Reality fans you have been heard.
TV Tonight took the questions to Nine and Seven on the absence of Survivor and The Amazing Race from our screens.
In the case of Survivor there are now two full seasons (Gabon & Tocantins) that have aired in the US. One more season of The Amazing Race has also been run and won on CBS.
So where are they?
Both networks indicated the franchises are still important to them, and both indicated they would be coming.
Seven confirmed The Amazing Race would return in July. There are 4 more eps of Private Practice to air, so if it returns to 9:30pm Thursday, it could begin as early as July 9, though Seven isn’t saying.
Despite some speculation that Survivor is being held for Nine’s new entertainment channel, a spokesperson confirmed it is still “very much” in the mix for broadcast on its primary channel.
Nine was unable to indicate how far off a new series would be, only to indicate the scheduling of it “in the coming months.”
So there you have it…
It’s on GO! August 11.
Come on nine, give us survivor, what ever time you put it on enough people will watch it!!!!!!!!! please don’t put it on any new channel you may have in the works as not all people have this yet.
Loving amazing race!!!!!
But, please having Survivor withdrawals!!!!!!!!
Okay, I’m really disappointed to hear that Survivor may or may not be shown.
I wonder if Networks are aware that some areas don’t even have digital let alone the new channels they are talking about. I had to disconect the set top box to receive just the normal channels let alone HD/digital etc, and were flat out getting a decent reception either.
So much for Channel 9 showing Survivor: Gabon last summer as it promised. It’s 6 months later now and still nothing despite “being important” to them. We’ll probably have seen Samoa before Gabon is even shown on pathetic Channel 9. Really hoping that season 20 is All-Stars, given that it’s being filmed back to back in Samoa.
This is the worst news I’ve ever read. These two junkie and jokes of shows coming back to FTA TV. Pi**’em off for good.
I loved the new Survivor – Tocantins, I recently watched the latest series, in the words of Molly… do yourself a favour, and watch it. It will have you hooked in the first 10 minutes. Amazing how you never get tired of this show. Survivor is the best, chuck out the rest.
Where is sevens 2nd sd channel
i have finished watching the amazing race 14 2 days ago after it arrived in the mail from my trusted Survivor and amazing race dvd guy.
i have all seasons of the race and so much better watching it all in one sitting then each week…
Thanks very much David for following through on these favourites of ours.
As per Andrew, I have faith in seeing the TAR on 7 but not with 9 & Survivor.
Ditto on Lewis’ comments.
I have the faith that 7 will show the Amazing Race, yes. It was July or after Olympics last year when they put it on.
As for 9, I have no faith at all as to when they will show anything. And no doubt Survivor is “in the mix” with 20 other shows they have the right to and are not airing or are seasons behind – none of which will ever be seen until 20-1, 2.5 men, etc stop rating well enough to justify the overload and bombardment of repeats just because they are cheap to air. All of their shows not yet aired or axed are definitely enough to fill a new channel prime time, it will be very disappointing if the new channel becomes nothing more than more of the same, with none of these shows getting a look in.
@PH: I ‘really want to watch these TV shows’, but I haven’t seen them yet. I can’t afford sufficient internet speed/size to be able to download TV shows. Not everyone has acceess to the internet to find their TV.
@Casey: Ratings may have been on the decline, but when Nine showed Micronesia late last year at 10.30 on a Tuesday, it pulled 550,000+ per episode. Have a look at what the current crop of 10.30 shows are getting. And keep in mind that when Micronesia was finally aired in Aus, it was 9 months old.
Thanks David!
If Flash Forward doesn’t start til September, why on earth are ch 7 promoting it now? It is that ” What did you see?”
Got tired waiting. Already watched TAR14, and it’s one of the best yet.
I expect Bones to move to 8.30 Wednesdays once Criminal Minds finishes in 4 weeks, as DWTS is taking over the Sunday slot. Amazing Race is probably headed for Thursdays 9.30pm
Maybe the newtorks are purposely keeping it on the shelf, so viewers will miss them heaps, and then when it comes back, they will watch it. This is smart, but could backfire, as you can just download them off the internet.
If 7 & 9 were to schedule these shows while they are still new I wouldn’t bother ********ing them and would happilly pay attention to the advertisers commercial breaks weekly. But 7 & 9 don’t care enough so I do do the dirty thing.
Yous snooze you lose.
