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Bumped: A Gifted Man, Law and Order: SVU

TEN pushes A Gifted Man starring Patrick Wilson back to a 10:30pm start.

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It hasn’t taken TEN long to make a switch on A Gifted Man.

The new US drama starring Patrick Wilson is being shifted after just 3 episodes.

It will now play at 10:30pm Thursdays from next week.

In its place TEN will replay a Modern Family episode at 8pm, which brings Law and Order: SVU forward to a more sensible 8:30pm start, rather than 9pm.

An SVU repeat episode then follows at 9:30pm.

Thursday February 16
8:00 pm Modern Family
8:30 pm Law & Order: S.V.U
9:30 pm Law & Order: S.V.U rpt
10:30 pm A Gifted Man
11:30 pm The Late Show With David Letterman

Last night A Gifted Man had just 410,000 viewers with SVU at 449,000.

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  1. Dear Channel 10,
    I hope you don’t pay you your programmers any more than $5 an hour because the way they schedule shows is an absolute joke.
    Thanks,
    Ben.

  2. Why don’t you just leave it in a time slot that working people can view programs worth viewing in???
    SVU is crap at the best of times never mind airing a RPT as well. You lost us to Bra Boys this week…
    Put it back to 8:30pm and let us appreciate a new program for a change.

  3. No one to blame but themselves really. Good show or not, it was never going to rate starting on the hour. Even if Biggest Loser provided MKR-like numbers, I don’t think you can bugger up time schedules for audiences who like shows on different channels, which invariably start on the half hour. Must be crap though if they can’t even put it on at 9:30 instead of a SVU repeat.

  5. I used to watch the start and then switch over for The Straits, oh well PVR,s come in handy as 10.30 is way to late for working people. Maybe lose some of these reality things and start Law & Order at an earlier time say even 7.30 may not be possible because of the classification of the show.

  11. Is there any surprise that this turkey was ditched, c’mon it wasn’t exactly great or very original,,,,

    As for supernatural/human shows…..well they always run out of steam and get bogged down in the “human interest” element….they feel tired very quickly and its all been done before…..in the 1960s 70s etc……for example The Bionic shows, The Champions, Randall & Hopkirk….the list goes on

  13. @D@GP – I think you’re partially right but Heroes used to rate well before the scripts started lacking direction, The Event was sent straight to purgatory on 7mate so was never really given a chance to grow a decent-sized audience, and (it was a while ago) I think The 4400 did ok until it started getting moved around the schedule and then being eventually shafted to Ten HD when the penetration of HD was low.

    Plus, I don’t really think any of those shows are similar to A Gifted Man. It’s more akin to Ghost Whisperer.

  16. The supernatural themed shows just don’t hold an audience in Oz, do they? “The Event” – “4400”- “Heroes” – so many others have fallen after high expectations. And it continues with what 9’s already done with Person of Interest.

    I hope Alcatraz can kick the habit by attracting – and keeping – it’s audience. It does look like something of interest.

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