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Primetime Survivor, the return of Cold Case, Flashpoint, Motorway Patrol, Wipeout, CSI: New York, the premiere of Crusoe and continuing ER, Getaway are some of the offerings in Nine’s first week of summer.
Nine will also repeat Rescue: Special Ops, David Attenborough’s Life in Cold Blood, Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory, and will strip Australia’s Funniest Home Videos in a 7pm half hour version after watching the idea perform on GO!
It will premiere Burying Brian, a NZ dramedy about a woman who wants to kill her hubby, but when it happens by accident she suddenly looks guilty. Whilst Nine gets drama points for this, it looks like also returning to its summer habit of first-run Aussie films late on Saturday nights to achieve the same result.
As promised, Survivor: Samoa is airing, now in primetime -the reason ‘Tocantins’ is whipping through multiple eps on GO! The series is currently on air in the US where nine episodes have screened. It should also be the first time the show airs in high definition in Australia.
Sun Nov 29
6:00pm Nine News
6:30pm 20 to 1 rpt
7:30pm David Attenborough’s Life in Cold Blood rpt
8:30pm Movie: Firewall rpt
10:40pm Movie: Suspect Zero
Mon Nov 30
6:30pm A Current Affair
7:00pm Australia’s Funniest Home Videos (Daily edition)
7:30pm Two and a Half Men rpt
8:00pm The Big Bang Theory rpt
8:30pm The Mentalist rpt
9:30pm Flashpoint
10:30pm Burying Brian
11:30pm Nine’s Late News
Tue Dec 1
7:30pm Survivor: Samoa
8:30pm Movie: Oceans Thirteen rpt
11:00pm Secret Diary of a Call Girl rpt 2 eps
Wed Dec 2
7:30pm Two and a Half Men rpt
8:00pm TBA
8:30pm Cold Case
9:30pm Cold Case rpt
10:30pm True CSI
11:30pm Nine’s Late News
Thu Dec 3
7:30pm Getaway
8:30pm Rescue: Special Ops rpt
9:30pm CSI: New York
10:30pm ER
11:30pm Nine’s Late News
Fri Dec 4
7:30pm Motorway Patrol
8:00pm Rapid Response
8:30pm Movie: The Last Samurai
11:45pm Nine’s Late News
Sat Dec 5
6:30pm Wipeout
7:30pm Crusoe
9:30pm Special: The Making of Avatar
10:00pm Movie: Jammed
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How come Flashpoint didn’t do well in Australia the first time around?
Right now we’re in the third season and our ratings have been climbing episode by episode. Unlike Australians, it’s hard to get Canadians to watch homegrown content here.
I have seen the first 9 episodes of Survivor Samoa as it aires in the US & its one of the best series I have seen. I am glad ch9 has given it a go for once.
There is lots of cricket scheduled on Sundays and Tuesdays, hence the easily changed schedules. Not good news for Survivor though.
ER at 10.30 is too late. It would be better to air double eps starting at 9.30, then they would actually get more people watching through to 11.30. Just my opinion!!
The TBA at 8pm Wed is What’s Good For You.
I think they should show something like CSI Miami and second eps of ER Tuesday nights instead of movies. Mid week movies seem out of place,
I will check out Burying Brian too. It has Hayden and Nicky from Outrageous Fortune in the cast.
Yes-Temptation ended in late January (so it’ll won’t air again).
Would be nice if there was new episodes of Wipeout Australia made.
looking forward to burying brian. Damn! NZ makes all the good shows!
Re: Survivor Samoa
I think Tocantins and China are the only recent seasons where most contestants got a reasonable amount of air-time. There was a much more wholistic, well rounded approach to the editting and everyone got there fair share in the lime light. Samoa on the otherhand has just gravitated towards the a few players which leads to a very unsatifisfying overall viewing experience.
Not suprisingly, both China and Tocantins featured only 16 castaways.
Bindi this is week #1 of summer. Calm blue ocean, calm blue ocean….
now I’m angry, where is primeval? they said it would be on over summer. at least put it on GO! we have waited long enough.
Burying Brian is fantastic – I got it on dvd from New Zealand after a friend recommended it.
It’s a cross between Desperate Housewives & that UK comedy on a few years ago. I really enjoyed it – very funny cast!
I disagree with Mac and Dave – Survivor Samoa is far from the best season, but it does contain one or two characters who shine. The rest are varying shades of beige.
i must say i dont mind sunday, monday and thursday as well as survivor on tuesday. i dont see why they dont put without a trace at 9 30 wednesday. also i think they should put something else on tuesday after 8 30. wednesday should also either have singing bee in the 7 30 slot or the middle following two and a half men.
I realise ER is on Nine now, but with a 41 episope backlog, they got so behind with this, they’ll need to screen double episode blocks (probably twice a week), over the summer recess, to finish screening the final episodes.
Still no Celebrity Singing Bee.
Flashpoint episodes will go
2 13 7 4 2 1 11 8 9 10 5 3 6 12
I assume Temptation has been officially axed?
Funniest Home videos?? almost as bad as 2.5 men. Hopefully this will mean more ppl watching 7pm project, helping them gain more ratings for next yr. Thankfully ch9 has the cricket otherwise i wouldnt be watching ne thing on that channel!
