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So what’s been your summer gem?
The other week a journalist asked me for some quotes on how our TV summer season was faring and I pointed out that historically, the 09 / 10 season has offered an abundance of choice -at least compared to when we had just 5 channels, half of which were stuck on sport.
This year the amount of content has boomed, thanks to our extra digital channels.
But when the article appeared in print, readers hit back saying summer is still a dead zone. I got slammed. Well, it is if you stick with …
Extra 7PM Project pays off
The first weeknight of summer ratings was good news and bad news for TEN.
Its move to extend The 7PM Project has paid off with 826,000 viewers. The network is airing one hour episodes on Mondays and Fridays through summer as a way of attracting new eyeballs to the show. Last night it spent longer on topics and didn’t have its first commercial break for 15 minutes. It also tweaked the set with more orange and brown hues.
But it wasn’t all going their way. Futurama dropped to 664,000 while Supernatural was only …
See it first, a month later on Nine.
If you had been watching Channel Nine last night you could be mistaken for thinking Shocking had just won the Melbourne Cup.
Nine played a News promo from last month in the middle of late night dramedy Burying Brian.
“Celebrations are in full swing for connections of the Mark Kavanagh-trained Shocking, after the 4 year old victory in the Melbourne Cup,” Wendy Kingston said.
“Sydney punters battle through 37 degree heat at Randwick.
“And St. George and the big four banks have moved swiftly to pass on today’s quarter of a percent rate rise.”
Umm, no …
Primetime Survivor on Nine’s summer
Primetime Survivor, the return of Cold Case, Flashpoint, Motorway Patrol, Wipeout, CSI: New York, the premiere of Crusoe and continuing ER, Getaway are some of the offerings in Nine’s first week of summer.
Nine will also repeat Rescue: Special Ops, David Attenborough’s Life in Cold Blood, Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory, and will strip Australia’s Funniest Home Videos in a 7pm half hour version after watching the idea perform on GO!
It will premiere Burying Brian, a NZ dramedy about a woman who wants to kill her hubby, but …