Nine pins revival on new series
Nine has several new shows to screen before the end of the year, and it will need them to take on its rivals.
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Nine may not be having the best of times lately, but it has several new shows to screen before the end of the year, and it will surely need them to take on its rivals.
They include the premiere of the local adaptation of The Apprentice featuring Mark Bouris and the next season of Aussie Ladette to Lady (pictured).
There is also a local version of Secret Millionaire in which wealthy folk mingle unknown amongst deserving groups in a bid to be philanthropic.
Factual series Money for Jam features Paul Clitheroe, Shane Crawford and Shelley Craft.
The Real Hustle is hosted by Gyton Grantley and looks at confidence tricks and scams.
Nine is also expected to return The Singing Bee, Flashpoint and The Mentalist.
Then there is the anticipated UK series Survivors about a group of bewildered survivors living in the aftermath of a devastating virus which wipes out 99.9% of the world’s population. This BBC series is a remake of a 1970s series of the same name.
Nine also has the 2009 ARIA Awards.
The shows follow on top of Nine’s regular programming including Farmer Wants a Wife, Rescue: Special Ops, Getaway, 60 Minutes, Hot Seat, Today and more.
Also sitting on its programming slate, possibly for 2010, are V, Underbelly 3, The Middle, The Forgotten, Past Life, Hank, Human Target, Rapid Response and the US version of Who Do You Think You Are?
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So if this is what Nine will rely on to keep their ratings going then they obviously have no clue at all do they?
Terrible lineup of shows. The only one I’d be possibly interested in is Survivors.
Bindi, if Nine’s previous performance with Fringe is any indication, they’ll just do their own editing hack job on it to get its length down and remove anything that might shock the blue-rinse core audience of the channel.
Their disrespectful treatment of it drove me to sourcing episodes elsewhere long before they axed it from the main Nine channel.
Still waiting for the Nine staffer to show up as usual in these comments to tell me that I just hate Nine and I’m biased and don’t know quality programming when I see it. Guess we’ll have to wait till Monday, since they don’t get paid overtime any longer 😉
I thought The Apprentice ship had sailed years ago, but I’m a sucker so I’ll give the Australian version a shot.
I’ve watched a couple of those quick previews for Money For Jam on Channel 9’s website and I still can’t get past how strange that title is. “And that’s another way you can save Money for Jam.” … is this really an expression that everybody in Australia but me uses?
The most disappointing part of this line up is they don’t seem to have saved a spot for more Commercial Breakdown: Adults Only edition … which is a damn shame…
New shows – nah.Looks like More of same rubbish to me.
Can I have the odds please on shows lasting more than 2 weeks in same timeslot ?
What about hey hey its saturday? might not be the best line up but nine is tryin so we have to give them a little bit of a thumbs up. Nine, we’re in the middle of a recession. I dont think people want to watch millionaires giving away cash. it makes all of us look like losers. as for the other shows, i think nine is making a recovery. 2008 gave nine a little hope as they did quite well but masterchef on ten plus homemade and apc both being flops meant nine derailed a bit. Nine cant win on this line up, especially with seven’s, but it can at least try to.
well done channel 9
They mention Hank, but not Community? Looking forward to Survivors (if it ever shows up) and will check out The Apprentice, but I’m not expecting much. Hope they treat V right.
Travis, after Nine told me this week When I Grow Up pilot may not get picked up I left it off the list.
Scammers = The Real Hustle, a mix of Aus and international scams.
Frontman: adbertising…. a new Nine buzz word for adBERTising? Lol.
Keeps on getting better and better all the time…
LOL @ Richard Wilkins comment
Where’s Scammers?
Not much interest in that load. Nine is really the equivalent of NBC (which stands for Never Been Cr@pier) if you look at what they serve up US audiences!
If that’s all they have, I pronounce the patient dead!
Hmm, The Mentalist and Flashpoint are OK. (Maybe Underbelly as well)
The rest, is just trashy crap TV which is cheap to make (and it shows).
When will CH 9 get their act together before they go out of business due to lack of adbertising revenue.
The content isn’t Nine’s core problem. It’s the programmers and their inability to let an audience grow through sticking with a consistent schedule.
Doesn’t sound very promising.
The Singing Bee, Flashpoint, both failed. Ladette to Lady failed. And in this economy, do we really want to watch a millionairre pretending to be one of us common folk. Not one of them shows appeals to me
mostly it’s just more of the same but i might give survivors a chance now that they have GO! as an insurance policy, hoping V will start out on GO! coz i don’t think 9 will have redeemed itself enough in that time for people to watch it on 9. need to know more about the plots of some of the others before i decide if i’ll watch or not. also i just realised that the pilot of fringe is not going to fit into the 1 hour slot 9 has given it, are they spliting it in two or something?
Nothing startling in that line up for 9 !! I think 7, 10 and the ABC have much more interesting content.
Plus When I Grow Up.
Can’t wait for the Apprentice!!!!!!
Only two shows there I really look forward to: the Mentalist, and V.
Nine does have a few good things coming, Underbelly and The Mentalist are a givens but I don’t see Flashpoint coming back, maybe a move to GO!.
V looks interesting with updated CGI but scifi never seems to work on Nine. Again maybe it will go strait to GO! after a Sunday Premiere on the main Nine channel. Survivors is good and the upside is it’s only 6 parts so might do it’s run on the main channel but the promos have vanished so it might turn into another Primeval.
Speaking of when will Primeval come back, I thought it might be on GO! but nothing yet, and while on the what of the remaining Everwood, Joan of Arcadia and Gilmore Girls making a nice combo one night on GO!?
Is The Real Hustle an australian version of the UK series or is Gyton Grantley just narrating clips from the other show?
What a poor lineup of shows. This item should be read with the Funeral March playing softly behind.
Wow, what a lineup. Of absolute garbage.
The one exception there is Survivors, which is actually very good. And even better when seen without ads and a great big watermark, as those who acquired the BBC version already know 🙂
Incidentally, I shudder just thinking about what Nine will do to the ARIA Awards. And I suspect potential nominees are already planning their strategies for avoiding Richard Wilkins, lest they suddenly be announced as dead.