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TEN moves Bold & Beautiful to primetime

TEN is still tweaking its summer line-up, moving The Bold & The Beautiful to 6pm, dumping Will & Grace and adding The Ex-List.

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Here’s a bold (but how beautiful?) programming move by TEN. The network has just announced some significant changes to its summer scheduling.

Afternoon US soap The Bold and The Beautiful is officially moving to primetime, winning a new 6pm timeslot from Monday December 1st. It will be replaced by Judge Judy at 4:30pm.

TEN has also bitten the bullet on its under-performing Will and Grace episodes, axed for the return of Friends at 7pm. It returns with S6E12 “The One With The Joke.”

The timeslot has been a crazy game of musical chairs recently, including Bondi Rescue, Taken Out, Friends, Will and Grace and back to Friends. Is it any wonder viewers have given up?

Dumping the sitcom at 7pm will also see a planned extra summer episode at 7:30pm Mondays replaced with another Friends.

TEN has also announced the premiere of already-axed The Ex-List for summer. The drama follows a woman (Elizabeth Reaser) who learns from a psychic that she has already been romantically involved with the man of her dreams. If she doesn’t reunite with him in a year, she’ll never marry her true love. Only 4 episodes aired in the US.

It premieres at 9:30pm Monday December 1st.

Replacing Judge Judy at 3:00pm weekdays will be repeats of Everybody Loves Raymond.

Amended summer schedule:

Sun Nov 30
6:30pm America’s Next Top Model S8
7:30pm 90210
8:30pm Movie: School of Rock
10:40pm The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
11:10pm The Office

Mon Dec 1
6:00 The Bold & The Beautiful
6:30 Neighbours
7:00pm Friends
8:00pm Rules of Engagement rpt
8:30pm Army Wives
9:30pm The Ex-List
10:30pm Out Of The Blue

Tue Dec 2
6:00 The Bold & The Beautiful
6:30 Neighbours
7:00pm Friends
7:30pm Special: Britney: For The Record
8:30pm NCIS rpt
9:30pm NCIS rpt
10:30pm Out Of The Blue

Wed Dec 3
6:00 The Bold & The Beautiful
6:30 Neighbours
7:00pm Friends
7:30pm Don’t Forget The Lyrics
8:30pm House rpt
9:30pm Rush rpt
10:30pm Out Of The Blue

Thu Dec 4
6:00 The Bold & The Beautiful
6:30 Neighbours
7:00pm Friends
7:30pm How to Look Good Naked
8:30pm Law and Order: CI rpt
9:30 Law and Order: SVU rpt
10:30pm Out Of The Blue

Fri Dec 5
6:00 The Bold & The Beautiful
6:30 Neighbours
7:00pm Friends
7:30pm The Simpsons
8:30pm Numb3rs rpt
9:30pm Law & Order rpt
10:30pm Orange Roughies

Sat 6 Dec
6:00pm The Simpsons rpt
6:30pm Big Cat Diary
7:30pm Movie: Back To The Future
9:50pm The Wedge
10:20pm Orange Roughies
11:20pm Movie: TBA

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  2. Channel 10 is always editing out scenes from The Bold and the Beautiful and it’s sooo annoying. The Brooke Logan rape storyline was practially non-existent.

    I’m guessing a 6 pm timeslot means even more editing now since kids will be home from school, eating their dinner in front of the TV etc.

    I remember it being on at 1 pm many years ago. Maybe that would be better?

  3. itsross on November 20th, 2008 12:57 pm. I don’t really agree with you. Most people who work are not going to be the type of people to watch Bold and the Beautiful. It’s also not the type of show you want on if you have young children around as there are many bedroom scenes, affairs, constant swapping of partners etc which may not be suitable.

    My grandmother, my aunties and mother love the show (all over 60) and don’t work. So it’s perfect for them to sit down in the arvo when there is nothing on and watch it. At 6 pm people are busy with dinner and the family and they will not watch it. I have spoken to my mum and aunty and they are not happy with this move at all. I think it may possibly get a few new viewers who work during the day (i wouldn’t imagine many though), However, it will loose a lot of its regular viewers. This is one of the stupidest moves i have seen by Ch 10.

    They should move Out of the Blue to 6pm, I watched it last night and its not bad, and it also a better match with neighbours.

  6. The more I think about it, the more uncomfortable I am with this move. As people have said its viewership is comfortable wherE it is, same with the viewers of Judge Judy. Most adults are preparing dinner or watching news at 6.00. B&B and Neighbours are 2 very differnt soaps, I don’t think they will really go well together. I hope 10 change their minds before this takes affect. I loved The Nanny, put that on at 6.00 I say! Oh, that’s right Nine has got that now as well as Seinfeld.

  7. I agree its not a stellar lineup. They should leave B&B where it is and give first-run Office eps a shot and move Out of the Blue to Neighbours’ old slot when it finishes. I caught a couple of mins of OotB and its actually not too bad.

