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Seriously confusing Mondays

Honestly, how can anyone keep track of TEN's Mondays with all these changes? Now Supernatural is back, but 90210 is bumped to Fridays.

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Updated. In the musical chairs that is Network TEN’s Mondays (seriously) comes another round of changes to keep viewers on their toes. Have some sympathy for the poor folk at Pagemasters who have to enter these into all your print guides…

Now it seems Supernatural is returning, with a double season premiere at 8:30pm Monday October 6th. The first hour screened in the US last week. A week later it screens at 9:30pm.

That pushes 90210 out to a new time of Fridays at 8:30pm, edging the movie The Bourne Supremacy to 9:30pm.

Plans for Good News Week to return at 9:30pm Monday October 6th with a clip show are now out. It’s back 8:30pm on October 13.

Fans of Burn Notice and Torchwood (TEN HD), please don’t even ask how it will affect you shows, this appears to be a moving feast within TEN programming.

At this stage Burn Notice remains out with 2 eps after Sept 29, and Torchwood is (hopefully) back 10:30pm Mon Oct 6 on TEN HD. But don’t tell your PVR just yet.

Yesterday TEN even accidentally sent out an amendment with GNW‘s “Second Coming” in at 8:30pm Mon 6th, an error this site didn’t even publish. Perhaps the erratic changes are even beginning to confuse them.

As it stands here is the current line up (Melb):

Mon Oct 6
7:30pm Australian Idol
8:30pm Supernatural (Series Return)
10:30pm Ten Late News with Sports Tonight

Fri Oct 10
7:30pm America’s Next Top Model
8:30pm 90210
9:30pm Friday Night Movie – The Bourne Supremacy
11:40pm Ten Late News
12:10am Sports Tonight
12:40am The Late Show with David Letterman

Mon Oct 13 TEN HD
7:30pm Australian Idol
8:30pm Good News Week
9:30pm Supernatural
10:30pm Torchwood

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  1. thank you 10! i was kinda hoping that sp was going to be aired soon after america sp deserves the monday slot back coz thats where it started thats where it should stay and i agree with Sephiroph_ff gnw always ran over time which was kinda annoying

  2. I don’t know whether Supernatural being back is a good thing or not. I love it. It’s one of my favourite shows but if I know channel 10, it won’t be around for long. I was hoping to watch it uninterrupted and with 10, I know that’s not possible.

    And 90210 on Friday? I’m not exactly boo-hooing about it being moved but do 10 know what they’re doing moving it? First, the move to Friday nights. Next, it’s pulled off completely. If they want it to rate better, putting it on Friday isn’t doing it any favours.

    I don’t get why this bloody Good News Week is on before Supernatural though. They make Supernatural out to be a super-violent and gory show. It’s not. Sometimes it’s a bit violent but it’s not scary. If GNW didn’t go overtime EVERY SINGLE TIME I wouldn’t have a problem but I’m sick of missing the ending when I tape Supernatural because 10 can’t end on time!

  4. I have to admit…I was a bit annoyed at first knowing that Supernatural would be moved to a 9-30pm time slot the week after the premiere week. But considering it doesn’t air until 9pm in the US, its not really that bad. I also can’t remember for the life of me what time Supernatural usually shows on ten anyway…. I’m also not sure what the ratings have been for Supernatural…But here’s hoping they can only get better.

    There is defintally going to be some 90210 fans dissapointed by the Friday night change… ( eg..My sister, my best friend and my mum…just to start off with. ) I say this very lightly though because we all love Supernatural as well…so…you have made us happy there…………..( especailly me…) . Just to confuse us all again…..You wouldn’t consider changing 90210 to a Thursday night by any chance? Maybe not….I’m not even sure whats on Thursday nights anymore. I am thinking of what your usual teen drama nights use to be
    ( eg: for Dawson’s Creek…which use to be on a Thursday night, 90210 may do better for Thursdays? -shrugs- )

  5. My god, no way I love supernatural especially Jensen Ackles (Dean) as he is so funny for his character and his brother (sam) is very serious. Can’t wait Supernatural is back for 4th season on Monday 6 October and thank you Channel 10. Great and looking forward watching it. Please keep the ratings going!!

  6. Wasn’t supernatural ratings worse than what 90210 is getting now? Putting supernatural on friday would have been a better idea i think, then not many people would be confused.

  7. Why not put supernatural on a tues or weds night????????
    I think moving 90210 to Friday nights is horrible idea. That means it wont be fast tracked from the US as it will put us almost 2 weeks behind in episodes which is unfair and the ratings will drop off dramatically.. The show isnt designed for young kids at home on a friday night…
    It is a really bad idea, which i am very annoyed about!!!

  8. Well I’m looking forward to Supernatural coming back on, but I do have to agree with Clarrisani as well – as a consequence of Supernatural’s return, TEN have yet again burned the Torchwood and Burn Notice fans…typical!

  9. I never said 90210 got low ratings. I said they would drop once moved to Fridays, as would most shows when moved to the death slot. Although, I reckon 90210 will outrate Supernatural once it moves to the post-GNW slot

  10. Disagree with you CJ and RichoTB. 90210’s audience is so niche that the “low” ratings that you are referring to are actually the shows core audience. They will adjust their viewing with the show. Worse case scenario, it will come back to around 600k-650k with Next Top Model as the lead in.

