Once the darling of the pop culture world, Glee is getting the multichannel treatment and switching from TEN to ELEVEN.
Against the might of My Kitchen Rules, this week the show rated a dismal 269,000. That made life nigh on impossible for new local series Mr. & Mrs Murder. Given the dire lead-in, its lift to 782,000 was extraordinary.
While numbers for Glee have also dropped in the US, the Australian audience has deserted it in droves -but they have also played weeks after their US transmission.
Moving Glee in only the third week of ratings comes despite TEN Programming Chief Beverley McGarvey talking up scheduling consistency, but the choices for TEN are clear cut: the new local product must be protected at all costs.
Glee will now screen next week at 7:30pm Tuesday on ELEVEN with the episode “Naked” with the men of McKinley shooting a (semi) naked calendar, and Rachel singing Natalie Imbruglia’s “Torn.” The Office is now out of schedule.
In its place will be more Modern Family repeats, now the network’s equivalent of The Big Bang Theory.
If you didn’t catch it, TEN is also repeating Mr. & Mrs Murder at 4pm Saturday and 10:30pm Sunday.
That’s really going to be really disappointing for my sister because she loves Glee and the only way she watches it is by me taping it for her because she doesn’t have channel 10 on her tv.
But it doesn’t disappoint me because I’ve never gotten into the show.
Look, I can understand why it’s been changed to Eleven. It is not as good as its been in the past. Episodes are really hit and miss – the Christmas one was wonderful, but the previous three were utter crap.
However – Tuesday night is so so busy – should’ve kept it on Wednesday. They’ve basically guaranteed its death – which I’m half guessing is what they wanted…
@Vinny It’s The Office’s Final Season and its on a multichannel. The very least thing they could have done was announce a new timeslot for it in the schedule. Not remove it competely and now Office fans have no idea when it will return.
I wish downloading TV shows weren’t illegal to be honest. We office fans have to suffer and be punished because another show Glee failed to rate on the main channel.
I’m so angry at TEN. I do the legal way of waiting for the shows to premiere here and this how they thank me? You should not get in trouble with illegal downloading when channels do this.
Glee could have went to 7:30pm Thursdays on 11 replacing Futurama repeats or Office moved there. Not happy TEN.
Hmmm. Tough question: Ten management ponder over why their audience for existing shows has been vanishing.
Answer: “I know what – an un-annouced surprise schedule change! That will fix things!”
Result: Glee goes to new timeslot, some of your Glee audience vanishes and the rest of your Office audience goes somewhere else and realise that they can get it all more conveniently.
Massive Fail.
Of course they’d pull it right before the only episode that I was actually genuinely interested in watching. Fantastic. I hope there are still some active links floating around for it then.
Is it really any surprise the ratings dropped by 100,000 when they didn’t even bother promoting that there would be a new episode this week? After the Xmas ep they didn’t show a preview or even have a voiceover saying it would be on. The episode ended and it immediately went into a preview for M&MM, no mention of Glee. I thought it might have been pulled again so I actually went searching to make sure it hadn’t and that’s the only reason I knew to tune in. I don’t know what ch10 expected putting it up against MKR and not promoting it at all, they only have themselves to blame.
@APM
Ten moved Glee to Friday’s on Ten before, and its ratings halved, they moved it to Thursday and they went up 150k but still weren’t great.
There is little on Thursdays because there are few people watching TV in Ten’s target demographic then. And putting Glee up against US Idol would be dumb as they would be just splitting the same audience and would have two failing shows.
Wednesday Glee would be damaging Modern Family which they need as a lead in for MMM and the reason the the programming change in the first place.
Monday is Raising Hope as a lead in for Supernatural and AHS.
So Tuesday it must be and The Office loses out in this game of musical chairs.
When Eleven was created this show seemed out of Place on Ten.
It did though iniitally used to get 1million back on Ten when it started.
The Office timeslot was a dud …. Office never rated well in primetime even on the multichannel. It should have been at 9.30pm on whatever day they showed it last year.
Final nail in the coffin of a once great show. I said it when it first started and I say it again, it should never have been more than 13 episodes a year, the rot started to set in from the time the series was forced to 22 episodes.
My guess is that it will get one more season in the States which is a shame, it should finish now, to grind out another 22 episodes will leave it with zero viewers.
Finally! Now to move Hawaii 5 0 to one hd! And bump American idol shows into 1 day 8.30 pm mon or fri , don’t need to be fast tracked anymore cause that obviously didn’t work.
Glee should have moved to 11 since channel started. they should have at least moved Glee to 7:30 Thursdays on 11, nothing going on there and that’s it’s old slot when it was on Ten.
or at least instead of taking off Office completely, move it to Thursday or even before Raising Hope on Mondays. Sundays would be good also.
