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Returning: RPA
Nine’s factual series RPA, narrated by Max Cullen, will return to screens from 8:30 Wednesday February 24th
Updated: Cold Case will return 9:30pm Wed Mar 3.
Last night the show rated 726,000 / 675,000 for two episodes, beaten by Spicks and Specks 1.07 am, Criminal Minds 1.00m and So You Think You Can Dance Australia 984,000.
Cold Case becomes the first prime time show to be removed by a network following official survey ratings.
RPA will be followed by Olympics highlights at 9:30pm.
Tonight on the series return of RPA, Fiona was due to be married …
Face the factuals. Seven rules the week.
After five straight losses, an aggressive Seven Network showed it wins on consistent programming and not events or boosts from digital shares. It dominated the week’s top shows, as its factuals continue to underpin the network’s schedule. Seven took 14 of the week’s Top 15 shows.
Seven won the week with 29.0% over Nine’s 26.5% and TEN’s 21.8%. The ABC had 17.1% and SBS 5.5%.
Seven also won two key demos 18-49 and 25-54 while TEN won 16-39.
GO! had 2.4%, ABC2 1.2%, ONE 1.6% and SBS TWO 0.4%.
Seven won Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, …
Freehand appoints Head of Factual
Freehand Productions, which has produced such shows as Dancing with the Stars, Top Gear Australia, Escape from Scorpion Island, and Missing Persons Unit, has announced the appointment of Paul Rudd to the role of Head of Factual Programmes.
Rudd came to Freehand to help create The Nest and has been an Executive Producer at the Nine Network and Film Australia. His credits include RPA, Enough Rope, Getaway, Colour Of War and Captain Cook – Obsession and Discovery. He has 20 years of producing television for Australian, New Zealand, Canadian and UK media …
September TV loves sport
Sport is surging in September. Two AFL matches roared to over 1.4m giving Seven and TEN some big victories, notably helping the latter save face after an ordinary week. NRL topped 1m at Nine and also helped the network win Sunday. But while audiences fluctuate it was GO! that again got Nine across the line to win Week 38 -the second such glory in a row.
Nine finished with 28.9% ahead of Seven’s 27.5% and TEN’s 20.7%. The ABC had 17.7% and SBS 5.2%.
Nine won all key demos 16-39, 18-49 and 25-54.
GO! …
Returning: The Mentalist, CSI.
Even more changes from Nine for the week of September 27 with fastracking of new seasons of The Mentalist and CSI.
By the time its schedule is complete, Nine will have all but completely overhauled its weekly line-up from its original plans.
Hey Hey also gets a replay later in the week which finally places it on a Saturday…
Monday Sept 28
8:30pm The Mentalist Season 2
9:30pm TBA
11pm Bizarre ER
Tuesday Sept 29
7:30pm 20 to 1
8:30pm Movie: Shrek the Third
10:30pm Litle Britain
Wednesday Sept 30
7:30pm Hey Hey the Reunion
10pm Special TBA
11:30pm Nine News
Thursday Oct 1
8:30pm CSI Season …
Nine pumps up the Jam
Timing is everything in television and it seems there’s nothing like Money for Jam in times of economic crisis.
Nine’s new infotainment show pulled an impressive 1.32m viewers last night, not just winning its timeslot, but already surpassing anything it had on air last week. That has to be good news for a network struggling to get its new shows to fire.
Together with Two and a Half Men and RPA, Nine managed to clinch the night by a slim 0.1% from Seven (of course GO! is in there too).
The news was bad …
Hot Seat’s bewitching week
For the second week running Nine’s ratings enjoyed a boost from GO! that blurs its performance. While all networks enjoy share from their secondary channels, in the case of Nine figures for its titles included viewers that watched shows on GO! On three nights Hot Seat beat Deal or No Deal, but how many of them were viewers for Bewitched? All will be revealed this week when the figures break out from today.
Seven won Week 34 with 28.3% ahead of Nine’s 26.6% and TEN’s 20.8%. The ABC had 16.5% and SBS …
Returning: The Gift
Nine’s factual series on organ donation, The Gift, is back next month.
Hosted by Tara Brown it returns from 9pm Wednesday August 12th, slipping in behind a 30 minute RPA.
Updated: It will be followed by the first of a double episode of Cold Case, “The Long Blue Line” at 9:30pm.
All the music featured in the episode is by Pearl Jam.
Airdate: Michael Jackson in Concert
And still the last minute programming changes built around Michael Jackson keep coming. Even after his Memorial is over.
Nine has just added the 1992 Live In Bucharest: The Dangerous Tour to its schedule for tonight from 9pm. That means from 7pm it has a repeat of The Michael Jackson Memorial Concert at 7pm followed by this concert until 11pm. On the back of Jackson in Nine News and A Current Affair it will be, umm, blanket coverage (sorry, second time I’ve used that gag).
Of course Seven has its own big night …
Twenty Two and Half Men
Two and a half ‘Two and a Half Mens’ might be watchable, but there’s even more Charlie Sheen coming.
It’s now on 7:30pm Wednesday July 1 too. Added to regular Mondays, Tuesdays and in some cities, Fridays -on top of the 7pm screening- that makes the show more like ‘Twenty Two and a Half Men.’ And that’s despite the new episodes drying up.
All this for a show that Nine once couldn’t even get to rate?
On July 1 it’s followed by What’s Good For You at 8pm, while a one hour RPA shifts …
Cold Case takes up Mentalist slot
After The Mentalist ended on Nine last week there has been some curiosity as to its replacement. So far, there really isn’t one, but it could just be a temporary stay while major sporting events intervene.
Tomorrow night RPA runs for an hour, with Cold Case screening two eps from 9pm.
Next week there’s another State of Origin in play.
The week after, July 1st, Cold Case will screen at 8:30pm, followed by a repeat and then Wimbledon from 10:30pm.
From this point forward programming is still under wraps, but another State of Origin is …
Ratings winners upstaged by Nine stoush
Controversy continued to dominate television for the second week in a row, this time as a public stoush between two Nine personalities reached fever pitch. While it saw audiences flock to the coverage, it wasn’t enough to stop Seven from winning the week with a routine week of strong programming. Yet it was TEN that continued significant gains.
Seven won Week 24 with 27.6% ahead of Nine’s 25.5% and TEN’s 24.5%. The ABC had 17.4% and SBS 5.0%.
For the third week in a row TEN won 3 key demo groups 16-39, 18-49 …