Channel Nine will premiere its new renovation series homeMADE after the Easter non-ratings break.
Previously titled Home Run, the series is developed by The Chopping Block‘s Julian Cress and David Barbour. Both also created The Block. Interior designers will battle it out as they make over everyday Australian family homes. The homes will be the stage where “the designers will wage war on each other until only one remains and takes out the ultimate prize.”
The series, hosted by Sydney interior designer David Heimann, is expected to be stripped across the 7pm timeslot. Nine promises: “Lucky families. Skilled designers. Over $1 million dollars of renovations. It’s the biggest renovation competition ever. Get ready for absolutely stunning home makeovers spiced with the drama of elimination in a massive new series.”
homeMADE is one of several new series Nine will launch after Easter.
It will be joined by the Jerry Bruckheimer mystery series Eleventh Hour. It stars Rufus Sewell as a biophysicist and Special Science Advisor to the FBI who is brought in to investigate crimes of a scientific or paranormal nature.
Sea Patrol is back with a cliffhanger, in which someone will die. Joining the series, subtitled “Red Gold,” are Jessica Napier, Blair McDonough and Tasma Walton.
Nine also has more ‘blue sky’ television coming.
You Saved My Life will bring look at stories of survival and reunite heroic Australians and the survivors they rescued.
Missing Pieces locates lost friends and relatives, hosted by Peter Overton.
Continuing series will include Underbelly, Domestic Blitz, The Mentalist, Crime Investigation Australia, CSI, 20 to 1, Two and A Half Men and the State of Origin series.
Due later in 2009 are Australia’s Perfect Couple, Random Acts of Kindness, Trouble in Paradise and “high-octane drama” Rescue (previously titled Rescue Squad). There is also more Ladette to Lady, Secret Millionaire, The Farmer Wants a Wife, What’s Good For You, RPA and Celebrity Singing Bee.
Also on the “to do” list are more Flashpoint, Little Britain, Without a Trace and comedy procedural The Unusuals which stars Amber Tamblyn as a cop with a twisted sense of humour.
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In fairness, it’s still too early for that. These things take longer to get going, especially from scratch. I’d say latter part of the year.
No mention of the Claudia Carvan-Ghost & Mrs Muir re-do.
I smell another let down of Young Doctors re-do proportions
I hate to admit this, for fear of copping flack, but I’m actually looking forward to more Sea Patrol…
If only so I can see Ian Stenlake attempt to act his way out of a paper bag. The term “wooden” doesn’t do that man any justice.
We loved the “Block”- I am sure they have included some new twist to the new “Home Made” program…Really looking forward to something new instead of the same old dramas… Boring..
@ Andrew, 9′s 2nd SD will be august at the earliest (with strong indications it will not be this year) this post is about after easter.
Couldn’t agree more, tvaddict.
The whole concept of non-ratings is dated and uncessary especially since you still get ratings figures during this time, advertisers still advertise and viewers still watch TV – sometimes even more than usual.
I liken the concept to all your favourite shops and restaurents closing for 2 weeks being replaced by dodgy alternatives for that time. Ridiculous. FTA TV bad enough without non-ratings schedule interuptions.
people still watch TV over Holiday breaks, especially in this economy there will be less people going on holidays & even if people go to the beach house or whatever they still watch TV! (specially with Melbs weather it will probably be too cold for night time strolls on the beach) surely the holidays don’t affect ratings that much that they have to piss off regular viewers by interrupting the schedule??
Still no word on a second channel then, Nine?
I like to call them ‘factual crap’.
I notice some of the titles that sound pathetic – that called ‘You Saved My Life’ LOL
yeah, bring back Survivor and Weeds!
Wow. That is one yawn of a schedule. The only thing remotely interesting in that list is Eleventh Hour, but there’s really no point in watching that as they’ll probably dump it after screening it twice. Gosh, Nine is terrible.
Where is Survivor!!!!!!! Come on channel nine.
Eleventh Hour is quite a good show, if you can get past the boring pilot. It gets better with each episode. Since i haven’t watched Fringe, i can’t draw comparisons between the two, but Eleventh Hour has scientific conclusions which make sense.
Of course, i can no longer watch it since i am no longer in the USA……(I’ve never been there)
While I have not watched Sea Patrol my decision is confirmed as right when they need this “Sea Patrol is back with a cliffhanger, in which someone will die.”.
