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Gone: $#*! My Dad Says

Updated: More changes at Nine affecting William Shatner & Charlie Sheen comedies plus Harry's Law and Big Bang Theory.

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There are more changes coming to Nine next week which sees $#*! My Dad Says out of schedule, an additional episode of Harry’s Law (now both Sunday/ Monday) and no new episode of The Big Bang Theory.

UPDATE: TBBT back in schedule.

Nine’s programming also sees repeats of Two and a Half Men back in at 7pm in Brisbane from Monday.

If $#*! My Dad Says is permanently dropped from the schedule it will join Ben Elton Live from Planet Earth as another early casualty of Nine’s “Home of Laughter” campaign.

Monday March 21
7:00pm Two and a Half Men rpt
7:30pm Two and a Half Men
8:00pm Two and a Half Men
8:30pm Million Dollar Drop
9:30pm Harry’s Law

Tuesday March 22
7:00pm Two and a Half Men rpt
7:30pm The Big Bang Theory
8:00pm The Big Bang Theory rpt

Wednesday March 23
7:00pm Two and a Half Men rpt
7:30pm The Big Bang Theory rpt
8:00pm Mike and Molly
8:30pm The Farmer Wants a Wife

Monday March 28
7:00pm Two and a Half Men rpt
7:30pm Two and a Half Men
8:00pm Two and a Half Men  rpt
8:30pm Million Dollar Drop
9:30pm CSI: Miami

Tuesday March 29
7:00pm Two and a Half Men rpt
7:30pm The Big Bang Theory rpt
8:00pm The Big Bang Theory rpt

Wednesday March 30
7:00pm Two and a Half Men rpt
7:30pm The Big Bang Theory
8:00pm Mike and Molly
8:30pm The Farmer Wants a Wife final

So many Amendments it’s hard to keep up guys….

Updated! (subject to change… and subject to a Bex and a lie down)

68 Responses

  1. How is channel 9 still in business? I really feel sorry for hamish & andy, hopefully their career isn’t ruined by this disorganised and indecisive network.

  2. Bye bye to the Shat. Pity he had to leave us this way instead of bowing out gracefully on a high note after ‘Boston Legal’ ended.

    @David Knox – on a slightly different tangent, in the old days you had a page or thread called “Axed File” (or something similar) monitoring ‘boned’ shows. All the punters (including you) would weigh in with ribald and frequently accurate guesses on how long a new show would last.
    It was amazing and amusing reading, especially when some lasted only one or two screenings. Given the huge pile of fresh bonings lately methinks you should restart that file – evidently there is no end of fresh material for it!

  3. So much for the home of laughter more like the home for Dumping and Axing. Nine have no faith in their aquisitions, which raises the question what were they smoking when they bought “Shat my dad says”. Also they said that they would stop airing two and a half men but they changed their minds.

  4. Well, I think we can say that Nine’s rebranding as “The Home of Comedy” has officially failed, only three months into the new year. What a shameful travesty, no wonder Nine is sinking faster than a lead balloon. They have completely misread their audience and now their schedule reads like a particularly bad practical joke. I think the current executive team at Nine was recruited from the Ronald McDonald Training School for Inept Clowns.

    Comedies are always a risky thing to schedule in Australia as it seems that only a few ever resonate with the audience at large at any one time (ie Friends/Frasier; 2.5 Men/Modern Family/HIMYM, though 2.5 Men is dying a death by a thousand cuts). That is why I was so surprised at Nine’s concentration on comedy scheduling this year. Did they not analyse and study viewing patterns over the last decade before deciding on programming thrusts this major? Did they conduct any focus groups/market research studies to gauge viewer sentiment re their proposed changes? Unbelievable, the ineptness of their scheduling just blows my mind. Seven is walking all over them with consummate ease, and it shouldn’t be that way. Nine is in very serious doo-doo this year, they are doomed to eat Seven’s dust at this stage, unless they pull some utterly extraordinary programming out of the box in the latter part of this year, but by then the Masterchef and Rafters juggernauts will be back in full swing.

