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Airdate: Eleventh Hour

Nine does it again. Premieres a new US series -from episode two.

11hourIt gets very hard to support a new programme when networks mess around with episode orders.

Nine has a habit of doing this. Earlier this year it notoriously played Flashpoint out of sequence, defending that the eps were stand alone stories. It failed to recognise the series had character arcs that progressed in the background. Ratings for the series slipped and Nine took it off the air.

Now it launches new US drama Eleventh Hour -from the second episode. “Cardiac” will screen at 9:30pm on Monday April 27th following Underbelly.

In the US it aired on October 16th, a week after the first episode “Resurrection” premiered.

The Jerry Bruckheimer produced mystery series centeres on Dr Jacob Hood (Rufus Sewell), a brilliant crime solver recruited by the Government as an on-call detective to investigate the rapidly growing number of crimes and crisis that fall outside of normal detective work. It also stars Marley Shelton.

31 Responses

  1. Stan, as long as the US studios keep on making shows, then yes. The US networks are embracing the internet and trying to reinvent, while our networks are still stuck in the dark ages, or their progress at giving people what they want has been incredibly small.

    We all like TV, that’s why we are on a TV blog, just our method of watching them is different. I was sick of the c**p that the 3 commercial networks kept pulling that i gave up on them.

  2. To all those people who said they’ll watch it online, or already have, do you guys think if everybody did what you do, we’ll even have TV prgrammes left to watch in the future? Who pays for you to be mindlessly (in this case) entertained?

    I don’t know about you, but maybe this website will have to be re-named ‘YouTube Tonight’ in the near future…

    1. Well that won’t be happening. Your points are valid, but there’s no condoning of downloading here. Links are banned and terminology is carefully considered. But a line that says “I have already watched this” could be written by someone in the US or on holiday. Granted, probably not but it’s feasible.

  3. @Brodie – they never missed any Scrubs (well not her in QLD) they aired some of theose eps in the late night slot before moving it to Mondays.

    As for ch9 and this screw up, look at Flashpoint, it’s Pilot set they show up with an story arc that ended in ep 13, looks like they re doing the same with 11th Hour.

    David has ch9 made any comment on why they are doing this?

  4. After the Flashpoint fiasco this seems to be a deliberate move by Nine to kill the show before it even starts.
    Who can we write to, email that can actually do something about this programming mistake?
    Who is Channel Nine’s owner … wouldn’t they care that their programmers are killing shows?

  5. What the hell is wrong with this network, do they not learn from their mistakes? I guess it’s no wonder they’ve been loosing to Seven lately.

  6. David, have you interviewed any programmer in the Nine network why they have this habit of showing series in a non-sequential order? I would like to know what exactly is their reasoning behind such move.

  7. Yawn…I’m already watching Spooks on ABC, likely a much better program with the added benefit of having been played in its correct sequence too.

    We now return you to our regular program – in glorious standard definition.

  8. absolutely pathetic. This show wont last. I had been looking forward to it (actually avoided downloading it) – but with this level of contempt that C9 shows for its viewers – i’m going to ignore it.

    Time to boost my broadband limit.

    Read carefully C9………..lack of respect to viewers will lead to viewers switching off / sourcing shows elsewhere. The days of you thinking you can feed us any old tripe whenever & however you want are long gone.

  9. The first episode not only sets up the characters of the show and explains why they are together, but it also sets up a mini arc that continues in episode 13 of the series. I’ve watched every episode of the series and really enjoyed it. The first episode may have been a little darker than the others, but I do not understand why Nine would not telecast the show in the order it’s supposed to be shown.

  10. Ugh, this episode skipping practice really pisses me off. It basically aided in the death of Flashpoint in Australia, and will probably do the same with Eleventh Hour.

    7 are just as much to blame with this practice. Watching Scrubs this week I was so confused…until I checked the synopsis and realised this was one of the earlier episodes that had been missed.

    The logic behind this practice truely bemuses me. Some argue the skipped episode is weak, but when they are integral to subsequent plots and direction they should be played regardless.

  11. i have seen some of this, it isn’t really anything special. it will rate well for the 3 weeks of UB lead in. but it does have sci-fi elements so it will probably go the way of fringe. and this out of order s*** that 9 does for some stupid reason will only kill it faster.

  12. Despite the first episode being boring, it does set up the characters and who they are. Still, they should still start from the first ep, as commonsense dictates.

  13. Bring Humphry Bear back so they can learn how to count at 9. Episode 1 goes 1st. Episode 2 2nd. 3 3rd and so on… Puts me off giving it a go knowing it won’t be in order. Not to mention the fact that if it doesn’t rate well, it will be off in a few weeks. Oh – and of course, the fact that it will start 10-15 minutes late after UB.

  14. why do they do this? does anyone actually have a reason, i mean it obviously doesn’t work for ratings, flashpoint and the mentalist should have rated much better.

    also they kind of missed the boat here. they should have launched 11th hour at the beginning of the year when they had promoted it to be in february instead of wasting their time with CIA. it was B&S vs. Dexter, and underbelly was rating 2.4mil. now there is increased competition from the NCIS repeat and underbelly is down to about 2mil.

  15. Good timelot for Eleventh Hour, but should have premiered back when Underbelly started. A little late now, and will be an awkward program screening after Sea Patrol.

  16. I’d be the last person to defend Nine, but from my understanding CBS took a while to decide in which order to air episodes in the US. It’s a Bruckheimer show, which probably means its character arcs are virtually non-existent.

    Anyway, Eleventh Hour sounds like a neocon’s Fringe, so I’m not interested, whatever the episode order.

  17. omg *slaps channel 9 in the face*
    wake up to yourselves. paul was right their head is cut off and they are blindly running around trying to f**k things.

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