Here’s an amendment that even TV Tonight missed in the flurry of changes that have been coming through this week.
Do you want the good news or the bad news (well you already read the headline, right?).
As of Monday Nine will be screening The Ellen DeGeneres Show twice daily, once at 12pm and another late at night.
It starts the late nighters at 11:30pm Monday 16th and continues weeknights, usually at the same time (Friday is pushed to 1:30am). Nine has been re-screening Ellen recently on 9HD.
The bad news is it has backtracked on plans to show the third season of Weeds as a result, including on 9HD. Other late night fillers including Just Shoot Me, Seinfeld are also gone.
To be clear, the afternoon edition of Ellen will remain the first edition off the satellite, with a repeat in the evenings. Meanwhile she moves off 9HD, to be replaced by a variety of shows including Notes from the Underbelly (not that underbelly!), specials with the Gardening Gurus, Stingers etc.
No doubt a regular late night slot will impact on The Late Show with David Letterman on TEN.
If channel nine arnt going to show weeds at decent time or keep changing there mind when they are going to show it. then they should give up the viewing rights to the show to another tv station that will air it. Weeds is the greatest show out there at present its not just about dope dealing it has pleanty of sex and important issues about family delamers and shows how are mother can cope under pressure and come out on top as being a responsible mother to her children despite her illegal activites. Boo to channel nine for being so slack give the series to channel 7. No wonder channel nine has lost its number 1 rankings they dont know a good show even if it slaps them in the face. Weeds is one of the number 1 shows for ratings in the U.S.A. it could be here to.
What the hell is wrong with 9? I don’t know how they stay on air. Does anyone actually watch them anymore? There’s very little interesting things on and I’ve already given up on The Mentalist and Flashpoint due to their incompetence (downloads all the way). The only shows I tape are Cold Case (not the best show so it’s not worth downloading, which is why I tape it) and CSI:Miami (and I’ll be surprised if it’s actually on).
Just found out that Weeds will not be on at all today, such a shame
thanks David for the Link.
Shock! Horror!
Channel 9 shows comtempt for fans of cult-hit shows!
I think it’s time that US productions took a stand and put in their contracts with oz fta networks that they have (for example) 12 months to show a series (or a particular season of it) or it is rights are deemed void and resold to pay tv or another fta network to be shown asap and/or for dvd release asap.
Surely this behaviour damages the potential of programs, with internet and dvd piracy so prevalent these days…
Interesting, this site has a poll on Freeview too atm…
Who cares if the ‘flagship’ stations can’t even be trusted…
Clealry they just don’t care!!!
I can’t stand Ellen, she’s so fake.
Nine has the worst line up IMO. Let see what happens once the cricket is over.
I wonder if ch 9 bowed to pressure from family/religious groups re Weeds or if they really just suck at running a tv station?
Agree with ‘Grinspoon’ and have to ask who are Nine catering to late at night with repeating Ellen ? I would have thought Ellen appeals to mainly women and 11-30 pm hardly seems the right time.
Weeds and other quirky shows would easily catch a cult following if people knew the show was guaranteed to be on each week for 8 weeks in a row.
Just who are Nine pinching their schedule at ?
It certainly is not me not most folk that post on this site.
Weeds is an awesome show!!! Ch 9 what are you doing?
does anyone know when the new season is comnig out in the States…can’t wait to see what happens.
Mike Beckham is right. Nine does have a supply deal with ABC for its News and real-life programs. If Ten can get Letterman from CBS then perhaps Nine can get a late-night show from ABC. However, I’m sure we all remember the treatment Nine gave to Letterman, especially in the last six months. So who is to say that Nine won’t misuse the rights to Jimmy Kimmel as well. Anyway, its Nine’s fault for losing Letterman and I will stick to Letterman anyway. Didn’t Nine even only show Letterman in 4:3 during the year and a half since Letterman changed to 16:9 High Definition? Did Nine even bother to notice that Letterman changed to HD when it happened in August 2005?
