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Horizon Media has estimated that Fringe by J.J. Abrams will be the most likely hit of the US Fall season, but Kath and Kim will struggle in its timeslot.

The annual forecast also tipped Eleventh Hour as a hit and Worst Week to be a weak link. In Australia, Nine has both Fringe (pictured) and Eleventh Hour while TEN has Worst Week.

Horizon says Grey’s Anatomy, Heroes and Survivor will continue to win their timeslots, and it sees good prospects for Life on Mars and 90210.

Others tipped to perform in their timeslots include Numb3rs, Ghost Whisperer and Supernanny.

America’s Toughest Jobs, Opportunity Knocks, New Adventures of Old Christine, Project Gary and The Ex List will all have their work cut out for them.

Source: Hollywood Reporter

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  1. Lost sucks!
    A show isn’t judged by the pirates who download it illegally, its judged by the people who watch it on TV (with ads) and buy it. If someone really wants to support a show they don’t acquire pirated copies.
    Even if something nice is being said it still seems so negative.

    And good old Aussie spirit!
    We are the country that bags it before it even happens, well at least the Aussie online community is like that, how about the old “give it a go” spirit?
    If they handed over the “New Ideas and Programming” department over to the internet community, no new shows would ever appear (everyone would complain about new ideas) and Aussie TV would end all together.

    Kath and Kim US? I’m looking forward to checking it out and its great to have a country that’s industry is so huge they think one of our shows is even worth reproducing. Yay us! After all, how many shows have we ripped off or re-done of there’s?

  4. Horizon Media? The advertising strategy company?

    I don’t know what their track record is, but Fringe is, based on the pilot, hardly what I’d rate as “most likely to succeed”. It’s pretty good, sure – but only PRETTY good, not compelling. Based on the pilot, it could really easily go either way.

    Kath And Kim US is a dreadfully bad idea that will need either a miracle or a killer script to work.

    Heroes, meanwhile, is going to be really up against it after the serious quality drop in a drastically shortened second season, the promise and the dropping of the “Origins” sub-series and the super-extended delay between outings. I was really excited about the start of the second season of Heroes. I was a big fan. But season 2 was such a huge let-down (aside from a desperate last few episodes) that I really haven’t even thought about it until just now. Pretty much all my Heroes-downloading friends agree.

    They see good prospects in Life On Mars – based on a pilot that’s going to be completely reworked, of a show where the guy that actually got the thing up in the first place is being distanced from it and the cast is apparently undergoing drastic changes? Hmm, perhaps we should get the Horizon guys as a panel on The One. Presuming that lasts more than this week (which it shouldn’t, but that’s for the inevitable “The One: Axed” topic any day now 🙂

    And where’s Lost in all this? THAT is a show people are excited about. Still.

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