I’m sure they’ll come up with some other slot, but just not right away. I’m sure it’ll be back within a couple of weeks.
I wish Glee would stay on Wednesday and not get moved to Top heavy Tuesday.
@Maev…Sydney
Perhaps you have hit the nail on the head, because you as a “new” viewer are experiencing what many viewers experienced when they began watching Glee, way back then?, much like “Days of Our Dreary’s”, miss 6 months, then come back to it, seemingly having never missed a thing.
It is hard when the story line has limits, but where actors and roles are changed, where for example with shows like NCIS retain the “Stars” but can have vastly different story lines,different locations, countries on land and/or sea adventures, with a mix of government intrigue.
Consequently some shows can simply run out of Puff(including NCIS eventually if the writers lose the plot).
ABC’s “Spooks”( series 11) whilst now sadly missed, along with some very popular stars killed off mid series etc, Could come back(months/years/wars) but still begin with the old stars if only in a changing of the guard role, and become an instant hit, with the benefit of the latest high tech surveillance gadgets, because they chose to end Spooks while it was still popular.
I’m still watching, but only just. The new crop of actors aren’t anything special apart from the girl who plays Marley. And the story arc featuring eating disorders was bitchy and nasty (dislike the Kitty character immensely).
Week 2 of ratings and they have already broken their new philosophy against schedule changes. A good move, it was inevitable, but those statements at the upfronts should never have been made. They should go all out and do a total schedule revamp, desperately needed.
I’m another one who has given up on Glee this year. There was one episode the other week that was simply unwatchable. The one with the superheroes?
Now, The Office is a sacrificial lamb to Glee. That sucks. The way that Ten has treated The Office is terrible.
They wonder why impatient people don’t want to wait months or years to see programming that could be seen through other methods for free. There is no inventive to wait that long period just to see ads of toddlers throwing undies in the air.
This really aggravates me. Glee performs poorly so Office fans (like myself) have to have OUR show removed and no news on when it will come back. I hate Glee. Very Unhappy Eleven.
It’s the final season of The Office…
Forgot about The Office, ch11 have been heavily promoting the final season of late, surely they’ll not remove it with weeks to go?
I see no evidence that the delay makes any difference to Glee’s audience?.
It was delayed when it rated well during the first two seasons.
It’s ratings started dropping when Ten was showing it less than a week behind the US in its regular timeslot of 7:30pm Wednesday. They got so low that Channel 10 bumped it Friday, which was a disaster, then Thursday which was only a bit better. Of course now Channel 10 would love numbers as large as Glee was getting back then.
The fast-tracked episodes at the end of last year fared no better than the delayed episode screen before MKR started.
Glee was the cool show young people must watch, but after 50 episodes it stopped being that. And without a broader audience the numbers were low. It managed 487k last week (+7) but this week ‘s live viewers number was a disaster and it had to go.
MF will do better than Glee did this week. What do Ten have that would give MMM a better lead in?
I have been one of the people who stopped watching Glee this season.
It has an identity problem. It has tried to keep in touch with the old crew, whilst bringing along new talent. I think it failed on both counts.
It has also lost its mojo of celeberating difference. They had a great opportunity to select a real handicapped person with an amazing voice as a new cast member (Glee Project). Instead they went for a good looking male, who has had very little actual screen time.
Pity, I used to love this show. It was one where it was actually trying to make a positive societial change through entertaining TV.
Hmm .. it does.
Does it mean The Office final season is now gone from Eleven?
I’m all for the addition of fresh content to multichannels, but why couldn’t they keep the same timeslot? At least it would be easier for those 269,000 to follow the show and Eleven could garner some decent numbers.
Modern Family won’t rate any better up against MKR and The Block. Jamie Oliver or David Attenborough would have been a better choice.
Oh dear I have only recenty become a Glee watcher and typical of everything I watch….the program dies…*sigh*….
Thanks for the heads up about replays of MMM….will save me from often, less than perfect catchup TV…Iview seems to be the only one to get it right.
7.30pm tuesday is the wrong night for glee. Too much competition. Too many timeslot changes. Goin to have to rely on watching it on tens catch up site now.
Natalie Imbruglia’s ‘Torn’? Wasn’t her version a note-for-note cover of some other band’s version of a Danish original?
I suspect that SBS’ repeats of Who Do You Think You Are on Tuesday nights could out-rate Ten if all they’re going to show is yet more repeats of Modern Family…
I suspect they know MKR will kill any babies they put there. So you’re damned either way….
Thanks for the up date, love the picture you used.
It’s a shame Glee has lost it’s way, but I don’t know if putting MF on if it’s place is the answer but I do think the ratings will go up.
Do they seriously think MF repeats are going to rate better than new Glee against MKR? Welcome to forth place Ten.