2008 Show Watch
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The Prime Minister is Missing
Navy Divers
The Sarah Jane Adventures*
Heroes: Origins (now axed)
Reaper
Eli Stone
Carpoolers
The IT Crowd*
Outback Wildlife Rescue
The Outdoor Room
Hot Property
Camp Rock
Holby Blue
Knight Rider
My Own Worst Enemy
Super Skinny Me: The Race to Size Double Zero
Surgery Saved My Life
Young Doctors (now 2009)
The Strip
Scorched
Pushing Daisies
Chuck
Big Shots (axed in US)
Canterbury’s Law
Secret Diary of a Call Girl
Rock Rivals
The Waiting Room
Weddings (10 years on Special)
Extraordinary Animals
Heroes and Villains
Hunted
The Irwin Family’s Australia Zoo
‘New Gameshow’ from National IQ Test producers
Amnesia
Jingles
The Mentalist
Fringe
Temptation
Wipeout ( Aus)
The View
Ellen (east coast)
Battle Fronts
Toasted and Roasted Specials
Here Come the Newlyweds
The Million Dollar Salon (since abandoned)
NRL 100 Years of Rugby League Special
[Gossip Girl on sold to Foxtel]
Return of Jezebel James (acquired but unannounced)
New Amsterdam (acquired but unannounced)
Aliens in America (acquired but unannounced)
Hidden Palms (acquired but unannounced)
Unhitched
(K-Ville screens after Foxtel)
Kenny’s World
Swingtown
The Informant
Life of Leisure*
Thank God You’re Here *
Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?
Saving Babies
Friday Night Download
Californication
Life
Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search For The Next Doll
Bondi Rescue: Bali
Taken Out
Rush
ARIA Awards
Brownlow Medal
The Ryder Cup
Nynne
Inspector Rex
Top Gear Australia
Living Black
Tour Down Under
Bold = confirmed.
(denotes re-screening rights after Foxtel first run)
* to be confirmed
See Also:
ABC1 / ABC2: redefining television
Nine singing with new shows.
TEN confirms US acquisitions.
Nine acquisitions target younger viewers
TEN launches 2008 slate
Putting the Heart back into Nine
Seven battles choirs and gladiators in 08
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59 Responses
is sam i am confirmed for seven??
These are the audience dates and its in Melbourne
Friday 11th January
6 – 8:30pm
Saturday 12th January
6 – 8:30pm
Monday 14th January
6 – 8:30pm
Monday 14th January
8 – 10:30pm
Tuesday 15th January
6 – 8:30pm
Tuesday 15th January
8 – 10:30pm
Thursday 17th January
6 – 8:30pm
Thursday 17th January
8 – 10:30pm
Friday 18th January
6 – 8:30pm
Friday 18th January
8 – 10:30pm
Cool. It’s an unnamed project by Julian Cress and David Barbour, the guys behind The Block. It will be Nine’s pitch at their very own Thank God. It definitely has improv elements and possibly audience voting components (just a hunch). Could be huge.
Out of curiosity, what date and which city?
Hi David,
I’ve been invited into the audience of a show for Nine being sold as “It’s Australia’s first reality sitcom… with a surprising twist!” Do you know anything about this show as in what the title is and what the show is about etc…
Much appreciated.
At this stage just Foxtel. If it continues to boom there may be re-sale rights but my understanding is it was Nine that let Fox8 buy it from them in the first place, meaning they may not have the rights to sell it further.
david, do you know if gossip girl will be going to free-to-air tv? or just foxtel?
To paraphrase Mr O’Keefe, it’s not on the list.
Will October Road be shown next year?
LOVE IT
Well done to channel 9 for picking up Big Shots. Ive seen the first few episodes and this is gonna be a hit with the men and women. I just hope that channel 9 do justice for this fab show.
Honestly though any tv show that brings the OHH SO SEXY Michael Vartan back to our weekly viewing is gonna be a hit with me… mmm yum
Anonymous – even more pertinent question – now that Gossip Girl’s been picked up for a full season, is Nine likely to reclaim it?
what are the odds of ten (or seven) getting the rights for Gossip Girl once foxtel has screened them, maybe for next year sometime? Now that Nine’s passed it on.
gossip girl (on sold foxtel) i’m pretty sure that it means that if u have foxtel u will be able to watch it problt are 2 weeks after it starts in the us coz my friend has foxtel and she said she has seen commercials of gossip girl staring on fox 8.
But i rekon if channel nine keeps it than it won’t last 4 long so they are probly gonna give it to channel ten. it’s kinda like one tree hill i mean thats still showing in the US but we only got to watch one season of it and there up to there fifth season. so if it get’s canceld her for being put on a shity channel then im gonna be SOOO PISSED coz it loos soo good!!
So does that mean to watch Gossip Girl we have to have Foxtel???
I dont have foxtel!
And I was really looking forward to seeing Hidden Palms 🙁 too bad
I heard it did really badly in the US and got cancelled after 8 episodes.
The guy was hot though..
Just as Nine bought The OC and West Wing which they later re-sold to other networks, so too they have decided Gossip Girl doesn’t fit with them.
Hidden Palms died in the US so don’t expect Nine to follow through on screening their rights to it.
what does Gossip girl [on sold to Foxtel] mean?
and is Hidden Palms definitely confirmed for channel nine?
30 Rock will be on Seven.
Also news in today’s Sunday Telegraph in Sydney has confirmed that The Seven Network has picked up Lipstick Jungle and The Bionic Woman. No word on The IT Crowd
what channel has the show 30 Rock?
Action News and Back To You are the same show. (Action News was the working title.)
According to the deals seven should get the following shows from the US
The guaranteed hit – Private Practice (ABC TV Studio)
Dirty, Sexy, Money (ABC TV Studio)
Eli Stone (ABC TV Studio)
Sam I Am (ABC TV Studio)
Carpoolers (ABC TV Studio)
Cavemen (ABC TV Studio)
Cane (CBS Par TV; ABC Studios)
The Reaper (ABC TV Studio)
Plus because of the NBC deal seven could get these shows even though you have said that Ten have some of them
Life (NBC Universal TV Studio)
Lipstick Jungle (NBC Universal TV Studio)
The Bionic Woman (NBC Universal TV Studio)
The IT Crowd (NBC U TV)
Aliens in America (NBC U TV)
Kath and Kim* (NBC U TV)
*According to the source Kath and Kim will be on in the Summer Schedule in the States
Seven will still get stuff, but maybe not the biggies that DH, Lost, Betty and Greys have been.
Looks like 9 and 10 making off with all the hits. And as for Gossip Girl 9 will try it out first and if it’s a hit keep it of course. Pretty silly to help out a rival network unless ten trades House for it!
Channel 9 should give Gossip Girl to TEN like they’ve done with other ‘teen’ shows.
David could you explain how the Seven/Ten deal with NBC Universal actually works, who gets what?
Seven has a deal with Disney and a “half-deal” with NBC Universal.
Hold on a minute, i thought seven had the nbc deal, whats going on, i thought lipstick jungle and bionic woman would go to seven due to the NBC output deal. I do know they have these shows:
* Private Practice
* Dirty, Sexy, Money
* Eli Stone
* Sam I Am
* Carpoolers
* Cavemen