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Bumped: Top Gear

Updated: Nine amendments affecting Top Gear, Who Do You Think You Are?, CSI, Cold Case, RBT and Send in the Dogs.

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A number of changes from Nine….

On Tuesday June 29 Top Gear moves to 8:30pm with Who Do You Think You Are? at 10pm. Australian Families of Crime is out, set to return for a finale 10pm Tuesday July 6th (9:45pm Melbourne).

After this Sunday, RBT settles into its regular timeslot of 6:30pm Sundays, followed by Send in the the Dogs.

CSI will also become the Underbelly replacement from 8:30pm July 4th.

Cold Case has a series return from 9:30pm July 4th.

UPDATE: Two and a Half Men rpt 7:30pm Tue 29 followed by Under Surveillance: Australian Druglords at 8pm (also on July 6). The police meet up with a man code-named Tom who hands them a photo of him and his mate standing in front of $10 000 000 in cold hard cash. Tom is the kingpin’s right-hand man in a drug syndicate so sophisticated and secretive, police had no idea it even existed.

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  1. Australian Druglords? What’s next, Australian Serial Burglars?

    There’s nothing but crime procedurals and crime factuals on this network. Stop with the glorifying of criminals and play some bloody decent shows for once.

  2. What Nine should do for now is make a 21st Century Price is Right to fill the 7:30pm Tuesday Night Time Slot and should it succeed make that into their 7pm offering from 2011 onwards for weeknights to follow A Current Affair.No more of this 2.5 men tripe or Big Bang Theory.The Other Option is another fresh from scratch Home Grown like what they had with My Two Wives or All Together Now or the Bob Morrison sHOW.

    Sooner or later Nine has to learn the overuse of 2.5 men will cost them dearly against newer fresh opposition elsewhere.They are like third up against 7pm project or Home and Away or if it is the summer some US Sitcom that is used as filler during non ratings season.

  4. I don’t like TG on Nine as much as the next fan but I wish people would stop bashing them with out knowing the facts.

    @League Freak – Nine are no longer ‘butchering’ TG, apart from too many ad breaks but hey this is commercial FTA TV so you get that. For the first time they have been permitted to air the full UK 60 min version (thus being 90min long with ads) but because of music rights some of the songs have changed and Nine (or SBS) can do any thing about that.

    My question is with a new series of TG starting this weekend in the UK, how long will they take to air it here?

    BBC Knowledge – right now they are only showing the edited 50 minute version, but that may change.

    As for WDYTYA? from NBC yes they should show the missing eps from Emmitt Smith (football player) and Spike Lee (Director). And the UK version, as far as we know SBS still owns the rights as they were showing them just a few weeks ago and there has been no news saying otherwise. SBS is airing the local version right now. Oh and BBC Knowledge is airing the UK version of course.

  5. Last Tuesday Nine showed the full version of Series 11 Ep 4. I have just watched it against the edited version that was shown on SBS and BBC Knowledge. The stuff that was edited out seems to be chosen only to reduce the program to 50 minutes. It’s much more fluent watching the full program. The edited program ran for 52 minutes and the full program ran for 61 minutes.

  6. Simply havent watched it on Nine because they show so much old stuff and butcher the episodes. You are better off watching Top Gear on BBC Knowledge on Foxtel. There are been plenty of old episodes from a few years ago Ive seen on there and then seen Nine promoting as being brand new.

  7. and they were doing so well for a few months there. same old, same old from Nine.
    I expect them to get a few third placings in a few weeks with a resurgent Seven and a Masterchef Ten.

  8. @wlmawalrus,

    Er, no. This is the Clarkson ep of WDYTYA (UK). I can’t imagine 9 have bought the rights to just one episode – hence my question. You are correct however, that 9 are still sitting on two eps of WDYTYA US.

  11. Dr Rudi – wouldn’t it be the last couple of eps of US Who Do You Think You Are? There was at least 2 eps still to run – Spike Lee and a sportsman (can’t remember his name).

  20. CSI at 8.30 should give Ten’s The Good Wife a boost. at least for the last few episodes left; hopefully Ten go in a launch Rush or Offspring while Sunday 8.30 competition is soft.

  21. I saw a promo for next week’s line-up last night and noticed Top Gear would be shown at 8.30pm Tuesday, up against Packed to the Rafters and NCIS repeat. What will be shown at 7.30pm then?

  23. You’d have to wonder at this… Is it because of Rafters on 7?

    Or, is this just the gradual slide that 9 always seems to apply to high rating shows? I wonder if it will fall all the way to midnight, like the various Star Treks used to? After all, 9’s reasoning has always been that a dedicated fanbase will follow a show anywhere.

  24. Hi David,

    I presume this is the UK WhoDYTYA with Clarkson – and that the rest of us watched it on SBS 2 years ago.

    Does this mean 9 have bought repeat rights to one or more series of WhoDYTYA (UK) ?

  25. “CSI will also become the Underbelly replacement from 8:30pm July 4th.”

    oh lord, 9 didn’t plan ahead well there did they. even with a compatible big lead in it is a huge flop. what is it going to do in one of the highest profile slots of the week without a big lead in?

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