Neighbours will be replaced over summer by reruns of Malcolm in the Middle.
TEN will begin the series from the Pilot episode.
Malcolm introduces us to his world, dominated by omnipresent schoolyard bully Spath and made worse by his enforced friendship with Stevie, an asthmatic wheelchair genius.
It begins 6:30pm Monday December 7th.
Why?? on Earth would you take off ‘Malcom in the middle’. One Stupid freakin move channel Ten! How many more stupid decisions do the viewers have to put up with?
y is it off air??? thats just not fair. although, it does say life is unfair, but, its unthinkable to take this awesomely awesome show off air. Put it bak on 10 at6PM! please, me and my friends club (mitmc) r really disapionted that its off air. Channel 10, im asking you, person to person/s please, Please put Malcolm in the Middle bak on at 6pm.
this show is the best i watch it every day
Pfft. Old!! Get this off our TV, Channel TEN! They have even replaced The Simpsons at 6:00pm with this old, boring show. Guess I’ll be watching someting else! >:|
malcom in the middle is my fave show and i think the should replace the 7pm project 4 it i hope is stays on insted of neighbors 4 the whole year!!:)
Malcom in the middle is my favouoite show. I watch it every night. it shoud replace the simpisons and yhe seven pm project.
Yawn, how uninspiring. Im enjoying Leno on 7Two, wont be changing over for MITM repeats.
This is a good decision, though I would hope that at some stage we could have some 70s and 80s sitcoms reappear on FTA (or hell even pay TV – 111Hits is currently the only net playing good 80s shows! and no-one plays the 70s)
It should rate well but why an old comedy to fill the Neighbours timeslot for the summer why not some of those unseen in Australia US teen dramas or maybe bringing back 90210.
Man it will be weird seeing Brian Cranston in this again, after his intense performances in Breaking Bad.
At least they are not doing the same mistake as last year and filling the gap with Bold and the Beautiful over the summer.
Anyone here remember all those complaints Channel 10 got mostly from Simpsons Fans and People with Young Children.Obviously they didn’t learn anything from the Echo Point Days of the Nineties that Soaps and 6pm timeslots are two things that don’t go together.
Woohoo awesome news. I love Malcolm in the Middle. Thank you channel ten for an early xmas present. I was hoping GO might play Malcolm there seeing how it was on the 9 network first.
Justin, 9 did finsh the series, it was axed in the states.
This will be great if they play the entire thing from go to whoa, including unaired episodes and series. (but will they resist the temptation to dick with things, like 9 do?)
Anything is a pleasant break from reality shows, dancing shows, cooking shows and CSI type spinoffs. As for the 7pm Project, good lord, let it die, it’s painful to behold.
This is awesome news. MITM is one of the funniest shows ever IMHO.
I hope they keep airing it when the rating season starts again.
@George
No, it’s 70.
@Stan:
It’s actually more like 88%.
Bruce, Out of the Blue is on Saturdays at midday (2 eps from 12-1).
I thought Ten might have put the NZ show Karaoke High in that slot. It gives Ten its beloved drama content points, and would probably appeal to a similar audience to Neighbours.
When you look at it there are hardly any old shows that are shown on the network that actually first aired them. Let see, Ten now has Dharma & Greg & Will & Grace & MacGiver (previously 7), Malcome & Freinds (prev 9). Seven has MASH and Magnum, which was previously 10 and Murder She Wrote ( prev 9 ). Nearly all of Nines clasic shows on GO! were from 7 or 10 ( with the exception of Scooby Doo, Josie & the Pussycats & Charlies Angels that were originally on nine ). Nine also has Gilligans Island ( prev 10 ). Looks like tradition has gone out the window on tv, just like etticet. Only other exeptions are Golden Girls ( always 7 ) and Skippy ( always 9 ).
Excellent news, hopefully we will see all the episodes shown in widescreen, and finally get to see the final season.
Nine’s rights to Malcolm in the Middle expired, before their Go! channel even started. Nine only showed seasons 1 – 6 in the past, the final season was never shown. Season 6 was actually shown in widescreen, with infrequent episodes on Saturdays, around midday.
@cpandilo: Malcolm in the Middle was produced by Regency and Fox Television Studios (a subsidiary of 20th Century Fox). Ten probably got the rights to Malcolm via its output deal with 20th Century Fox, as Nine held the initial rights to Regency (Consolidated Media, which owned Nine at the time, was the biggest shareholder in Regency).
@Ryano – I agree, and hopefully Ten would put the shows on at a decent time… not just before midnight. Maybe this could be stuff for their new channel.
Channel Nine should have put this on their GO! channel !.
I’m just wondering, when did Channel 10 trade Seinfeld & Just Shoot Me with Channel 9 for Friends & Malcom in the middle. Does any long running sitcom that goes into repeats stay on the network that aired most of it’s original episodes??