Don’t Nine has a ABC deal though? JKL! would come under that? Surely wouldn’t cost much and would probably compete better at that timeslot.
Basically a pox on all their houses! We have waited more than a year for this series let alone series 4 and it is dumped before it is even screened. I refuse to watch Underbelly because of the way it will be treated by 9 so they can screen it at 8.30 and I refuse to watch Flashpoint after the way they treated the ” sneak peek” and teh fact it now holds no character interest. Have to wonder who taught these clowns how to operate a business…
Those other hosts are all great, but Nine already had the rights to Ellen.
What demographic would the Ellen DeGeneres Show appeal to that be watching tv late at night? Is the demographic range so large that a huge chunk misses out and demanding it be on in a different timeslot?
If they really wanted to compete to letterman, they should snap up the jay leno show when that starts.. although leno is suck ass robot. They’d be better getting something like Jimmy Kimmel Live!.. but i guess they don’t want people under 50 watching.
This is why the networks here fail and why the younger demographics all are shifting to illegal means, dvds and cable. You can’t get much beyond shows aimed at housewives and old people on the networks. They concept of having a show on and letting it find a following seems to be non existent any more. It’s always.. people like this, lets repeat it and show it as much as possible.. see gordon ramsy (which i do like KN, but it was overkill), or two and a half men, or how ever many cop crime shows, or lifestyle shows. Isn’t 9s whole stratergy for this year, feel good lifestyle shows? It’s such short term thinking, because it encourages more and more people, the younger segments to turn to other means for video entertainment in their homes, and these are the people the advertisers want to sell to.
Personally i was loving sienfeld on late at night. Why don’t they put that on earlier and replace one of the many showings of two and a half men they seem to have on a couple times a night.
Actually i was enjoying the Seinfeld reruns before bedtime
Re: Weeds: I now feel quite vindicated for acquiring it from Channel BT, in that case.
When I’ve caught Ellen I’ve found her entertaining, but it’s not something I make an effort to watch. But good for her. It’s not often someone can come out and still become very successful in TV. Actually it’s kind of ironic, because didn’t Nine refuse to air the full series of “Ellen”, including the coming out episode?
just rented the season 2 dvd so i could catch up before season 3, obviously that was a waste of time, i should have known, i mean it is 9 after all. they are still number 1- in lowering viewers expectations to the point they leave.
Secret Diary is 10:30, Ellen 11:30.
David, does this mean they’ve also bumped Season 2 of Secret Diary of a Call Girl as well?
Very annoyed, but hardly suprised. Weeds is great, Ellen is over-exposed and boring.
Yes why doesn’t ch9 have/want Conan or Leno?
Oops, Now I did it!
*Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Fallon is taking over Conan’s show.
No wonder 9 isn’t number 1 anymore and it seems it’ll stay that way till they get someone fresh in their programming department, there is no way that i would’ve made this programming change.
i cant believe this
grrr
ellens on a million times a day
weeds is on like once a year
just release the dvds then
dont even bother
Why doesn’t Nine show ‘Jimmy Fallon Live!’ or something if they want a weeknightly late night show.
I presume Seven can only air Leno/Conan (along with Comedy).?
Maybe Channel Nine doesn’t know that Weeds is a good show. They should know that it’s been nominated for several Emmy’s (best comedy) and won several as well (including best actress). Nine, shame on you for not airing Weeds
Not happy. I was really enjoying Just Shoot Me and Seinfeld.
As a viewer without Foxtel, but with a TiVo, even the times when they were showed weren’t that bad, because I could watch them later.
Now, not to be.
Maybe we’ll see them on the belated Nine 2 channel.
If this is the way nine intends to treat viewers this year (Weeds fan myself), the only time my remote will see the 9 button will be Underbelly (because we *know* that won’t be axed) and the NRL.
Sorry nine. You’ve consistantely demonstrated that lack of consistant programme schedule is not an issue to your viewers.
