Gone: Weeds, Curb Your Enthusiasm, South Park
Here come Sunday night movies on GO! as we race to the end of the ratings year.
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More changes to GO! this time for Sunday night.
The movie The Matrix Revolutions will screen from 8:30pm in their place, with more movies expected over the following two Sundays as we race to the finish line of the ratings year.
As a result, South Park, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Weeds are not expected to return until December.
We’re seeing quite a few changes on Nine / GO! right now. Could it be the tight race for demographics between Nine / GO! and Seven / 7TWO has some television execs on a knife-edge? Between the main channels it’s not so line-ball. Thanks to digital channels there will be a lot of rewriting of the rule-book and hyperbole when this survey year is out.
Mars Attacks, originally slated for late Saturday night on Nine, will now screen at 11pm Sunday on GO! in place of Bad Eggs.
On Nine it is replaced by The Curse of the Jade Scorpion.
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They are replacing good quality shows with one of the worst sequels in history? I almost forgot GO! was run by 9…sigh.
and so, the honeymoon is well and truely over. Same s**t, different channel.
The carry-on we’re used to seeing on 9 is now gonna be done on Go too…….
Not Weeds!!!!
Unbelievable. Nine have completely disrespected their viewers once again. That Sunday lineup was bloody solid! 🙁
GO! more like GOne!
I’m trying to look shocked but I’m not, The point of GO! was to air shows not working on the main channel, anyone can go out and rent The Matrix movies for a few dollars for a whole week why put them in place of shows with loyal viewers, this will just drive people away to downloads or just buy the DVDs.
Weeds is years behind the US, they have total destroyed Curb Your Enthusiasm with the crap they pulled on the main channel a few weeks back and South Park is out dated. But they are all shows people follow and the demographic they want will go else where if they haven’t already.
Waiting to see what they do next, bad move Nine/GO!
I thought the “unofficial” point of the channel was that it screens all the shows that Nine hasn’t… Yes, it is coming back in Summer, but I think removing a bunch of shows within the first few months really just disenfranchises and alienates viewers. Remember, these are the same viewers who normally wouldn’t watch Nine because of it’s erratic programming and was willing to give GO! a chance.
Looks like there’s no real difference between the programming choices at Nine and GO!
Nine cannot help themselves – another stupid move which will only drive DVD sales.
-1 viewer.
Very strange move..
Now what am I gonna watch on Sundays?
why are they worried about ratings, they have already lost the year to 7, just resign to that fate and hope for better next year by building up audience loyalty and trust now. also what does this mean for the late night repeats now, they never repeat movies just shows, so I guess we can expect more seinfeld in the early hours of monday morning?
@tasmanian devil – South Park is out till December. 🙁
This comes from the people who marketed Series 7 episodes of Curb as “The Seinfeld Reuinion”…
If they’d bothered to watch the show, they’d realise how preposterous any kind of reunion seems to LD and all the Seinfeld cast – in fact, that’s exactly why he’s doing on Curb…
Seems bloody stupid, and desperate for ratings, to cancel what arguably is GO!’s most appealing night to many. Talk about throwing s**t in the fans faces – these are the same people who no longer watch Nine for this same reasons.
Treat your viewers and your shows with some respect; sheesh, thought you’d turned over a new leaf with GO!, guess we were wrong.
The night needed some changes. Wipeout has demonstrated that GO! can get some good figures and the shows following it (even including Big Bang which has fallen a bit) are letting them down.
Oh well, it’s not like you couldn’t see this coming anyway. This is Nine we’re talking about. But at least The Big Bang Theory is still there (hooray!). And South Park is still going to be on Saturdays and SBS, not that it is must-see viewing for me.
A super pox on all those at Nein / Go. After waiting years for Weeds I was overjoyed that the programming gibbons had finally found a home for it only to have it yanked off the secondary chanel now for a movie that is 6 years old that you could buy for $10 at Big W that anybody that wants to see has already seen.
Seriously Nine (aka GO). What’s wrong with you? After waitng so freaking long for Weeds to return, you are now not going to air the series to show lame movies instead of this great show. Why????
Haven’t GO been getting great shares on Sunday, geez, they don’t make any sense
Heh, finally!!! Sorry but I hated Sunday’s Go lineup. Was never really interested in those sorts of shows. (Saw Curb and saw Weeds a few times, and yeah.. I won’t say anything more) – It won’t belong before they mess with Big Bang Theory.
Go and get F***ed Nine. I love Weeds and Curb, 2 of the better shows on GO! and you go and do this. Well this is appalling. Go jump Nine.
Now they need a 3rd digital channel. Seriously Nine/ Go! This is getting annoying. Sure none of the shows axed so far are ones I watch, but it’s only a matter of time.
Does anyone remember the days when you got the weekly guide from the newspaper each week, and could use it reliably for that entire week? Now days you’re better off not wasting time or money on printed guides because they outdate quicker than computer technology.
Vinny the more people watching, the more money the network makes. They sell advertising for a business and advertisors pay for ratings. They promise certain results to there advertisors and if those targets are not met, the result is the show gets pulled, or they cut the cost of the advertising. Thats why they are important. Withing total people there are demographics, for example 18 – 49 age group. A good example is the Smpsons at 6pm, despite being slaughtered by the news in total people, it wins 16 – 39 demo every night and certain advertisors want to target tat specific group. Just like everything else, TV is a business, and its about making money. Hope that answers your question
On the whole Go thing, dont watch it, but disapointing that nine would alter a line up that nearly beats SBS in audience share on Sunday. What are they thinking
Channel 9 and GO are really starting to annoy me at the moment with all these program changes.
@ vinny – more ratings = more advertising = more $$$ for the fat cats at the networks
This is shocking. There goes my weekend viewing. I will now go back to watching Rove like I used to before go! existed.
Can someone tell me (My knowledge is limited) as to why getting so many peoplw watching/ ratings are so important to networks?
Why does it matter how many people watch, what does this mean for a network?
I hope we don’t see. Gone Gossip Girl, Drop Dead Diva and Moonlight ! I was just thinking, I bet they will muck with Sundays and what do you know, they do !
One last thing, I have figured out why they called the channel go !
go! meaning the shows come onto the channel then they go off g.o.
WTF?!?!
This is only going to reduce Go’s Sunday shares I am willing to place money on it; if they want to fix up their Sunday ratings they are best off airing movies like Matrix which run too long anyway on the main channel; Go’s sunday lineup is the best thing about TV all week, no other network has such a fantastic lineup all night like Go does on a Sunday!
Complete BS!
btw; I’m not just an angry fan; I have seen every single episode of every show airing on Go’s Sundays; but its still the only worthwhile thing on FTA TV. Rpt or not.