So much for the “Now being fast tracked!” spin we were hearing from the networks last year. They’re back to their usual treatment of viewers…
Flash Forward doesn’t start until September, so it won’t be that just yet.
Thanks for the info David. I can’t wait for TAR to come back.
if thursdays are going to be completely cleared up on 7 jerome i wonder if it might become amazing race 7:30, flash forward 8:30 (they are now advertising this a fair bit so it has to be soon), don’t know what at 9:30. i’m hoping they finally get around to stargate atlantis too, they are 2 seasons behind on it as well.
It’s hard to believe Nine’s considers Survivor ‘important’, when its Aus ratings have been on the decline in recent years, hence the reason new episodes get relegated to 10.30 pm timeslots these days, which is fair enough.
As others have noted those who really want to watch these shows have already done so and without the incredible amount of advertisements that the tv stations seem to pack in.
FTA has a future if, and only if the station owners realise that things have changed and they they are merely one of many different sources for viewers to obtain the product. If one source wont provide the product then another will, and in this case cheaper and at better quality.
I like many others have already seen Gabon and Tocantins but when channel nine airs them I will still watch them to support the show so we get Samoa and season 20 and more.
Two seasons in Samoa? You know they must be doing big for season 20.
Those of us who want to see them have already got them online
When will these network wake up! it’s 2009 not 1959.
Yes I referenced Survivor: Samoa a while ago, although two seasons there is very interesting!
I think it’s fairly safe to say that the don’t actually know if and when they’ll show these shows, especially in Nine’s case… Their scheduling is a week to week activity, so really we’ll just have to do as the schedulers do and “see what happens”.
Yay! Best TV news I’ve heard in a long time. Thank you David. Good to know I haven’t avoided all those internet spoilers for nothing.
Amazing Race is a 7:30pm show, not a 9:30pm show. Doesn’t really matter to me. I’ve already seen season 14. New Zealand also is showing season 14 of TAR currently too.
Just heard from a friend in Somoa that Survivor are fliming the next 2 seasons in Somoa back to back…a one week break beyween the 2 of them. A good way to save on the budget!
Nine was unable to indicate how far off a new series would be, only to indicate the scheduling of it “in the coming months.”
Right after the run of 8 reruns of 2 1/2 men per week comes to a close…and people run out of embarrassing illnesses…
Call them answers? Gee if that’s what Seven and Nine call an answer then that’s pretty pathetic! It’s such a shame 2 brilliant Reality TV Seires like these have been treated so poorly by the networks. It’s obvious that Survivor & Race have many Australian fans that have been waiting very patiently for the new seasons to air, and from the looks of things we will be waiting even longer
Argh! At least TAR seems to be coming soon…
What does it really matter when you can get them via the internet. This is the future! FTA is a dying service.
This is typical of Nine (and to a lessor extent Seven) to say a show is important but hold off airing it for 2 series! when are they going to learn people have easy access to the Internet and can watch them within hours of their original broadcast and not wait 2 years.
Looking forward to it. Stuff like Random acts of kindness just makes me gag…
thank you for the info david
good to see two of my favorite reality show coming back to tv
Already seen then…. Just not good enough in this day and age!!
Nine knows all too well that the vast majority of Survivor fans have already seen the two seasons they haven’t shown. “In the mix”, bollocks. Presumably “the mix” is that box of tapes of shows that get scheduled as filler when viewers aren’t important to the bean counters at Nine and scam infomercials and porn ads pay the power bills.
It still amuses me that this network more than any other can complain about “illegal” downloading of TV shows, yet refuse to give their viewers one of the shows that could help turn that trend around – instead preferring endless 20 To 1 filler and endless, endless 2.5 Men and CSI.
Nine, to paraphrase a line from a famous Stephen King novel: you bought it. Now you own it – and the consequences.
Thanks for making the effort to do that David.
As much as I’d love to watch Survivor here in HD, I’m not waiting for 9 to make up their mind. Also, going on 9′s previous history, they’d only screw up the scheduling anyway.
No wonder people prefer other ways of enjoying their fave shows.
Oh and speaking of Survivor, I recently watched the latest series and it’s amazing how after all this time, it can still have you on the edge of your seat and it never gets tired. Survivor is still king of the reality shows.
private practice, greys anatomy and ghost whisperer all finish within weeks of each other especially if there are double finals. so 7 will have a completely new look thursday they could put TAR at 7:30, 8:30 or 9:30.