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Nine slices Nip / Tuck -again.

Will Channel Nine viewers ever get to learn the identity of Nip / Tuck’s serial attacker, The Carver?

Not bloody likely.

The third series of the salacious drama was undoubtedly the series at its peak. Underscored by a mysteriously masked attacker, it was the show’s own ‘Who Shot JR?’ Everyone has been a suspect, and almost everyone a victim. It’s not surprising that the finale episode in 2005 gave the FX Network its highest ever ratings for an original series.

Yep, that’s 2005. In Australia the series made a long overdue start at the end of 2006. But in January 2007 it was pulled off air, leaving viewers up in the air.

Nine brought it back in December, again seeing it stop during the summer break. Finally it returned once more -only to again be paused now before the big reveal (spoiler free story continues).

In Victoria the third-last episode airs tonight, but the rest of Australia will see a repeat of Underbelly.

From next week Victoria, and ‘AFL states’ see the return of Footy Classified. But remaining states won’t see Nip / Tuck back either. Nine has made this programming choice despite the fact that we are heading into non-ratings over Easter. How hard would it have been to tie up two and three more eps?

To learn the identity of The Carver is not difficult. A quick search of the internet gives up the answer very quickly, but it denies viewers the enjoyment of watching the drama unfold as it was intended.

Nine continues to breach a bond of trust with its audience, and as a string of shows are taken off air incomplete, seems to care little about the fact that many ‘minor’ audiences add up to one big disillusioned one.

Nine told TV Tonight the remaining eps would be scheduled -it just didn’t say when.

Please note no spoilers will be published.

10 Responses

  1. Annoying! I just watched Bewitched (the one with Nicole) and when it finished, they played the penultimate episode of Nip/Tuck! I couldn’t find this in any TV Guide, so the chance of finding out when they are going to screen the last episode is slim. I was just lucky I was home and tuned in.

  2. I belive the reason Nip/tuck lost it’s rating this time round has nothing to do with the quality of the show ..is no doubt due to the constant messing around of Season 3 which started over a year and a half ago!

    I must be one of the last gullable, patient people left being stuff around by this.. not anymore.

    I am a Victorian and when Underbelly comes to air, i will have, along with nip/tuck got downloaded copies. Stuff trying to do the right thing and stuff you channel 9.

    Hotel Babylon, Weeds, Outrageous Fortunes (thank you channel 10 for doing the right thing with that)and to completly mangle Nip/tuck… channel 9 you has lost the plot.

  3. I don’t see why anyone would watch this show at this timeslot when the much more excellent Boston Legal is airing at the same time. But all the same, Channel 9 is indeed very horrible. The only good show on the network is…well, there are none lol. Moonlight was excellent, but then they pulled it off with 4 eps to go. But then again, I’ve seen all the episodes of that as well. No point trying to reason with networks who have no regard for their viewers. Downloading is the way of the future.

    Whenever they decide to appeal to anyone under the age of 94, I might decide to check them out. But Chuck and Pushing Daisies are pretty good, but I’ve already seen up to ep.11 of Chuck and I’ll probably end up d/l’ing the 8 eps of Pushing Daisies I haven’t seen. Trusting Channel 9 for any reason other than to screw with you is a mistake.

  4. It seems as if Nine is telling its own audience: “You want to learn the identity of the Carver? Buy yourself the DVD of season three”, which is something I’ll probably do in the near future.

  5. I wouldnt say nine was the most despised network in TV history.
    Maybe you have a deep seeded hatred for them but your sentiment doesnt reflect the national ideals.
    And rating second to first every week doesnt exactly support that claim.
    And again I highly doubt that the ratings are “rigged” and its some national conspiracy to undermine the viewers and insult their intellegence.
    I prefer Nine over ten a lot of the times and nine arent the only channel to take shows off the air mid season, it happens with your beloved SBS as well, not too mention channel ten and channel seven, ABC. Dont let your emotions over ride your head, I hate the Spice Girls but millions enjoy them, that doesnt mean in the realm of the world I am right and millions are wrong, its just personal taste.
    Off the top of my head the shows I enjoy on C9 include, Comedy Inc, Sea Patrol, CSI, Two and a Half Men (hated it at first but now I find it great), that antique show with the nutty guy giving people 200 pounds (which I always catch when I get home from work), I watch C9 news over C7’s and then switch over to watch the SBS news at 6:30 and I guess theres more but thats just off the top of my head.
    It seems a little paranoid to think that the execs are sitting in high rise buildings belonging to the freemason organizations plotting the control of the unwashed masses minds by axing shows and playing with the TV guide. The bottom line is simple, they want to make money, thats what buisness’ do.
    After all free to air is exactly that, free. We pay buy giving our time so they can raise advertising costs and make money. There is no “spite” involved or any conspiracy where there out to frustrate you. And I respect you dont like them because of The Mint, but that show will one day go off the air and you’ll have to find another reason to hate them !!

    (PS I was one of those 700,000 viewers during ER, I checked it out but didnt enjoy the show, doesnt mean its a bad show, its just not my kinda show, and I’m sure I wasnt the only one of those 700,000, after all, I dont watch much American TV on FTA, its a lot easier just to download it and avoid the frustration, maybe you should check that out too!!)

  6. You’re completely right about disillusioned audiences – but I’d argue that even pulling ONE show off air is bad enough. When ER was pulled, that added up to over *seven hundred thousand* disillusioned viewers. 700,000 might be seen as a “ratings disaster” by the networks in general and Nine in particular, but that’s an astonishing number of loyal viewers to treat with contempt. Multiply that by the amount of shows they do this to, and no wonder Nine is the most despised TV network in this country’s history, and why their ratings have plummeted to rock-bottom to the point they even need to fudge the figures to try to spin some good ratings news.

    It’ll all continue unabated, too, until either Oztam is disbanded and an independent body brought in to collect ratings, or until the networks grow up and stop this childish pissing contest at the expense of their customers – and yes, the customers are the viewers, NOT the advertisers.

  7. Just wait until it shows up on HD or download it no biggie. All the networks are the same in stuffing us around and personally I care more about TEN not showing Monk for years then Nip/Tuck.

  8. Of course you know I don’t encourage downloading but the final three eps of S3 are entitled “Joy Kringle” (airs tonight in Vic), “Cherry Peck” and “Quentin Costa.”

  9. Really? Thats were free to air are up to?
    Man I remember seeing that donks ago, I wont give it away but its not the shocked up to be, suprise suprise!

    If people really wana see it its easy to find online, every TV show is know a days, if the networks want to be incompetent, then us veiwers will just move online.

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