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Bumped: Outcasts

It's not often that ABC moves a programme based on ratings, but that's what's happening to Outcasts this week.

It’s not often that ABC moves a programme based on ratings, but that’s what’s happening to Outcasts this week.

 Last Saturday Doctor Who pulled 718,000 but Outcasts was just 337,000.

Beginning this Saturday the show will now air at 9:25pm while repeat episodes of New Tricks (series 5) will screen at 8:30pm.

A Quiet Word With… which was originally scheduled to screen repeat episodes at 9:30pm this week and next has been removed from the schedule.

25 Responses

  1. It just hit me. Outcasts is Deadwood (without the swearing, humour, finely crafted characters and drama) in spaaace… They left all the good bits out, that’s why it sucks.

  2. I suspect many viewers would find the first dozen or so seasons of The Bill languid. They had a much slower plot line and pacing than the last 10 seasons or so which were more in touch with what contemporary audiences wanted (faster pace, juicier plot lines, etc).

  3. the programmer should be dumped as well, for placing an axed series on primetime saturday night. it should have been programmed on abc2 in the first place. even placing Dr Who on Saturday night is a bad programming move considering it did better on Sunday night last year.

  4. Let’s face it this was a bad programming choice and let people down who were used to shows such as Spooks. Where is all that new Australian drama that has supposedly been commissioned? Friday and Saturday nights are desperate for it – let’s see some of it!

  5. At least Outcasts hasn’t been bumped off the schedule. I’d also like to see “The Bill” start again from series 1. Go with the BBBC, Bring Back Burnside Campaign.

  6. It really is pretty dreary.
    At the end of the second episode I commented that the Brits just can’t do science fiction well.
    Hubby disagreed, saying he preferred it to anything from the USA.
    So there you go, to each his own!

  7. I think this reflects the changing TV environment. With all the choice, every viewer counts. Audience numbers are fragmented and it is great to see that program amendments are not limited to the commerical stations. Hopefully some people will see that sometimes amendments are necessary

  8. If the ABC starts bumping shows, the world must be coming to an end!
    For pity sake, give people a chance to get into it before you take it away … it was very interesting and I would watch more (even though it is “grunge” Sci-Fi which I usually hate). Of course it would not do as well as Spooks … that is a brilliant show.

    Repent ABC! Repent now!!!!

  9. Yeah, it was pretty dull and dreary and, apart from Hermione Norris, the acting was second-rate. I can see why it was cancelled.

  10. This show was axed after equally poor ratings in the UK.
    So the ABC’s decision to show it at peak time was sloppy judgement.

    Of course money is at the core of this, hence the repeats of New Tricks when the Wallander series is superior.

  11. Why don’t they just start with episode 1 of The Bill at 8.30pm? There would be alot of people who never saw the early years of that series, which were the best years.

  12. Disgraceful – and a bad precedent for the ABC.

    Science fiction should be front and centre in the prime time schedules of every network.

    It is The television genre the one that is never produced badly or has poor episodes. Science fiction is the only television worth watching.

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