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TEN: Easter guide
Here’s a quick round-up of what you will see over the two weeks of Easter non-ratings on TEN, with a mix of first run, repeats, specials and sport:
Formula One Grand Prix 5:00pm Sun Mar 28
The Biggest Loser 7:00pm Sun Mar 28
Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation 8:00pm Sun Mar 28
The Good Wife 9:00pm Sun Mar 28
TBA 10:00pm Sun Mar 28
The Best of Good News Week 8:30pm Mon Mar 29
Supernatural 9:30pm Mon Mar 29
NCIS: Los Angeles 9:30pm Tue Mar 30
Delivering the Pandas 7:30pm Fri Apr 2
White Collar final 9:30pm Fri Apr 2
Talkin’ ‘Bout Your …
TEN unveils early premieres
TEN has revealed its programming for the week of January 31st which, as expected, unveils several of its key titles ahead of official ratings.
It includes The Biggest Loser, So You Think You Can Dance Australia, Good News Week, Burn Notice, House, Medium, and White Collar.
The Biggest Loser with new host Hayley Lewis is stripped at 7:30pm weeknights following The 7PM Project, while the line-up also includes the premiere of Ross Noble’s Australian Trip and the late-night return of Army Wives. Little else changes in the schedule so far, with 9AM Summertime …
Letterman upgraded
You blogged. They listened… (we’re gonna have to drop the overuse of that one soon).
TEN has seen sense on Letterman.
It’s now moved it back to follow on from the late night run of The 7PM Project.
From Monday November 30 the rule of thumb will now be:
TEN Late News with Sports Tonight
The 7PM Project rpt
The Late Show with David Letterman.
Those replays of show like Medium, Numb3rs, Law & Order: CI etc will now follow Letterman. The downside is Nurse Jackie geta a 1:00am slot. Can’t have it all I guess…
There are …
The 11pm Project
Another new plan for The 7PM Project after TEN has announced the show will now have a late night timeslot over summer.
From November 30th it will screen at both 7pm and again at 11:15pm or slightly later, to follow the TEN Late News.
As previously reported, on Mondays and Fridays it will also be a one hour show.
TEN is very keen to do what it can to have the show tested by new eyeballs. Last year it programmed Out of the Blue in late nights, conscious that viewers’ schedules are changing with …
No risk for 20-TEN
A year ago when TEN unveiled its programming for 2009 it brazenly shocked the nation when it said Big Brother would be replaced by a cooking show. And it promised other local titles including Talkin’ ’Bout Your Generation, Guerilla Gardeners, Bondi Vet and even some that never eventuated: Australia’s Hidden Genius and Undercover Boss.
Unveiling its 2010 titles last night in Melbourne, TEN programmer David Mott played it both safe and sure, only promising one new local title, the Junior Masterchef spin-off. …
The cancelled list
As the US Fall Season nears it’s time to take stock of the shows in the US that are not moving forward (including two Aussie adaptations).
Whilst many of us are up to speed on most of these, sometimes one or two escape out attention, and others kinda never get cancelled but remain in permanent hiatus.
For the record here is the list of those that are no more:
ABC has cancelled Cupid, Dirty Sexy Money, Eli Stone, In the Motherhood, Kyle XY, Life on Mars, Pushing Daisies, Samantha Who, Surviving Suburbia, and The …
Alex O’Loughlin series for CBS
Alex O’Loughlin’s new US series Three Rivers will screen on CBS in the US Fall season.
Together with Simon Baker, he becomes another Aussie lead in a primetime series on CBS next Fall -effectively filling the gap left by Anthony LaPaglia’s cancelled Without a Trace. The series about organ transplants also features The L Word’s Katherine Moennig. Each story is told from the point of view of a doctor, recipient and donor.
The show will go head to head with Desperate Housewives, amongst others.
CBS also officially picks up Medium.
“If Ghost Whisperer and Numb3rs …
Cancelled: The Unit, Sam Who, According to Jim.
More news of cancelled shows to emerge from the US includes The Unit and According to Jim (it made it this far because?).
Medium has been dropped by NBC but is still a possibility of heading to CBS. Maybe Patricia Arquette can forsee her fate?
FOX may also pick up My Name is Earl, which was also let go.
ABC cancelled Samantha Who, after the show couldn’t slash its budget deep enough to make a third-season pickup work.
Networks are currently revealing their Fall slates, which sees ABC offering a new two-hour comedy block on …
Axed: Terminator, Unusuals. Renewed: Cold Case, Bones
No real surprises here: Terminator: The Sarah Cxonnor Chronicles has been cancelled by FOX.
The end of the road comes on the eve of the feature film release Terminator: Salvations starring Christian Bale and Sam Worthington.
ABC has pulled the plug on The Unusuals, a series that is on Nine’s drama list.
More positively for the network, Cold Case has been renewed for a seventh season.
However, Without a Trace is looking “unlikely” to return, insiders confirm.
Vampire Diaries is the first CW series to land a pickup for Fall. Based on novels about a young …
Renewals, axings and yet-to-be-determined
The Australian today has a feature article on renewals of US dramas, and how they impact with Aussie networks.
Here’s a round-up on some of the key titles:
Seven’s US line-up will continue to include Desperate Housewives, Grey’s Anatomy and Lost, which return for their sixth seasons.
Brothers and Sisters and Ugly Betty enter their fourth seasons, Private Practice its third and 30 Rock has been renewed, although it has not had as much success here as it in the US. And troubled sci-fi series Heroes will run for another season.
TEN will lose Life, …
NBC renews Heroes & Medium.
NBC has unveiled programming for its all-important Fall season, announcing new medical action-dramas, Trauma and Mercy, the one-hour dramedy Parenthood, starring Peter Krause and Maura Tierney, and, for February, the apocalyptic series Day One.
In comedy, 100 Questions for Charlotte Payne and Community featuring Chevy Chase and Joel McHale received orders. Southland and Parks and Recreation, starring Amy Poehler, received 13-episode orders. Parks was the comedy rushed in to replace Kath & Kim.
Heroes also received a pickup.
UPDATED: Patricia Arquette’s Medium, although initially reported as receiving a pickup on Sunday morning, is expected, …
Decision time for US dramas
America is fast approaching decision time for a number of series that air in Australia.
Not all shows that haven’t been renewed yet are in jeopardy: For such series as CBS’ How I Met Your Mother, which traditionally gets picked up at the last minute, and ABC’s Ugly Betty, the orders are just a formality.
But that can’t be said for a dozen or so other series anxiously awaiting their fate.
CBS has the most, including a quartet of long-running procedurals — Without a Trace, Cold Case, Numb3rs and The Unit — along with …