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Fan fury at Nine
Fans of Fringe who were unaware the show had been pulled from Nine’s current schedule got a rude shock last night and vented their anger in online messageboards.
They were universally vehement in their displeasure with Nine’s programming.
This site alone now totals 95 posts in one thread alone.
Over on Nine’s own messageboard there were more furious comments:
Fringe Dweller: C’mon channel 9, have some balls and tell the people why Fringe has been pulled! Oh I’m sorry, you don’t care about what people like. Maybe we could lose one of the four …
Now it’s a CSI: NY double
UPDATED: Nine now advises a movie to replace both CSIs, “Must Love Dogs”. Both CSIs now out, guys….
FURTHER UPDATE: Now it’s The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.
Nine will air two CSI: New York episodes on Wednesday November 5th at 8:30 and 9:30pm. That pushes out The Mentalist for the night.
The double ep is a result of the US election on November 4 with no episode of The Mentalist airing in America. Similarly TEN has no episode of House for the night, playing double eps of Life.
For Nine it means in a matter …
Sharni Vinson on CSI: NY
Former Home and Away actress Sharni Vinson will appear in next week’s episode of CSI: New York.
Vinson, who played Cassie in Summer Bay, plays a pregnant woman held hostage in a bank hold-up in the season 4 finale.
Last year she was dating A.J. Buckley (pictured) who plays CSI:NY’s ‘Adam Ross’ but the couple have since split.
“Hostage” can be seen at 9:30pm Wednesday October 29th on Nine.
Bumped: Kitchen Nightmares USA, CSI: NY.
Months ago he was the hottest thing on television, now he can’t get the figures and is replaced by a movie.
Nine was so unhappy with its 732,000 for the (fasttracked) series of Kitchen Nightmares USA on Monday that it is moving the reality series immediately. Next week (Wed Sept 17) it screens at 10pm, replacing a repeat of CSI: NY.
A new episode of CSI: NY planned for 9:30pm Monday is now out schedule too. Instead Nine will fill its Monday with a repeat of a 2003 Jack Nicholson movie, Something’s Got To Give. …
Bumped: CSI: NY
CSI: New York’s return has been pushed back a week by the Nine Network, given it now has a two hour season premiere of Kitchen Nightmares USA next Monday.
As a result CSI: NY will return 9:30pm Monday September 15th with “Personal Foul”, the 19th ep of the fourth series.
Nine’s scheduling of the Ramsay series follows some movement by the FOX Network, which had originally scheduled it for September 4 (US), but then pushed it out to Sept 11. Instead it moved in a 2 hour special in which Ramsay returns to …
Returning: Kitchen Nightmares USA, CSI: NY
Nine will screen the second season of Kitchen Nightmares USA next month, just days after the US.
The show returns in a new timeslot of 8:30pm Monday from September 8 -in the US it premieres Sept 4. But Ramsay will have to compete with City Homicide and 90210.
It will be followed by CSI: NY. “Personal Foul” is the 19th episode of the fourth series which aired in the US in may. A fifth series starts in the …