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Reality check: Where are Survivor & Amazing Race?

The tribe has spoken. Where are these reality shows that have finished seasons in the US? TV Tonight puts the questions to Nine and Seven.

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jeff_probstReality fans you have been heard.

TV Tonight took the questions to Nine and Seven on the absence of Survivor and The Amazing Race from our screens.

In the case of Survivor there are now two full seasons (Gabon & Tocantins) that have aired in the US. One more season of The Amazing Race has also been run and won on CBS.

So where are they?

Both networks indicated the franchises are still important to them, and both indicated they would be coming.

Seven confirmed The Amazing Race would return in July. There are 4 more eps of Private Practice to air, so if it returns to 9:30pm Thursday, it could begin as early as July 9, though Seven isn’t saying.

Despite some speculation that Survivor is being held for Nine’s new entertainment channel, a spokesperson confirmed it is still “very much” in the mix for broadcast on its primary channel.

Nine was unable to indicate how far off a new series would be, only to indicate the scheduling of it “in the coming months.”

So there you have it…

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  1. If 7 & 9 were to schedule these shows while they are still new I wouldn’t bother ********ing them and would happilly pay attention to the advertisers commercial breaks weekly. But 7 & 9 don’t care enough so I do do the dirty thing.

    Yous snooze you lose.

  2. So much for the “Now being fast tracked!” spin we were hearing from the networks last year. They’re back to their usual treatment of viewers…

  5. if thursdays are going to be completely cleared up on 7 jerome i wonder if it might become amazing race 7:30, flash forward 8:30 (they are now advertising this a fair bit so it has to be soon), don’t know what at 9:30. i’m hoping they finally get around to stargate atlantis too, they are 2 seasons behind on it as well.

  6. It’s hard to believe Nine’s considers Survivor ‘important’, when its Aus ratings have been on the decline in recent years, hence the reason new episodes get relegated to 10.30 pm timeslots these days, which is fair enough.

  7. As others have noted those who really want to watch these shows have already done so and without the incredible amount of advertisements that the tv stations seem to pack in.

    FTA has a future if, and only if the station owners realise that things have changed and they they are merely one of many different sources for viewers to obtain the product. If one source wont provide the product then another will, and in this case cheaper and at better quality.

  8. I like many others have already seen Gabon and Tocantins but when channel nine airs them I will still watch them to support the show so we get Samoa and season 20 and more.

  11. I think it’s fairly safe to say that the don’t actually know if and when they’ll show these shows, especially in Nine’s case… Their scheduling is a week to week activity, so really we’ll just have to do as the schedulers do and “see what happens”.

  13. Amazing Race is a 7:30pm show, not a 9:30pm show. Doesn’t really matter to me. I’ve already seen season 14. New Zealand also is showing season 14 of TAR currently too.

  14. Just heard from a friend in Somoa that Survivor are fliming the next 2 seasons in Somoa back to back…a one week break beyween the 2 of them. A good way to save on the budget!

  15. Nine was unable to indicate how far off a new series would be, only to indicate the scheduling of it “in the coming months.”

    Right after the run of 8 reruns of 2 1/2 men per week comes to a close…and people run out of embarrassing illnesses…

  16. Call them answers? Gee if that’s what Seven and Nine call an answer then that’s pretty pathetic! It’s such a shame 2 brilliant Reality TV Seires like these have been treated so poorly by the networks. It’s obvious that Survivor & Race have many Australian fans that have been waiting very patiently for the new seasons to air, and from the looks of things we will be waiting even longer 🙁

  19. This is typical of Nine (and to a lessor extent Seven) to say a show is important but hold off airing it for 2 series! when are they going to learn people have easy access to the Internet and can watch them within hours of their original broadcast and not wait 2 years.

  23. Nine knows all too well that the vast majority of Survivor fans have already seen the two seasons they haven’t shown. “In the mix”, bollocks. Presumably “the mix” is that box of tapes of shows that get scheduled as filler when viewers aren’t important to the bean counters at Nine and scam infomercials and porn ads pay the power bills.

    It still amuses me that this network more than any other can complain about “illegal” downloading of TV shows, yet refuse to give their viewers one of the shows that could help turn that trend around – instead preferring endless 20 To 1 filler and endless, endless 2.5 Men and CSI.

    Nine, to paraphrase a line from a famous Stephen King novel: you bought it. Now you own it – and the consequences.

  24. Thanks for making the effort to do that David.

    As much as I’d love to watch Survivor here in HD, I’m not waiting for 9 to make up their mind. Also, going on 9’s previous history, they’d only screw up the scheduling anyway.
    No wonder people prefer other ways of enjoying their fave shows.

    Oh and speaking of Survivor, I recently watched the latest series and it’s amazing how after all this time, it can still have you on the edge of your seat and it never gets tired. Survivor is still king of the reality shows.

  25. private practice, greys anatomy and ghost whisperer all finish within weeks of each other especially if there are double finals. so 7 will have a completely new look thursday they could put TAR at 7:30, 8:30 or 9:30.

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