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Update on Mercy

Due to pre-emptions in the US, there will be no screening of Mercy next Monday.

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mercyDue to pre-emptions in the US, there will be no screening of Mercy next Monday.

Seven will instead run two eps of Family Guy instead: “The Story on Page One / Wasted Talent.”

The drama resumes a week later.

There’s quite a bit of this going on in the US at the moment as we’re seeing with TEN screening A Model Daughter: The Killing of Caroline Byrne in place of NCIS: LA next week too.

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  1. David,
    re: Due to pre-emptions in the US, there will be no screening of Mercy next Monday.

    A number of shows in the US are on a break due to Halloween, one of those being Mercy…. which will return in the US on 3/11/2009

    David
    re: A Model Daughter: The Killing of Caroline Byrne in place of NCIS: LA next week too.

    NCIC and NCIS: LA are also on a break due to Halloween, hence why TEN have scheduled in other shows.

  4. @ Mikey: Glee started on Ten two weeks later than the US to make up the current break caused by Fox’s coverage of Major League Baseball World Series (which is replayed on Ten’s digital sports channel One). Episode 8 is on Ten next Thursday (November 5) which means we will be up to date with the US. By the end of this week we should find out whether Ten will keep fasttracking the episodes or have a one week break. As Glee resumes in the US on Wednesday November 11 (Thursday November 12 in Australia) Ten has the option of showing the new episode just hours after the US screening.

  6. Im sorry but what pre emptions. I love Mercy. Now I have to wait another week. Oh well at least the season will run a week later. Does anyone know how mercy is rating in the states?

  8. @ Vinny – a prememtion is a fancy term for when a show is bumped, given the US has a 36 week season but only makes 22 eps of most things, shows are often pre-empted for repeats of itself..ie. a repeat of NCIS on CBS on Tuesday night instead of a new ep (and it still managed 16 million viewers)! sometimes though shows are pre-empted for other things, ie. sporting events or presidential addresses which are quite common and usually carried by the major networks in the US

  10. Damned if you and do and damned if you don’t. Sometimes putting something else in its place is enough to make people think a show is over and they don’t come back when new episodes return. In the US they tend to put repeats on between new episodes, which works if a show has self-contained episodes and no on-going storyline – also keeps the viewers hooked in for when it returns with new eppys. I for one didn’t mind Nine putting a repeat of The Mentalist on this week – I haven’t watched it yet but I whizzed through it on my IQ2 to see if I’d seen it before, and it doesn’t look at all memorable, so it’s probably one I missed the first time around. I had a feeling Melbourne missed one when it became out of sync with the rest of the country last season, so maybe it has never aired in Melbourne before because I could swear I haven’t seen it and that I don’t recall missing an episode either.

  11. The good and the bad of fast tracking! I am sure we can all accept that shows sometimes are off for a week in the US but when the networks through in a repeat hoping we won’t notice – like what Nine does with the Mentalist – that’s when it gets annoying. Congrats to Ten for not just putting in a repeat of NCIS in place of NCIS LA next week and to Seven for same with Mercy (although I guess it would be too soon for a repeat anyway!).

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