I have always thought that the mark of a excellent show that is confident in itself, such as a lot of the HBO shows, is the season ends without a ‘cliffhanger’.
I will watch the 1st few shows of Eleventh Hour and if I like it wait until the DVD’s come out as I cannot rely on channel 9 to show the entire series as they have time and time again.
Who does channel 9 have Pay TV ties with?
This post is basically a confirmation that seven will win 2009 as well. What a load of rubbish. Just the same old dribble, bottom of the barrel imported shows, rushed and cheap aussie reality/doco shows, same old formats, 1 comedy (2.5 men, ohh yay…), network knock offs (missing pieces, saved my life)
They promised Eleventh Hour for February…and here we are mid March, with April being the earliest we see it. I’m not holding my breath though, we’ve seen how sci fi rates, and then how 9 treat these sort of shows *sigh*
yep same old 9 blah, i won’t watch any, 11th hour might be my cup of tea but after recording and not watching fringe for fear they would axe it and then being proven right, i won’t even bother recording this one. but while we are calling for stuff to come back, primeval is probably top of my list, then weeds and gossip girl. and even though personally i have bought the moonlight dvd i will still say it for all those who haven’t, and btw stocks have sold out all over the place there are plenty of people eagerly awaiting the next batch from warner.
Mostly a bland and tired collection. Where’s the innovation and edge?
When you travelled overseas, yes.
“Eleventh Hour” is a good show. I kind of preferred the UK version with Patrick Stewart, but the Rufus Sewell version is growing on me quite rapidly.
Oops, should I be admitting to having already watched this show?
Only one I will be watching are RPA and state of origin NSW will thrash QLD I wonder how many of them will be huge flops I would say that homemade and Australia’s perfect couple are almost guaranteed to flop
Still no love for Weeds on 9 – just what do we have to do??
“…Interior designers will battle it out as they make over everyday Australian family homes. ..”
I predict by the year 2043 everybody in Oz will have had at least one room or garden made-over by a tv show
brisvega, ur right “11th hour will be gone within a month”
also 11th hour is made by Americas ABC, which i dont think knows how to make cop/FBI type shows, they should stick to brothers and sisters and show of that gender even so i dont watch any of them
channel 7 and 9 programing are about the same untill it hit 8:30pm everynight
then 9 doesnt know what they are doing, i wont be watching homeMADE or most of the other shows, expect underbelly and CI sometimes, i dont get who watches all of these garden/renovation type shows, stick some comedy like big bang theory or buy the office from 10, but i bet 9 will axe that as well.
“Australia’s Perfect Couple, Random Acts of Kindness, Trouble in Paradise” all sound like the same over 50s shows,
“high-octane drama” Rescue
if thats a cop show its gone after 2eps or moved like the mentalist
“11th hour will be gone within a month” + 1
Im interested in how this show might go, because it’s a remake of an english show which wasn’t meant to be too bad at all. But come on, C9 will drop kick it inside a month.
Where is Survivor.
Is it just me or are 9 copying 7 with some of their shows.
Missing Pieces- Find my Family
You Saved My Life- 000 Heroes.
All you people saying Sea Patrol sucks are actually displaying your ignorance. Season 1 of Sea Patrol did suck majorly, but season two was actually a huge improvement IMO and Its a shame that the show still has the perception that its a bad show because of people basing their analysis of it on season one. I hope finally with this season that perception will be lost.
If you analyse the ratings, my theory is also backed up:
Season one started with 1.9 then sank to 1.2.
Season 2 started with 1.2 and then climbed to 1.5 for the rest of the season.
Why would it regain those viewers who abandoned it in season one if there wasn’t any improvement?
Will join the “We want Survivor! chants…
We want Survivor! We want Survivor! We want Survivor!
my prediction timetable
Sun: DB, 60, CSI, CSI:maimi, UB (R)
Mon: 2.5men, customs, UB, CIA, Footy classified
Tues: wipeout, sea patrol, some crime show (NY, flashpoint, or WAT) , bridezillas
Wed: u saved my life, missing pieces, mentalist, 11th hour, cold case
Thurs: getaway, 20to1, footy show
i know tuesday is a bit of a mess but it’s just what fits in
No that’s not right. Expect a major break of sorts by all commercial FTAs from April 5. Some shows may continue…
So will the networks be taking a break over the non-ratings period. If i remember correctly, ch9 went straight through without a break, but seven went on holiday! Is that right?
