TEN: summer highlights
Homeland, Merlin, American Idol, Burn Notice, White Collar Blue and Wedding Band all make up TEN's summer.
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TEN has released details of its summer highlights, to begin Monday December 3.
This sees The Project moving to 6:30pm with The Simpsons back at 6pm. Continuing first run episodes include Homeland, Merlin, Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals, Steve Irwin’s Wildlife Warriors and The Graham Norton Show.
Premiering are American Idol plus Wedding Band with Brian Austin Green.
Returning are Burn Notice, White Collar, The New Normal and Ben and Kate.
There will be replays of Modern Family, Last Man Standing, New Girl, Bondi Vet, Hawaii Five-O, NCIS and NCIS: Los Angeles. The Living Room moves into a summer replay series.
Sport includes The Hopman Cup, NBL and IronMan Championship.
However TEN has still not indicated a premiere for Come Date With Me, previously promised for 2012.
Network Ten will boast award-winning comedy, live sport and brand new drama in a sizzling Summer of entertainment.
From Monday, December 3, everyone’s favourite family The Simpsons will move to their new home of 6pm on TEN, seven nights a week. With its subversive humour and delightful wit, the longest running scripted prime-time show in American television history has made an indelible imprint on pop culture, and Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie have become generational icons.
The Project will also move to its new home of 6.30pm weeknights. With Dave taking a Summer break, Carrie, Charlie, Lehmo and a collection of special guests will continue to bring viewers an hour of the latest news and stories from around the country and the world.
Emmy Award-winning drama series Homeland will continue at 8.30pm on Sunday nights, with brand new fast-tracked episodes, and everybody’s favourite wizard Merlin will continue his adventures in Camelot.
The most anticipated show of the Summer comes to TEN: the new season of American Idol starring Australian superstar Keith Urban, Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj.
Brand new episodes of Burn Notice, Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals, White Collar, The New Normal and Ben and Kate will keep viewers entertained, while Brian Austin Green stars in the new comedy drama Wedding Band.
Popular episodes of Modern Family, Last Man Standing, New Girl, Bondi Vet, Hawaii Five-O, NCIS and NCIS: Los Angeles will return to TEN for Summer.
A special Summer series of The Living Room will take a look back at the best bits of 2012 and revisit favourite episodes, boasting the best food, travel and home stories.
TEN’s Saturday night line-up continues with David Attenboroughs Life of Mammals, all-new episodes of Steve Irwin’s Wildlife Warriors and the BAFTA-winning Mr Norton and his hilarious chat show, The Graham Norton Show.
It wouldn’t be Summer without sport and TEN will officially kick off the Summer of tennis with all the action, drama and excitement of The Hopman Cup. Current world no.1 Novak Djokovic will join a star studded line-up including Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Ana Ivanovic and Venus Williams. TEN’s NBL season will continue throughout the Summer and viewers will be treated to six rounds of the Kellogg’s Nutri-Grain IronMan Championship.
Summer on TEN: The Highlights
THE PROJECT
New time! Weeknights at 6.30pm from Monday, December 3, 2012
The Project moves to 6.30pm weeknights, bringing you an hour of the latest news and stories from around the country and around the world. While Dave Hughes takes a short break, Carrie and Charlie will be joined by Lehmo and special guests. Kitty Flanagan will continue to keep her eye on things over the Summer, Lucy McDonald will be reporting in from the UK and Hyla will keep us up to date with all the entertainment news coming out of the US. The Project Highlights Week will start on Monday, December 24, looking back at some of the best moments of 2012 but still with your fresh dose of daily news, before we return on Monday, December 31.
THE HOPMAN CUP
From Saturday, December 29, 2012, to Saturday, January 5, 2013
All eyes will be on Perth in December as TEN officially kicks off the Summer of tennis with the 25th staging of the Hopman Cup. Current world no. 1 Novak Djokovic will join a star-studded line-up including Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Ana Ivanovic and Venus Williams in broadcasted day and night sessions. Hometown hopes will rest on the shoulders of Bernard Tomic and Perth’s own Casey Dellacqua who will team up for the first time, looking to recapture the title for Australia for the first time since 1999.
AMERICAN IDOL
Season premiere, Thursday, January 17, 2013
It is the highest-rating television series in the United States. It has produced global superstars such as Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Jennifer Hudson and Adam Lambert. In January, season 12 of American Idol arrives on TEN, with new voices and new judges Mariah Carey, Nicki Minaj and – of course – Australia’s favourite music export, Keith Urban. Forget the imitators: American Idol is the real deal. Only on TEN, fast-tracked from the US.
WEDDING BAND
Season premiere, Wednesday, December 5
Brian Austin Green, Harold Perrineau, Peter Cambor and Derek Mille star as four men who are regular guys by day, but become “weekend rock gods” in their down time. It seems these guys have figured out that being in a wedding band means getting to attend the biggest parties, and receiving a pay cheque afterward.
