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Top Gear added to GO!
Nine shows no sign of discerning titles between Nine and GO! as it adds old episodes of Top Gear to GO!
Episode 2 from Series 9 will air at 8:30pm Thursday March 4, following more Big Bang Theory repeats.
That pushes ER back to 9:40pm for the premiere of its 15th series with a single episode. That’s the umpteenth start time for ER fans.
Meanwhile plans for The Bachelor next Tuesday at 8:30pm are now out, replaced by Seinfeld repeats.
Returning: Weeds, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Wire, Fringe
As promised, those shows that have been dumped from GO! are back once non-ratings begin.
This is because Nine is keen to lift its network share in the final days of the ratings year. Probably so it can claim the “Nine Network” won key demographics.
South Park is back 8:30pm Sunday November 29th
Curb Your Enthusiasm is back 9:30pm Sunday November 29th
Weeds is back 10:00pm Sunday November 29th dbl ep
The Bachelor is back 10:30pm Tuesday December 1
Fringe is back 8:30pm Thursday December 2
The Wire is back 9:30pm Wednesday December 2
Drop Dead Diva is back …
“Survivors ready? GO!”
From today GO! begins its signal on digital televisions, ahead of its ’soft-launch’ on Sunday night with an array of tasty titles.
TV Tonight spoke to Les Sampson, Nine’s Network Director of Multichannels about its programming.
GO! is structured similar to a subscription TV channel with ‘block’ programming from 3:30pm – 12am, which is repeated again the next day. The SD channel has been carefully programmed so as not to cannibalise Nine and to skew towards younger demographics.
“The model is designed so that we get maximum use of the available audience,” says Sampson.
“At …
More details ready to GO!
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 …
ABC renews Housewives, Betty, Grey’s, Brothers & Sisters
America’s ABC has announced renewals for several key series: Grey’s Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, Brothers & Sisters, Ugly Betty, Private Practice, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Wife Swap, Supernanny, Dancing with the Stars, The Bachelor and America’s Funniest Home Videos.
They join Lost, which is set to return for its final season as part of a three-season pickup in 2007.
Housewives creator Marc Cherry told the media and ABC he wanted a similar four-season renewal for his show, but ABC has opted to add on only another year to his current agreement.
Absent from the …
Ugly Betty close to renewal
US Network ABC is reportedly close to renewing Ugly Betty for a fourth season.
The last word on the series’ future left things very unclear when ABC announced that it was temporarily replacing the show with a comedy block.
Michael Ausiello reports, “The network is also said to be this close to giving early pickups to Grey’s Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, Brothers & Sisters, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, America’s Funniest Home Videos, and The Bachelor.”
That would leave some question marks overother shows including Life on Mars and Samantha Who.
But an ABC spokesperson said it …