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The Late List: May results

It's bad news for Nine and Seven while TEN, ABC, SBS and Foxtel show how it's done.

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2012-09-05_1442It’s bad news for Nine and Seven after TV Tonight readers filed entries in the Late List.

There were 62 entries filed by readers in May, down from 84 in April.

But Nine and Seven dominated the entries, with TEN, ABC, SBS and Foxtel showing how it’s done.

Nine: 34
Seven: 22
TEN: 3
Other: 3
SBS: 0
ABC:  0
Foxtel: 0

Amongst the filed entries were:

Celebrity Apprentice Advertised time: 9:00pm / Actual 9:31m
The Voice Advertised time: 7:00pm / Actual 7:05pm
Major Crimes Advertised time: 9:30pm / Actual 9:59pm
A Place to Call Home Advertised time: 8:30pm / Actual 8:47pm
Revenge Advertised time: 8:45pm / Actual 8:51pm
Criminal Minds Advertised time: 8:35pm / Actual 8:46pm

You can file an entry here.

NB: The Late List is a crowd-sourcing trial and is not scientifically conducted. It relies on the trust of readers to resource information.

12 Responses

  1. It makes for most unenjoyable television watching, to the extent that I recorded 60M and A Place to Call Home, to be watched later, fast-forwarding thru commercials (note, advertisers). Watched Whitlam & Mag Wars. Program end/start time last night were absurd.
    Remember when IMT used to start at precisely 9:32pm, 4 or 5 nights a week?

  3. I just cannot be bothered with a show if it does not start when it says….I will not wait around…I look for something else starting at that time…..
    Also agree with A. and the analogy of pop ups to water torture….no matter how much I would like to watch a show….I am totally turned off by popups….I have plenty of TV progams and TV Tonight….popups are superfluous to me

  4. With these late running times the networks are driving people to their catch up sites which may be the point as they run advertising within the programming itself…clever corporate cowboys

  5. @A same. I’ve given up on A Place To Call Home. Can’t be stuffed waiting around for it to start so haven’t watched anymore.
    And now i just watch Footy Classified on Youtube because it’s meant to start at 10.30 but has started from anywhere between 10.40 and 11.10. I think the EPG updated it to 10.41 last week, but it still started about 10.55. So what’s the use of EPGs again???

    It’s amazing how The Voice starts and finishes on time in the US. Guess Nine’s production is run by amateurs.

  6. I’ll just say if A Place to Call Home had of started closer to 8.30pm on Sunday nights the first two episodes I would of considered watching them. I was never going to commit to watching the series because of the ongoing silly timeslot issues.

    Although there’s another issue I have a problem with and I’m ready to say the effect pop-ups have on me as an individual. Before this week I just didn’t allow myself to fully contemplate it. First I’m sorry for any trouble I’ve caused. I also warn this is will be long and shouldn’t be read by sensitive individuals.

    One pop-up can vary at best it might be ignored, usually it’s mildly annoying or I absolutely hate it depending on the situation. In general metaphorically speaking it’s like five drops of water hitting my head. Now imaging watching an individual channel all night with show after show of pop-ups. Then night after night, week after week and eventually year after year. If I watch too much of that channel then it’s like thousands of drops of water to the head. Mythbusters tested if water dripping on a head was torture.

    This level of exposure of pop-ups eventually breaks me (I can last a few years at most before then). So either willingly or unwillingly I have to reduce my viewing of any and all channels with pop-ups. At most I can only handle a few shows a week for any given channel.

    That’s why I get upset it’s also why I don’t understand the logic of them. Because I know they are supposed to encourage people to watch a channel more. But as an individual it always makes me watch a channel with pop-ups less. So I can handle it.

  9. It shows that a commercial network TEN can get it right. Only 3 and that is great news. I watch a lot of TEN and their multichannels. Thankyou to TEN management and staff.
    Now if they could get the people on Couchtime to be more serious than stupid……a pipe dream.

  10. Thankfully I have IQ but having the option to add 20 minutes to the end of a recording does not always work either. I don’t get what the networks are trying to do? Crying out for ratings whilst giving us the shits at the same time? How does that work?

  11. It’s pathetic and I really don’t see how it can help increase viewers, especially in the multi-channel environment when they not only have to consider picking up viewers from rival networks, but also from their own digital channels.

    Surely the easy way to sort this is to not permit any ads to air in any over running programme – so if The Voice airs 30 minutes longer than billed they can’t air any ads in the last 30 minutes – and any show following also running 30 minutes late can’t air ads in their final 30 minutes either.

  12. Omg some of those times are ridiculous! Celebrity apprentice 30 mins l8!! Networks I think it’s time a higher authority stood in to clean up this mess!

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