  7. SMDS wasn’t rating its socks off but it was still getting more viewers than the rpt of 2.5 Spams on the same night. I guess they think that a wall of Charlie will retain a larger audience following a new ep.

    As for “Harry’s Law”, I’m with Craig. It wasn’t must-watch TV but I liked it. However, I won’t be watching on Monday night as it’s already crowded. Since I don’t find seeing every second ep of a series to be very satisfying, I’ll drop it on Sunday, too and switch back to “Castle”.

    Nine, you know it’s a bad move when even ohyeah gives you stick!

  9. I don’t know why Nine even bother with comedy anymore, they should just give them to GO and GEM for first run eps and leave repeats of the new eps on Nine late at night or on weekends. just leave the boring oldies programs to Nine. clearly comedy isn’t working for them on Nine, yet The Middle is still on GO for the moment. perhaps new eps of all Nines comedies like 2.5 Men, Big Bang, Mike and Molly and S**t My Dad Says should be played on sunday nights on GO, and to also play Community with them! also air Episodes and Mr Sunshine on GEM somewhere, theres no point even trying on Nine anymore.

    comedy in general is bad for main channels, Ten only has Modern Family (from memory) and gave their summer comedy Raising Hope to Eleven. Seven treats comedies badly except for HIMYM which stays strong, don’t know why cause the show sucks!! Seven play almost all comedies late at night like Cougar Town, 30 Rock and Parks and Recreation which are great comedies. just give these shows to your digital channels, 7two has crap all new content. if Eleven can have comedies on before 10:30 why not do the same for other channels?!

  10. Just to echo sentiment here, but seriously when oh when is someone going to take a giant handed slap to entire boardrooms full of executives and wake them the hell up about this atrocious neglect of their primary job description??
    Out of touch, embarrassing, dated, US-centric, boring and lazy. Still the one? You never were.

  11. I would love to sit in on a programming meeting at Ch9, just to see who these people are & where they are getting their intel that results in the above schedule. I bet they listen to Nova FM also…..message, stop listening to Nova & get a reaily check!

  13. I can’t believe it! Typical Channel 9…My Dad Says was one show I enjoyed watching now taken off air – Also – where is Survivor Redemption Island????

  14. Wrong decision!! Very wrong decision… Nine..u need to forget about the other channels. Just do your own thing….what is going on at nine?????? wtf!

  15. Appear the execs at 9, still dot ‘t get it?

    In the 80’s the people “the execs “ replaced, networks played whole chuncks of TV shows back to back, week after week..

    These days channel 9 play two or three new episodes in a row then stop, wait for people to down load the episodes illegally because they are frustrated then a few weeks later play catch up with new episodes they should have played weeks earlier.

    Channel 9 the home of repeats, madness…………& cancellations ……………

  16. Surely that schedule is a joke… that schedule is funnier than most of their content! Virtually all repeats, aren’t there any new shows? They had their chance to fasttrack Survivor after Ben Elton was axed, but decided to show more new TBBT eps, now they’re back to repeats, in addition to the constant repeats on GO!, but still no new content! It’s a shame their in 2nd place at the moment, I hope when Masterchef returns, they slip into 3rd… that’ll make me happy!

  18. That new lineup is awful, surely the ratings for My Dad says weren’t that bad. It’s no wonder Seven is miles ahead when Nine keeps chopping and changing like this.

  21. Nine are digging their own grave! Just how idiotic can these guys get? I just don’t get it. Are they planning on bringing back TBBT and #%MDS when MKR is finished and the competition isn’t so strong?

  24. They’ve seriously lost the plot, just look at the same old US sitcom repeats littering their primetime schedule. They should have had a couple of new Australian dramas and a couple of Australian made sitcoms filling those primetime spots and they’d be number 1 by now.

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