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Bumped: Fringe, Spartacus, Nikita.

GO! moves a number of US dramas to make way for movie repeats.

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This Wednesday Fringe moves to 9:30pm on GO! and Spartacus: Gods of the Arena to 10:30pm. Both are season finals.

GO! will play a movie, Dennis the Menace at 7:30pm which results in the shift.

Meanwhile Nikita is headed to 11:45pm Thursday after Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle plays at 9:30pm.

Last month GO! also moved The Vampire Diaries angering many fans of the show.

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  1. @ Jack!

    They aired The Vampire Diaries finale on Tuesday 24th May at 11.30pm (I think it started before because I briefly flicked over before then and it had begun already ) and they also repeated it, I think, early Sunday morning the same week. They always were quicker to air that show than Fringe in the past year but not quick enough for the young tech savvy viewers. That’s why the ratings dropped and they aired it later. Although I don’t think Thursday helped it any either. I’m glad they repeated it early in the morning speaking for myself. I think the DVD is supposed to be available on September 7 in Australia. If that helps.

  5. I did notice the really awkward cuts re the drug references, but I am glad at least to be able to see the last episode of Fringe. At last. Still, Nikita doesn’t even seem to be showing here, it’s not on my EPG. After Spartacus there’s South Park, V and Charlie’s Angels. I set it to record, just in case.

  8. @ Pete

    According to the EPG GO! currently plans to play RocknRolla (2008 ) tomorrow (Tuesday ) at 21.39 or 9.39pm. I don’t know if that will happen however. They move things a lot these days.

  10. I wanted to watch Rocknrolla on GO! last night, and Iron Man was shown instead. Even while Iron Man was on it had Rocknrolla in the EPG saying it should be on.

    First and last time I will watch anything on GO!.

  11. I’m surprised that 9/GO/GEM have any viewers left!
    I gave up on them ages ago.
    Shows dumped, moved, cut to pieces – who needs it?
    There are other options fortunately

  12. Makes you wonder who’s steering the ship down at the “rabble” known as Nine/GO
    I wish Fox 8 would buy all these programmes. They at least honour the time slot from start to finish of series.

  13. I am So sick of the amount of effort required to see this season of Fringe. Gaps, double eps, time and day shifts. And clearly the same for fans of numerous other GO shows. Seriously, if it weren’t for this site it would be impossible to keep up.

    GO was having more tech issues in Adelaide yest afternoon. They were running Looney Tunes cartoons (unscheduled) from 12:30, then an ep of Married With Children started. After an ad break, we came back to a cartoon which lasted about a minute before another break, then back to MWC. Once again probably WIN’s new switching centre stuffing up for their Adel, Perth & regional viewers.

    @ Secret Squirrel – agree that Sons of Anarchy is one of the best shows around atm, it’s been worth the wait to get on fta. The good news is that seasons 2 &3 are supposed to be even better than this one! Let’s hope ONE keeps rolling them out.

  14. If it’s true this will prevent them hacking it to pieces, then I’m ok with this.

    If it’s just so they can show a movie, then I’m not.

  16. Just when you think it’s safe to watch FTA again.
    Nine have totally ruined Top Gear for me. I have watched & loved the show from it’s first season but as i no longer have any idea when a current episode is going to be showing i’ve given up entirely. I can’t even be bothered checking it on channel BT.
    Way to destroy a brand!

    As for Fringe & Nikita, i’m torn between recording the slightly higher quality yet possibly cut FTA versions (assuming they haven’t moved them again), or heading elsewhere. Hmmmm…. decisions decisions.

  17. It would be bad enough if this happened in the middle of the season but to do it for the finales of two series speaks volumes about Nine’s complete lack of regard for the viewers of these shows. Their behaviour is borderline sociopathic.

    Someone in Nine’s programming dept really must hate sci-fi, fantasy, and tech. I wonder if they were hazed by geeks at school or maybe they embarrassed themselves at a Star Trek convention?

    Fortunately, despite liking all three bumped shows, this doesn’t directly affect me. Their ridiculously unnecessary imposition of a six-week mid-season break for Fringe caused me to view it elsewhere (the finale is great btw), I stopped Spartacus for Sons of Anarchy (also great btw) because I knew which was the more likely to be stable plus I’ll get the full uncensored version thanks, and I didn’t even start with Nikita because I didn’t know they’d sneakily started the second season and then they moved it again for the third ep so I thought “why bother”.

    Go!, you could have had my attention for three solid hours on a Wednesday night but your blatant disregard for shows that I like blew it. The last ep of the only show I’m still watching on any of Nine’s channels (Come Fly With Me) is coming up. Perhaps you’d like to bump that as well?

  18. Thanks a lot GO!, with Nikita being on for 4 wednesdays in a row I thought it would stay there for the rest of the season, soon Nikita will be moved again to 3.00am!

  19. David,
    Is this because they don’t want to edit this episode of Fringe as it has an MA rating? I suspect this is the real reason.

    2 weeks ago they showed an episode at the earlier time and all references to drug use were badly/clumsily edited out, so much so, they had to go to commercial out of sync (without the standard graphic before the commecial)!

  22. Couldn’t they have just left it at the normal scheduled times for this week? Both shows are series finals! I knew they would stuff around with Nikita. Glad I didn’t wait for it on GO!

  23. More erratic and silly programming decisions. I don’t watch any of these series but couldn’t Nein wait one week to air the season finales of these shows? This is going to make a lot of people angry.

    Nein and Go! seriously have no grasp of loyalty to their audience and no brand stability outside of The Big Bang Theory and Top Gear, which they’ve already started replaying to death. Top Gear has already dropped to terrible ratings a la Gordon Ramsay and pulled off the main channel. Movies and sitcom repeats may be quick fixes, but will screw them in the long term

  24. So business as usual at Nine/GO! then?

    So they are going to p**s off 3 lots of fans for movie re-runs that you can get for one dollar a week at blockbuster, so much for FreeView!

  25. Thanks David and everyone that confirmed these. I’m fine with the changes but I know about them. The disaster is that in my weekly newspaper TV guide they aren’t listed. I just hope they advertise the changes. I’ll admit I didn’t even know Iron Man was on last night until I flicked over and got to see the end credits. I guess you really do need to look at the electronic TV guides everyday just to see what they’ve decided to air for the night. Assuming they’ve announced the changes in time to see them. I’d like to point out during primetime I often don’t have the computer so can’t look them up. Therefore I’m stuck with the paper TV guide. So I guess it’s flick over instead if I remember and if I can be bothered. I’m glad they have EPGs at least. Not that they are always correct. Sigh.

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