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Returning: Glee

The good news: Glee is back. The bad news: Where it's back.

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Glee is returning to TEN later this month, but it appears to have been downgraded by the network.

It will air a new episode -bizarrely- at 7pm Friday January 27th.

While it’s fair to say the show doesn’t necessarily pull the numbers it used to, I am at a loss to explain why you would screen the show:

a) out of ratings
b) on a Friday
c) at 7pm

Hope TEN know what they are doing.

Because I sure don’t….

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  1. Friday Nights on Ten are easily The Death Slot for Programming, when you air a show on Ten on Friday Nights, it’s chances of being Cancelled or Removed from the Schedule are Very High. In Recent Years, the Masterchef Masterclasses are an Exception to the Rule.

  3. First, I think the look on Sue’s face at the top of the article says it all.

    Second, thank God for iQ – I let the iQ do all the worrying of TV Shows on the hop

  4. Ten’s running out of ideas for 7pm once the Project moves to 6pm.They seriously need to go back to the drawing board and think of something fast.The US Sitcoms which now belong to Go/Gem and Eleven are not an option,Dating Shows didn’t work so what’s next.It’s like musical chairs

  6. Channel ten have never known what to do with “Glee”. They have moved it around so much, never learning the first lesson of programming, is to leave a solid programme in one timeslot. In America it has only changed timeslots once in its lifetime.Of course it isnt made easier by the way the Americans pull it on and off according to whatever sports events are around. But Ten should have found one timeslot, stuck to it and broadcast repeats when new eps not available. No doubt they will once again programme the Xmas episode some time in February as they did last year-instead of showing it out of ratings and ending the first half of the season properly as they did in its first year, which was when huge ratings followed.

  7. TEN is branding “Super Sunday”.
    Maybe they want
    “Magnificent Monday”
    “Terrific Tuesday”
    “Wonderful Wednesday”
    “Tops Thursday”
    “Fantastic Friday”
    “Savvy Saturday”….

    It might be a ploy to give each night a headline show like Glee on Friday?

  8. That’s a very stupid decision. Out of ratings and on a Friday. A Friday of all days new Glee? Is that an error or something?

    Maybe TEN are trying to fix up their Fridays.

  9. This is a stupid idea. Stop fooling yourselves.

    I’ll be surprised if it maintains more than 500k the first few weeks. 7pm on Fridays is a joke

    Ten’s worst decision since sandwiching The Renovators between the Masterchef finale last year. Then again I don’t know why I’m so annoyed, I’ve been watching the show by other means since season 2 when they kept jerking around with the timeslot, it just p*sses off the few remaining fans who watch the show on FTA

  11. It won’t work.most of your target audience on Friday Nights work or go out with family/friends and work associates.Maybe back in the 90210 era of 1992 putting something this like Glee on as a lead in would have worked but not in 2012.

  13. @bella – no I don’t work at ten loll obviously
    But that’s why we are here discussing it
    Wish I did though haha but hey…they seem to be making the right decisions now

  15. Who knows? It may actually be so strange a decision that it actually Works!

    GO seems to have minor success with movies starting at 6pm or earlier on Friday night, and they aren’t going to do a masterclass or HowTo with TBL so they need to fill Friday.

    I hate Home and Away, won’t bother with EB on 9, and never want to watch Raymond on Eleven. Wednesday always clashed with The Simpsons on Eleven. So I’ll actually be able to watch it at 7pm Friday.

    It’s waaaaaay out of the box, but they need to have conviction and stick with it to slowly gain viewers that won’t want to watch football in winter and have a regular schedule.

    Embrace it!

  16. @Jason you don’t happen to work for TEN do you?

    It’ll be interesting to see how this goes up against Home and Away.

    I like the lifestyle idea,or maybe there’s another new series of Jamie Oliver we can see.

  17. I have no idea why 10 didn’t show the Xmas episode at Xmas – very weird. Especially when the soundtrack is out – they could have tied both in nicely promotion wise.

  18. You guys have absolutely no idea!!
    This is actually another smart decision by ten.
    Why would they play it on wed 7:30 when it only pulled 700k fastracked????
    They are smarter than ever because it will pull better numbers on a Friday since there is nothing else to watch and they are still offering it to their viewers at a consistent time slot because they are a loyal network
    Well done ten…you can put a way better show on 7:30 than glee lol

  19. Please tell me you’re not serious? It must be a typo . . . . . This just sounds too silly to be true. I understand the ratings haven’t been brilliant, but Friday! Really!?

  20. Well, I’ve finally given up on any hope that TEN were turning themselves around and digging themselves out of the hole they’d dug.

    I mean, come on, stripping Reality shows at 7:00pm weeknights – again? Especially, as they’d only just announced that they would no longer be relying solely on said shows in the future. If stripping 5 nights a week (and possibly Sundays as well) isn’t being reliant on Reality, then someone please explain?????

    Stripping these shows was part of TEN’s problem to begin with (why else did The 7PM Project come into existence but to combat the problem) – they were successful at first with Big Brother, but people soon grew tired of the saturation levels, considering they were also on Sundays and some weeknights at 7:30 as well!!!!

    And now Glee! 7:00 Friday??? Not only have they killed an icon in Neighbours, they now seem hell-bent on delivering a fatal blow to a show that once delivered quite healthy ratings (Wednesdays was a bad move, though).

  24. In combination, TEN and the producers have killed this show. For TEN too many repeats and time changes (don’t they realise people like to develop a rhythm in the viewing habits), and the producers for dropping the ball about the direction the show was taking. I used to love it, now it barely registers….a bit like Packed To The Rafters.

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