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Bumped: Big Brother

Big Brother evicted to 8:40pm on Tuesdays, with a very late ending. But good news for Arrow fans.

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2014-10-30_1457Big Brother just got another new timeslot.

Now Tuesday night’s eviction show will move from 7:30 to 8:40pm, replaced with another episode of David Attenborough’s Life (moved due to Cricket Wednesday). The Attenborough series, filmed in 2009, has played in repeat on ABC but Nine is getting decent mileage out of it thanks to a good job by the Promo dept.

At least Big Brother is now in a more consistent timeslot, but it’s another sign the network is unhappy with the Total People numbers. It is still holding well with younger demos backing up producer claims the show has a core audience who will follow it wherever it goes.

It will also be a long night, ending at 10:40pm which belies the position of the show being family friendly. The timeslot is not.

The good news is Arrow is back in the schedule at 10:40pm, having been held off in favour of a movie, Looper, which is now out.

Looking at the schedule overall, these will undoubtedly deliver a better share for the evening, which is the bottom line.

Update: On Wednesday Big Brother will air on GO! due to cricket.

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  1. If the Nine Network would like improved rating for their flagship show Big Brother strip the show at 7.30pm across 5 weeknights, including Sunday night live eviction show at 6:30 pm sunday. Return the live nomination night with Sonia Kruger included in the process, Tuesday to Fridays as a daily show. Bring best Friday night games or Thursday night games have an arena set up outside the house like be in 2006, 2007 etc. Nine you must improve this now before you lose money and ratings. Reinstalling Big Brother will support your prime time content. Push back comedy series, documentaries, factual to 9.30 or 9 pm weeknights. Big Brother family friendly version has helped your network regain your title of Still the One sooner then later. Poor programming schedule with Big Brother this year to your flagship program which has led to lower numbers. Especially the time of year with daylight saving…

  2. The new intruders are just so “beige” … what a wasted opportunity!
    Feeling very “over it” now … thank god for the fast-forward button!!!

  3. @willam
    I have seen bits of Glass House and I quite like the format of it (could use some tweeking) but I don’t think it did well because it aired during that years BB America. If it air without BB in the picture then it could succeed.

    For those who are unfamiliar with the show think basic BB format (people in a house compete for prize) with a tiny bit of Survivor (with a weekly Team Immunity Challenge) and social media interaction turned up to the max (more then just choosing who stays and goes, choosing activities, who sleeps where, giving contestants answers to their questions). Throw in some 24-7 feeds (which didn’t happen on the American show), some side programs for the secondary channels and a name change (as there was a comdedy show with same name) and you have a winner.

  5. Please ten get BB back…..
    How can we know what the hms are doing on the weekend when they don’t even show it… also whoever is in charge of the bbfbpage needs to be fired immediately, sick of seeing the same posts 12 times a day. like really.
    I like Sonia now but Gretel is the best wish she would host, back on ten with original format – uplate, games, uncut and live streaming. Oh those were the days…..

  6. Big Brother is rating well with 16-24 & 18-49s; its target audience.

    Life is also doing fairly well for an oft repeated show from 2009. It placed 5th with 18-49s last week because there is little else on and BB fans will watch it while waiting for that to start.

    Nine will probably hold onto S3 of Arrow to drag out their exclusive rights period. (That’s what they usually do).

  7. Apparently the hosts and celebrities don’t want to be on the show IAACGMOH. Which is not travelling too well and surely the hosts can host from Ten’s studios

  9. With this years failed BB and the brand name tarnished, I think it’s the perfict opportunity for another network to get hold of a program of a similar style and start afresh. If so then they could brand it as somthing compleatily different to apeal to a wider audience and hence have a wider, more diverse group of contestants. Is there any good BB style formats out there?

  10. Congratulations Channel 9 you have officially ruined this years Big Brother and possibly its chances of ever coming back again.
    Constant time-slot changes, too many intruders and gimmicks, not enough entertaining and live content. Ive watched every episode faithfully but I find myself spending more and more time on my phone and less time time actually paying attention to it now when its on.

  11. @wadd. Loved your comment, very true. thsi series stared off very sanitized and boring and it sounds like nothing has changed since I left it behind in week 1. The casting is very dull. The producers seem to think noisy people makes for interesting watching. Personally I think most people find noisy people annoying and uninteresting, which is partly why so many have switched off.

    I do think there is a market for an adult version of this show, with a broad age range and more intensity with challenges, including isolation and deprivation challenges. Push people to their limits and you see the real person and that could be interesting viewing. Maybe a Foxtel version perhaps, the FTA’s only seem to be interested in the mums and teens when it comes to reality shows.

  12. Finally, it is a sign of the show being axed. Nine couldn’t barely manage 3 seasons where as Ten managed nine seasons. Nine should move it to a later slot and kill it off once and for all.

  13. Glad channel nine saw some sense to air arrow next week but it is poor form to keep making these late changes. How does one keep up?

    Unfortunately have realised too late that jump in (channel nines website) has a preview of episode 21 of arrow which gives away a major plotline on episode 20 which hasn’t aired. I can’t understand why there is a preview of an episode, two episodes away giving away plot details of unaired episodes.

  15. Nine attempted to turn an edgy, warts and all, uncensored fly on the wall concept into a slickly sanitized, repackaged and overly controlled G rated family type product that has completely failed. It’s lost all of its original core foundations. So much content completely stripped and so many disgruntled viewers who realize they are being fed bland pre-recorded boxed mush complete with a mundane put-you-to-sleep task to boot. Both teenagers in this household gave up on it weeks ago. Where do they get these people clapping like mad things in the so called ‘live’ audience? It’s not live – they have no life.

  16. How do you keep up with the changes from ch 9. Their programming dept. must be working full time to bring out something stable for the general public to be able to see what’s on. No wonder stations are loosing viewers their content changes so frequently.

    My prediction for Arrow next is for it to disappear completly from ch 9 and turn up on Go! or on-sold to Foxtel, again upsetting viewers.

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