The 2008 ratings year is ending its weeks as they began, with a closer finish between the two top networks. But one is warehousing some of its shows knowing it has the year already sewn up.
Ouch. After a week of axings, TEN has landed fourth behind the ABC, which didn't even have any stunt programming. TEN was even lower than when it had Big Brother.
NRL may have helped Nine win Sydney & Brissy but Seven has won the week nationally once more. Some nights there is next to no competition but tired movie repeats. Television is like politics, we all benefit from a healthy opposition and suffer when there's none.
In the US the fourth season of Prison Break kicked off today. And as Australian programmers gear up for their second serious attempt at "fasttracking," what lessons were learned from 2007?
Seven's head of programming Tim Worner speaks exclusively to TV Tonight about the positives and negatives of screening US series directly after they have aired to American viewers.
