Bumped: TEN revamps schedule
TEN has revamped its schedule in the wake of dire ratings for Everybody Dance Now, and heated competition.
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Breaking news: TEN has revamped its schedule in the wake of dire ratings for Everybody Dance Now, and heated competition.
As tipped by TV Tonight, major format changes will be made to the show from Sunday night. It will now run for one hour (more changes below). It has also stripped Modern Family repeats at 7pm weeknights and changed the premieres for Don’t Tell the Bride and I Will Survive.
SUNDAY 19 AUGUST
6.00pm – The Project
6.30pm – MasterChef All Stars FINALE (90mins special)
8.00pm – Everybody Dance Now S1 Ep4 (new time)
9.00pm – Sunday Night Movie – A-TEAM (new time)
MONDAY 20 AUGUST:
6.00pm – The Project
7.00pm – Modern Family RPT
7.30pm – Don’t Tell The Bride SERIES PREMIERE (new day, new time)
8.30pm – Can of Worms SERIES 2 PREMIERE
9.45pm – The Shire Ep6 (new day, new time)
10.25pm – TEN Late News
TUESDAY 21 AUGUST
6.00pm – The Project
7.00pm – Modern Family RPT
7.30pm – I Will Survive- Priscilla SERIES PREMIERE (new day, new time)
8.30pm – NCIS RPT
9.30pm – NCIS: LA S3 Ep13 RPT
10.30pm – TEN Late News
WEDNESDAY 22 AUGUST
6.00pm – The Project
7.00pm – Modern Family RPT
7.30pm – I Will Survive- Priscilla S1 Ep2 (new day, new time)
8.30pm – Puberty Blues S1 Ep2
9.30pm – Class Of… S1 Ep2
10.30pm – TEN Late News
THURSDAY 23 AUGUST
6.00pm – The Project
7.00pm – Modern Family RPT
7.30pm – Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals RPT
8.30pm – The Game Plan NSW/QLD & Before The Game SA/VIC/WA
9.30pm – Law & Order: SVU S13 Ep2 RPT
10.30pm – TEN Late News
FRIDAY 24 AUGUST
6.00pm – The Project
7.00pm – Modern Family RPT
7.30pm – The Living Room S1 Ep16 (new time)
8.30pm – Friday Night Movie
SATURDAY 25 AUGUST
6.00pm – The Simpsons RPT
6.30pm – Movie TBA
Amended: TEN will also replay Puberty Blues this Friday night at 9pm.
“It is not unusual for television networks to change programs. For some time now, we’ve talked about creating more programming options for TEN and moving away from the ‘one bet, one punch’ mentality of old,” Network TEN Chief Programming Officer, David Mott, said.
“These changes highlight that strategy. We are re-setting Everybody Dance Now. But it clearly remains part of the TEN schedule, along with other exciting new local programs such as Puberty Blues, I Will Survive, Don’t Tell The Bride, Class Of, Reef Doctors and Come Date With Me.
“We believe in the Everybody Dance Now format. We have listened to the feedback from viewers and we are working with production company FremantleMedia to reset the show and make it more engaging for viewers.”
Changes to Everybody Dance Now format will see the show shortened to one hour playing once a week only. It will now have three dance duels. The studio audience will choose one winner on the night to take home $10,000. The remaining two teams will enter a Wild Card vote by the viewing audience.
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Good move by Ten to address their issues; however surely there has to be concern around “I Will Survive” It is a very niche proposition and it is on twice a week. What happens if this does not work for TEN. Same goes with Don’t Tell The Bride and Can of Worms – series 1 hardly set the ratings world on fire. It is still a big risk schedule. They should have held onto a few shows and waited to allow the bad vibe around EDN cleared – TEN could have burnt through their US imports to protect their schedule better
I’m tipping TEN to finish 4th (again) next Monday night with that line-up. Those mediocre shows will all be smashed by BB, Underbelly, X Factor, Q&A, etc.
So NCIS is back in repeats again? New eps were supposed to start on 21st August…..
They’re still not giving EDN much of a chance with its 8pm starting time, the second half of the show up against the premiere of Kerry Packer’s War.
They should’ve given EDN a week off to get it completely right, let the Masterchef finale run for two hours, and start afresh in a 7.30 time slot on the following Sunday.
At least they are listening to viewer feedback and trying to bring it all together. I certainly don’tenjoy seeing a Network suffering so badly, and wish them all the best with this new schedule. I will give EDN another go now.
Firstly, I see TEN have taken a Nine idea and placing a sitcom in the 7pm slot (with Nine showing The Big Bang Theory when Big Brother/The Block isn’t on). Definitely not a bad idea but I can’t see it rating as well as TBBT.
Secondly, an entire week of little overseas content is rediculous. When I would usually watch a good 5-6 hours of TEN a week, I am now watching none which is the least amount since my area starting receiving the channel. I realise that others are opposite of me, prefering local content over imports, and they will love this week of programming, but a fair few of us will be switching to Seven, Nine and Foxtel.
