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Seven screens The Goldbergs out of sequence

US sitcom The Goldbergs begins on Seven this week, but not in chronological order.

2014-05-31_1901US sitcom The Goldbergs begins on Seven this week, featuring a family in the 1980s videotaped by their youngest son Adam.

Seven screens Episode 1 at 8:45pm on Wednesday. A second episode will air at 9:15pm but this will be Episode 7.

Next week it airs Episode 8, followed by Episodes 2 and 11 a week later.

It’s hardly the first time networks have been guilty of this practice, but it’s a lot more difficult for them to slip them under the radar with net-savvy audiences.

7 Responses

  1. Well why would anyone watch things out of sequence if they have been screened in that sequence elsewhere. Just does not make sense.

  2. It’s actually very rare for an Australian network to screen episodes out of the order they are distributed to them in. US episode guides and production numbers have been available for 20 years now, and I have only seen a couple of examples of it and its usually only delaying a bad episode or two not this big a reshuffling.

    Like many sitcoms The Goldbergs took half-a-dozen episodes to find its feet. A few mediocre episodes at 9pm on Wednesday night would guarantee its relegation to a late night slot forever within 3 weeks.

  3. David, what’s the main reason for this practice? Is it to maintain higher audiences? Are these more gripping episodes? It’s the only reason I can think they’d do this….

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