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Nine: After the Olympics
Nine has released details of its programming for the week of February 28, when the Olympics winds up.
Despite some TBAs, it heralds the return of Domestic Blitz, 60 Minutes, the newly titled Kerri-Anne, Kitchen Nightmares USA, plus returning Cold Case and CSI: NY. The second Whizz Kids Millionaire episode will air, while the Closing Ceremony of the Olympics screens live in the daytime with an evening replay.
Nine will also air the Wicked Love telemovie in this week, likely to be slated in the 8:30pm Sunday slot.
Nine is yet to declare …
Nine’s terrible Tuesdays
Tuesday remains a struggle for Nine after another low night for the network.
Nine barely scraped over the 20% share, coming third for the evening.
The best it could manage was 1.16m for Nine News. But with slight content including Commercial Breakdown Adults Only and Kitchen Nightmares USA is anybody surprised? Kerry Packer ripped out naughty commercials decades ago.
And Gordon Ramsay’s star has long fallen with Australian viewers. Nine should know this better than anybody, just ask Tracy Grimshaw. He could only manage 377,000 in a 10:15pm timeslot.
The problem for Nine is that …
Gone: Christine, CSI: NY, Returning: Kitchen Nightmares, Commercial Breakdown
Nine has responded, as we knew they all would, to it’s under-performing Tuesday night line up which this week saw its share dip to just 18.9%.
But its replacement programmes don’t look much better.
This week the line-up was:
7:30 Two and a Half Men rpt
8:00 The New Adventures of Old Christine
8:30 20 to 1
9:30 CSI: New York
Next Tuesday it now plans:
7:30 20 to 1
8:30 Two and a Half Men
9:00 Two and a Half Men
9:30 Commercial Breakdown Adults Only
10:15 Kitchen Nightmares: USA
Christine is now out of schedule on Nine (though it is coming to …
homeMADE gets second hour on Tuesday
After announcing the changes to homeMADE on Wednesday, now Nine has rescheduled the second hour, which will run at 9:30pm on Tuesday June 16.
That means the line up is now:
7:30pm homeMADE
8:30pm Two and a Half Men (rpts x 2)
9:30pm homeMADE
10:30pm Embarrasing Illnesses rpt
As a result Victorian viewers will miss out on Kitchen Nightmares USA which had been airing there.
Over on its 9HD channel on the same night, Nine now has:
10:30pm The War at Home (series return)
11:00pm The Class (series return)
11:30pm Justice
Justice is the Jerry Bruckheimer produced legal drama starring Victor Garber …
Underbelly dropped for Ramsay
Legal proceedings in Victoria (again) have caused Nine to drop Underbelly from its schedule (again).
Nine will no longer be screening repeats of the first series of Underbelly in Melbourne on Tuesday nights after lawyers for an underworld figure have applied to the Supreme Court to stop the series.
Two edited episodes went to air on Tuesday.
But the news is better for fans of Gordon Ramsay (the remaining ones anyway) with Kitchen Nightmares USA in a 9:30pm timeslot. At 10:30 it’s Hell’s Kitchen already slated, that means two Ramsay episodes on May 5 …
Returning: RPA. Gone: Kitchen Nightmares.
Just one day after his season return, Nine has dumped Gordon Ramsay.
From next week Kitchen Nightmares is replaced by the return of RPA.
Last night the show attracted just 515,000 viewers. In Brisbane where the show didn’t air CSI: New York took 144,000 viewers – a timeslot total of 649,000.
It was thumped by the premiere of Life on Mars with 1.14m and Grey’s Anatomy on 1.08m.
Both Ramsay and CSI: NY have been removed by Nine effective immediately.
Just 12 months ago Gordon Ramsay was a hero of Nine’s, but played as many as …
Airdate: Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities
Channel Nine has locked in its premiere for Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities -and it’s not what was reported in The Herald Sun and Daily Telegraph this morning.
The prequel will premiere at 8:30pm Monday February 9th and, reports The Australian, “stay in the Monday timeslot.”
TV Tonight can also confirm it will be a two hour premiere.
This pits the show head to head with Desperate Housewives and Good News Week on Seven and TEN, plus Dexter and Brothers and Sisters.
Yesterday Nine announced the return of The Mentalist, Kitchen Nightmares: USA …
Returning: The Mentalist, Cold Case, Kitchen Nightmares
UPDATED: Nine has revealed details of its schedule next week, the final week of non-ratings, which includes the return of The Mentalist in new episodes.
Episode 8 “Thin Red Line” screens at 8:30pm Wednesday February 4th followed by Flashpoint’s 7th episode “He Knows His Brother.”
New Cold Case episodes move to “new night, new time” at 10:30pm with “Wednesday’s Women.”
What that means for ER, starting its 14th season at 10:30pm tomorrow night, is extremely unclear. It won’t be in the same slot next week. Madness.
Amended: New episodes of Kitchen Nightmares USA return at …
The dumping ground of television
It’s become one of the stories of the 2008 television year: dumping shows ad infinitum. This month we’ve lost Fringe, Cold Case, Wipeout, Battlefronts, Kitchen Nightmares USA, Kath & Kim (US), 90210, Bondi Rescue: Bali and even a repeat series of Friends. Dropping shows isn’t new, but its rapidity is increasing, confusing audiences and disintegrating trust between viewers and networks.
Nine’s Head of Acquisitions, Daytime and HD programming Les Sampson spoke to TV Tonight about the challenges and ramifications of scheduling.
As we all know, delivering demographics to advertisers is an artform. Programming …
Gone: Fringe
Nine has just pulled the plug on one of it’s big new dramas, Fringe.
The big budget “thrilling new drama” the network recently promoted as with a big marketing push has been pulled from it schedule effective immediately.
Nine will instead move The Mentalist into its place from next Wednesday at 8:30pm, followed by CSI: NY.
This week the series rated a disappointing 671,000 viewers -thrashed by Criminal Minds’ 1.47m, beaten by Spicks and Specks 1.23m, and pipped by House’s 885,000 viewers.
The complex, futuristic drama starring Australian actors Anna Torv and John Noble has …
US dramas struggling for Heroes
As the global financial market continue to slide, so too are ratings for American television programmes in Australia.
Despite the recent cast member promo visit, last night’s premiere of Heroes’ supposedly revamped series managed a rather paltry 878,000. A second episode took 785,000. At 10:30pm the new season of Prison Break tanked at a lousy 387,000. Thanks to its early evening shows, Seven will be pleased it still won the night in 16-39, 18-49 and 25-54 demographics.
These are shows that two and three years ago were hailed as shining beacons for Channel …
Returning: CSI: NY. Gone: Gordon Ramsay
If it isn’t already known for it, Nine is now the Two and Half Men and CSI network.
CSI: NY is returning to screen to replace plans for Hell’s Kitchen, which in turn was replacing Kitchen Nightmares USA. Last night the Chef only managed 593,000 viewers -fourth in its timeslot.
“Personal Foul” the 19th episode of the fourth season returns at 9:30pm Wednesday October 15.
Yesterday Nine announced new CSI: Crime Scene Investigation from Monday October 13.
Even this website is beginning to lose track of what Nine episodes are going where these days.