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Bumped: Lie with Me

10's only new drama in 2021 gets rescheduled.

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10 has made a programming change to Lie with Me following disappointing numbers this week (to be fair it had a very soft lead-in).

While it was already later next week due to a Gogglebox switcheroo, it will remain there the following week.

Wednesday November 10
7:30pm The Bachelorette
8:45pm Gogglebox
9:45pm Lie with Me

Wednesday November 17
8:4pm Bull
9:40pm Lie with Me

The really disappointing thing is that this is 10’s only new local drama in 2021….

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  1. What happened to Episode 4 of this show as it says it aired on channel 10 of Australian TV on November 24th but when I went to program it it wasn’t on.

    So what’s happening with Episode 4 for Australian TV?

  2. How stupid. Just give it a chance and leave it! The ratings are generally low anyway. I actually watched live after the bachelorette and enjoyed it i would have continued as well. Ill stream it now.

  3. Scheduled for Thursdays then pulled at the last minute, only to be rescheduled later to take over the slot with terrible ratings thanks to predecessor Bull…its almost like 10 had no confidence in it at all and set it up to fail.

    1. Even stranger that it was a big success on their Viacom counterpart Channel Five in the UK. They could have traded on that but for some reason they shafted it.

    1. Perhaps that was the way to go here as well, make it a week long special event in a 7.30pm timeslot and advertise as something that cannot be missed. Innovative programming decisions can sometimes work.

      1. Exactly – it’s the only way to give them flagship slots amongst the reality TV juggernauts.

        Channel 5 in the UK have somewhat managed to turn around viewer perception when it comes to drama. For 20 years they barely did any but the last couple of years they’ve been slowly but surely dropping them into the schedule, usually stripped across the week but not always, and finding a healthy audience.

  6. You say only new local drama.
    Besides Neighbours on 11, I can’t think of any Aussie drama.
    I’m not counting the streaming services, since it’s not FTA!

  7. Really disappointing. 10 really hold The Bachelor franchise on a pedestal and you have to wonder why. Abysmal ratings that only seem to go in one direction year on year. The 7.30 time slot (if not earlier) is a network’s tent pole for the evening and in this case, Lie With Me (a great drama) ends up being the sacrificial lamb. It’s hurting their schedule. If 10 are crowing about the the catch up viewing stats from this franchise, then move the show to the flourishing wasteland that is their Saturday night so it won’t impact other shows that follow it during the week.

  8. Caught up with ep 1 last night – gave it a chance but interest waned within 35 mins. We agreed Lie With Me wasn’t for us. Kept the PVR playing as I made coffee. Wife called out, you’d better watch the ‘last reel’.
    With the major plot revelation, we decided we’d stick with it. Contrived acting, but I remember saying the same about Dallas and Number 96!

  10. Taking on the Bull timeslot which has been averaging sub-200,000 on overnights does not bode well for the show – another failed drama it seems with no hope of a Season 2.

    David, do you know by any chance how many episodes of the season there are to burn off? Thank you.

    It also upholds my continuing complaint that dramas never seem to get any promotion. I did not see one advertisement for Lie With Me in any medium and the only references to it at all were on this website (at least as far as I could see.)

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