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Gone: Community, Primeval. Update: Nikita

GO! drops promised shows and Nine halts Programming Amendment advice.

Community is no longer scheduled on GO! next Monday night, replaced by replays of The Inbetweeners.

Nikita which pulled 90,000 on Tuesday night is also out of schedule next week, replaced by a movie. But at this stage it is still scheduled on May 11th.

Primeval which was scheduled for 7:30pm Wednesday on GO! is now replaced with The Big Bang Theory and Two and a Half Men repeats.

Nine hasn’t send any amendments to TV Tonight, meaning programming advice which will continue to be supplied to readers, may no longer be reliable for Nine / GO! / GEM.

Amendment advice via websites such as TV Tonight has been particularly crucial during times of last-minute changes, especially during recent flood and cyclone disasters, but it would appear the rapidity of changes within Nine programming is having a negative effect on its PR relations.

Comments on GO!’s Facebook page are also expressing confusion at GO!’s habit of promising returning shows only to abandon them when they don’t resonate with a first viewing. Meanwhile 7TWO and ELEVEN have moved into an arena once dominated by GO! twelve months ago.

While programming changes persist it is unfortunate viewers will be left with even less avenues of accurate programming information and clarity.

UPDATE: GO! advises Nikita returns 10:30pm Wed May 11. Community was pulled because it was on too late. Hellcats will play out late Saturday afternoons. Primeval hasn’t been in the schedule for weeks.

49 Responses

  1. Well who could’ve seen this coming? Absolutely ridiculous! Nine are pathetic. People will get tired of TBBT eventually because it’s on way too much, which is a shame because I was enjoying it when it was “less” popular. Someone was mentioning in the TV Lounge when networks are allowed to air more digital channels? Ha! Can you imagine Nine running more than 3 channels? Nine is a wreck, GO! and Gem are falling apart. Eleven is far better, they’ve been much more consistent with their prime time schedule, even with shows pulling small figures.

  2. I have pretty much stopped watching Go and GEM this year after watching them a number of times a week last year. They lost my trust and I don’t think they’ll get it back any time soon. 

    GEM has become a second viewing of Nine’s female skewed shows and has little to no good new programming. While Go is an absolute joke. It’s amount of changes and lack of commitment to a show is revolting. And the networks question why people are downloading shows or not watching them to begin with! Why should we commit to a show when you know a network won’t. They are actually conditioning viewers to not watch their channels, especially the younger viewers. 

    I think a big problem and reason why they are so reactive to ratings is the consolidated ratings system. Why do the multichannels go towards overall ratings for their main channel? It’s the most antiquated idea ever. In America Fox News, FX and Fuel TV don’t  share ratings with Fox, despite all being run and owned by the same network. So I don’t understand why it’s done here. If Go and GEM were treated as their own channels and not part of Nine’s main ratings I think shows would have more of a chance. 

  3. attention GO! programmers.. what are u doing??? honestly u are killing the channel and you dont see that! stop it and start playing your programs. they may not rate as well as u think but you will be doing more damage to GO! if you keep pulling them off. Oh I wish Kerry Packer was still alive…. cos he would kick some sense into the programmers heads!

  4. LOL, sounds like nine needs another digital channel, it can’t keep to a schedule on it’s main channel or go!(no idea about Gem), another channel just for shows that they think “don’t rate” , what a crock!!

  5. Did anyone really expect anything different? Nine/Go have been pulling this sort of behaviour for years now. If there was a show that actually starts and finishes its’ season in one timeslot, that’d be a great accomplishment!

  6. What happened to Nikita on April 26 – a public holiday is exactly the same as what happened to Pretty Little Liars and Hellcats on January 26 – also a public holiday. It’s like GO are purposely trying to place these shows in situations where they don’t rate so they can say “See – told you, show doesn’t rate – back to movies and big bang repeats”.

  7. UPDATE: GO! advises Nikita returns 10:30pm Wed May 11. Community was pulled because it was on too late. Hellcats will play out late Saturday afternoons. Primeval hasn’t been in the schedule for weeks.