Now if only I had a people meter to let Nine know…
Maybe oz channels could be more like the BBC. They often premiere shows on BBC3 a digital channel and if succesful it migrates to BBC2 a free to air channel and then if very popular to BBC1. Examples are Torchwood, Gavin and Stacey,
If ch 9 want to make a big splash here, they could show Ellen fast tracked by just a few hours. At 10.30pm or so, they’d be showing it a few hours behind the US. Then there’d be a point to doing this. Otherwise, agree with Tomothy – no need for it to be on this much.
I like Ellen but really do they need it twice a day on FTA?
I’ve seen Weeds (all season that have aired int he US) but was enjoying the HD Seinfeld in 16×9.
At this rate I may as well just buy S3 of Weeds from the US. S4 is coming available for preorder on Amazon as well…
Congrats Nine, ou had a chance to get me to watch you – I love Weeds.
Ellen, I can live without and why showa repeat lateatnight when you have a quirky show that viewers want to see.
That’s right, you don’t know how to promote quirky shows or sci fi or …
First you stuff up Flashpoint, you lost me after first out of order sneak peak ep – btw how many sneak peaks did Flashpoint have (5 ??)
Looks like late at night it is Channel 2 or the radio.
Memo channel Nine stop listening to the same folk that continually praise all your shows and start listening to the hordes that are leaving you in droves.
Hmmmm…………..I really have nothing to say, Weeds dumped in favour of a daytime chat show, that already gets aired at midday?!? I know Ellen has appeal but please show some new eps of Weeds.
Nine weren’t wrong when they said there were going to chop and change shows like hot potatoes this year – they’re not even making it to air.
These a dumb decisions, for the sake of making some fans happy Nine still can’t get it right. I’m not a Seven Fanboy but Nine really need to take a leaf out of their book and learn how to utilitse their late night slots appropriately. Its really fustrating.
shows scheduled to air during ratings to be cut tally (regardless of intention), please no one ask me to rephrase this time
ABC: -
SBS: -
7: -
10: -
9: the big bang theory, ramsay’s kitchen nightmares USA, CSI:NY, RPA, weeds
(we won’t include cut repeats)
@mikey, the reason is, according to 9, the 2nd SD will take until july to get up and running.
Thanks for that run down David, but I guess it is still open to interpretation. In my eyes, Weeds was axed from 9′s schedule.
FTA networks could (and should!) fill their second SD channel’s with all the shows they’re too gutless to show on the main channel. Why the hell not, they’ve already paid for the shows.
Use of the term “axing” is debatable. Traditionally it applies to a show that has aired and been dumped.
What we have here are shows that are amendments and clearly have not aired. TV Tonight and similar online sites have wedged in to report scheduling, but it is not a precise art. Historically programmers have ALWAYS planned shows then changed those before a show aired, and in some cases, before print guides went out. They weren’t considered axings then, and they really shouldn’t be just because we now have more up to date ways of bringing you the info. The art of being a programmer includes the skill of responding to a schedule -without it always being accused of axings. I’m not even convinced Big Bang Theory was actually planned to run, so much as to throw off the opposition.
That said, we know the climate of dumping and amending changes in Australia has accelerated to the point of lunacy. There are no excuses for this growing contempt towards the audience or for guides full of TBAs.
But a scheduling amendment for a show that has not even aired and the axe are two different things.
oh ffs. Thats an absolutely pathetic move by channel 9.
So that’s 9′s third axing now, following Big Bang and RPA – which ironically was also axed from the schedule before it was given a go.
If it wasn’t for Underbelly, Nine would be a lost cause. Fringe, Gossip Girl, Nip/Tuck, E.R., Weeds… how many other shows don’t they want us to see?
Why do this? It is already on Arena in the morning and late night, plus it is on Arena+2. They dont need the same show airing 6 times on one day.
Nine. Just show the 3rd season of Weeds will ya? It’s a good show. It’s continues to get nominated for Emmys for best comedy and best actress. So Nine, hint hint, it’s a good show and air it!!!! Thanks
Bugger I was looking forward to Weeds. An interesting move but I won’t be able to watch Ellen late at night except when Letterman starts later then usual.