After Easter, it’s war.
It's hard to believe, but we're only three and a half weeks away from non-ratings again.
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It’s hard to believe, but we’re only three and a half weeks away from non-ratings again.
Yep, two weeks of Easter non-ratings begin on March 28th and end on April 10th. It barely feels like the television year has begun, and certainly with the Olympics it hasn’t been much of a level playing field.
Between now and then Nine is rolling out Top Gear, V and Survivor while Seven and TEN are by and large staying the course with shows already unveiled.
From April 11th the ball game changes. That’s when networks have a clear run right through to November 27th, giving them the green light to run events uninterrupted if they so choose.
While Nine has Underbelly, Seven has The Pacific and TEN has MasterChef. Wouldn’t it just be a viewer’s worst nightmare if all three were pitted head to head?
TV Tonight hears MasterChef Australia could be launching as early as mid-April. It is also expected to skip its auditions this year and open with the Top 50 contenders competing for final places.
Seven is promising a big event to media in late March, potentially the preview screening of the HBO miniseries The Pacific. It launches in the US on March 14th.
Nine is bound to unleash Underbelly as soon as Easter is over.
Other big guns yet to come include Hey Hey its Saturday, Packed to the Rafters and Glee -to name a few.
If you don’t have yourself a decent PVR yet, you have until April 11th to sort yourself out…
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26 Responses
PVR’s are only as guide as their electronic guide and whether or not TV Stations actually adhere to them. I still do not understand why the electronic guide that is broadcast through the same TV Signal still doesn’t accurately represent start and finish times?
We know that TV stations are notoriously bad at sticking to advertised times, why doesn’t the guide they broadcast adjust for their tradiness?
because they don’t like PVR’s and don’t give two hoots for viewers…
I can’t believe we still have non-rating seasons! It is the 21st century right? We do watch tv everyday right? We are still consumers and watch ads to persuade us to spend money on non-ratings days right? Shops are open every day, many late night too but TV is still in the 70s (without any of the good stuff from that era)!
TV – they still don’t understand what viewers want or how we watch tv…
I’m really looking forward to The Pacific and looking closely at Seven’s schedule I would have to say that maybe Wednesday night for it. I mean Gangs of Oz will be finished so Criminal Minds can slot to 9:30pm but then there is the dilemma of the new AFL/NRL panel shows. People are saying 7:30pm others are saying it will be 9:30pm. So i dont know.
Not really looking forward to Underbelly and may not even get it in NSW anyway. Masterchef and Glee are 2 must watch shows for me when they return. I am hooked on both. I think Glee could work on Mondays at 7:30pm. TEN need a show to plug the hole at 7:30pm and i recon the 7pm Project is on its last legs so MC will take up 7pm.
As for something else, MKR on Tuesdays i am guessing will be replaced by Australia’s Got Talent and Monday is the night i dont know what will go there when MKR finishes, more factuals? Parenthood?
I take it Rafters will slot into Tuesday 8:30pm and Grey’s will push back to 9:30pm with PP at 10:30pm so that is Tuesday sorted.
any word on when Merlin will pop on our screen again?
God No Not Masterchef Again.I suggest to all of you now Before that rubbish comes back Go stock up on Your Friends/Seinfeld/Everybody Loves Raymond Box Sets Now So You have something to watch while the 7pm Project is Temporarily off the Air or do what I and many countless number of Australians Do and that is after ACA/Today Tonight or Neighbours Switch Over For Two and a Half Men!!!
There is now a defamation action pending against UB3 in the NSW Supreme Court. Who is responsible for the legal advice on those scripts?
I have given up on Top Gear, they keep interrupting the adds with occasional bits of stuff about blokes in cars, they have carved it up so much that it just doesnt work, switched over and watched repeats of 25-30 year old English comedy (Young Ones) on ABC2.
@Yvonne,
“Why the hell don’t Australian ratings mirror US ratings period?”
Because the seasons are reversed thanks to us living in opposite hemispheres! When it’s winter up there (and everyone’s locked up inside watching TV) it’s the middle of summer down here (and, in theory at least, everyone’s on the beach or away on vacation, etc. and not as many are watching TV) and in our winter it’s summer up there.
What I can’t stand about our ratings periods is that they break them for too long for things like Easter (a two week ratings break for a four day holiday!) and months at Christmas/New Year (when most people only have a couple of weeks off, if that nowadays).
Nine seem to have the best offerings in my opinion. I wonder the plans from both seven and ten though. Will 7PM continue? Where will Glee go? Rush apparently hasn’t even begun filming so I don’t think we will see that until later in the year.
When is “Rules of Engagement” coming back?
@alfagirl – I feel your pain.
I have 3 pvrs and some nights they are barely enough. I need to get a life.
The Pacific is all I’m looking forward to… hopefully we’re not waiting too long after the US.
Why, did they cut the audition process. I mean least season we saw the top 100 fight for a spot by dicing onions and getting bloody fingers in the process. Why didn’t they just make cuts to the state by state if they wanted it cut back?
What about NCIS:LA?
a show i am looking forward to later in the year is Modern family. hopefully ten show it after easter. The Pacific looks great can’t see how 7 are going to schedule it though. they can rest Bones on Sunday but that would probably put it up against underbelly. or they could rest Criminal Minds but Wednesday feels so low key.
“That’s when networks have a clear run right through to November 27th, giving them the green light to run events uninterrupted if they so choose.” …………..Yeah like that’s going to happen. At least the 3 shows mentioned can’t be stuffed around by playing episodes out of order or mixing repeats amongst the new ones.
Non ratings should not exist at all. If it had to exist, it should only be the two weeks at Christams / New Year that almost every one has off. Bring on the 50 week ratings year!
I don’t think The Pacific will be that good. But I definitely can’t wait until Underbelly and Masterchef.
It wouldn’t be my worst nightmare, David. In a contest between Underbelly, Masterchef and The Pacific, the latter would win hands down!
Masterchef is really the only thing I’m hanging for this year nothing else really grabs my interest much.
I’ll probably check out The Pacific but I wouldn’t say I can’t wait for it.
There is show coming I will watch but nothing I can’t wait for….except Masterchef.
Only interested in “The Pacific” out of the items listed above (already seen V ,& the remake is less interesting than a rerun of the original series, unfortunately).
Why the hell don’t Australian ratings mirror US ratings period? That way, we would get all of the big name shows directly off the satellite and not months later.
An Easter break, how ridiculous. Is this the country in world that has an Easter break??
A viewer’s nightmare is any time MasterChef Australia (or any other “lifestyle” program) is on the box. A twin-tuner PVR is usually quite sufficient for Australian FTA TV.
The most depressing reading I’ve done in a long time was the 100 top rating programs from last week. It did explain the bizarre popularity of Tony Abbott though. No wonder politicians treat us like mindless sheep, we are.
I so can’t wait for masterchef, great viewing 6 nights a week!