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Bumped: Smallville

Updated: Smallville is late this Sunday but airs earlier a week later.

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At this stage an amendment for Smallville on Sunday night is a one-off event only -but let’s not speak too soon.

This Sunday Smallville will air at 11:30pm and 12:30am (Monday) on ELEVEN.

Movie: Aliens airs at 8:30pm and The Making Of Battle: Los Angeles airs at 11:15pm.

It’s a pretty hard slog when first-eps can’t pull a decent audience on a multichannel. Feels like the network may have taken too long to resume the series.

UPDATE: March 20 is airs at 10:40pm. Looks like it may move around based on whatever time the movie before it is ending.

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  1. Goodbye Channel Eleven, you’re a useless station about as bad as nine. I will never be watching you in Prime Time.

    And Jack! I don’t have the DVDs b/c I don’t know if the DVDs are worth getting b/c they fiddle around with the show so much you don’t know what’s going on.

    As you know through common sense customer service Channel Eleven, what every one person tells you, you know another ten are thinking/doing it.

  2. Looking at Nurse Jackie, Raising Hope, Californication, and The Office on Tuesday (from 65,000-78,000 ) of this week ( 11 ) maybe it’d be better if they put Smallville on that night. As a non-expert thought as it was more than that a lot of the time earlier Sunday night at 8.30-10.30pm. I wouldn’t be surprised if it could eventually reach over 100,000 on a weeknight for Season 9 and especially 10. I’ll admit I don’t know if people would respond to that day. But I know I would. However I’m happy to watch SBS or ABC instead.

  3. As people have said I think it’s just they put it after whatever film they are showing on Sunday. I hope for Season 9 they move it to Friday night. I’ll admit I would of preferred Thursday. But unless I’m mistaken the other two shows are going alright on the night.

    As for the 10HD move I know I couldn’t watch it and I would of if they had of mirrored it on an SD channel like they did for One. As I never had access to HD until last year. So I had to watch Season 6 & 7 on DVD (mainly – though I never watched it on Saturday either) .

    I think it might air better on a weeknight and it’ll help that they are beginning to catch up. I’ll point out not everyone has watched things online. And I’ve also worked out if they keep doing double episodes every week then they’ll beat the expected American release of Season 10 DVDs if it’s in September as it is most of the time. Late August was the earliest they ever released them and they’d be up to the last two (hour) episode(s) around then. So if they’d just have it on a better night I think the ratings will improve. Although I don’t mind late Sunday night just not 8.30 – 10.30pm. I just think it could do better for them but not on the weekend. Also if they are unwilling to try to air Season 9 earlier then I hope they try Season 10 on a weekday because as mentioned it hasn’t been released on DVD in America or anywhere.

    Thank you for telling us about when it’ll be on.

  4. They should’ve left it on Thursdays all those years ago – it was getting a million viewers on some nights, they pulled it off for some lame Australian Idol spinoff which bombed and when they finally brought it back it was in the Friday death-slot.

    Admirable putting it back on Sundays but a case of too little too late.

  6. The audience that will be drawn to watch Smallville already have Season 9 on DVD as well as being half way through Season 10 via “other sources” …

    Season 9 is also not a strong season … some stories and characters struggle to keep our attention … Season 10 is a ripper and a very fitting final year!

    But above all, Ten have treated Smallville as disposable filler over recent years so they are fools to think that they will get a loyal audience for it based on their past history of shoving it all over the place… and being so far behind the rest of the world … simply delusional …

    Lesson: Do not treat the viewers with such contempt and then expect them to not get up to date episodes elsewhere … waiting for you to bother to show them 12 to 18 months late! Listen to and learn from Mr ABC!!!!

  7. I think Ten did leave it too late they will just have to get the rights to something new and then show it in full for the viewers and ten to benefit.

  8. @Angry Face there was never any censoring on the 10HD broadcasts or the 11 ones now (well as far as I can tell anyway without having seen the episode prior).

    I remember there being obvious cuts when it was screened at 6.30/7.30 at times on 10 though.

    Also you say it was on 10HD without telling anyone… people knew! I’m not sure exactly how I found out it was on there from the start, but I wouldn’t have watched it there otherwise. Although I think I can feintly recall promos for 10HD on regular 10 at the time possibly and Smallville featured in it?