  11. Of course 90210 will lose viewers when it gets shoved in the Friday night death slot. You’d find the same thing would happen to almost any show. As for how SN does when it comes back, we’ll see. It’ll probably do around 900,000 when it premieres, but will tank after a couple of weeks.

  12. Alex, it is hard to leave a low rating show on the air because contrary to popular belief, commercial television networks are not a community service, but a business and they have to make money from advertising. If a show is not rating, then no advertiser will pay money to advertise…so it has to go. Would any business keep producing or marketing a product if it is not selling and making money? Television networks are no different than any other business.

  13. It’s not that complicated.

    Originally it was 90210 at 8:30 with Burn Notice at 9:30.

    Apart from a few interruptions, that’s been consistent.

    Now 90210 isn’t performing, so Good News Week and Supernatural are being moved in, the double that did well earlier in the year. As it’s still a week until new eps of Good News Week are available, and to give Supernatural the best chance possible, they’ve gone with a double Supernatural to start at 8:30 before it goes into its regular timeslot of 9:30.

    Ben

  15. People thinking that 90210 would maintain 800,000 viewers are dreaming…check what it did in Sydney and Brisbane this week and then add on what it did in Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth last week and it would have barely managed to get 600,000. Last year Supernatural debuted at 890,000 opposite City Homicide, and Good News Week and Supernatural worked well at the beginning of the year.
    As for last minute changes…the pressure is on for all television networks all around the world to make changes immediately if shows don’t rate. It can not be compared to years ago when television was the main source of entertainment in the home. Now with downloading, dvds, internet etc, if a show does not grab the attention of viewers straight away, then chances are it won’t in the future either. That’s just the reality in today’s world where there are alot more choices and the days of the whole family sitting down together to watch a tv show are over.
    Anybody here who thinks that 90210 would have grown in audience if it had stayed on Monday nights is dellusional. At least TEN have kept it on the air, and not taken it off completely.
    And yay! for Good News Week and Supernatural coming back!

  16. Thank you Network TEN, absolutely great news about the return of SUPERNATURAL.

    I am looking forward to seeing some great promotion for a fantastic show leading up to and beyond October 6. This incredible gem of a show is so underrated and deserves to be well promoted for the epic story that is unfolding in season 4. In my workplace alone 40% of staff, covering an age range of 21 years to almost 50 years watch and enjoy Supernatual and the gender coverage would be fairly evenly split.

  17. This is weird. I suggested just a couple of hrs ago on the Coming Soon page that they shift SN to Friday nights, now they seem to be doing that to 90210 instead. If they’re going to do this why don’t they just slot the final 3 BN eps on Friday nights as well? At 9:30pm. And Supernatural jumped the shark after it killed off every single female character on the show just to please the fans who want Sammy and Deany all to themselves. lolzers.

    And ratings-wise, the move is a flop as well. 90210 did 800,000 in the Monday slot when it last aired in all states normally. Now they’re replacing it with SN, which got 400,000 viewers when it aired the post-writer’s strike eps in May after Rove? Doesn’t make sense. Then again, this is Ten, the corporate twits who sold Dollhouse, their best show, to Fox because they were scared about the ad time. It makes no sense.

  18. I agree with David. There was a time when printed TV guides (prepared weeks in advance) had a very accurate schedule because networks weren’t changing schedules several times a week (or a day?) at short notice. There were of course rare instances where the printed guides were not correct, but that’s what they were – rare. It was a time when programs were allowed to run a series in their entirety without being bumped to different timeslots after one or two episodes, and when they also didn’t start 10-15 minutes later than scheduled either. I rarely watch Channel Nine but with them showing Underbelly, I was tuning in to them but couldn’t believe it wasn’t starting until at least 15 minutes later than advertised.

  20. Thankyou to channel 10….. for bringing Supernatural back to aussie TV.
    This 4th season made a brilliant debut in the US last week with its best reviews yet. Cannot wait to see it on our screens .. it is one show I would not miss.

  21. The post was about TEN Mondays and erratic scheduling, not downloads.

    Dropping and changing shows so that they don’t match print guides, and sending out confusing, incorrect information hasn’t been going on for 35 years and isn’t related to genres. It happens to all genres, all networks. Today Hole in the Wall was dropped just hours before it was airing. In fact it’s still listed in Nine’s online guide.

  22. I don’t believe it. Finally Ten are seeing some sense and not making us wait until “sometime in the new year” for Supernatural to return. Hallelujah!! This show is seriously underrated and deserves better recognition. It doesn’t get it in the US so it’s up to the rest of the world to give it the kudos it deserves.

    Now I just hope they can keep Australian Idol’s finish on time!

  23. Welcome to the real world of scifi/horror/fantasy/supernatural on the awful FTA networks in Australia David, you must be new to TV here in Aus, it’s been going on for 35 years mate.

    Aus TV themselves spawned the illegal download generations impatient for the TV shows…….

  24. Good Supernatural is coming back 🙂

    As I sit her tonight thru the house premiere – seemingly innundated with commercials- I am annoyed by the promos for “The season premiere of LIFE”.

    David ? Can’t the Network be taken to task for this, seeing these are just the tail end episodes of the first season?

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