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The Good Wife tops in Timeshifted
Timeshifted data has boosted The Good Wife to the #1 show in the first week of official ratings.
In Overnight figures the show finished #5th for the week on 1,407,000 but after Consolidated (Timeshifted) figures, it picked up another 139,000, which sees it lift to #1.
The figures released were for the week of February 7th.
Of the top 20 audience gains by number, two were comedies, one was light entertainment and the remaining 17 were dramas.
The Age notes that the biggest gains went to 7TWO’s Heroes (up 33%) and Seven’s season premiere of …
..and here come the Nine shows
Nine has now advised its schedule for the week of January 31st (sent late last night, possibly after confirming Seven’s plans published here?).
In the lead-up to official ratings it will return new Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory, Getaway, 20 to 1, air new episodes of CSI: NY, Without a Trace, Cold Case and conclude Survivor: Samoa.
It also begins a new season of Customs, now narrated by Damian Walshe-Howling instead of Vince Colosimo.
Nine has one week of official ratings from February 7th before the Winter Olympics begin on …
Gone: Without a Trace. Returning: True CSI
Balibo or no Balibo film, Anthony La Paglia’s Without a Trace has been pulled from Nine as of Wednesday.
Last week it took 345,000 viewers.
It will be replaced by new episodes of True CSI: Cold Blood this week at 10:35pm.
Presumably the 13 outstanding eps of Without a Trace -which includes its last ever episode- will pop up elsewhere on either GO! or Nine over summer….or even 2010?
Sounds like a job for Jack Malone….
Variety the spice of Nine’s life
In the week that Seven announced its new digital channel it lost another week to Nine and its GO! channel. Nine’s win included its tribute to a favourite son, Don Lane. On the back of the Hey Hey reunions it was another reminder its audience loves Variety. It was also a week in which the networks trumped one another in the publicity stakes. After the ABC launched ABC3, Seven stole its thunder the next day with 7TWO, which was subsequently trumped that afternoon by Nine winning Top Gear.
The Nine Network won …
Returning: Crime Investigation Aus. Bumped: Without a Trace
A new episode of Crime Investigation Australia, based on the 2002 murder of Janelle Patton on Norfolk Island, will air on Nine this month. It was the first death on the idyllic island in over one hundred years.
“A Killer Amongst Us: The Norfolk Island Murder” will screen at 9:30pm on Wednesday October 14th.
Hosted by Steve Liebmann, this episode features detailed re-enactments and interviews with key figures, including the head of the police investigation, local Norfolk Island residents as well as intimate interviews with Janelle Patton’s mother and …
Without a Trace twice
Nine is upping its dose of new Without a Trace episodes from next week.
Instead of one new ep and one repeat, fresh eps will air back to back with S7E4 and S7E5 beginning Wednesday, September 16th.
Last night the first episode won its timeslot with 841,000 but it dropped to 487,000 for episode two.
Guess that means we’ll barrel to the end of the finale a little faster. Cue 12,647th aerial shot of the city….
NBC to remake Prime Suspect
Remakes are all the rage in the US right now, though they aren’t necessarily adapted well.
Now NBC wants its own Prime Suspect.
It follows MTV’s plans to adapt Skins.
The Lynda LaPlante series, starring Helen Mirren, remains one of the most knockout franchises the UK has delivered in the crime genre.
Hank Steinberg (creator of Without a Trace, The Nine) will adapt the two hour pilot.
The deal between NBC and ITV Studios includes two more pilot commitments of ITV formats over the next two years. No doubt ITV is making more use of …
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 …
James Marsters joins Caprica
James Marsters (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) is joining the Battlestar Galactica prequel, Caprica, says EW.com.
He will play a dangerous terrorist leader by the name of Barnabus Greeley in a minimum of three episodes. Driven by desires both moralistic and carnal, Barnabus is as lethal as he is unpredictable.
Best known for his role as punk-goth vampire Spike on Buffy and Angel, Marsters recently appeared in roles for Without a Trace, Smallville and Torchwood.
Caprica is set to premiere in the US on January 22nd.
Source: EW.com
Anthony LaPaglia on Q & A
Without a Trace and Balibo star Anthony LaPaglia will join the live panel on the ABC’s Q & A this week.
Joining host Tony Jones on the panel are:
Maxine McKew, Parliamentary Secretary;
Tony Smith, Shadow Assistant Treasurer;
Victorian judge Felicity Hampel; and
Candy Bowers, hip hop artist.
LaPaglia replaces now replace Tim Wilson from the Institute of Public Affairs.
The show screens at 9:30pm Thursday on ABC1.
A week later it will air live from the Melbourne Writer’s Festival.
Without a Trace also returns to Nine next Wednesday night.
Returning: Without a Trace
The seventh and final series of Without a Trace has finally won a timeslot on Nine.
It returns 9:30pm Wednesday August 26th with the episode “Closure.” This aired in the US last September.
This season, actor Steven Weber joined the cast for the first five episodes of the season as Special Agent Clark Medina, Jack’s temporary replacement as unit supervisor.
In the series return, a man whose daughter went missing years ago disappears, and the team tries to connect his desire to help another couple missing their son. Meanwhile, Jack is trying to adjust …
Philadelphia given cold shoulder by Cold Case
Another production cut in the US television market will see Cold Case abandon the city of Philadelphia as its heart and soul.
The show used to visit four times a year, then twice. Now the CBS series will stay put in Los Angeles.
“It’s a big mistake,” says John Finn, who plays John Stillman on the show. “Love Park and Fishtown and all those places, you cannot recreate that anywhere.”
“There’s something you can get in Philadelphia that you cannot get in Los Angeles,” says Jeremy Ratchford, who plays Detective Nick Vera.
“When we went …