  9. My personal opinion is that the show peaked at the end of season 7 , thats when the original creators left and alot of the characters did too.Ill watch the last Season which is Season 10.Season 6 was also enjoyable.

  11. Hey at least Ten is still airing it each week unlike GO! does with its shows.

    Having a PVR means whatever time a show is on it can be recorded, plus the prices keep dropping !

  12. If I remember correctly, they stopped airing Smallville around season 5 or 6, then they put it on Ten HD without telling anyone. As someone who was only on analogue at that time and was not aware of digital TV, I missed out. Then when I got a set-top-box I attempted to watch it but received a completely unwatchable signal and had to resort to Southern Cross Ten which did not have Ten HD. So I had to travel to the US to watch it from where I was up to. (I gave up around halfway through season 9, as the show was just getting ridiculous and is a completely different show to what it was when it started)

    Now they resume at the start of season 8. I can imagine there would be a lot of people who last saw it on Ten around season 5 or 6 and are wondering what is going on. Then there would be people who waited for DVDs and rented/purchased them and therefore have no reason to watch it on 11. And then everyone who was really interested saw it years ago.

    Oh, and don’t get me started on the amount of censoring Ten did. I’m not sure how bad they are now, but considering these seasons are much more graphic than the previous seasons I bet they still do a lot of censoring. Hopefully the late time means less censoring though (for those who still watch it).

  13. Yeah, it hasn’t been bumped all that much from the last time it was. I just look at the timeslot that it has is whenever the Sunday night movie has finished.

    Whilst I do like the fact that 11 has continued airing from where it finished off last on Australian TV.. it has been sometime, and in that period you can now pick up the current series airing (8) as well as the next (9) already locally at stores. I was thankful at first for 11 doing that as I’m not that so much into Smallville that I had already resorted to downloads or purchasing overseas, but now with this bumping around and the fact I can get series 8 and 9 on blu ray from Amazon for about the price of buying one of the series locally I’ve decided to do so.

    Maybe instead of 10 holding onto it after 10HD died they could have given it to GO! (assuming GO! would have taken it), and then we wouldn’t be so far behind with the broadcast in Australia. I thought it was kinda funny whilst watching V last night on GO hearing how ‘GO! is brought to you by Smallville series 9, now on blu-ray and DVD’ or somesuch.

  14. Last night on GO! V for Vendetta was sponsored by the Smallville DVD collection and there were heaps of ads promoting the latest series that has not been seen on Aussie TV.

    Why would you watch it on Eleven when there are now series available in DVD which have not even been to air. Anyway, I suspect that true fans have found an alternative way of keeping up with the series.

  16. thats a harsh statement. i dont watch the show, but how can you possibly expect decent numbers when the show hasn’t aired for 3 years, is available both for download and on dvd, and is not given a stable timeslot and chance to build an audience??

  17. I’d say this probably is a one-off, actually – if the movie doesn’t finish until 11.15 anyway then changing Smallville’s start time to 11.30 is only a 15-minute difference. That’s a bit of a pointless bump.
    Maybe its as simple as an 11.30 start making their overnight scheduling easier?

    But yeah, they really left it too long to show these episodes. Maybe the ratings will improve when they reach episodes that aren’t out on DVD?

  18. Considering there are ads on TV at the moment for the Smallville DVDs that actually say “new episodes that haven’t run on television” then you know there’s a problem. Ten have no one to blame but themselves…

    Personally I wait for the American DVDs and buy them. Even during the earlier seasons when the show sometimes aired around the same time here as the US DVD release I still bought the DVDs because Ten always dumped it anyway!

  19. I’m really enjoying Smallville. But I know several people who have already seen these episodes by other means. Please Please Please don’t drop it altogether!!!!

  22. One day networks will realise that the viewing public are no longer going to wait for shows. There are simply too many ways to see show by downloading etc.

  23. the answer is a big resounding Yes…i’m sure many others like myself found ‘other ways’ to watch new episodes of this show……suck on that Ten/ Eleven…

  24. I’m pretty sure the Season they’re showing is already on DVD, so fans (My brother is a die hard fan) have probably already watched this season already. Maybe they should have jumped straight to Season 10.

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