Dave, Nine got Just Shoot Me! & Seinfeld, with others such as The Nanny from their studio output deal with Sony, while Ten got Friends, & presumably Malcolm In The Middle as well, by themselves from WB and Regency respectively. There was no trade so to speak.
Oh TEN, give up on the re-runs! They suck diddly ukk. If you ask me I’d watch a show until it is re-tooled. This one failed me. I think they could cut the 7PM project, and put MasterChef on at this time slot between 6:30 and 7:30pm! It will be a killer and knock off even the ACA and TT Fans.
9 never even finished the series, it’s a shame 10 won’t get up to this point so we can see these episodes for the first time, maybe next summer or the one after that.
Christine,
I’m sure 70% of the country that doesn’t have Pay TV would like to disagree with you. But thanks for letting us mere mortals know you have Pay…
I’m just wondering, when did Channel 10 trade Seinfeld & Just Shoot Me with Channel 9 for Friends & Malcom in the middle. Does any long running sitcom that goes into repeats stay on the network that aired most of it’s original episodes??
no! they should put on everybody loves raymond in that slot!
Ten need Family Guy and American Dad! Can they steal these shows away from Seven?
Woo! I haven’t seen this show for years; I will tune in when I’m about.
Bahhh, they already play this too much on Foxtel.
The Encore Network sure does hate ‘Out Of The Blue’. I would of loved to watch the remaining episodes of ‘OOTB’ over Summer instead of ‘MITM’.
@slydoggie: I’m aware of the production costs, but at the same time, you want something that people will actually will be watching. Malcolm had its day, and while I’m not suggesting they slot in something from the current calendar year, which, as you rightfully stated, would be too expensive, I feel like they’d have something in their vaults that’s a bit newer than Malcolm, and not as recycled.
From memory Ten has output deals with Fox and CBS. With a bit of digging, I’m sure they could find something. Hell, if they could clear it with the censors, old episodes of Cops might work.
A good move if you ask me… This show works well on re-runs.
They also need G-rated programs at 6.30pm weekdays.
@Craig: My guess is that The Office is considered a bit too risque for the 6:30 hour.
@Lucas: Not really that bizarre. There are not many quality 30 mins programs going around. You mention that TEN has many continuing and potentially hit series…care to name at least one?
@Vinny and Vic: You’ll probably find that Nine’s rights have lapsed on the older series’ and TEN has picked them up in their US Studio output deals which may see them sharing some content with Pay TV (although likely to be different series to what is on FTA). New content costs money to produce…something like this from the US would have had very little associated cost. Why do you think GO! and 7Two are full of really old series? It’s cheap. It’s not a programming strategy, its what the debt ridden Ch9 and Ch7 could afford to try and pass off their channels as legitimate digital FTA channels.
Excellent, this show is far more suited to Ten than Nine these days
We’ll obviously be seeing it in some way next year on their new channel
@Justin: Channel Nine never aired any of the final season (well in Adelaide at least). They stopped early on in season 6 after putting double eps on a Saturday night during summer for two or three weeks – with no advertising of course.
It then went to Arena in 2007 from ‘Pilot’ S01E01 to end of Season 6, then Comedy took over and aired season 7 (the final). Then 111 had it when it premiered, and now on Comedy again. The first time I got to see the final season was when it premiered on Comedy.
I wonder where TEN will dump this after the Neighbours break. I assume no where, or the new channel in 2010.
I guess they figure no one will be watching anyway or they need 40 plus eps to fill 2 months 5 nights a wee… oh wait why not run The Office from the pilot to promote it along with new eps they have planned for 2 x a week.
Doesn’t really matter does it? It’s only temporary after all and even then no one will watch during that time and Neighbours returns a few weeks into January anyway, long before ratings begins.
cool, will be watching since its from the very beginning.
boy, Nine sure do like to give away older shows!
Band of Brothers, Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Wire, Friends, Smallville etc.
they’ll never give up any of their crime shows though!
My guess is that they sold them to the Comedy Channel, which now must be “leasing” it to Ten.
Eh, at least it’s something different. I feel like they could have slotted in something better, or newer in that spot, but whatever, at least it’s not double episodes of The Simpsons or something like that.
Ten definitely likes to give other channels US sitcoms a second chance. Maybe its because there cupboards are bare with new content these days?
Not that I’m complaining with this choice, I’ll be tuning in when I’m home that early.
Did 9 ever finish showing the series? After a few failed attempts at Saturday evening screenings over the summer, it was making an appearance on weekend afternoons about a year ago.
Yes I love this show. One of the best comedies ever. It brings back memories of my childhood and the crazy stuff me and my bro use to 2 (we were complete animal children like in malcom but settled as teen) Im always watching it on comedy and now i can see it on ten. hope it rates well and replaces the simpsons at 6pm when ratings start
What an incredibly bizarre decision! Why waste the opportunity to promote a continuing and potentially hit series (of which TEN have many) by inserting an axed program??
Has Nine not got the rights to this show anymore ?