Last night GO! resumed ER at 10:30pm, bringing the drama back for fans who had been lamenting the show’s absence.
Today it announced it would shift the show to 9:30pm, pushing Gossip Girl, which is now in its second series, out to 10:30pm.
Replays will take place at 2am / 3am.
The switcheroo takes effect next week.
Printed guides in Sydney still have 8.30 Side Order, 9.30 Gossip Girl and 10.30 The Hills.
Either they are printed way too far in advance, they don’t get notified of all changes or the editors simply don’t care about the printed TV guides.
Not to mention the fact that teh networks making last minute programming changes means tehy don’t care about them either.
Unless there was an advertising mistake on GO this morning, GG is back on at 9:30.
noooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Despite gossip girl being released on dvd and foxtel, still alot of people haven’t seen it
That Side Order Of Life show was terrible it dosen’t deserve the 8:30pm timeslot. Drop Dead Diva was a much better program yet they would put that on at 10:30.
I can see your point Stan and I don’t illegally download shows all the time.
In some cases, like when a network takes the program off the air and puts it on their 2nd channel that I couldn’t get because I live in a regional area, I would have to do it because there are no other means of watching the show.
There are some shows that have already aired in the US that we are still waiting on like Brothers & Sisters and Grey’s Anatomy, but I know that they are coming next month so I haven’t seen any new episodes. I am waiting very patiently.
It’s only those shows that get stuffed around by networks like Gossip Girl and ER that I see elsewhere. It’s when this happens, it leaves me uncertain if they will even show all the season or if I miss a couple of episodes because they move time-slots and they don’t tell us. I have to find out on this site.
The networks do it to themselves.
And Stan that is the problem the casual viewers as not fan so man not follow shows to a different time if they are just channel surfing, ‘new’ shows lie Side Order are probably doing better because the vast majority of people in this country have not heard about the show. Even though it is over 2 years old I had not heard about it (that I can remember) and I like to think I keep close track of most of what comes out of the US.
Shows survive on there loyal viewers, the ones who watch each week and will go to the show but the catch is take the show away and fans will find a way, be it legal or not to watch.
Everyone as seen Gossip Girl Season 1 & 2, It’s out on DVD and maybe thats why ratings are not boosting up. GO should just bring Season 3 on and ratings will boost up in seconds.
@ Craig ……… it will hold its ratings! its a well produced show… it out rated ER and Gossip girl… so really its at 8.30 because of that! nothing else! the fact it’s a new show has Nothing to do that its on at 8.30…
8.30 is the prime time time slot……
ive seen up coming ep’s and its a good show.. it will find it legs and it will continue to run on GO!
Rachael (12:42am) & others,
Have you people ever heard of a *casual* viewer? Not everyone are ‘die-hard’ fans & jump on the ‘Net to illegally download a program immediately after it airs in its host country. We just don’t know how many people become fans of a particular show by channel surfing or scanning the TV guide for highlights. I’m sure even old shows like ‘Blackadder’ are currently getting a new legion of fans through its repeat screenings on GO!
Have you ‘fans’ ever stopped to think that you’re killing your own favourite shows by illegally downloading everything? Apart from your local ISPs, who else makes money from your selfish viewing habits? If no-one is making any money, then why should they continue producing these shows?
Six months to a year in not a long time for a TV drama! Sorry to break it you, but ‘Gossip Girl’ isn’t a news bulletin. It’ll still look & sound the same in a years’ time.
@vid (vid_88?) I hope you’re right about BB. Perhaps, to avoid the potential over saturation of their schedule, and possible viewer backlash, they could spread BB over onto their rumoured 3rd channel for all the BB junkies… That would be sweet. I’d especially support BB UpLate coming back with Mikey G
The main reason Side Order of Life is on at 8:30 is it’s new, even though it’s been sitting on the Nine/GO! shelves since July 2007, some 30 months. That’s longer than the ER or GG eps last Thursday.
I suspect it will not hold it’s ratings, so maybe in the coming weeks they will shuffle the line up again?
side order of life out rated ER and gossip girl…. thats why its on at 8.30pm….
and at richoTB GO! is not hopeless…. how can they be.. all networks are changing their programs around.. they have every right too… its all about ratings…i do believe they shouldnt do it as much as they are doing now.
i think its funny that u say horrible programming!! most of the shows u said and very good programs. thats over 60% hahaha
TEN…they are in so much trouble this year…I think Big brother will come back to our screens this year!
I agree with Bella. 8.30 ER, 9.30 GG and 10.30 that other show i have no interest in seeing. And ocourse 8.30 Thursdays would bring ER back to the timeslot it held for years.
I got Gossip Girl Season 2 (brand new) on dvd (for $20) posted from the USA last year. thats 80c a episode. Cheapest price I ever seen it go for.
@ Craig: exactly! fta’s seem to think that people are just going to wait around for years for a show that might or might not air, rather than seek it elsewhere.
Lame, it’s suppose to be youth orientated I don’t want to watch ER, it jumped the shark years ago.
Go! are hopeless.
They may as well axe the crappy channel, its almost as bad as Nine now with the schedule changes and horrible quality of programming. The only decent shows are Seinfeld, The Vampire Diaries and Gossip Girl. So much for a youth oriented network.
I think they should put ER on at 8:30pm, Gossip Girl at 9:30pm and Side Order on at 10:30pm.
Though I do agree that they’ve left it too late with S2 of Gossip Girl. When the DVD’s were first released some stores had them at a good price and they’ve been on sale since then.
side order of life at 8.30 then ER at 9.30 then Gossip Girl at 10.30
Nine couldn’t show Season 2 of Gossip Girl last year as Foxtel still had the rights to it .
Another switch by Nine! Lets hope they don’t turn out like TEN’S summer!
I don’t know why they even bother with Gossip Girl. Season 1 & 2 are both out on DVD. Those who wanted to watch it would have done so already.
Nine (and those other FTA channels for that matter) need to really consider fast tracking most of their shows if they want decent ratings. Most people (including myself) aren’t that patient when it comes to new shows and we don’t want to wait 6 months (sometimes even longer) before the show finally airs here. It’s just too easy to log onto the internet and do what we have to do to get those shows that we are so desperate to watch.
Awesome
Don’t need to stay up ’till 11.30 now to watch ER 
I enjoyed watching these two shows back to back, last night. It was nice to watch a couple of mainstream drama’s that wern’t crime shows.
It is bad when they move shows around like this in the non-ratings period on a second channel. Given the fact both shows have been sitting on the Nine/GO! shelves for more than a year (16 months GG and 25 months for ER) many people would have given up on them or in the case of Gossip seen it already on Fox8.
I would actually prefer ER at 9.30, as 10.30 is too long to wait around for with nothing at 9.30 – last night I recorded it, but at 9.30 i’ll be able to watch it. good move :d
Most people who want to watch Gossip Girl would have downloaded it by now I imagine and be up to date, so it wouldn’t be surprising if the ratings were bad for GG
Just to add to the confusion… conflicts with the web site – which is never up to date anyway. Is this the final program for Jan 14 on GO?
I thought GO did well last night considering it was a Thursday and Thursday is usually it weakest day in the ratings. It got a 3.5% share compared to 7two 3.3% so why change things?
Nine really should never have on-sold Gossip Girl to Foxtel.
I take it GG did pretty badly last night then… or ER did better than it.