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Seven dumps Celebrity Splash Semi-Final 2

Exclusive: Seven skips a Semi Final and buries its Grand Final in a frantic bid to rid Celebrity Splash.

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Heat 2EXCLUSIVE: It’s official. Celebrity Splash has belly-flopped in the eyes of the network.

Seven has backflipped and ditched Semi-Final 2, due to air next Monday night.

Instead it is skipping straight to the Grand Final, by burying it at the low-rent time of 8:45pm Thursday May 16 in all markets.

Next Monday night Seven will air Dynamo: Magician Impossible at 7:30pm, but also has AFL in some markets.

Updated: Contestants Denise Drysdale, Nick Bracks, Adam Richard and Koby Abberton who were due to qualify in Semi-Final 2 will now dive at the beginning of the show before a Grand Final dive.

Last night the show averaged 821,000 down from its premiere of 1.31m viewers. It was trounced by The Voice on 1.96m viewers.

The show is still advertising audience tickets for Monday May 20 four days after its now-rescheduled Grand Final.

The last time I can remember a Reality show of this scale having such a major backflip was Nine dumping Excess Baggage onto GO! at the top of last year and TEN fiddling with the The Hothouse and axing The Resort without any finale.

Celebrity Splash will now go down as one of the year’s biggest blunders.

A Seven spokesperson said, “The four remaining contestants will compete in a Semi Final dive in the first portion of the show and we proceed straight into the Grand Final.”

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  1. Celebrity Splash! would probably be better suited to run over summer, possibly on a Saturday or Sunday night at 7:30pm, also they could lengthen the series by reducing the ammount of dives per show. At the moment, it’s really shallow-I mean only 4 shows for a reality series, how ridiculous when you compare it to how long MKR dragged on…..

  4. @Bella I know it was played first after the AFL grand final in September. I watched it and I remember it had him walking on water/guessing ian’s brown lyrics(Stone Roses frontman).

  5. And another thing, if they have putted CS on Saturday at 6:30pm in the first place, then this would probably not have happened. It’s much more suited on a Saturday Night.

  6. I am surprised that they are moving it. I always thought that this shorter season of 5 eps was to test if an extended and more drawn out version of the format would be viable.

    Really Dynamo Again. Dynamo is to 7 as TBBT is to 9 (would rather watch Celebrity Splash then Dynamo again.)

  8. Hahaha!! How does it feel now to finally lose Ch7? Suck it up!!
    Now it’s your turn to feel the Pain! And it’s only just getting started, now The Voice is going to Crush! My House Rules and then, AGT and BB13 will Destroy! DWTS and X Factor.
    Looks like Nine’s soon going to be Still the One!

  9. House Rules should have been launched off the back of MKR and I reckon Seven will regret not doing that. I think the straw that broke the camels back was the fact it was bringing Revenge down with it. It would be pretty funny if it actually rated well on Thursday.

  10. I knew it was in trouble when my other half said the main tv in the nursing home they work for – which has no remote and a 7 watermark burned into the display was actually off! When your prime demographic turns off you know you’re in trouble!

  11. Actually, I’m quite surprised that Seven bit the bullet on this pile of **** so soon.

    Truth be known, it really should never have made it to air in the first place.

  12. I was enjoying this show, but it now seems like such a pointless waste of time for me and everyone involved in the show. I feel sorry for the celebs wasting their time.
    The judges scores, having a semi after one week, and skipping one ep of a 3 week series are all just ridiculous. The grand final will be a train wreck. why not show the last two eps on saturday @ 6.30, a more forgiving timeslot.

  13. I was watching the biggest loser why on earth they throughout that celebrity splash would be a good idea is beyond me but for the type of show it is coming second is not to bad and 800k isn’t to bad ether it only had 2 episodes to go they should have just stuck with it and as for the hothouse can’t understand why it didn’t rate it wasn’t a bad show

  15. Probably the most predicted flop before it even hit the airways. I watched a bit of it to see Nick in a speedo and then quickly got over it when surprise surprise people were getting hurt left right and centre

  16. And we (TV Tonight followers) knew this before 7. Maybe we should do their scheduling? They seem to have no idea. The treatment of GA is appalling for starts. I’ve lost count of how many episodes have aired in the last 3 weeks…I’m guessing 7!! Perhaps if that had a decent time slot it might pull better than CS! Maybe, unless GA fans have had a gut-full & stopped watching. You move, delay and reschedule a show as much as GA & you lose viewers. My rant for the week about 7! Enough now.

  18. Wow, what a surprise that is, ch 7 finally has a flop!!!!!

    Yeah, I remember that show Resort, some silly bimbo tottering about in high heels. How ridiculous she was, but the Hothouse, I didn’t mind that one.

  23. I really don’t know what Seven were thinking when they commissioned this… Also, they had the failed US ratings as well, so surprising they went ahead with this at all.

    But yes still not as big as a disaster as Everybody Dance Now… That was a clanga

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