Comments on: Sunday Night shafted for 3 months

By: franz chong

franz chong — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:13:46 +0000

Only One Problem if they were to put Dancing With the Stars on a Wednesday Night.You would lose Earl,How I met your Mother and Family Guy

By: franz chong

franz chong — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:19:55 +0000

that would be nice family guy repeats at 6pm.

Better yet dump that crap known as Today Tonight for It..

I love the Griffins

By: Brad

Brad — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:03:19 +0000

With DWTS and PTTR due to retun at similar times, why not leave SN in place, but follow it in the 7.30 slot with Rafters to try and drive a nail in the 60 minutes coffin on a Sunday night. Then Dancing could go back to the Tuesday slot and re-build its Tuesday night audience.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:35:30 +0000

No Sunday Night is returning. The three month period is allowing them to tweak the show and also able to record some more stories.

By: effdee

effdee — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:26:24 +0000

I’m glad Sunday is gone, should be taken off air!

I’d rather watch DWTS anytime!

By: Paull

Paull — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:40:11 +0000

Next we’ll see 7 wanting to compete with ten’s 6pm simpsons repeats, so they’ll put their 6pm news bulletin on hold for 3 months to air repeats of family guy.

By: jack

jack — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:26:40 +0000

good to see seven staying loyal to a show (Bones) that has rated so well for them since its resurrection a year ago and leaving it on Sundays where it is rating well (1.3 million!). They’d only stuff it up by changing the night or time and lose viewers just like svu has.

i think Bones is rating more than what homicide rated in the 8:30pm Sunday timeslot! Bones repeats will probably return to follow the new episodes when Castle concludes and City Homicide will return to Mondays when Desperate Housewives concludes in August.

By: RichoTB

RichoTB — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:13:41 +0000

As I’ve said before, the smart decision would be to shift Bones to Wed 8.30pm, its already established as Seven’s crime procedural hour and Criminal Minds only has something like 4 episodes to go anyway. That way they could have kept SN where it was at and just had DWTS lead straight in to Castle, which is exactly how it airs in the US (DWTS 8pm-10pm, Castle 10-11pm).

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:46:00 +0000

Is Seven so confident in their news brand that they can afford to do this? My prediction is that Nines news brand will increase in trust and confidence due to the disrespect Seven is giving viewers.

By: Tepee

Tepee — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:27:21 +0000

Echoing most preceding comments, I feel that this is an extremely bad decision. Surely Seven’s supposed “flagship” current affairs program takes priority over DWTS? SN has only started to rate solidly over the past few weeks, and now people who are looking for a current affairs fix are going to flock to 60 Minutes. Plus DWTS will have to compete with the final weeks of the similarly family-oriented Merlin and the ratings behemoth MasterChef, not to mention Nine’s 6:30 sap-fest. We already saw Dancing under-perform on Sundays last year.

By: Dino

Dino — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:52:16 +0000

I’d say that is most likely Craig. They’ll probably just go back to Bones repeats at 9.30 once Castle is finished. I think a 6.30 start will work quite well for Dancing, but as others have noted, it’s not a good move for Sunday Night which is just establishing itself

By: Craig

Craig — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:19:01 +0000

Castle – net week is ep 6 and there are only 10 eps in the first season

Surely DWTS will be 6:30, Bones 8:30, Castle 9:30?

Still a bad decision to cut SundayNight

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:56:34 +0000

I hope it has a major re-tool before it returns. I liked the concept – live, with audience, etc – but it never worked. It needn’t have been live and the audience (who were never actually really factored into the show) were dropped soon enough.
The balance bewteen Ross Coulthart and fluff – some of which hasn’t even been to Today Tonight standards – has been painful. They should get Mike and Nat to do more stories, and have some structured in-studio interviews.
Also the set appears too big and drafty, with its hosts plonked in the middle on dodgy chairs.

By: Neon Kitten

Neon Kitten — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:35:44 +0000

Guy, I guess the problem with Seven having named the show “Sunday Night” is that it kind of limits the nights on which they can schedule it

By: cookieS

cookieS — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:08:29 +0000

don’t watch either show, but stupid stupid stupid move… there, that’s my thought anyway

By: Jerome

Jerome — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 05:42:04 +0000

guy, well i guess whatever they upset someone. i’m just saying that when it comes down to resting bones or resting SN i’d rest Bones. it’s not a serial and other networks do it to their big procedurals all the time. resting a building CA show is insane.

and bones might have to take a few weeks off anyway. episode 1&2 of DWTS are usually scheduled to go for 2hrs15mins but last year episode 2 went for almost 3 hours and this year there are more dancers!! so something (bones or castle) will have to bend.

i guess the most ideal situation would be for them to wait for bones to finish naturally. but i understand that DWTS has to co-ordinate with the UK, US, and NZ versions of the show because of the professional dancers &judges.