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Gone: In Plain Sight

2009 is fast becoming the year of the disappearing acts as TEN drops another show.

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This week TEN’s new US drama In Plain Sight is added to the (already) growing list of shows dropped off air in 2009.

It is replaced by a second, repeat episode of NCIS.

Last week In Plain Sight managed 702,000 viewers – a very good figure for TEN in a 9:30 summer slot.

Only 5 episodes of the drama starring Mary McCormack have aired so far.

No word on if, or where, the remaining eps will appear.

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  2. I didn’t actually watch this show, but would like to add to the comments about downloading. Probably around 90% of my (non sport) viewing is now done this way. When networks were “Fast Tracking” shows I thought, you know what they seem to be making the effort to get it right I will do the right thing and watch it on the TV. Then they went and left episodes off the end of series and stuff like that. People are not stupid about what is going on now with TV and are tired of the networks stuffing them around. Like any relationship there has to be some give and take but the Networks in Australia aren’t giving me anything anymore and still seem to be taking.

  4. ITA David but it’s catch 22, shows aren’t given long on FTA, if they don’t rate they are pull. his leads to a small % finding the missing eps online because they are hooked on the show and want more. They don’t know when or if it will return. When it does the viewers have gone so the show normally gets less ratings so like 90210 to vanishes again after one night.

    IMO networks should have some duty of care to show the eps, even if it’s late night/early morning so loyal viewers have a chance to see them.

    And putting them online (aka McLeod’s) doesn’t work because of low data limits in this country and each site normally has it’s own software to view them and the file sizes is normally much larger than other options. Maybe iTunes or other default standard should be used, in combo with putting them on DVD and handing them over to Foxtel is the answer?

  5. Programming decisions are unrelated to broadband availabilty, so let’s take that off the table first.

    The short answer is, as revenue for FTA commercial TV continues to shrink, networks are not prepared to leave “under-performing” shows on air for their advertisers. So they move them very quickly. As that pool of revenue shrinks more and more (compounded by people illegally downloading) expect it to get worse not better.

  6. I have just moved back to a place where i have no broadband (5k’s from one of the busiest tourist spots in Australia and i have cousins living 500k’s out west with great broadband…..Telstra wonder why we hate them) and this would not be a problem a few months ago because all my shows came via the net.
    This is a sad indictment on the current state of the industry,i do not wish to partake in illegal shit but when every show i get into is unceremoniously taken away from me it leaves me little choice when i know its just a few clicks away….i now have no options so this really pisses me off.
    All in all this begs me to ask the question are these people in programming all idiots or is there some hidden agenda,can someone with an inside take on this bizarre situation come forward and explain it to me

  8. We all know ch10 will launch ONE soon so no place for extra content that doesn’t work on the main SD channel. I like NCIS, House and others but enough with the re-runs over summer!

    I’ll love to get this but I don’t have the data limit until I get back on ADSL. Maybe it will go to Fox8 but even they had to dump Chuck because they have too many shows right now.

  9. once again a good show gets axed , yawn , its getting boring isnt it . i mean this show was never going to be the best show in the world but its far from the worst .
    as said before i now download bout 90% of all shows we watch each week & each week we find new shows like “the life and times of tim” .
    freeview might be coming but if theres nobody left to watch whats the point .
    bout the only thing left we watch on tv these days is the sport & im even thinking bout just downloading the overseas stuff we want to watch.
    with the extra channels to fill you would think they would keep stuff on & try & get solid followings for it all.

  10. Nooo !!!
    It was one of my favourites over summer.
    Few weeks ago I even checked in USA and they commissioned 2nd series.

    Sorry Ten, I have love NCIS (esp.Abby) but repeats stink !
    Bring back commonsense.

  13. Sorry, I misread – not 5 eps to go as I wrote above, don’t know how many to go, but case is the same – give it go, keep it on, see how it goes, 700k is alot of people this time of year.

  14. That means absolutely no new content is screening on Ten right now. There’s The Simpsons and Rules of Engagement repeats on 3 times a week, double NCIS on Tue, double House on Wed, and SVU/CI repeats on Thurs. What a waste of a network. Well, to be fair, there’s double L&O on Fris and Don’t Forget The Lyrics on Thurs, but come on. 3 shows that aren’t bloody repeats across a whole week?! Come on?!?!

  15. Could copy and paste usual comments here about shows getting chopped, but have summed up opinions and ideas too many times now!

    Is 700k really that bad these days? What will this 700k be now watching instead? Honestly, with 5 eps to go, 3 weeks until ratings, let it run its coarse and keep 700k people happy rather than having yet another thread on sites like this filled with usual complaints about FTA not caring about viewers, the FreeView joke, driving more people to downloads and alternative sources, etc…

    Here’s my advise to FTA TV viewers: Come ratings time, if you watch a new show that rates less than 1 million on its first night, then don’t bother watching again – they’ll bump it, dump it, move it, we all know the story.

    My advise to FTA networks: Not every show will be a blockbuster! Don’t go for number one in every time slot! New content better than repeats. Give new shows a chance. Gain viewer confidence. This constant changing is driving viewers away. Listen to your audience – the very people that give you ratings and thus advertising revenue.

  18. Yet again a show I like is pulled because of low ratings. And I agree 700k in the NRP is ok.

    Not sure why I bother watching new shows as they invariably get axed just as I’m getting into them.

    But I guess the bright side is another NCIS.

  19. Echoing the sentiments as expressed above.

    I used to laugh when the timeslots of certain shows would get changed, and would find it equally amusing when an under performing show was shown the door and airing of shows that have been repeated many times.

    In Plain Sight to me was a decent show, sure it doesn’t have the same high production values of CSI or Law & Order, but it holds up in it’s own right. If i was ten, i’d be comfortable with the figures that it has generated.

    I should have known something was up, generally my ‘spider senses’ tingle when a show doesn’t have a preview for the next episode. Funny thing is i thought nothing of it last week…. until i saw an advertisment for a double episode of NCIS during last nights programming.

    In regards to poor ratings performances, networks should be blaming themselves with their flip flop programming moves.

  20. More new summer shows axed than still airing….check.

    Let me see, 80GB of torrent TV shows on my computer…and they are the ones that I haven’t deleted yet.

  21. Aaaand another seven hundred thousand people primed to be introduced to the freedom of “illegal” downloading.

    You’d really think they’d have figured it out by now, wouldn’t you?

    I was actually assessing my TV viewing compared to this time last year, and I’m not exaggerating when I say that probably 80% of what I watch is now “illegally” downloaded, versus maybe 25% this time last year.

    The local networks could all go broke and off air tomorrow and I doubt I’d even notice.

  25. This is stupid, again another good new show is dropped for a re-run, I like NCIS but I know what I won’t be watching Tuesday at 9:30!

    Time to add another show to my *cough* list…

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