Seven: 2011 highlights
Winners & Losers, The Amazing Race Australia, Conviction Kitchen, No Ordinary Family, Downton Abbey, Great Migrations are all coming to Seven.
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Seven has now announced some of its highlights for 2011.
The list is long, but not quite complete, promising “many more” shows are also coming.
Absent from the list are The X Factor and Iron Chef Australia.
Here is the list as sent by Seven:
Winners and Losers – new drama series from the makers of Packed to The Rafters – four twenty-something girls meet again at their ten year high school reunion. They were “the losers” at school – have they become winners? Virgina Gay, Melanie Vallejo, Melissa Bergland and Zoe Tuckwell-Smith star as the friends; with Denise Scott, Blair McDonough, Michaela Banas and Francis Greenslade also starring.
The Amazing Race Australia – hosted by Grant Bowler, Aussie teams battle it out around the world to win Australia’s first ‘Amazing Race’.
Conviction Kitchen – new documentary series. Chef Ian Curley opens a restaurant in Brisbane, employing ex-criminals to work as wait staff and apprentice chefs, as they try to turn their lives around. Conviction Kitchen is a show about redemption. Curley – a successful chef and restaurant owner – once spent time in juvenile detention himself, and turned his own life around by becoming a chef.
Returning Australian shows for 2011:
My Kitchen Rules,
Border Security,
Sunday Night,
The Force,
Beauty and the Geek,
Australia’s Got Talent,
Dancing With The Stars,
Packed to the Rafters,
Home and Away,
Better Homes and Gardens,
City Homicide,
Deal or No Deal,
Four Weddings,
World’s Strictest Parents,
Airways,
Highway Patrol,
The Zoo,
RSPCA Animal Rescue,
and many more…
New International shows for 2011:
Body of Proof – Australia’s Nic Bishop stars alongside Dana Delaney in this brand new drama about a top neurosurgeon turned medical examiner who investigates who or what killed the victims.
Criminal Minds: Suspect Behaviour – Academy Award-winner Forrest Whitaker and Janeane Garofalo star in the brand new spin-off series to Seven’s top rating crime drama, Criminal Minds.
Detroit 1-8-7 – gritty new drama series about Detroit’s leading Homicide Unit starring The Sopranos’ Michael Imperioli.
Downton Abbey – This brand new period drama was the #1 UK drama in 2010. Set in an Edwardian country house in 1912, Downton Abbey portrays the lives of the Crawley family and the servants who work for them.
Great Migrations – One of the most astounding wildlife series ever made. Three years in the making, the migration habits and behaviours of hundreds of species are captured in breath-taking detail using state-of-the-art technology and wonderful stories… all narrated by award-winning actor Alec Baldwin.
Law and Order: Los Angeles – new drama series using the classic crime-then-punishment storytelling of the landmark original series against the distinctive backdrop of LA – delving into the unique attitudes, cultures and criminal element of the West Coast. Skeet Ulrich and Terrence Howard star.
No Ordinary Family – a new family comedy-drama with a twist! Four family members discover new and unique superpowers after surviving a plane crash in the Amazon. Michael Chiklis (The Shield, Fantastic Four) stars.
Returning International shows for 2011:
30 Rock,
Bones,
Brothers and Sisters,
Castle,
Cougar Town,
Criminal Minds,
Desperate Housewives,
Grey’s Anatomy,
How I Met Your Mother,
Parenthood,
Private Practice,
The Amazing Race
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- Tagged with 30 Rock, Airways, Australia's Got Talent, Beauty and the Geek, Better Homes and Gardens, Body of Proof, Bones, Border Security, Brothers and Sisters, Castle, City Homicide, Conviction Kitchen, Cougar Town, Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds: Suspect Behaviour, Dancing with the Stars, Deal or No Deal, Desperate Housewives, Detroit 1-8-7, Downton Abbey, Four Weddings, Great Migrations, Grey’s Anatomy, Highway Patrol, Home and Away, How I Met Your Mother, Iron Chef Australia, Law and Order: Los Angeles, My Kitchen Rules, No Ordinary Family, Packed to the Rafters, Parenthood, Private Practice, RSPCA Animal Rescue, Sunday Night, The Amazing Race, The Amazing Race Australia, The Force, The X Factor, The Zoo, Winners and Losers, World’s Strictest Parents
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some shows not mentioned: Minute to Win it, The Matty Johns Show, Find My Family, Gangs of Oz, Local Rules, I Know a Bad Driver, Teen Wolf, Royal Pains, Covert Affairs, Hung, Jersey Shore, Keeping up wth the Kardashians, The Event, Outsourced, Off The Map, Perfect Couples, The Cape, The Nate Berkus Show and The Only Way is Essex.
