Three way drama battle
Two finales & 1 premiere will all face off on Wednesday night.
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TV has another three-way local drama battle on its hands tomorrow when Doctor Doctor, The Wrong Girl and Sunshine all battle it out in the same timeslot.
Counting ABC comedy Get Krack!n, it’s a four-way battle in scripted content.
Sunshine will premiere on SBS at 8:30pm, up against The Wrong Girl in a double season finale on TEN.
Nine’s Doctor Doctor also has its season finale ten minutes later at 8:40pm. Based on current ratings (and that significant lead-in) it will win the drama battle.
The question for The Wrong Girl is whether it will manage a renewal based on under-performing figures. TEN has bigger hopes for new drama Sisters which debuts next week -with a whopping 2 hour premiere.
Unusually the new drama has been filmed as 6 x 72 minutes.
Corrected.
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I watched The Wrong Girl for the first time in a long while last night and it’s very hard to see how Ten can justify a third season. Great cast let down by poor writing and still coming off as a pale Offspring imitation (I’ve got to admit, even Sisters is giving me that feeling, even if it does have some Offspring folk behind it).
Ratings not good, either. I have a feeling the show’s producers knew it could be the end – that finale tied things up nicely.
Is Sisters 6 episodes? I’ve read on other sites that it’s 7, but maybe that included the pilot.
Screen Aus site indicates 6×72.
Ah thanks David. They’ve changed it on Screen Aus, it said 7 eps for a little while there!
Correction.. Doctor Doctor is on at 8:40pm
And Sisters is in the guide in two weeks time for 1 hour. Think it’s just a movie length pilot..
I am advised Sisters is actually 7 parts including the pilot.
Good to see some Australian drama on our TV’s instead of the shower of american crap…
I’ve stuck with it, as it’s a fairly short season, but this season of The Wrong Girl has been pretty dire. Th early part of the season leading up to (spoiler alert) Jack ditching Lily just went nowhere and didn’t really appear have much in the way of storyline.
Even the Craig McLachlan character who was used sparingly as comic relief in series one was milked for all it was worth this year and just ended up being irritating.