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More information emerged on GO! in the last week when critic Andrew Mercado told MediaWeek about some of the programming plans he had seen as part of his chat for A Current Affair.
Sunday night is sitcoms and movies, Monday includes male-skewed reality such as Dog the Bounty Hunter and Bad Lads Army; Tuesday is female-skewed reality such as Survivor, The Bachelor and Bachelorette; Wednesday night is Sci-Fi; Thursday is Gossip Girl, The Hills; Friday and Saturday is aimed at CSI when the target audience is out.
The programming is designed to …
Sidney Sheldon, Shirley Temple and Cary Grant
Heard the name Sidney Sheldon before?
If you love your nostalgic telly, you will know he created I Dream of Jeannie. But what else did he do?
Next week ABC has one of his movies, The Bachelor And The Bobby Soxer
The film features Shirley Temple as a seventeen-year-old Susan Turner who develops a big crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent (Cary Grant), after he speaks at her school, and manages to sneak into his apartment.
Meanwhile, her older sister and guardian Margaret, a judge, (Myrna Loy) who’s already had dealings with Nugent in her …
9HD breaks out with Jeannie
From today 9HD begins break-out programming in daytimes, with a mix of movies, sitcoms and repeat screenings of its network brands.
Beginning at 11am today Nine has Charlie’s Angels and Elvis movies and from Monday its Just Shoot Me, Seinfeld, a Brooke Shields movie, Domestic Blitz, Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie ending at 4:30pm. Breakout programming resumes at 10:30pm.
The afternoon trend continues through to Friday adding repeats of RPA, What’s Good For You and Getaway.
Saturday will remain a simulcast.
Nine is expected to launch an entertainment brand on Channel 99 around October …