  8. i sure if bold does crap at 6, they’ll put it back at 4.30. but i couldnt believe that it was getting 500 k at this time, very interested to see wat this will do to the news numbers, maybe people will draw away and ABC news at 7 will become the leader

  9. Without the Simpsons there is no reason to watch Ten.

    6:00 The Bold & The Beautiful
    6:30 Neighbours
    7:00pm Friends

    That has to be the worst line up of the year, possibly the decade.

  11. @vanessa considering a lot of those same people who are cooking dinner at 6pm would have previously been at work at 4:30pm, it can only mean more viewers have the chance to watch it and dinner can wait til 7 lol

  12. I remember they showed the last 2 episodes from the 2006-2007 season then immediately showed the first 3 episodes of season 18 (january-may season 2008) then took it off completely. As of now, they are 18 episodes behind. Who knows how many they will be behind when they start showing new episodes.

  14. B&B viewer are a loyal bunch. They’ll watch it whatever time it’s on.

    And who usually controls the remote control at night – kids and teens. The move can’t not work!

    Time will tell anyway. If it doesn’t work, it’s done over non-ratings, and they’ll move it back to 4.30pm come February. Ten really don’t have much to lose giving this a shot.

  15. How Stupid is this! Why are TV programmers so stupid! Don’t they realise that their audience will be busy cooking dinner at 6pm or watching the news. Their ratings will drop and moving B & B to 6 is not going to get any new viewers and the old ones won’t watch cause its a stupid time.

  16. Ridiculous programming:

    1. Moving Bold to 6.00 could well be the beginning of the end for Bold. It has a loyal, dedicated fanbase at 4.30. Why does TEN think moving it will do it good? It wins its timeslot already, and I can’t see it doing any better up against the news services. This will kill the audience for Bold, and eventually they’ll probably axe it due to low ratings. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

    2. Friends. Again. Simpsons, or even Raymond, would be a better choice.

    TEN is a basket-case. Out of the Blue late at night when they’re crying out for half-hour shows between 6 and 8.30. Got rid of the rights to the best sticom ever made (Seinfeld), which would easily work at either 6pm or 7pm. Repeatedly showing Friends when no one wants it. And shifting TBATB from 4.30, where it works well, to 6, where it’s likely to collapse and never regain its audience.

  18. So what’s gonna take over Neighbours? Will & Grace?

    They should give other sitcoms a go since they have nothing to lose. Why not Hope & Faith or old Ellen episodes? (her tv show not chat show) There are so many other sitcoms they could try, not everyone has foxtel and look how 2 and a half men only got popular after bringing it back.

  20. I don’t know why they even bother with Friends, Will and Grace, or any of that crap. Just throw on The Simpsons, Futurama, or other stuff that repeats well. Clearly that’s what most people want…

    And why not throw Out Of the Blue in there too? Something like this…

    6:00 – Out Of The Blue
    6:30 – Neighbors
    7:00 – The Simpsons
    7:30 – Futurama

  21. I admit I do like Will and Grace, but this just adds me incentive to collect the season on DVD. It’s no big deal to me, I can see this on Foxtel anytime. BUt oh my god- More Raymond? I love the show, have the DVD season 1-9, doesn’t this channel have anything new to air? Come on, it’s as if they’re just not giving a flying f*** anymore.

    What is it with this Friends business? What is so special about it that it has to yet again come back on the schedule? Stuff that crap.

    Let’s see them air Judge Judy at 7.00pm, or better yet put the idiots at TEN on Judge Judy and get a thrashing from her – they seem to need it. I will be avoiding TEN like the plague during the summer, Neighbours finishes in early December, and judging by that release schedule for December’s first week – Won’t be watching much else apart from Neighbours.

  22. 10 only just finished it’s first run of Friends actually and now are showing S6 for a second time. I’ve seen all the eps a few times but it’s one of my favorite sitcoms and I could watch it over and over. Now thanks to 10 I can 🙂

    And Luke 10 just can’t get a show back once they’ve given up the rights..though I agree Seinfeld is a little better then Friends and light years better then W&G fact is Nine now own the rights. 2.5 Men,BBT,Friends & Raymond will help keep me entertained over summer!

  23. 🙁 I cant believe Will & Grace got axed. I now must get the box set with all the seasons, Im addicted to show now! As for Bold and The Beautiful at 6.00pm – thats an odd move which I do not see working. As for Friends – That will end up getting axed anyway… this is the 10th time Friends has re – appeared on TEN.

  25. Channel Ten is increadible. Can’t they just get the rights to Seinfeld back and play it at 7:00 like they used to? Better than W&G and Friends put together.

    And I have to say it is a suprisingly weird move by Ten to move B&B to 6:00. The fact it will tie in nicely with Neighbours is good as the same audience who watches B&B usually watches Neighbours too, but as others said, people still want their news and some will dump it to get their headlines.

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