★★★★★ 0/5

Gone: Out of the Blue

Uh oh. There's only one more week of TEN's late night soap remaining, with the late News returning to 10:30pm.

46
Leave a comment

This isn’t going to go down well…

There’s only one more week of Out of the Blue scheduled on TEN after it announced its TEN Late News with Sports Tonight would be returning to its 10:30pm home.

The last episode is currently slated for Thursday January 15.

When TEN slated the show at 10:30pm there was considerable scepticism about such a move, but TEN defended that summer skewed well to late night viewing. To its credit, it has garnered some devoted fans who love the show, but on Monday it had slipped to 221,000 viewers. Those fans are likely to be incensed by TEN pulling the show, particularly while we’re still out of ratings.

If TEN is planning to reschedule the show (and it probably will at some point in time) so far it hasn’t indicated where. The show also has local quota value to TEN, but only if played between 5-11pm.

Returning TEN Late News to 10:30pm from Tuesday January 20 does mean Letterman fans will get Dave back at the earlier 11:15pm instead of 11.45pm.

Out of the Blue struggled on the BBC before getting a repeat season on Channel Five.

46 Responses

  1. As a UK fan, I’d recommend waiting to see if Ten does reschedule the show before spoiling the outcome of the murder plot. The reveal episode is brilliant, not just because of the shock of who’s responsible, but because of why too.

    I’m still gutted about this news. The episodes you guys have seen so far were ones I really enjoyed when I watched them, but you’re just getting to the point where it gets REALLY good. What a shame that an Aussie broadcaster won’t take a chance with a fantastic Aussie drama.

  2. For those who want to find out what happens in the series if it does get axed in Oz, there is a very active Facebook Group in the UK which has been commenting on each episode which will let you find out the main plot and the murderer’s identity. We are coming to the end of series 1 and are desperately hoping that series 2 will be commisioned if it does OK on Fiver.

  3. I knew it, I just bloody well knew it. I should of bet everything that I have ever, currently and will ever own on Ten pulling this move. I would of made a fortune.

    On 4 November 2008, I asked for the odds here you would “give me for Out of the Blue to air every weeknight at 10:30 pm uninterrupted for its entire run of 130 episodes from Monday 17 November 2008 through to Friday 15 May 2009?”

    Now admittedly Ten ended up airing the episodes Monday to Thurdsay and they didn’t broadcast an episode on evening of Christmas Day (showing Ever After: A Cinderella Story instead) and on New Year’s Eve due to their coverage of the fireworks. If they didn’t miss another night this would pushed the end date back to Tuesday 30 June.

    On Thursday 16 January Ten will showing episode 38. 38 of 130 is 29.2%. Ten didn’t even make it third of the way through the series. Ten, where does this leave the viewers who have been watching every night? Hmm. Why should we, the viewing public, invest our time and commit ourselves to watching any new series that you will be broadcasting this year when you can’t even get a third of the way through a daily soap?

  5. @ Craig – seven has first refusal on those two – back when they had first refusal on Letterman they made a local ripoff (Tonight Live) which was amazingly cancelled shortly before Nine got the rights to Letterman’s show (as a result of Dave switching networks)

    With the NBC talk shows on the comedy channel I continue to be baffled as to why seven don’t show them – they wouldn’t get away with any local ripoffs this time around.

  7. That’s a shame that Out Of The Blue is gone. I was TiVoing in the hope of watching a few weeks of the series on a lazy Sunday but never got to do it. I don’t think I’ll bother watching it now.

  9. Maybe they can show it in one 2hr block on the weekends some time – similar to Neightbours catch up on 10HD but on the main channel (as we all know 10HD is gone in a few months).

    As an avid 10.30 news watcher, I found it annoying to have the news pushed back, but for the sake of the viewers and fan base of the show, suggest they do something for them.

  11. 3rd major programming change for Ten.
    Hands up here, who thought Out of the blue would last at 10-30 pm on Ten – looks around and finds no hands up.
    Cue reflective music – programmers at ten and Nine do yourself a favour, send TV tonight a letter and give us list of shows you have and ask us to do your programming for you.
    Problem solved.
    P.S. I gave Out of the blue a go – lasted 10 mins, woeful acting,woeful scritp (made The Strip look half okay)

  15. How early can pg classification be shown ? I think the ratings have been fine for a 10.30 slot, and hope they try another slot as its just starting to be excitting ! reven 5.30 would be great.

  17. I’ve watched a few episodes in the first month that it aired (and it was *okay*… nothing special, but it still blows crap like Neighbours and B&B out of the water), but the timeslot is too much of a bother. I can’t be bothered committing to a show 4-5 nights a week at such a late slot.

    Ten had the opportunity to introduce a new Australian series and they let it go to waste. >:(

    Classification issues my arse. From the few episodes that I’d seen, none of them deserved such a ridiculously high M rating for what was perfectly PG-friendly material.

  19. What are Channel Ten doing?! Why even bother airing the show in the first place if you’re just gonna pull it a couple of months later? Unless they finally listen to common sense and give it a place in the 6pm-7:30pm zone (which they should have tried months ago), I can see this being either dropped entirely or just burnt off at midnight.

  22. 10 have axed another one of my fave shows.
    I record this show everynight to watch the next day – have seen every episode so far. Agreed, after a shakey start the show is now finding its feet, the cast are really good & the story lines keep you watching!
    Shame 10 for not giving this show a chance from the beginning!!

  24. Annoyed but I’ll looked at the bright side – that’s 2 hours of my life back each week. They’re dragging out the murder mystery a bit and I just want to know whodunnit, but now we may never know…even an internet search will not bring up an answer…maybe I’m not trying hard enough???

  25. Thanks for confirming this. It’s such a shame the way this excellent show has been treated both here in the UK and now in Australia too! Overall the ratings have been pretty good considering it’s on at a time when few people are watching TV, and a show designed for a daytime / early evening slot doesn’t translate well to night-time viewing.

    The worst thing is that Australia hasn’t even seen the best episodes yet. As the murder mystery plot gained momentum, the show produced some of the best soap I’ve seen.

    Big thumbs down to Ten for treating one of its only decent shows so badly.

Leave a Reply