this to succeed. It really is like a saturday night 7.30 timeslot type show. Or maybe sunday 6.30.

  7. well this time last year we were looking at this page seeing monster house, my kids a star, power of 10, the chopping block, ramsay x3, canal road, fire 000, and search and rescue. none of them were any good and either were their ratings.

    can’t really say that any of the new shows have improved in quality or potential. ch9 are looking down this year, they don’t even have powerhouses ramsay and 2.5 men to fall back on, like they did last year.

    and 60 mins isn’t there. does anyone know if 60mins will retrurn in feb this year or in late march like last year. if it is late, they are giving sunday night a free head start which will kill 60mins future.

  8. I cant believe 9 are continuing with 2.5 Men in the 7pm timeslot. If we remember back to beginning of this year, it was struggling to get 800k in the 7pm timeslot. Why??? Because ten actually had decent competition in The Biggest Loser, as it will again this year. 9 are going to kill that show as fast as they turned it into a hit, not that im complaining…

    CSI Miami and Cold Case for me. The rest…..*projectile vomits*

  11. well the only show i will be watching on 9 in the first quarter is ladette to lady, which i think is 9’s best show, and that is saying something.

    in the rest of the year, its interesting to see ramsay in there, i thought they had given up on him. also does this mean they will be super un-fasttracking 11th hour

    i also might watch the unusuals later in the year, sounds like a cop version of scrubs, and i love scrubs.

    quite unimpressive really, especially for a year that is so vital for 9 to do well in before their financial issues get the best of them.

  13. hmmm. nothing for me, i might rewatch the mentalist, if they end up showing it.

    it will be interesting to see how 9 deals with the competition with PTTR, last year 2.5men, underbelly and NCIS barely made a dint in it.

    jules lund’s for richer, for poorer: god help us (is this what has come of ‘here come the newlyweds’)

  14. Alex, nine keeps emphasizing their desire for younger demos, and Fringe and Chuck especially skew young. Yet they seem to make their frequent scheduling amendments based on total people, not demos. Fringe has extremely good demos in the US, but not sure about here – they were as good as the mentalist with half the viewers. Plus, Chuck and PD haven’t even aired here, so how can anyone say that it would have failed. It’s called variety in the schedule, which nine seems to have very little of.

  17. 9 is looking very promising this year. What is When I Grow Up and will Whats Good For You be on weekly or just specials. Most looking forward to Underbelly, Sea Patrol, The Mentalist, CSI and Wipeout. Whilst i love 2.5 men i think airing it 5 times a week is a mistake and could potentially kill the show

  18. I’m lucky that every single one of the shows Nine has screwed around with I haven’t liked – Pushing Daisies, Chuck, Fringe.

    Honestly, people can’t expect Nine to continue with shows that few people will watch.

    On another note – will Sea Patrol be in the first quarter? I was under the impression it will be in around April like this year. Can’t wait for the new season!

  19. Heaps of these shows I can’t wait for
    esp Sea Patrol, Underbelly 2 , Farmer want’s a wife,
    Lady to Ladette, Crime Investigation Australia, Cold case, WOAT
    Domestic Blitz, The Mentalist
    Channel 9 looks promising, hope they can deliver and become the
    #1 station again.

  21. Wow.

    Unlike last year – when they promised things like Pushing Daisies – 2009 sets a new standard in empty promises from Nine.

    For 2009, they’re not promising *anything* good. And I bet they still don’t show half of it 🙂

  23. Don’t even bother watching Crusoe. It’s not rating well in the States, and Nine will just take it off air within a couple of weeks anyway, even if it survives in the States.

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