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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 …
Seven locks in Bones, Castle, Cougar Town, White Room, HIMYM
Seven has finally revealed its airdates for remaining shows next week including Bones, Castle, Cougar Town, The White Room and How I Met Your Mother.
Bones and Castle return to Sundays from this Sunday at 8:30pm / 9:30pm respectively.
Its new Thursday lineup is as follows:
7:30pm The White Room. Premiere
8:30pm Cougar Town. Premiere
9:00pm How I Met Your Mother. Season Premiere.
9:30pm Thank God You’re Here -rpt
Having dropped My Kitchen Rules from Tuesdays at 7:30pm, it now adds the show back to the schedule. On. Off. On. Off.
The schedule for next week now stands as …
Seven ratings schedule (so far, again)
Seven has locked in almost all of its schedule for the first week of ratings, but still leaves a few TBAs up its sleeve.
It has also dropped plans for a second My Kitchen Rules episode on Tuesday 9th. Now the new show will air once a week after launching with two episodes next week.
Seven still has not declared its times for Cougar Town, Bones, Castle, new Scrubs.
Sunday Feb 7
6:00pm Seven News
6:30pm Trishna & Krishna: The Quest for Separate Lives
8:00pm Airways. Season Premiere.
8:30pm TBA
11:30pm Air Crash Investgations rpt
Monday Feb 8
6:00pm Seven News
6:30pm …
Seven Ratings week schedule (so far)
Yesterday this site ran the current schedule details of Nine’s first official week of ratings. TEN’s full schedule for the same week is here.
Today here’s a look at Seven’s. Similarly, it has many TBAs.
Seven hasn’t indicated whether Grey’s Anatomy will air at 8:30pm or 9:30pm on Tuesday (it’s a 2 hr special next week).
Still no times yet for Bones, Castle, new Scrubs or Cougar Town. They should be clarified by tomorrow arvo if not before. Also unknown is whether Sunday Night will return on Feb 7.
Sunday Feb 7
6:00pm Seven …
Coming soon: Bones, Castle, Scrubs
As some readers have been asking, TV Tonight can confirm the impending return of new episodes of Bones, Castle and Scrubs soon on Seven.
Bones will resume from Season 5 Episode 7.
Castle picks up from Season 2 Episode 8.
Scrubs returns with Season 9 episode 1. This is where the series relocates to Med School, set one year after the finale of Season 8. Just two original cast members will be regulars on the show: Donald Faison as Christopher Turk, and John C. McGinley as Perry Cox. Zach Braff appears in the first …
Seven launches online catch-up, PLUS7
Seven today launched its online catch-up portal, PLUS7.
The site offers legal streaming of Seven shows including Grey’s Anatomy, Home and Away, FlashForward, Private Practice, Heroes, Castle, Better Homes and Gardens, Parks and Recreation and more.
As with the ABC’s iView, the site does not require a show to finish downloading before being available to start play.
The site includes “mid-roll advertising” to show advertisements mid programme, much like commercial television.
A spokesperson previously told TV Tonight they expect around 3-4 ads per show. Titles will remain online for between 7 – 28 days …
NBC considers Leno back at late nights
US media commentators are all speculating what NBC will do with The Jay Leno Show, widely perceived as a scheduling failure since it moved to the competitive 10pm timeslot. In the US, 10pm is still prime viewing where shows like Brothers and Sisters, Castle, Ugly Betty, Private Practice, Criminal Minds, The Good Wife and CSI: Miami all air.
Moving Leno to 10pm was considered the boldest programming move of the Fall Season, with Hollywood Reporter recently including his switch in a retrospective story on the decade’s biggest blunders.
NBC knew Leno’s shift …
Seven summer update
Seven has updated its first week of summer programming, filling in several TBAs and shuffling a few shows around.
New titles include Stephen Fry in Kingdom as a kindly solicitor who devotes his career to representing the oddball people in the Norfolk town of Market Shipborough, England. Kenneth Brannagh stars as Inspector Kurt Wallander, a brilliant detective who takes each murder case he works on personally and will stop at nothing in his search for the truth. The Take is a UK drama set in the criminal underworld of the East End …
The last Rove
The last ever episode of Rove signed off with 760,000 viewers.
While it was far from the show’s biggest audience, it was a shock announcement at 9:37pm. If the powers that be chose to give it a big send-off it could have enjoyed a much bigger farewell. But ’surprise’ was the key word and it managed to avoid most leaks.
But Sunday belonged to Seven with a huge share thanks to The Force, Border Security, Seven News, Bones, Sunday Night and Castle all winning their slots.
Even on the back of the Australian …
Seven amendment update
A pile of changes are in for Seven for the last two weeks of ratings. It’s bad news if you like American Dad but good news if you prefer Family Guy.
Wed Nov 18
11pm American Dad is replaced by Family Guy rpt
Thu Nov 19
10:30pm Family Guy marathon 3 eps rpt
American Dad is out
Sun Nov 22
9:30pm Castle double ep
Real Crime is out
Tue Nov 24
7:30pm Unlikely Animal Friends
9:30pm Private Practice dbl ep
Wed Nov 25
9:30pm Criminal Minds (new ep)
11pm Family Guy dbl ep rpt
Both American Dad and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (shifting to summer) …
Catch up plot for 7TWO shows
Viewers who don’t have digital television but want to catch episodes of Ugly Betty and Heroes (that’s all you guys in Prime land), a heads up that Seven is now streaming the episodes at yahoo7.com.au/tv.
Episodes of Home and Away, City Homicide and Packed to the Rafters, are also on offer while Better Homes and Gardens, Beauty and The Geek and Highway Patrol stream from the moment they go to air for the seven days following.
FlashForward and Castle are also available.
Meanwhile 7TWO will be added to Foxtel cable from November 24th …
Variety the spice of Nine’s life
In the week that Seven announced its new digital channel it lost another week to Nine and its GO! channel. Nine’s win included its tribute to a favourite son, Don Lane. On the back of the Hey Hey reunions it was another reminder its audience loves Variety. It was also a week in which the networks trumped one another in the publicity stakes. After the ABC launched ABC3, Seven stole its thunder the next day with 7TWO, which was subsequently trumped that afternoon by Nine winning Top Gear.
The Nine Network won …