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Extra serve of MKR
Tonight’s 90 minute episode of My Kitchen Rules is now 100 minutes.
Instead of ending at 9pm, it will end at 9:10pm, pushing back the start times for Grey’s Anatomy (9:10pm), Brothers and Sisters (10:10pm), Super Skinny Me (11:10pm) and a repeat of Blue Heelers (12:10am).
Or maybe it’s just Seven scheduling falling into place with what’s been going on anyway. I don’t remember the last time an episode of MKR actually ended at 8:30pm? More like 8:37pm. Still, audiences are obviously liking the show.
The show has its finale next Monday.
Memo to Seven promos dept
Why must television promos give everything away?
Network promos for tonight’s episode of Brothers and Sisters identifies the show’s final scene, including the very last story point, which is effectively the episode cliffhanger.
If you haven’t seen it I’ll refrain from the finer detail…
These kind of clumsy mistakes only illustrate that someone doesn’t have their eye on the ball. Nine has some online promos for Survivor recently that showed contestants at Tribal Council. Not too smart when it was getting down to the final few. Apparently that was the work of NineMSN, which …
My Kitchen Rules finale
Seven’s new cooking reality show My Kitchen Rules will have its Grand Final on Monday March 22nd.
In the 90 minute finale, one team will win $100,000.
As noted previously, this pushes Desperate Housewives back to 9pm and Brothers and Sisters to 10pm.
The following night Seven will screen Border Security at 7:30pm followed by The Force.
Seven is already on the hunt for new contestants for a second season of MKR.
Meanwhile when The Bounce premieres at 7:30pm Wednesday March 24 in Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth, its episodes of RSPCA Animal Rescue and …
Returning: Private Practice
Seven will return Private Practice to air soon, coming to Tuesday nights.
It’s back at 9:30pm Tuesday March 23rd with S3E11 “Another Second Chance,” part of a crossover episode with Grey’s Anatomy which airs at 8:30pm.
Meanwhile as My Kitchen Rules heads towards its finish line Seven also has longer eps coming, starting with a 90 minute episode next Tuesday, pushing Grey’s Anatomy to 9pm.
On Monday March 22nd there are TBAs with Brothers and Sisters locked in for 10pm instead of 9:30pm.
The return of Private Practice probably means Brothers and Sisters will resume …
Renewed: Brothers and Sisters
Brothers and Sisters has reportedly been granted another season by the ABC Network according to Roger Friedman of the Hollywood Reporter.
“I’m told ABC has renewed Brothers & Sisters for a fifth season. The Sally Field soap opera has had, I think, five show runners in four seasons. Maybe they can somehow get back to the show’s basic premise, from which it has seriously drifted, next fall,” he writes.
There are no more details at this stage, but it’s no real surprise. Wonder if all the cast are still on board or who …
Rob Lowe tipped for Parks & Recreation
Rob Lowe, who has already been reported as exiting Brothers and Sisters, is reportedly heading to Parks and Recreation.
Michael Ausiello reports, “I’m told that Lowe, who, as you know, is leaving Brothers & Sisters at season’s end, would appear in multiple episodes of Parks and Rec beginning later this season and extending into next. (NBC wisely went ahead and renewed the comedy for a third season.). Details about Lowe’s character are being kept under the tightest of wraps. I should know more as soon as his deal becomes official.”
At least he …
House tops Timeshifted
Top Gear’s premiere episode rose from 1.68m viewers to 1.77m viewers after Consolidated figures were released for Week 7. That meant 86,000 had Timeshifted the show within the next 7 days, boosting its status as the #1 show of the week.
But the biggest rises went to House (up 135,000) and The Good Wife (up 100,000) against One Day Cricket.
NCIS also gained 88,000 -enough to see it move from #5 for the week to #3.
Drama continues to be the big winner in Timeshifting, with extra gains for Grey’s Anatomy (Ep 1, 97,000 …
Double up on Brothers and Sisters
Brothers and Sisters will soon be airing twice a week on Seven.
The US drama will air on both Mondays and Tuesdays at 9:30pm from February 23.
That’s a lot of sobbing, a lot of dinner parties and a lot of red wine for the Walkers…
Elsewhere, Seven has also advised NBC Today is out at 4am weekdays, to be replaced with Room for Improvement repeats and Dateline NBC repeats at 4:00 / 4:30 am respectively.
It looks like the move will continue throughout February, so it may well be an Olympics-affected move brought about …
Late night Timeshifting
Changes to Ratings data are certainly creating new ways to learn how we watch TV, as well as networks finding new ways to canvas their shows to media.
This week both TEN and Seven have drawn upon Consolidated figures to alert media to increases in shows.
House (Jan 31) picked up an extra 144,000 viewers across the week while Brothers and Sisters (Feb 1) netted an additional 72,000.
Timeshifting is still a new dynamic to ratings results, but numbers in a week’s time will be far more interesting when they reflect official survey figures.
If …
And the first amendment of the 2010 ratings year goes to…
Channel Nine is officially holder of the first amendment of the 2010 ratings year after it issued a switch this morning.
It’s adding a repeat of The Mentalist to 9:30pm this Thursday, in place of a double episode of CSI: New York.
Now instead of two CSI episodes airing, it will just be one, “Communication Breakdown” moved to 10:30pm.
The Mentalist repeat is “Bloodshot” S1E16.
Of course late on Friday TEN also suddenly dumped Malcolm in the Middle in favour of more Simpsons repeats plus Biggest Loser replays, while Seven last week added a bunch …
New pilots from Josh Schwartz, Greg Berlanti.
Prolific writer Josh Schwartz (The OC, Chuck, Gossip Girl) has another pilot added to his CV with CBS picking up a comedy, Hitched, which centres on a young twentysomething couple that are newlyweds while still getting to know each other.
The multi-camera comedy will be co-written by Matt Miller for CBS.
CBS has also picked up an untitled multicam sitcom pilot about a widower who must juggle raising his 12 year-old son while also getting back into the dating world by Tad Quill (writer Dirty Sexy Money, Scrubs). One and a half men …
My Kitchen Rules Mondays and Tuesdays
Seven has announced its new shows set to air in the run-up to official ratings.
In the week of January 31st it will launch My Kitchen Rules (both Monday and Tuesday night) and new factual ICU on Wednesday.
Returning are new seasons of Desperate Housewives, Brothers and Sisters, Grey’s Anatomy, 30 Rock, Gangs of Oz and Family Guy. Criminal Minds resumes new episodes after the season began late last year.
It also premieres US drama Royal Pains and has two double episodes of A Touch of Frost.
Thursday nights look ripe for new …