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Bumped: Salamander. SBS to replay Fargo.

Updated: Here's a good chance to get into Fargo, while Salamander is on Mondays from next week.

2014-05-28_2209SBS is making changes to Wednesday nights.

Belgian series Salamander is now out of Wednesdays effective immediately, replaced with a replay of the excellent Fargo.

The move is undoubtedly due to low ratings.

SBS will be hoping word of mouth on Fargo will net it some new viewers -it deserves to. It returns 9:30pm next Wednesday.

Updated: Salamander will return at 11pm Monday November 3.

21 Responses

  1. This reeks of panic. How would ratings improve by any significant amount by replacing Salamander with a show that has only just been screened -twice! They are both niche shows-which is why I watch SBS. Guess I’ll fire up the Tivo on Monday nights and zap out the ads!

  2. With evening TV awash with repeats and repeats of repeats it is totally mystifying that a quality new series that was becoming my highest viewing priority for the week is so abruptly dispensed with. Not happy at all.

  3. Damn Fargo, its been on twice before. Salamander is fantastic, despite the low ratings (maybe) sometimes the sub-titles put viewers off but I’m sure it was still enjoyed by many. It’s unfair to do this and put it on very late on a Monday. Boo to SBS for this change Not a happy chappy

  4. I wish to add my criticism to the others regarding Salamander. The decision not to show the programme tonight and to change it to a later time on Monday is arbitrary and disrespectful to the audience. The SBS charter is based on providing multi-cultural content. To take this programme off for a repeat of an American re-run simply adds insult to injury. To argue that low ratings is the cause of the shift does not carry much weight in so far as the station exists to cater for minority tastes and not to simply ape the commercial channels that are overwhelmingly mono-cultural. If SBS becomes indistinguishable from such channels, as it appears committed to doing so, it will betray the trust of those of us who have supported it since its inception, despite its capitulation to the advertising dollar. SBS management should take its charter seriously and stand up to those bent on undermining…

  5. Salamander is the best program I have watched for ages.I am disgusted it isn’t being aired tonight. I don’t want to watch Fargo again and I won’t be up at 11pm on Mondays.
    Very disappointed

  6. Just watched the full season 1 of Salamander.. Being Belgian and it looked like a good series – I was highly interested and could not wait for weekly installments…
    Shame on SBS for shoving it to a late hour. Having said that, I was not very impressed with the way the ‘Salamander’ story evolved. Too many coincidences to make it believable. In that respect ‘Fargo’ is superior, but hell, we’ve all seen Fargo, right?
    ‘Salamander’ is interesting because it showcases Brussels and its grand ‘government’ buildings I guess.

  7. Bah, I was enjoying Salamander. I’ve seen Fargo. It’s great but was recently repeated. I’m not watching it again.

    @ laska – another good Belgian (Flemish) series that was on SBS is Matrioshki aka Russian Dolls: Sex Trade. Worth a look and had a decent sound track.

  8. This is a great pity, I’m really enjoying Salamander. I don’t know why it isn’t rating, it’s well acted with an involving storyline and mostly interesting characters. Fargo is certainly excellent, but I’ve already seen it and so a good series I haven’t seen is what I’m after. I really hate the way SBS increasingly acts like the scummy commercial networks.

    11pm, wow that’s too late, time to program the DVR I guess.

  9. laska-you mustn’t be much of an SBS viewer as Belgian stuff, especially movies, is pretty common on there-also it’s Walloon and Flemish, not French and Dutch-that sort of mistake will cost you dearly across a number of countries in the region…

  10. I enjoy Salamander, mainly because I’ve never watched anything that depicts Belgium. Also, I love the way some of the scenes include characters that jump between speaking Dutch and French, without so much as a blip.

  11. So SBS has a decent quality Belgian series, and they bump it for yet another repeat of a second rate US cable comedy. SBS TV is not even pretending to meet its charter as a multicultural broadcaster.

    SBS bid $700k for the Asian Cup, which they budgeted for funding entirely from the advertising during it, so at no cost to the taxpayer. The ABC outbid them and rumours are they will pay $1.4m of taxpayer money, the ABC is refusing to reveal how much and will claim it’s “commercial in confidence”.

    SBS2 and ABC2 compete directly for the same content and handful of viewers.

    The ABC also spent taxpayer money, which goes straight into Google’s tax havens, for clickbait to try and steal eyeballs away from Fairfax, News Ltd, Nine and Seven this week for its hagiography on Gough.

    Yet the ABC can’t find any efficiencies except cutting state based current affairs, which is part…

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