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Returning: Midsomer Murders

The newest series of Midsomer Murders beginning next Sunday almost qualifies as 'fastracking' by ABC standards.

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1The newest series of Midsomer Murders beginning next Sunday almost qualifies as ‘fastracking’ by ABC standards.

The twelfth series premiered in the UK on July 22nd, making it less than a month to the ABC by just one day.

The mystery featuring John Nettles and Jason Hughes is bound to give commercial programmers more competition on the biggest night of the week.

In episode one, ‘The Dogleg Murders’, a golfer is  found bludgeoned to death with a golf club.

Investigating the suspicious circumstances of the murder, Barnaby discovers that gambling is rife at a golf club, while blackmail rears its ugly head.

In the second episode Doctor Who’s Peter Davison also appears.

It returns 8:35pm Sunday, 23 August on ABC1.

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  2. Very pleased that Midsomer Murders has returned to ABC. Up unitil this point, I was thinking about upgrading my cable package so that I could access the old episodes of UKTV.

    I convinced my boyfriend to watch it with me as well. He liked it, but his reply was that it reminded him of Foyle’s War set in a different era.

  3. commercial tv has so much more variety than the ABC.. I mean, i understand that you have your network of preference, but the ABC strictly targets an older demographic.. I understand that you find british dramas better, but as it so happens, i can just as much enjoy an american drama.. And i understand that the abc have more than just british drama, i was generalising.. However they do show at least 10 times more british drama than commercial networks..

    I don’t know whether the numbers have died down over the last few years.. i’ve got no idea.. but there hasn’t been a drop great enough for it to be very noticable.. perhaps a slight trend though.. Who knows.. But me being of a younger demo, and having spoken with my mates about it, i can tell you that the only time we’d watch the ABC is wednesday nights for the chaser.. Too bad that’s gone now..

    And yes, i’ll hand it to the ABC that they make brilliant news reports.. however that’s not what i prefer to watch in the evenings.. i’d prefer light entertainment any day of the week

  4. @ Alex: “of course people still watch commercial Telly”

    I believe the numbers have dropped a lot over the years with the advent of illegal downloads as well as a lack of consistency by programmers, I got tired of seeing shows I liked dropped/axed/buried because the flawed AusTam ratings guestimated nobody was watching…

    “The ABC tends to become more appealing as you get older”

    I don’t watch any less or more ABC now than I watched 30 years ago, but I concede I watch no FTA now, only Friday sport on 9, nothing else in the entire 7 day cycle, except NASCAR on One and Patrol Boat when it steams in

    “but i mean i rarely turn over the the ABC, because it’s all just informative news reports or british drama”

    Nah, not all Britsh drama bud, but British drama is the best and always has been, starting soon as David has written elsewhere in this blog is the US produced series The Wire [far and away better than any boring, repetitive US copshows/dramas on commercial telly] and Sin City Law

    “they only show the Current affairs”

    yes that is very true, and it’s been a long time since well produced current affairs has aired on commercial teev, I’m talking the 630pm slot on FTA and 730pm on ABC

    Australian television is a sad place these days

  6. @gasbo.. of course people still watch commercial Telly… The ABC tends to become more appealing as you get older, but i mean i rarely turn over the the ABC, because it’s all just informative news reports or british drama.. With the exception of their only good night of TV which is wednesday night, they only show the Current affairs.. I really wish they’d approach it in a similar way the BBC do, where they don’t allocate massive lengths of prime time to just Journalism.. Ah well.. that’s not about to happen soon though

  7. David wrote, “The mystery featuring John Nettles and Jason Hughes is bound to give commercial programmers more competition on the biggest night of the week.”

    Do people still watch commercial TV? I don’t. Overall their ad revenue is down 12.5% and as David Dale said, among other things, on The Midday Report on Friday last ” they don’t show what people want to watch” it’s not often Mr Dale is right, but he got it in one that day. Sorry DD had to toss that in

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