TEN changes Fridays again
TEN's Fridays are (seriously) like a night of dining with a Lazy Susan.
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TEN’s Fridays are (seriously) like a night of dining with a Lazy Susan. Flipping between series television (Law and Order, Hawaii Five-0) and movies is just confusing everybody. As a result nothing gets any traction and gets dumped once again. It just becomes a dog chasing its tail…
This Friday Hawaii Five-0 repeats are out and a movie Shallow Hal is in. As a result Go Girls will not resume its series at 10:30pm.
Everybody, including TEN, knows their audience is out on a Friday night. This is not a new dilemma. Here’s a story I wrote commenting that it was a problem way back in 2007. Why are we still dealing with this 4 years later?
So please live with the reality of low numbers, or programme with something aimed at the audience that is actually home and quit all these changes?
Friday Sept 16
8:30 pm Shallow Hal
10:55 pm TEN Late News
11:25 pm Sports Tonight
11:55 pm The Late Show With David Letterman
12:55 am Burn Notice
2:00 am Eureka
Pass me the Dim Sims please.
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31 Responses
Why program anything? Viewer’s would have better chance if Ten marketed Friday’s as mystery viewing night, and you didnt know what was on until you turned on
Yes there are plenty of 20-something and 30-something parents of young children who stay home on weekend nights, who are still in the target demos, and don’t want to watch sport or older shows on ABC/7TWO.
I am in the over 40’s bracket…(well over)….I am also a good consummer with a disposable income….and I am home Friday nights…..so I am one demo they should be looking at….
Personally….I watch Escape to Country on ch.72….so whatever they put on….it will have to be good to get me to change….and so far 72 has been consistent with keeping it on…..although they have pushed the times around somewhat.
I guess I’m in the miniority but I don’t mind the different Law & Order franchises. I know the original got the axe this year but want to make sure I see it out. And what has Ch7 done with the pommy version? It had some excellent storylines.
Just show the new episodes of Law and Order on Fridays. It is the final season and I want to be able to watch the last episodes.