Gone: Deadly Surf. Returning: Old Christine.

December 4, 2008  Filed Under Programming, 24 Comments » 

And the first dumping of the silly season goes to: Channel Nine.

Last night Deadly Surf rated 761,000, down from 10 to 1’s 910,000 before it. It was beaten by Air Crash Investigations, 7:30 Report and The Simpsons.

From next Wednesday December 10th The New Adventures of Old Christine returns with “Richie Scores” episode 12 of the second season.

After its success with Two and a Half Men Nine is drawing heavily on sitcoms this summer.

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Nine’s summer of Gossip

November 14, 2008  Filed Under Programming, 56 Comments » 

Gossip Girl, Pushing Daisies, Survivor: Gabon, Temptation, Fringe, ER, McLeod’s Daughters -are all coming to Channel Nine over summer.

Gossip Girl, the teen soap set in affluent Manhattan high school circles, has been screening on FOX8 (Pay TV has season two from December) but finally gets a Free to Air screening. Nine, which on-sold the rights to FOX8, will start with Series One. It is the second time the network on-sold a series by writer / producer Josh Schwartz, after it let TEN take The OC.

Also on Nine over summer is …