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Celebrity Splash dips into the shallow end of scheduling

Updated: This copy has now been superceded by a network amendment.

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Last week I pointed out that Nine had four episodes of The Voice listed in TV Week, but only ran three.

Today I note that Seven has Celebrity Splash in TV Week for 6:30 Sunday but it won’t be running there either.

It will next be airing at 7:30 on Monday -unless you are in Melbourne.

In Melbourne there’s an AFL match on Monday night, so Celebrity Splash moves to 9:20pm Thursday, which arguably fits with the kind of numbers it’s getting now.

A Seven source says it is sticking with Monday night for the rest of the country. The network got permission to run the AFL match on 7mate in Adelaide and Perth so Splash stays put.

It’s not clear why Seven had a Sunday night episode listed in TV Week, although originally the show was supposed to air Live and it will indeed be shooting on Sunday. At least it has an updated EPG now, which differs from Nine running incorrect info until very late in the piece (Nine was also peddling 4 eps of The Voice this week but as tipped last week, tomorrow’s is now yanked).

With the drop in numbers for Celebrity Splash it will be interesting to see if Seven sticks with a Live grand final, expected to run Monday May 20.

9 Responses

  1. this article is very unfair on celebrity splash. if 820k up against a show rating 2mil is such a flop that it would fit a bump to Thurs 9:20 why are we not that critical of every other show? it rates the same as celebrity apprentice and that has a leadin of 2mil and less competition, no one questions those ratings. i could go on & on with examples, it is rating higher than everything in ten’s entire schedule, almost their whole year, for gods sake.

    if people think the show itself is crap they are entitled to their opinion, but the rhetoric going round about the shows flop ratings is just incorrect.

  2. @alex – at least TEN is reliable, well more so than the other FTA networks. I’d rather watch TGW or M&MM and know it will be their next week than gamble with some shows on 7&9 not knowing if they will show the whole season.

  3. Celebrity Splash has two episodes left. Can’t 7 let it run it’s course? It’s not a 22 episode series…and besides, a 820,000 rating? TEN would kill to have something rate that well!

  4. Well this just goes to show how different Channel 7 is to Channel 10.

    Channel 10 would keep garbage like Hawaii 5-0, The Good Wife, Mr and Mrs Murder and The Living Room despite people voting with their remote controls.

    With Channel 7 if it’s under a mill it’s in trouble, despite the fact Celebrity Splash still outrates anything 10 has to offer.

    So then which one cares more about their viewers? The one that keeps low rating shows on that nobody is watching or the one that takes low rating shows off and tries to put shows on that interest as many people as possible?

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