    – wow, new Hellcats isn’t even gonna be played out in primetime! surley they can think of a better time to play Community, and it doesn’t take weeks to figure a slot out….geez. not happy with the Nikita timeslot but at least its being played out. geez, GO.. you might as well give first run programs to GEM and make GO just a repeat channel with the way your going. whats next: Gone – Spartacus?

  8. If channel Nine are not sending programming amendments to web sites like this and others that report them, how will anyone know what is going on? Is their programming mentality really based on the philosophy that people will just watch whatever they put on? Perhaps this lack of regard for viewers is whay channel Nine and GO are doing so badly in the ratings this year.

  9. if the left hand doesn’t like what the right hand is doing then perhaps they should learn to work as a team instead of against each other. Because, seriously, what is the point of a channel if the random programming changes (which are bad enough anyway) are not communicated to people. At least sites like this one or communicating via Facebook/Twitter can give us a heads up.

    But if Nine continues to treat GO (and GEM) so appallingly then they might as well just close them down and show a test pattern because that’s about how effective they’re going to be. And that is a shame because when GO started it had a clear focus and a decent alternative line-up but now it’s being treated by Nine with complete disrespect, and they’re not doing GEM any favours either.

    And if the network can’t treat the channels with any respect then neither will the viewers.

  10. Go! has completely lost the plot. I used to watch probably 4-6 shows on Go! regularly towards the end of last year, since ratings started I haven’t bothered and now only watch the Ultimate Fighter as whilst it may be on late at least it is on. Hellcats used to be a guilty pleasure at the end of last year, this year it was repeatedly advertised to return in its usual timeslot only to inexplicably have a last second day shift for 1 airing only to be promptly dumped, I think it turned up a month or so later (I’d already given up at that point) only to get pulled again. For a teen show on a multi channel I thought its 125-150k was reasonably decent, no BBT, but is a teen show ever going to pull BBT numbers?

    What hope do they have of attracting a regular audience if every timeslot not filled by BBT/2.5/TG seems to be in a constant state of fluctuation?

  11. Perhaps not even the Program Amendment Issuing Department at Nine can keep up with the flood of amendments from the Program Department and have simply decided to – like many of us – just give up on Nine.
    Oh dear, here come the bias spears.

  12. Bummer. I quite enjoyed the two episodes of Nikita which they showed and I was looking forward to watching the remainder of the season.

    I guess it’s another show to put on my “purchase and watch when it’s (very) cheap on DVD” list.

  13. How can they (GO!) expect to get good ratings when they change the schedules so frequently? How long before everybody who still watches TBBT & 21/2 men has enough and turn off or over?
    Come on GO! Commit! Commit! Commit!

  14. Looks like “The Nanny” is gone from 7pm weeknights after only being back a few weeks too… they’re advertising their fav Charlie Sheen in “Spin City” from Monday night.

  15. That is just disgusting that they are no longer notifying you of changes. This website is an essential source of information for me. I am not going to be home in the early evening every day to put my machine on 9 for several minutes to update the EPG and then look at it and notice all the pertinent changes (and sometimes with 9 this may be needed multiple times in the one night there are so many changes). Having an article that highlights what important shows are affected and what has happened to them is much easier and I can quickly check my iphone during the day while I’m out instead of having to be at home with the TV on. They will have even more p**sed off viewers because now we really will start missing shows due to their constant changing and us having no way to know that it has happened. The easiest solution is to just stop fu**ing with the channel instead of trying to limit information and records, people will still notice the changes and voice on here and facebook, just they will be even angrier about it than before. Facist censors at 9, wonder how long they will keep their facebook for, I still remember when they deleted their forums, I can see their entire website disappearing in their attempt to silence the complaints and pretend they don’t exist.

  16. It is little wonder why people download programs!
    GO seriously need to look at their competition and realize that in the not too distant future GO will be at the bottom of the pile because their content sucks! They have alot of good programs but thy rarely see the light of day! Leave them in a slot and see if they build! Infuriating!

  17. Seriously what is GO! doing, just replacing shows with movies or more re-runs of the now tiring The Big Bang Theory, they are not going to be satisfied until TBBT goes the way of 2.5 Men or Top Gear and looses all credibility!

    Digital way about showing programs that didn’t work on the main channels but it the ratings war viewer choice has once again become the casualty.

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