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
Clearly I’m the wrong demo…. but this channel looks shocking!
I just can’t believe it. So rushed, in an attempt to be the first ones out to market.
I’m convinced that Nine is not taking multichanneling seriously with this woeful schedule.
Aside from Weeds at 10pm!! on a Wednesday…. not one show worth watching.
Please let Seven and Ten have a better third offering. Embarrassing!
7 jumped in front of the 10HD launch by sneaking in 7HD, so gem sneaking in before 7mate is just karma.
Why did nine need to use the same font for Gem as Ten use for One? Compare the E’s.
As I am male under 35, I won’t be watching this channel, but I’m still pleased to see that WIN, NBN and 9 Darwin are ready to go with it. Again 9 proves to be the best out of the three commercials at making their channels available to regional viewers.
Awesome movies week 1:
Mystic River & Gangs of NY in HD
Imagine a future where three different episodes of Two and Half Men or The Big Bang Theory will air at the same time on FTA
That future is October 2010
I still don’t understand why Nine’s main channel has nothing to offer women – it’s such a flaw in their programming strategy and explains why they routinely come third without GO!. Having GEM is just more wallpaper over what is not working on the main channel – intelligent programming for a discerning female audience.
ABC has 4 channels now, as of several weeks ago.
The movies on this channel are slightly different to usual offerings, but look at what happens to movies on go! (that’s my exclamation mark, not theirs 😉 ) Bumped at the last minute for repeats of Big Bang Theory, so who knows if movies will air when they’re supposed to, given this is another 9 channel.
This just amounts to yet another channel of repeats and “not good enough for primary channel”. I agree there should be more theme channels – movies, doco’s, music, etc. When 11 launches we will have 15 FTA channels, yet only 3 will be themed (One, ABC news 24, and ABC3 for kids), the other 12 being virtually indiscernable from each other (primary channels will have less repeats of course, 🙂 but otherwise the same kinda mix). Personally would like to see a music channel, and along the lines of rage rather han along the lines of video hits, etc. (if you’ve got 24 hours a day, you can show more than just the top 40 style clips). A doco channel would also be excellent.
To those who would say “get Foxtel”, I already have it, and would love to not have to have it. The number of FTA channels goes from 5 to 15, and yet I still need cable to get the variety I want?? Why do we have 15 FTA channels if I’m still gonna need cable? Talk about wasted opportunity. One and ABC are the only ones taking it to Foxtel…
But Go! isn’t one signal. It’s almost always the same schedule, but has different ads, so they carry seperate satellite signals for it on the Foxtel satellite.
In addition, they sometimes show different content, like during the tennis when they showed the AFL footy show on Go! in Sydney but not in Melbourne (where it was live on Nine anyway).
Not saying that GEM won’t be a single signal, just saying that Go! isn’t.
ABC was the first to have three channels! Have done so for 10 months now!
ooooh! Thursday 7:30pm “How Clean Is Your House?” That show is trash television and it’s hilarious! Glad to see it off UK.TV and on FTA (especially as I dumped pay TV back in February)
Unbelievable! All Programming on Seven, Nine and TEN will be in standard definition unless simulcast on the multi-channels…
@ salf….. sorry mate but u are wrong!! i think friday comes before saturday???
as i said…. nine will be the first to have 3 channels.
even thou the offical launch is sunday!! it’s still will be on air friday midday….
Craig, if you look at the guide David linked to in the story, you will see it is repeats of the US version of Who Do You Think You Are?.
So will I have to retune my TV in Melbourne or will GEM take over channel 90, which is 9HD?
So no Rugby League finals that week in HD. 9 Suck!
Hi David
If the GEM channel is the same broadcast to all areas that receive the channel, does this mean that if GEM is showing live sport that it will be broadcast to all areas. For example Rugby League is rarely shown live in Victoria, however will this change now that HD sport will be shown on this channel instead of the standard channel 9.
Aaron, that’s my understanding…. one signal same as GO!
I guess its refreshing to see that GEM isn’t going for ratings straight out of the box.
It will be interesting to see what they play after the first couple of months on air after they replace all theses shows… 😉
@ Jack, i agree with you re Exorcist, and there have been some good movies on GO. I haven’t seen Wicker Man but will give it a go. Will have to agree to disagree on Link though.
I still think that it would be nice to see some of those movies from the 80’s and early 90’s that i mentioned before, because i can’t remember the last time any of these have been on TV. As they are mostly aimed at women hopefully they will show some of them on GEM.
I don’t see why people are complaining, It’s another free channel plus they are not locked into a set programing schedule, just look at GO! or even 7TWO they can move things around and add new shows or more movies if they find it’s not working. About the only digital HD channel locked into a theme is ONE with sport.
David which version of ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ do they have?
Not my cup of tea. Bring on eleven!
Ellen repeats on at 5pm? Hells yes!!
Very disappointing line-up. The only thing I’m vaguely interested in is The Big C. Most of the programming of this new channel already feels … stale.
ugh… there’s one channel i’m not gonna watch…
The network bosses at Channel 7 & 9 must not want high ratings for 7mate & GEM.
Both channels are showing many repeats and average shows but enough tv advertising will cover the cost of running these digital stations. Money talks / viewers will suffer
@Lucy…. we are in the initial planning stages of that now… and I hate Foxtel. The only good channels are the US News channels. lol… true!