GEM: First week Guide
GEM releases its Guide just a day after its announcement, with block programming across its schedule in a pitch to your feminine side.
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GEM has released its Guide just a day after its announcement by Nine.
The channel will begin on air at 12 midday Friday September 24th ahead of its official launch on Sunday 26th.
The first titles will be the classic movies Singin in’ the Rain (1952) followed by Gypsy (1962).
Like GO! the channel is built around block programming which repeats across the day and late night.
In its schedule for the week of Sept 27, weekdays offer a simulcast of Today until 9am followed by a mix of lifestyle, comedy, drama and movies including Alive and Cooking, The Zoo (NZ), The New Adventures of Old Christine, Friends, The Alice. A movie airs at midday while afternoons feature Getaway, McLeod’s Daughters, Sea Patrol, and more repeats.
The Ellen DeGeneres Show will also replay the daily episode following an earlier screening on Nine.
Primetime scheduling varies on different nights but includes:
Sunday:
6:30pm Wife Swap USA
7:30pm Random Acts of Kindness
8:30pm Movie
Monday:
6:30pm Friends
7:00pm The Zoo (NZ)
7:30pm 60 Minutes
8:30pm Movie
Tuesday:
7:30pm Secret Millionaire USA
8:30pm Cold Case
9:30pm Movie
Wednesday:
7:30pm Who Do You Think You Are?
8:30pm CSI
9:30pm The Big C (Premiere)
10:00pm Weeds (S6 premiere)
10:30pm Secret Diary of a Call Girl
Thursday:
7:30pm How Clean Is Your House
8:00pm Neighbours at War
8:30pm Marco Pierre White’s Chopping Block
9:30pm The F Word
10:30pm Amazing Medical Stories
Friday:
7:30pm Getaway
8:30pm Holiday Showdown
9:30pm Movie
Saturday:
6:30pm Deadly Surf
7:00pm Animal Emergency
7:30pm A Year with the Royal Family
8:30pm Movie
10:45pm Movie
No sport is scheduled for its first full week.
Regional viewers can see GEM on WIN SNSW (excluding Griffith), WIN Qld, WIN Vic, and WIN Tas.
GEM will launch in Darwin on October 4th.
A full Guide is available at TV Tonight’s Advance Guides.
91 Responses
Cool. Three channels from Nine that won’t get a look in, though to be fair Gem was always targeted at exactly not me.
ABC2, ABC News24 and One are still the only extra channels that will get looked at. And Eleven for Simpsons and Futurama in the unlikely event that we get it in Canberra before 2015.
Think I’ll pass. How are nein (re)running Friends didn’t they hand it off to Ten not long ago?
Bit like 1hd, dead in the water
Interesting to note that a PBL-Nine owned channel (with the exception of NBN) is taking the WIN Corp produced Alive & Cooking again. They did before when Nine’s 11am news was only half an hour long.
On the surface, I’d say WIN’s new ‘Daily’ program would be a perfect stereotypical fit for GEM during the day, but I think Nine have worked out it’s just utter crap! 🙂
Very uninspiring. They should have gone with a movie channel.
@ v actually some of the best movies are being showcased on GO! late on Friday and Saturday nights. Link is a great movie, bizarre in its own right, a few weeks ago they showed The Exorcist and this week they have 1973’s The Wicker Man, huge cult movie and even more bizarre than Link. I’ll definitely be keeping my eye on that timeslot.
This is looking sparse because to many channels with crap on them will not work. Why didnt the nine network launch a specific type of channel maybe a music channel or a movie channel? Something along those lines
Nothing too appealing upon launch (other than Wife Swap and Secret Diary of a Call Girl), but hopefully the selection will improve as some of the shows which have been stuffed around on 9 and Go! find a new home on GEM.
David,
Thanks for the advance TV guide post for GEM,I’ll give this new channel a go.
Thats actually a pretty boring schedule. Its more like a bad summer schedule. 7mate is no better.
And I’m sorry the race to be first by a few hours is just pathetic.
Will foxtel subscribers be able to recieve this?
Wow, cheap repeats and programs left for low ratings death. Wheres the documentaries? Where are the lifestyle shows? These are what rates high on Foxtel for women. This channel is basically Go!2.
Another channel full of junk no-one wanted to watch the first time around, and tired old movies no-one under the age of 60 would enjoy…. wait, perhaps that’s the whole point?
The big question now is what do SBS have in mind for their 3rd channel, something good I hope.
@ Adam
If you dont like free to air you can always subscribe to Foxtel.
American television is good and so it should be with the size of the population.
I really tire of people saying how bad we have it here with television, internet etc. If you dont like it Move.
I would absolutely love it if some of these movies were movies from the 80’s and early 90’s like, Pretty in Pink, St. Elmo’s Fire, 16 Candles, Breakfast Club, Less than Zero, Sex Lies and Videotape, Cocktail, Singles, Heathers, Reality Bites, Pump up the Volume, Young Guns, True Romance, Pulp Fiction etc.
These movies are Never on TV. They just keep repeating the same crap over and over. I want to see some of these old films to remind me of my teenage years and early 20’s!
On Fri and Sat night late on GO there worst movies I had ever seen, which i only watched part of. One had Elizabeth Shue, made in 80’s, called Link about these monkeys gone wild. It was so bizarre and crazy, never heard of it before and will probably never hear of it again.
Why do they put such crap on when they have these gems locked away never to be seen? Why?
10:00pm Weeds (S6 premiere)
Heck yeah. Thank you Gem. You’re a rock star.
Now let’s hope Ice TV get their A into G and have an up to date guide. I’m still waiting for an EPG for Channel 31.
Hey David, Will Nine News Bulletins be shown on GEM as they are all filmed in HD like Sport?
I assume this means Canberra will get Gem as well.
@Adam if you want niche format channels for every topic known to man, get Foxtel. Free-to-air is not the place for that sort of thing, and I would doubt that even FTA in the US has that many niche format channels. A lot of the channel formats you mentioned are probably cable or pay-TV channels?
US FTA television is also loaded… l o a d e d…. with re-runs, paid programming (infomercials) and more re-runs and more paid-programming. Their TV is far from perfect and in some respects we are well ahead (e.g. shows that would never see the light of day on free-to-air TV there are shown here on free-to-air)
I remember Gypsy, I think I saw it on TV when i was about 8. I didn’t twig until many years later what it was actually about 🙂
CSI is in their Gem demo?
Chopping block and F word are good.
I bet GEM will be flooded with ads for sanitary items, makeup and excersize machines.
Sounds like a whole lot of Snore to me…obviously not in their demo…
The only thing that I’ll be watching out of that is Weeds…but since when has Wedds’ target audience been women 35+!?! Do we know from which season Weeds will be starting on Germ by chance?
I haven’t seen Gypsy but Singing In The Rain is a classic.
Are those older movies prime time?