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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“It is not unusual for television networks to change programs” says David Mott. But every night???? which is what most of the networks do (allowing for slight exaggeration).
Watching TV is a total lottery these days, drives me inssaaaaaane!
The Living room is so boring….Amanda Keller is so bright and funny on her radio program but lacks personality on this program….won’t last…
Hmm with The Living Room up against Better Homes and Gardens I wonder if that is a good thing and I wonder if that means and end to the ridiculous 9pm finish to Better Homes and Gardens ?
Has anyone else noticed Ten is using their 11.30pm timeslot to air shows like In Plain Sight and Three Rivers (shows that are cancelled but they have rights to but never played out).
aussie, I’m intrigued – which show did you ask about?
Well good luck to them, just so long as they leave Puberty Blues alone, perfect as is, timeslot and all.
at long last “normal programming has resumed” and it is so refreshing to see shows starting at the traditional times of 7.30, 8.30, 9.30. I predict I will be bored of the inane teenagers on big brother by Monday so I may even give channel 10 one last chance. I was really enjoying watching The shire but its too much like hard work trying to find it in the schedule, I wish my PVR was more intelligent. It doesn’t have a series link like my Foxtel IQ. I will watcg can of worms, I will survive and might even watch modern family. i stopped watching MF the start of the year when they advertised the premiere ep at 8pm and then showed it at 7.30pm with no notice. I have never seen the Living Room but now i can watch it and then flick over to ABC1 for Scott & Bailey (unless ten has a really good movie on that i’ve never seen before). The only thing different I would have done is move neighbours back to 6pm and the project to 6.30
Randwick: Bingle finished last week. The Shire is there on Mondays.
Bigmouthmedia: Yes this is correct. EPGs will be adjusted in time.
Yes, I agree that 7:00pm should be a regular stripped half hour show, which is a constant all year except over Christmas / Year. They once had this, up until 1992-3. Sitcoms have a use by date whose seasons only run 22-24 eps, therefore on continual repeat. TEN should be supporting its own and bring Neighbours back to this slot. They have not shown any support for this program in well over a decade, and by putting it on Eleven, in effect, announced to the world that they have no faith in it, whereas only 18 months before being “relegated” it was rating well above 800000 and sometimes over a million. Look at Home and Away, they are now hovering at just over a million, sometimes less. And don’t tell me that had anything to do with the Olympic, this was happening well before the Games started.
I would even be happy if they brought it back at 5:30pm, but whatever they do, it must be on the parent network, where it belongs. And as I’ve said, numerous times, 6:00pm to 7:30pm is sacrosanct and should not be meddled with. Only 2-3 years ago, TEN were spruiking that they were going to fix the rot that had set in at 7:00pm, with Reality and Sitcoms given the heave-ho.
David Mott clearly has to go.
as i rarely watch live tv anymore, i’m not worried about the schedule, the good ol PVR will record what i want to watch, then i can watch it when i choose 🙂 As there seem to be more & more people with pvr’s (or at least some sort of recording device), or people being able to watch online, i’m not sure why schedule is still such an issue really…
David,
Is this correct ? The promo on Channel Ten tonight (Thursday) indicated Priscilla starts on Wednesday @ 7:30pm, and my EPG still shows it starting then, and Don’t Tell The Bride on Tuesday….
So in this schedule there is no bingle, no shire…. so it looks like by the end of the year ten will have done their shareholders cash on bingle, shire, edn, ytt with the possibility of I will survive and dont tell the bride …..
this doesnt take into account other programs over the past few years gone …some that come to memory are yasmine’s getting married, are you smarter than a fifth grader …..
I’m just wondering when somebody will sack the programmers as they just seem to keep on producing crap which nobody wants to watch …..
I hate what has to fta but i hate even more a channel which just doesnt give a damn about the majority of the population ……..it’s time to change your format ten – scripted programs work much better than meaningless reality shite which you serve in abundance ……
EDN might actually get good ratings on its next showing as everyone tunes in to watch how they spin their great new changes on air…
Ten must be kicking themselves for letting Big Brother go. Only thing watchable on Ten up until last night was 5pm News. Now we at least have a quality drama in Puberty Blues.
Late News is like watching a trainwreck unravel as the much hyped MacDonald trips over his ego on a nightly basis.
The Shire, Being Lara Bingle, Everybody Dance, all total rubbish.
Oh dear. With Mastechef finished, there’s not one show I’ll be watching on my once favourite channel.
The only change that needs to happen is David Mott himself. Send him on his way already!
House of Lies was the only show on Channel 10 that I was going to watch. With that now gone, there’s nothing on their list that interests me.
When I called TEN yesterday to enquire about another show in their schedule that they consistently edit for timing, I was abruptly told they do not edit the show and it is delivered to Ten in that manner from the US. She hung up on me when I challenged her integrity.
One word: liars!
Michelle in TEN programming dept has to be thee most rudest and abrupt person I’ve ever dealt with.
Is it any wonder viewers want nothing to do with the TEN brand!
David Mott, you have quite obviously not listened to anyone **rolls eyes**
Ten used to be the channel I watched the most. Based on this garbage I will be watching only two programs (Puberty Blues and CoW), Ten are lucky to have Eleven and ONE or they would have lost me entirely….
This schedule is just plain idiotic.
I feel like EDN needs to be on Thursday night’s at 7:30pm as well. Make it a twice a week show. 3 times was overkill, but twice would indeed be nice 😛
David,
Do you think House of Lies will just randomly appear in the schedule sometime soon?
Rearranging the deck chairs once again!
Well, I am pleased to hear that they are listening to viewers and the revamp sounds pretty good, actually. I do think the show can work as people do love to watch excellent dance performances. I don’t think it can bounce back hugely, ratings wise, but I do have to hand it to Ten for having the nerve to stick with it. They’ve got more guts and fortitude for this sort of thing than Nine has. I do give them props for taking risks with their programming.
I think no matter what changes they bring to EDN,the brand has already been damaged.I guess it’s a good thing that Ten are trying to tweak programmes and moving things around to see what works for them,but the problem is people like consistency.The other problem is,they have brought in too many of these reality type shows one after the other.It’s too much,they need to mix it up with a variety of genres.I think with a lot of the shows that are on at the moment or that are coming up,no amount of rescheduling is going to work.
they have marginally improved Mon & Tues at the expense of every other night. That Thursday looks dire. 8% network share here we come.
Was it really necessary to move bride and survive forward one night? after all that promotion.
Ten used to do 7pm sitcoms in the way before 7pm Project/Masterchef amongst other things era which is not necessarily a bad thing.I would sooner on stable mate 11 watch an old Everybody Loves Raymond episode than put up with Home and Away or Gasp Horror more Big Bang Theory or Two and a Half Men.