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Panic stations as TEN dumps more shows
It’s ‘Panic Stations” at Network TEN this summer as another raft of shows gets the chop from its schedules.
Rules of Engagement, Don’t Forget the Lyrics, Glee (repeats) have been dumped -even the extra 30 minutes of The 7PM Project has been ditched from Fridays, despite the network promising longer episodes through summer.
In their place are more Accidentally on Purpose, repeats of Malcolm in the Middle, new Simpsons and movies.
TEN’s trigger-happy programming follows it cutting Supernatural, Stargate Universe and a number of other shows.
The network may be reacting to a …
Gone: Numb3rs, Jamie Oliver, Bumped: Futurama, White Collar.
Major changes to TEN’s summer line-up.
Monday night’s Futurama to be replaced by Rules of Engagement, now to air in the Wednesday animation line up at 8pm where it was playing in repeat.
Supernatural is off next Monday to allow the double episode premiere of Stargate Universe at 8:30pm.
White Collar moves to 9:30pm replaced by a repeat of NCIS. So that means Numb3rs is out.
…oh and Jamie’s Family Christmas? The one where he was effectively going to be cooking turkey in January? That’s gone too. (Quote: “TEN will surely come to their …
Supernatural back for TEN’s summer
New episodes of Supernatural, The Office, Numb3rs, Law and Order, Californication, Glee and Futurama are coming to TEN over summer.
The network has revealed its first week of programming for the non-ratings season, beginning November 29th.
It will premiere Family Guy spin-off, The Cleveland Show and launch new Jenna Elfman comedy Accidentally on Purpose.
White Collar, which premieres on November 25th, continues.
It will also repeat The Simpsons, Merlin, Little Britain USA, Bondi Vet, Lie to Me, Rules of Engagement, Law and Order: CI.
TEN airs US game shows Don’t Forget The Lyrics and, for the …
The 7 – 8PM Project
Something must be brewing on Thursday September 3rd over at TEN, with an amendment issued indicating a one hour episode of The 7PM Project.
But what could it be? Live cross to a movie premiere? Celebrity MasterChef tie-in? Too early for AFL finals or Emmys….
It is followed by a repeat of Rules of Engagement.
Ratings: Special Ops leaves Nine dangling
The Nine Network learned some tough lessons in Week 32. Two of its bright new hopes, Rescue: Special Ops and The Farmer Wants a Wife -both of which attracted critical acclaim- took middling figures for their season premieres. Nine appears to be finding out the hard way that a disillusioned audience may not even sample new content.
Seven streaked home with 28.7% over Nine’s 23.8% and TEN’s 21.5%. The ABC had 17.1% and SBS 8.9%.
Seven won 18-49 and 25-54 demos, and was just pipped in 16-39 by 0.1% by TEN. …
Audiences flock to quality
This week the ABC delivered commercial networks a bit of a lesson as US cable series United States of Tara swooped with 1.27m viewers in a 9:30pm timeslot. It highlighted the fact that audiences will flock to supposedly niche stories, if they are accessible. Even subscription television had passed on this one, but the ABC was able to win the slot with Toni Collette.
Once again, however, it was Seven’s week, scoring a very strong 29.3% over Nine’s 24.3% and TEN’s 22.4%. The ABC had 17.6% and SBS 6.3%.
Seven won 18-49 and …
TEN loses week to Seven
There isn’t really any other way to put it. This week was TEN’s to lose.
After it set record television records with the MasterChef Australia finale its lead was superb, almost double Seven. While it was never going to maintain that distance it was left to face the reality of its core programming. Nine generally wins weeks with State of Origin’s 2m+ but TEN couldn’t take the week with a show on 3.7m.
Instead it was Seven that quietly strode through on 27.3% beating TEN’s 25.0% and Nine’s 23.4%. ABC had 16.5% and …
Vale: Johnny Palermo
Actor Johnny Palermo, who appeared in more than 30 television shows in his brief career, has died in a car accident in North Hollywood. He was 27.
Palermo was a regular on the Nickelodeon series Just for Kicks and appeared in three episodes of the CW’s Everybody Hates Chris as Frank DiPaolo, Chris’ overgrown classmate.
His girlfriend, Alessandra Giangrande, who was driving at the time, also was killed, and her brother suffered serious injuries. Palermo and Giangrande were pronounced dead at the scene.
Palermo also appeared in Cold Case, General Hospital, CSI: Miami, Rules …
Nine scores the week
Week 23 saw all the biffo on Wednesday night. The State of Origin hit a high of 2.28m viewers -a record for the event since OzTAM ratings commenced. It helped Nine win just its third week of ratings over Seven. It was also the same night that The Chaser’s War on Everything offended large portions of the viewing audience with its now-notorious sketch.
Nine won the week with 27.1% over Seven’s 26.4% and TEN’s 24.5%. The ABC had 17.1% and SBS 4.8%.
As expected, Nine won Sydney and Brisbane with Seven snaring all …
Gone: Worst Week
US comedy Worst Week has lived up to its title and been dumped by TEN.
The show is replaced this week by a second episode of Rules of Engagement.
The US adaptation of the British series The Worst Week of My Life only lasted 2 eps in Oz, down to 620,000 last week.
It didn’t particularly fire in the US either, cancelled by CBS last month.
Cancelled: Without a Trace, Privileged, Eleventh Hour.
More dire news from the US with several more shows meeting their ‘natural’ end (or not) including a biggie, Without a Trace.
CBS reportedly approved Numb3rs at the expense of Without A Trace because it’s less expensive to produce, according to Michael Ausiello.
The Anthony LaPaglia show has been running since 2002, but with that pesky global economic crisis there was talk both it and Cold Case were on notice due to their price tags, however the latter has been renewed.
CBS has also dropped Eleventh Hour and renewed How I Met Your Mother, …
Airdate: Worst Week
Another US adaptation from a British series will begin soon on Channel TEN.
Sitcom Worst Week arrives as the American version of The Worst Week of My Life which has previously screened on the ABC.
In the US version, Sam Briggs (Kyle Bornheimer) is an entertainment magazine editor who will do anything to please his girlfriend’s conservative parents. But instead he becomes a one-man wrecking crew whenever he’s around them. Now they must tell the parents of their impending wedding and baby.
The series aired in the US last September on CBS. But …