BURN NOTICE
Season 6 premieres on Friday, December 7
The highly-anticipated sixth season of Summer favourite Burn Notice is a sly take on the spy genrestarring Jeffrey Donovan as Michael Westen, a formerly black-listed spy who is now working under the-radar with the CIA on special projects. Last season left Michael in turmoil after his long-time on again/off-again girlfriend and love of his life, Fiona Glennane (Gabrielle Anwar), turned herself in to the FBI on charges of terrorism in order to save him from an extreme case of blackmail.
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Glad they are fastracking idol and continuing homeland. Really looking forward to both of them over summer.
Great to see that Burn Notice is being fast-tracked (even if it is in the graveyard timeslot) and that White Collar is finally returning (with about 5 episodes still to air on Friday nights till they have shown the entire countrythe first half of season three). Good to see The New Normal and Ben and Kate are returning as they didn’t seem half bad. Can’t wait to see Wedding Band as anything by TBS is worth its weight in gold (even though to my knowledge the only one of its series to screen in Australia is Glory Daze on GO! which is a shame as the Tyler Perry series are hilarious, and other new titles that look like good entertainment are Men At Work and Sullivan & Sons).
any news on Blue Bloods? Have to disagee with Homeland- love that it is fast tracked. Have never gone online to watch a show but would have been very tempted with homeland.
Foxtel has lost the rights to American Idol.
Is TEN going to continue showing new episodes of Glee?
Good to see White Collar returning for Summer, with Season 5 of Psych restarting tonight on ONE in double episodes (11:30pm – 1:30am), my PVR will become useful again.
what would be the point of holding of 2 or 3 eps of Homeland till Feb? It’s a 12 episode show/season, it makes more sense to continue it through to the end. now if it was a 22-24 ep season like say Vegas, it would make more sense to hold off new eps till Feb. if they played half the season of 6 eps and played the other 6 in Feb that would have been better. Ten are trying to free to air with Homeland with what Foxtel are doing with shows like Dexter and such.
I hope One encore Burn Notice a week later in the usual 8:30 Wednesday slots, if Ten decide to take if off and keep it on One then it might not seem so strange to the average viewer. trust me, no one will watch. they would rather go out on Friday nights and enjoy summer than watch TV.
@ Guy, according to this article posted by David on TvTonight in September,http://tvtonight.com.au/2012/09/foxtel-express-steps-up-fast-tracking.html, Fox 8 were going to show American Idol within 12 hours of the US.
This was before we found that Ten will also be showing American Idol on the same as the US, so this could have changed.
@Guy, usually i completely agree with you, homeland should not have been fasttracked, but now that is has been, and the damage is done, it is never going to recover. they may as well burn it off in summer.
TEN are mad if you ask me for showing New episodes of Homeland. I actually said they were mad to fast-track the show in the first place and the ratings show this. They could have easily held it back until February and got 1m an episode with the summer build up but they instead brought it back and have got under 700k for every episode so far. I have been a fan of fast-tracking but only shows that don’t have a big plot line like Revenge, Homeland, Downton etc.
American Idol is going to be good. I have been watching it on FOX8 the past few years which has been great. About that David does this mean Foxtel won’t be showing the new season?
Re: The latest start time change to ‘The Project’… is the current 6pm Sunday ep being ditched come December, or is that also moving to 6.30pm? Wording of press release suggests it may be being dropped…?
@ Paul2, Ten are showing American Idol on the same day as the US.
@ Mr J, Ten’s summer promo indicated that Hawaii 5-0 will continue to be fasttracked throughout summer.
I’m glad that Ten are playing Homeland all the way thru but why are Ten burning off Burn Notice on a summer Friday? Perhaps they figure that they’ll get a second bite at that small cherry at a better time next year?
Really looking forward to Idol.
American idol on ten will have the same, if not, a worse impact than nine had with The Voice US
Do you think American idol will rate well? Did it do any good when it was on Foxtel?
I’m wondering if this new season of Burn Notice will be on 10, or remain on 1? I hope they at least play the full season this time, though somehow I doubt it.
Burn Notice on TEN.
what’s the point of having new eps of Burn Notice on Friday nights? moving it back to Ten from One for that matter. it didn’t work out before, it’s not gonna work again. One needs more drama anyway.
Getting the rights to Melissa and Joey would have been a good option for the 7pm slot over summer. It’s 45 episodes spread across two seasons would have covered the entire non ratings period and given us a break from the never ending replays of Modern Family.
It would also then become a familiar name to TEN, giving them a known brand to bring back a couple of months later when it returns in the US spring, being our Autumn. They can even hold season three for two months and bring it on over winter as a weekly offering when we are light on US content due to their summer.
so much for the “we’re not stopping” promo, seems most things are stoping for reruns. I get that they need premium content like new modern family for the ratings season, but they should continue with shows like good wife, glee, new girl, 5-0. which don’t rate and belong in summer anyway.
American idol needs to be shown the next day after it’s broadcast in the US as there will be too much on the net about it.
The Living Room has been a highlight this year. Maybe the summer replays will play out to a broader audience.
where is Glee ?
Hopman Cup will be at the new Perth Arena.
Really looking forward to American Idol!