Big Bang Theory now on 4 channels
Nine, GO!, 7mate and Seven -TV goes bang for The Big Bang Theory.
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Next week The Big Bang Theory screens for the first time on Seven.
On Monday night Season 6 episodes from 2012 will begin airing at 9pm. This follows Season 3 episodes beginning on 7mate earlier this month. Seven famously picked up the rights to the sitcom after Nine ended its deal with Warner Bros.
Nine still has the rights to Seasons 8 and 9 with new episodes premiering on Nine and reruns on GO!
That means 16 episodes are now airing on across 4 Free to Air Channels (plus the Comedy Channel on Pay TV). How they have managed to not pit them head to head is an art.
This is despite Seven frequently taking pot-shots at Nine for too many Big Bang episodes across its schedule in the past, and TV execs maintaining they would not be copying each other.
But picking up the show has been a strategic acquisition already lifting network share.
Whether that justifies airing on 4 channels is another question…
Sunday October 18
GO! 7pm
7mate 7:30pm
Monday October 19
GO! 7pm
7mate 7:30pm
Seven 9pm
Seven 9:30pm
Tuesday October 20
GO! 7pm
7mate 7:30pm
Nine 8:40pm (New)
Nine 9:10pm
Wednesday October 21
GO! 7pm
GO! 7:30pm
GO! 8pm
Friday October 23
7pm 7mate
7:30pm 7mate
8pm 7mate
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23 Responses
Far too much Big Bang bull5hit on the TV. Get rid of this bollocks of rubbish
yep there is too much of a great show. how about we get rid of reality rubbish though instead?
Nine and GO! Now only have access to the last two seasons, so how long can GO! repeat episodes now before they go through the whole season 8? And what will they do to fill the gap before they can repeat all of season 9!?
Suspect they lose S8 at the end of the year.
TBBT on 4 channels – that is an overkill.
@ Elizabeth H i too would like to see Melrose Place not the new version but the 90s one. Although if it were put together ie back to back than that would be good. The programmers are poor they do not know how to program.
Yes. The old Melrose from the 90s. Love, love, love.
A couple of things…..1. Over exposure on fta normally sounds the death knell for a show on aussie tv…….2. How the hell are ch9 gonna fill their non ratings schedule, now that ch7 owns the old bigbang will they resort to 2andhalfmen?
And the Comedy channel’s shows a couple of eps a day and it’s available on other media. It’s just the nature of digital fragmentation. There are 400+ scripted shows being made in the US. Only a few will get watched on a lounge room TV, most form a long tail being watch alone on DVRs, laptops and tablets.
TBBT and Modern Family are the only US sitcoms with a large enough audience to hold a primetime slot, and people will watch the eps over and over. The other side of digital media is if you set your DVR for late at night you can get Nurse Jackie or You’re The Worst to watch when you want it, or stream all of Arrested Development (before it moved to streaming and was worth watching).
This is the reason (along with a glut of reality television) that people stream and download illegally …..
That is ridiculous but at least it’s not the same ep on at the same time like with Family Feud on 10, 1, & 11.
I remember those confusing ads from a few years ago telling us that there were going to be all these new channels with so much new content that I thought “Wow, it’s going to be like living in any other industrialised country in 1998”. Look at what we’ve actually got. Thank you Freeview.
It’s too much!
Why doesn’t channel 7 just start from season 1?
The Big Bird Theory on “MAD” this week, “the cast of the Big Bang Theory are tired of their show and escape to another world”, living off their Aussie residual payments, no doubt!
More quality Australian FTA programming
Granted the Comedy Channel sets the bar pretty low, but aren’t comedies supposed to be funny?
Wasnt the original 7Mate plan run it Mon-Thurs, or was that week one only? If not, then they have already backflipped on that idea. It’s nothing but a filler show now, because at the selected days and number of airings per week, you’d never be able to follow a season in full. But I guess its now passed it’s chance of getting new viewers and only people who want something familiar on in the background.
I like the show but this is overkill.
And once again Nine put all it’s (comedy) eggs in one basket all but ignoring other sitcoms it has for a show (if I remember rightly) they cancelled after a few weeks first time out.
On top of that Nine is still not fast tracking the new season.
Personally I find this ridiculous but at least diehard fans don’t have to leave the couch much and just have to reach for the remote. Having said that will the 7pm show on GO actually finish at 7.30, so you can switch to 7mate and get the beginning of the next episode.
I just wish shows I liked got repeated occasionally. I wouldn’t mind watching old Desperate Housewives, Melrose Place etc. on a multichannel one evening but who else would be watching?
Seven often play back seasons of Despertate Housewives, Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal, etc. on its primary channel at around midnight, and Revenge just got a rerun at midday on 7Two.
It won’t matter if the ep on Go finishes late because the ep on Mate won’t start on time.
And to think people say that Free to Air TV is dying. Behold it in all it’s original and creative glory!!
Tried to watch this once…….I guess I just don’t get American comedy
Just wait until Foxtel announce their new “Big Bang” channel screening nothing but Big Bang episodes.
Plus, of course, the obligatory 2 hour later repeat channel.