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Gone: 2 & Half Men: Returning: Crime & Justice

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Oh dear, Nine is scrambling to fix its Tuesday programming after Two and a Half Men failed to fire last night. Frankly, it should never have been tried in the first place.

The show only attracted 699,000 against NCIS‘ 1.36m and It Takes Two 1.54m (over two hours).

So Nine has moved quickly to drop it altogether. It’s the right response, but it certainly doesn’t look good. As I’ve said before, Nine has a window of opportunity to build on its Tuesdays now that Dancing with the Stars is in hiatus, but you would have to argue it needed better planning than this.

Instead Nine will replace the sitcom with CSI New York on a new night at a new time (Tue 8:30pm) from May 29.

It will be preceded by the return of The Code now known simply as Crime & Justice at 7:30pm. I think Nine was a bit premature to pull this so soon after only 3 episodes. It will be doubled with Neighbours at War, yes another New Zealand factual show about misbehaving Wellington residents. The official site boasts information on “Read The Stuff Council Put In Your Mail Box , Don’t Expect Your Landlord To Tell You He’s Moving A Nightclub In Downstairs and Ramming Your Neighbour’s Car Will Land You In Court.”

In place of the old CSI NY Monday slot we have, you guessed it, a CSI repeat (which if you’re keeping up, used to be on Tuesdays).

That only leaves 20 to 1 on the outer at 7:30pm Tuesdays, which last night had 1.1m.

Meanwhile a show with a loyal following, Survivor is starting at 10:30pm Sundays. Why? It may not be the huge rater that it was in years gone by, but the new season builds to a terrific finale, it could have deserved a better timeslot than before we all retire to bed for the working week.

I hope Nine’s audience can keep up with these changes!

Two and a Half Men returns to our Missing in Action page after 1 day of being taken off!

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  1. I can’t believe it. The show has been oulled out after one night. Nonsence. My husband and I we looking foward so much to this show. As the first season wasn’t great I can admit it, but it was so much better the other ones. I guess so too many idiots to watch other stupid shows. There is over and over same other shows, boring!

  2. Delay in The Code coming back?

    It wasn’t working before so Nine needed to relaunch it. Although it isn’t my favourite genre I thought Nine pulled it too early in the first place.

  4. Sort of.

    20 to 1 was always on anyway. It stays until Code & Justice is back next week. CSI is shuffled in place of CSI NY from next week. This week it’s the double Tarantino CSI as a rpt.

  6. Officially, no.

    We’ll have to see if rumors of 1 hr Antiques Roadshow are true (I hope not!).

    Earliest this is likely to emerge is early next week but it may take longer.

  9. gosh how bare is Nine’s program vault? They tackled the launch of “It Takes Two” with an extended “20 to 01” last week. They tackled the loss of “Dr Phil” with an extended “Fresh”. They extend “CSI” to plug any hole in the schedule. Then they drag out some kiwi reality show, seemingly because it’s cheap. And what is going to replace “Family Feud”, a double episode of “Antiques Roadshow”??
    9 has become the network of no-ideas and knee-jerk programming decisions – something which was more often associated with 7 and 10 in the past. Kerry Packer spent 30 years and millions of dollars building up the 9 empire – now less than 2 years after his passing, it’s all gone to the dogs.

  10. Brilliant!! Another Crime show in the Bill’s traditional slot. What is the point of trying to drag viewers away from an old favourite. If they don’t watch the Bill they watch NCIS. I see CSI NY losing in this battle. They should keep it in a slot that is separate. So far I can choose from the first two shows. I wouldn’t appreciate having to lose CSI NY.

    Thanks for the heads up. Sigh 🙁

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