Re: Dave. It says a lot when a reality TV show can still be that good after 19 seasons. I haven’t seen Samoa yet but I look forward to watching it in primetime. I think the last time Survivor aired at 7.30pm was against an early series of Dancing with the Stars, so it didn’t stand much of a chance in the ratings. I’m hoping it does well this time around and remains on Nine primetime for future seasons. With the recent article revealing Nine Programmer Michael Healy as a big fan of Survivor, I’m hopeful Nine will give it the chance this excellent show deserves.
not much for me. i wouldn’t be very disapointed if funniest home videos is a flop. it should give HIMYM and 7PM a good shot.
so many shows i was expecting that are not there: celebrity singing bee, trouble in paradise, eastwick, the forgotten, hank, community, wife swap. ect.
Surely they could put the final episodes of Without A Trace on at 9.30pm Wednesdays instead of a repeat of Cold Case.
I would like to thank Seven and Nine for making the decision to get Foxtel that much more easy!!!
“Nine will also repeat… Two and a Half Men”
Surely not!!
I’m surprised they didn’t burn off Without A Trace, rather than waste new episodes of Cold Case.
Agree with Dave! Survivor Samoa is the best season…ever? Shall have to see how it ends but it’d gearing up for it. The biggest villain ever and I’m cheering him on with every move.
Do we know anything yet in terms of Flashpoint episodes? Will they be started from the beginning in proper form or will this be a repeat of last year?
School hols will affect some daytime replays due to classification limits but what you’re talking about dilutes the brand. Plus not all Nine shows fit on GO! due to the youth target.
Only quality thing there is airing Surivor Samoa on Channel 9 at 7:30pm. It’s been the best season I’ve watched in Years!! I think Samoa could definately reinterest alot of old Survivor fans to watch once again, plus Season 20 has been rumoured to be a “Heroes Vs Villians” Series with former contestants including some 3-peat’s (yes, people competing for the 3rd time).
Channel 9 may be in luck with a new interest in the next couple of seasons of Survivor if they stay committed to it throughout Summer.
Do Nine have any plans to play their daytime line-up on Go! while the cricket is on? Seems silly to play The Vampire Diaries for the third time when they have first run Ellen and The View.
If Hotseat is in will they be new episodes or repeats?
picture this…all of 9’s programmers are running around their office at TCN yelling and screaming, making silly noises…like a creche or day care centre…i mean this has to be the scenario…for the love of the big man upstairs…i can’t work out their programming…. for one thank harry the cricket starts soon
Hot Seat is in and out for the first week of summer depending on cricket commitments. So far the eps themselves are TBA which is why I didn’t list them.
Based on that line up, Nine should call themselves GO TWO over summer. Drop Dead Diva will actually be on both channel 9 and GO at the same time on Thursday nights. GO did the daily video show when they first started. Wipeout, Survivor, Big Bang all on GO as well.
I assume Hot Seat’s running new eps over summer.
wow, only 2 eps of men a week, good idea as everyone would have seen all the eps by now with how many times they have been replayed, although i’m not sure if people would want to watch funniest home videos every day, this will probably be good for the rating of the 7pm project though. glad to see new eps of cold case are finally back as well.
Thankfully ER is still there.
I agree that Drop Dead Diva shouldn’t be repearted on the main channel. Also the triple episodes of Drop Dead Diva are on Go that week so both the channel 9 stations will be playing the same program.
I agree with Byron – the switching back and forth between Nine and GO! is unappealing, and is watering down the second channel even more.
Yawn… i just grabbed Stargate Atlantis Complete Series from the US. Might watch that along with new eps of Stargate Universe, Big Bang Theory and new Scrubs. I get more by programming my own TV viewing than waiting to see what the networks do. I will support Ten’s doomed attempt at a primetime revival of The Office though. That looks to be about it though.
Drop Dead Diva will have to be repeats from Go?
Survivor is all they have left, so I’m not surprised they pulled it from Go, and at least we can see it in HD.
Whilst I agree with Byron that shows that are on GO! really should just stick to GO!, I’m really happy to see that Nine’s given Survivor a second chance. For one it’ll be in HD, which will make it even better. I really hope it gets good ratings.
The rest of the line up is trash. Funniest Home Videos at 7pm? Watch The 7pm Project’s ratings go up over summer.
So, do we give Crusoe a week or two before it’s yanked?
lol, worst lineup ever! Ten’s sounds way more appealing
The Good: Nothing
The Bad: Yeah.. everything.
One minute of UnFunniest Home Videos is enough, let alone 2.5 Hours of it a week. How will Nine cope with only 2x Two and a Half Men?
Why switch Wipeout and Drop Dead Diva from GO! to Nine, so when they hit GO, they will all be repeats.
Ahh well, I dont want Nine anyway, so good luck to them, they’ll need it.
This schedule is horrendous, it makes Ten’s look good by default. Repeat after repeat after repeat. What’s with the double episodes of Cold Case, one of the worst procedurals in years? Its likely to be axed at the end of this season anyway. Good thing they have Go! to dump all their half-decent shows, so they can keep their main one infested with crap. And don’t they have 2 seasons of CSI: New York they’ve been holding off?
The worst part is the nightly stripped Australia’s Funniest Home Videos. Watch this tank. Only 2 episodes of 2.5 men a week is a big reduction, I doubt it will last.
I don’t like how Nine and GO! continue to switch shows. In my view, once a show has been aired on GO! it should not be aired on the main channel again. There is too much criss-cross and defeats the purpose of having a second, seperate stand-alone channel with its own programming. Survivor, Wipeout and Drop Dead Diva should not be taken from Nine to GO! to back on Nine. Big Bang Theory should not be shown on GO! on Sundays and Two and a Half Men should not be shown anywhere
I’m stoked that Flashpoint will be making a return.