Channel Nine has adjusted its Tuesday night timeslot following the axing of Ben Elton Live From Planet Earth -but there is still no sign of Survivor.
From next week Nine is adding a repeat of The Big Bang Theory to 8pm following a new episode, which moves Top Gear to an 8:30pm start.
The 90 minute episode ends at 10pm to be followed by a first run episode of Adults Only 20 to 1.
Kitchen Nightmares USA will air at 11pm.
The same schedule is repeated on Tuesday March 8th.
The news will be disappointing to fans of Survivor who have been waiting for the new series which began in the US on February 16th.
Nine had aired the last season on Tuesday nights.
It’s enough to make you vote someone out of the tribe….
Nine’s big problem since Temptation ended has been 7pm and what to put on after News and Current Affairs which needs to be fixed soon.
These BBT And 2.5 men episodes that are old belong in the summer no ratings land not year round up against a soap or a news as you know it offering.
There have been promos on WIN for Survivor since Saturday but only saying “Soon”, so I guess the way these channels define the word “Soon” it could be anytime in the next year or so! Lets hope it is “Sooner” than “Later”!
With the number of crude comments/jokes I’m not sure if Top Gear is a ‘family’ show any more, if it ever was.
This with the problems they are having with another certain high profile show is not good for Nine and the ratings season.
Commercial TV programming is still too much like a box of chocolates. People are very gradually creating their own schedules for favorite shows.
My family all love top gear but a finish time at 10pm is just to late. please 9 stop changing times for shows this is why you lose people even if it is a favorite show we get sick of the time changes so we just stop watching. please put top gear back in the 7.30 time slot it was the perfect time for family viewing.
Here’s a radical idea, show Top Gear from 7 or 7:30 depending if it’s to run 60 or 90 minutes, it ends before the Rafters… but this is assuming it actually starts on time and not 5-10 mins late.
Nine really did buy the show after it peaked, I still love the show but really it hasn’t been as good in the last few series. Maybe the US or local one can turn things around. Wonder if they’ll go for the Chinese version? Is the Russian one up for bids?
I hope the AU one is shown next, once the UK one ends which won’t be long as the last of the current series airs this weekend in the UK. I’m betting the US one won’t be on until late in the year. Prove me wrong Nine!
Please ch 9 put on surivor fastracked
No more 20 to 1 , top gear should be at 7:30 Mondays ( like sbs when they had it)big bang x2 at 7:30 tusdays and then survivor at 8:30 , and why not bring back comady inc at 9:30 ( repeats ok , new eps better)
Stupid channel nine!! they need to put Survivor on I am so livid.
It’s almost as if they want “Top Gear” to fail. Hope it didn’t really cost as much as were led to believe.
Nothing will beat Rafters – why not put on Top Gear earlier and then have Survivor after it?
Adults only 20 to 1? That’s what got the timeslot? Unbelievable.
With the infinite amount of repeats on Go and GEM I simply cannot believe Survivor cannot find a slot. Ridiculous.
Nine can throw whatever they want up against Rafters, but they’ll never beat it.
Just a note on Kitchen Nightmares by the way; the episode Nine aired last week was listed as Kitchen Nightmares USA, but was actually a previously unaired episode of the British series.
Survivor doesn’t take any breaks, I find it ridiculous that Nine hasn’t bothered to air the new season yet. Instead of having repeats of Two and a Half Men and Big Bang Theory all the time, they should air Survivor instead.
Not really interested in seeing another season with Russell, will probably give this Survivor a miss.
Nine sure is good at poaching shows and then slowly killing them off….
Top Gear belonged on SBS (or ABC). I was an avid viewer but the continual chops and changes and repeated repeats has left me completely uninterested. Sad.
@ Michael
Whoops! My bad!
It’s just the content that is repeated int he Adults Only 20 to 1 then 
That said even they are a year old now…
Seriously… who on earth watches 20 to 1?
@ BoxOfficeBowman, “…to be followed by a first run episode of Adults Only 20 to 1.” It’s not a repeat.
So originally they were going to have a repeat of TBBT on Tuesday and the new episodes of Wednesday, will the new episodes be on both nights now, or just Tuesday?
I just saw an ad for Survivor on Nine. Didn’t think to look what day/time it was promoted for (maybe it was just “coming soon”). Still, that’s encouraging.
Repeats of Adult’s Only 20 to 1?????
Really???
Why don’t Nine show the new episodes that were made this time last year and are sitting on a shelf becoming more and more out of date with each passing week?
Great. More Big Bang Theory. Bloody idiots.
Nine should experiment like Ten has done before The 7pm Project and just have their big shows start at 7pm. I actually think that Home and Away is winning the 7pm timeslot at the moment by default. Some people are just never going to warm to the talent on The 7pm Project and the people who used to watch Two and a Half Men have either gotten sick of Charlie Sheen’s real life outbursts or have gotten sick of seeing that same episode for the 20th time. I reckon if they started Top Gear at 7:00, they might pull a few viewers from Home and Away. It’s risky, but 7pm is the problem and they need to fix it now.
Nine’s programming is a bit of a mess.
If Survivor doesn’t rate on the primary channel make it a FastTrack on Go. Delaying it, just makes the program worthless as anyone remotely keen will have watched it via download or read about it completely off the web. I can only assume they don’t pay much for the rights to Survivor any longer.
They do pay alot for the Top Gear rights and this is looking like a failed project. Isn’t it funny how some cult shows that work well on ABC or SBS fall over when they try to become mainstream on one of the commercial networks.
As for bringing back Adults Only 20 to One……Kerry must be spoinning in his grave!
Not sure if starting Top Gear at the same time as the Rafters will help, guess we’ll find out next Tuesday.
Why not put Survivor on GO! or GEM? Like ch7 is doing with TAR on 7MATE?
This is the exact reason they are well behind seven in the ratings. Seven listened to viewers are rushed TAR to 7mate and nine should have enough brains to do the same
Ugh. Tiresome. Why no Survivor? Not even on Go?
With the proliferation of internet spoilers, is it any wonder that this kind of resource-hoarding programming drives people to illegal downloads? 7 have the right idea putting fast-tracked Amazing Race on 7mate. Nine have two digital channels full of The Nanny repeats, and they can’t find a slot for Survivor? It is blatant contempt for viewers, and a desperate attempt to maintain an outdated distribution system. If they won’t show it, why don’t they at least use FixPlay, iTunes or Foxtel to distribute it as close as possible to the US airing.
Sure Ben Elton sucked but Channel 9: getting the ratings it deserves
Ugh. Why??? Why do they keep foisting this awful show upon us?
So disappointing; there must be an opening somewhere on GO! ?
Wouldn’t it be smarter to move Top Gear back to 7.30 where it was getting 1.3-1.7, or even 7pm? It’s clearly failing at 8.00 and last time they tried 8.30 it failed too.
Damn you Channel Nine! Listen to the people!
Maybe Nine is creating a couple of weeks buffer from the USA so it can screen it continuously even when the USA takes a week off #justsayin