I think Snore Patrol will go to 2030 Thursday
TVByTheNumbers is saying 11th Hour is likely to be axed in the US due to it having bad retention after CSI…guess this explains why Nine held out on it for so long
As for the rest of the stuff, bleh. Sea Patrol’s premise alone is enough to drive me off, and the rest sounds like more bland procedurals and factual/reality crap. Its also kinda bizarre that they’re going ahead with Secret Millionare again, maybe it’ll get a 10.30 slot somewhere
Enough with the renovations, the gardening, the cooking and the reunions. If I want to learn something I’ll take a class. I want to be entertained by drama, comedy and occasional silliness.
And no survivor…what a surprise.
so without a trace, gossip girl and survivor are not even being considered for a spot yet. also no mention of CSI:miami, maybe thats where 11th hour will go.
david do you think that “post easter schedule” means the week after easter or just sometime after easter because lots of people were saying that sea patrol was taking underbelly’s spot which won’t be for a while.
anyway apart from SP nothing there i will watch and i’m not watching anything on 9 atm so not much at all.
If history is any guide I’d say Eleventh Hour will be gone inside a month…
IMO the “to do” list with Flashpoint, Little Britain, Without a Trace and The Unusuals will be used as summer fillers in Nov/Dec
BTW where is Primeval S2 ?
homeMADE reminds me of TEN’s bomb the Hothouse…wasn’t that stripped at 7pm too?
As usual in these instances, this is never a full list. More will be announced. But it’s good to hear what else fans want.
Home Run was already titled by an Irish series.
HomeMade will get a look in as my Mother-In-Law is will be on it as one of the suppliers! 11th Hour sounds OK. Otherwise not much there for me either. No comment as usual about ER or Survivor.
where is Survivor!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hmm, that’s interesting. I assumed Nana Patrol would get the Underbelly slot when that was over. Looks like it will be getting a new slot, but which night…?
Big Bang Theory is turning into one of the comedy finds of the last few years. And Nine’s giving it away to the ISPs
As for Eleventh Hour… well: “It stars Rufus Sewell as a biophysicist and Special Science Advisor to the FBI who is brought in to investigate crimes of a scientific or paranormal nature.”
Fringe, in other words. I bet Nine gives it three or four weeks at best.
Speaking of Fringe, it’s not on the Nine list, so I presume it’ll get sold to Foxtel despite it being of high quality. It’s on my list, though. In HD and everything.
But then… “homeMADE “? Ah yes, I forgot. Quality is not on Nine’s agenda anymore,
If they can’t put a show on and let it find an audience – but instead just scrabble around between fictional “ratings periods” to find new stuff that they won’t put faith in (The Unusuals doesn’t stand a chance with Nine’s bogan OzTam demographic!) – then I guess we once again get to sit back and watch the fail happen…
whats with all these name changes
australia’s perfect couple… is that by any chance for richer for poorer which was originally here come the newlyweds.
what was wrong with home run. homeMADE makes it sound like a granny daytime lifestyle show and i’m sure 9 want it to come off as reality show with boobs in it.
and “you saved my life” sounds a lot like everyday heroes.
anyway i noticed that there is no wipeout returning. is it only a short season or do they plan to cut it. also no mention of cold case. will it be bumped back to 10:30??
and CIA is returning. we all thought that the underbelly lead in would go to good use after easter but it looks like it was not to be.
nothing for me up there. the mentalist is the only show i would watch but i’ve already seen them.
We are getting so far behind on Survivor, and Nine still refuses to even set a date.
RE Steven: Ten has the rights to Little Britain USA. Nine has the repeat rights to the UK version.
Is it just me, or does this want to make you retch. Apart from The Mentalist, which also needs to do some work to improve, this whole article induced one great yawn.
Nothing still worth watching on 9 now and after Easter, still no metnion of the only good show they have which is the big bang theory.
I thought ten had the rights to Little Britain?
Sea Patrol….Snore Patrol. Why bother?
It is nice to see 9 using some of Foxtel’s programming.