I guess Outsourced is going to 7Maaate, given its absence from this list.
@snapper jack, you should be sentenced for that shonky alliteration 🙂
I already watch Cougar Town with the U.S. but Yes!! It’s coming back! If they properly promoted this as the show it now is, they could make a hit out of this show again in a 9:30 slot.
Plus, Ch10 did a smart thing and didn’t purchase L&O:LA because they know it’s failing state side. Why would Channel 7 get NOF? It’s all but cancelled in the U.S. It’s rating slightly better than Heroes….
thats stupid if they dont bring X Factor back i have herd that they will make a decison on whether 7 Will bring it back in a few weeks after the UK X factor final.
Plz Plz 7 bring X back, other wise TV will be boring.
City Homicide is 2nd best Australian show on tv behind Rafters, and the best cop show. Seven would be idiots to axe it altogether. But then again, Seven are idiots. All they need to do is move it to Sunday or Monday night where it belongs and where it use to rate well. Their decision to move to Wednesday is when ratings went bad. Great stories, great script, great cast, great acting, but poor timeslot = poor ratings.
Body of Proof is the show i am looking forward to. I also think amazing race australia is going to take off. Sad no x factor not there. I hope it comes back i really do.
Conviction Kitchen? How will they be eliminated? Shanked in the showers after a shift?
No X Factor makes me 🙁
winners and losers doen’t look that good. conviction kitchen. what a joke
Interesting to see City Homicide on the 2011 list, I am really happy about that but I only hope seven don’t go back on their word if it gets crap ratings because they put it on at the wrong time. Use the show to your advantage seven because I think it is a really good show and the best cop show on TV.
New CH eps will air but it is unlikely to go back before the cameras again (still TBA).
Great Migrations was fantastic on Nat Geo HD…only SD on 7.
All the other returning shows are halfway through series already and very easy to obtain and watch now…
I know that you’re now on your well deserved break, but is there any 2011 news for TEN. ABC, Nine and now Seven have all had a little list of whats coming in the new year. Any news on what TEN is giving us?
TEN to renovate 2011
the only new show that sounds intresting is conviction kitchen the returning shows that i will watch are
border security
the force
highway patrol
RSPCA
i know i am a factuals tragic
Interested in Body of Proof and Detroit 1-8-7. No interest in the Criminal Minds spinoff (boring plus my family, only one of whom has hearing problems, had difficulty understanding most of the cast). Not sure about L&O:LA, I want the mothership back.
No Ordinary Family is good, but pretty ordinary. Don’t think it will do that well here. Can’t wait for the new Criminal Minds show.
I love how Seven uses 30 Rock in their highlights, yet they treat it like it’s not worth showing at all.
Bring it on. I’m sick of Summer TV already, and its only been a week.
Most of the programmes in the “returning” category will be shown after 1030….. Why bother?
There is obviously A Lot missing from that list (Wild Boys being the most obvious one) so I am not speculating about omissions yet.
I really hope that they don’t bring back The X-Factor, it was a major flop and the proof is in that the winner has already been forgotten.
I am looking forward to watching the Aussie version of The Amazing Race. Some interesting international shows I will give a go as well.
They absolutely made the right call not re-upping the X Factor from a sponsorship standpoint the numbers it recived was very disappointing.
The wonderful Downton Abbey will be ruined by Seven. Another one that should be on the ABC.
Can I just say, I think Winners and Losers has no appeal whatsoever. And I did see that ‘sneak peak’. Each actress looks totally out of place. I see a casting issue.
Hi David, do you know if this is specifically the primary channel, or just the 7 network? Some of these shows with less than stellar ratings you’d think would perhaps be running on a secondary, so interesting if they’re all going to be on the primary (maybe they don’t have anything better to run on the primary – the list of new shows is less than inspiring. Still, they managed to win the year with this line-up).
Seven’s imports seem pretty week in 2011
Detroit 187 – all but cancelled in the US
Law & Order: LA – terrible reviews – below average ratings in US
No Ordinary Family – below average ratings in US
Great Migrations -already aired on Nat Geo in HD