@Dodge – the problem isn’t really that Modern Family (or 2.5 Men, or Big Bang Theory) is played out to death in repeats, the problem is the way it is scheduled. You destroy a show by shunting it around or by using it as wholesale filler.
If Modern Family had, say, 8:30pm Wednesday as its permanent slot for premiere episodes throughout a whole season, that would be fine. It can be pre-empted sometimes. TEN can show repeats at that time instead some weeks. But it needs to have the slot for the season.
I couldn’t tell which timeslot on which night TEN was using for premiere episodes. It’s ridiculous.
I’m not sure how long Mr Mott will survive…. Surely the pressure is now mounting on him after such a long run of disasterous ratings.
However theory says that he is just towing the chairman of the board’s line….. Is TEN’s board strong enough to tell L.M. that his grand strategy is failing at every turn?
Wow – Lots of changes there! But had to be done. 8pm weekday start times were just crazy stuff. If you were the leading network..fine….but not when you are trying to find an audience at 7 and 8pm.
MF audience does not compete with BB…good move. Thursday looks a bomb – new Simpsons would fit in there very nicely at 7.30!
Look forward to seeing what the changes are to EDN.
I think we all knew Ten had to do something – there is absolutely no excuse for terrible ratings for a program like EDN which had a ridiculously high amount of promotion for 3-4 weeks before it premiered. 300,000 viewers is half what Excess Baggage was getting before it was bumped to GO! by Nein earlier this year
This schedule is likely to rate better their disastrous week this week but probably not by much – I don’t see Modern Family repeats rating any higher than 500k
Modern Family at 7pm weeknights was David’s idea at the start of the week! Having shows back to the normal start times of 7.30pm will really help, especially with the launch of new series starting next week. They may have more of a chance, such as I Will Survive, the original timeslot was as terrible as the show will be. At least they can’t say they didn’t at least try to get the time right for the launch.
The Shire moving to 9.45 (lets face it 10pm) just shows how bad this show is, and the fact that TEN could have put the money towards a short term drama series.
I bet Kelly and Jason from EDN are happy to do less work for I assume the same money.
Yep I tipped Modern Family as a possible filler and criticised the lack of a single brand across 7pm. TV is habit.
House of Lies is now out.
I can see Thursdays bombing as well. Still its a good move EDN just doesn’t work.
The only show I watched on commercial TV was The Shire as it was such a car wreck however as soon as I tuned in last week to watch and found it bumped I will never watch it again.
Screwing around with scheduling kills shows.
Good to see some common sense at last from Ten.
Very happy that I Will Survive now has a fighting chance starting at a realistic time.
The Shire should be shunted to Eleven and shows of that nature should never haunt Ten’s schedule again. Appalling Sydney centric trash.
More please of shows like Offspring & Puberty Blues.
5 nights a week Modern Family may not have hurt new eps in the US, but it certainly has here. Look at last season’s less than impressive ratings.
The only time I will be watching Ch 10 is Wed night 8.30 – 10.30!
What about ‘House of Lies’ ? That was meant to start next Monday night.
A striped show at 7pm weeknights and primetime starting at 730 is the best news here. Ten should have done this at the start of the year. Hour long shows starting at 7 (unless you are The Voice) just seems to confuse the audience
I like Modern Family weeknights at 7. Broad appeal quality show
US local stations strip the show 5 nights a week now too and it hasn’t hurt the all new original eps. So I think this is a solid strategy from Ten
Some big changes, particularly shifting around two premieres with just days notice.
Highly expecting nights like Thursday to bomb though, with their footy related programs being the only original content for the night.
Cue Devil Wears Prada on Saturday the 25th?
“It is not unusual for television networks to change programs. For some time now, we’ve talked about creating more programming options for TEN and moving away from the ‘one bet, one punch’ mentality of old,” Network Ten Chief Programming Officer, David Mott, said.
See that’s part of the problem with Ten. They think people are happy with a show changing timeslots 5 times in a month, just as long as the show is still on. And that’s why people don’t watch Ten. They want to know when a show is on, and they want to watch it then. People know Ten’s strategy now, so simply won’t watch knowing it will move around the schedule anyway. Good luck with that theory Mott.
Looking over the list of shows, it does look like a very strong line-up of programs for TEN. They do have to be careful about moving around too many programs – like why keep moving the Shire around??!
2.5 hrs is all I will be watching sorry 10.
PB. CoW and the Shire (What happened to the Shire being played twice a week?)
The trouble is that Mr Mott’s track record and credbility aint that great, so his words are fairly meaningless
This was there best and only option and they have so far taken the first step to recovery!
Like I said, a Relaunch for EDN is needed with many changes!
Wonder if Ten are regretting not renewing Big Brother for this year? The ratings for the show each night are higher than any other show Ten has shown.