View Full Version : What programs have australian networks screwed beyond recognition?
Bombers 2003
13 Jan 2006, 14:09
For starters,
Star Trek
The West Wing
Charmed
Lost
Any other favorites wrecked by programmers at our commercial stations?
deluxeman
13 Jan 2006, 14:19
24
Crap timeslots an gave away way to much in their ads
rick James
13 Jan 2006, 14:29
Arrested Development
Scrubs
Pretty much any Sci-Fi show. They all get put on at 10.30 or later, then they say they have no viewers and yank them.
Ignorant TV exec's. Sci-Fi/Fantasy comprises more then half the top 20 box office hits of all time. The last few years the big money movies have been sci-fi or fantasy (Star Wars, LOTR, Harry Potter), yet it comes to (non-movie) TV Sci-fi/Fantasy they put the series on in dead time?!? Go figure.
Bombers 2003
13 Jan 2006, 14:49
Pretty much any Sci-Fi show. They all get put on at 10.30 or later, then they say they have no viewers and yank them.
Ignorant TV exec's. Sci-Fi/Fantasy comprises more then half the top 20 box office hits of all time. The last few years the big money movies have been sci-fi or fantasy (Star Wars, LOTR, Harry Potter), yet it comes to (non-movie) TV Sci-fi/Fantasy they put the series on in dead time?!? Go figure.
SF seems to fare badly on 9,do executives at 9 have a problem with SF?
Bombers_Forever
13 Jan 2006, 14:50
Scrubs
West Wing
Boston Legal
Amazing Race (although 7 are getting better)
Futurama
Family Guy
TigerFan
13 Jan 2006, 15:42
Boston Legal
Denny Crane.
The Wire
The show goes for 1 hour without ads but 9 ran the show for 1 hour with ads. Also stingers when 9 kept moved it to 10.30pm even though it rated well and finally the axed it saying it didn't rate to well. Well of course the ratings are going to drop when you move it to 10.30 and even then it rated well for the timeslot.
Mr Eagle
13 Jan 2006, 16:22
Denny Crane.
Denny Crane.
Six Feet Under
The Sopranos
The Shield
Third Watch..
The Sopranos...
Six Feet Under...
Is anyone else detecting a pattern here?
Black JuJu
13 Jan 2006, 16:27
Curb Your Enthusiasm
I'm Alan Partridge
The Office (US)
ExTasDeeMan
13 Jan 2006, 17:05
The West Wing *however i have bought 1st 4 seasons on DVD, and enjoying all!! Channel 9, burn in hell
Arrested Development - Have 1st DVD but wishing for the next release on DVD as Channel 7 have ********ed the viewers on that one, burn in hell
Bombers_Forever
13 Jan 2006, 17:26
Denny Crane.
:p :D
......Denny Crane!
Channel 10 completely ********ed Ed over. One week it's on at midnight, the week after at 2pm. :rolleyes:
puddingfactor
13 Jan 2006, 20:22
Channel 10 completely f**ked Ed over. One week it's on at midnight, the week after at 2pm. :rolleyes:
Good call. At one stage it was even promoted to be apart of its summer line up (2004-2005). It was even in the programme guide. Come the night it was meant to air though, they had a movie on (knowing Ten, it was probably an Adam Sandler one). It then got bumped from afternoon and late night slots as well.
That said, the show jumped the shark sometime in season two, and most of the eps in season three were pretty ordinary.
Although it wasn't 'screwed', the second series of Micallef went to air on Friday night at 8 pm, one of the nights with comparatively fewer viewers. It had previously been in the prime Monday night slot at 8 pm. What did the ABC air on the Monday night slot? That god awful Gary Sweet sitcom Dog Head's Bay.
That late night game show with HotDogs.
:thumbsu:
Gridlock'd
13 Jan 2006, 20:49
Amazing Race (although 7 are getting better)
Spot on.
This show is awesome. Beats Survivor for ratings etc in America, yet we always have it on months after America does and in crappy time slots.
crows98
13 Jan 2006, 20:58
Channel 10 completely ********ed Ed over. One week it's on at midnight, the week after at 2pm. :rolleyes:
Like I said in a different thread “Channel 10 are ********ed in the head”
One Tree Hill, lucky 10 have forked out Million for the AFL or they would scrap the live game on a Saturday night after 3 weeks.
Hawks88bestever
13 Jan 2006, 21:54
Petticoat Junction
Ray Nolan
13 Jan 2006, 22:33
Curb Your Enthusiasm - even available on DVD before Channel Nine will show it.
Petticoat Junction. :mad:
Hawks88bestever
13 Jan 2006, 23:29
Little House On The Prairie
eagleskickass
13 Jan 2006, 23:41
Scrubs and stargate!!!!
CharlieG
14 Jan 2006, 09:16
Both Stargates.
The Old Dark Navy's
14 Jan 2006, 09:24
Channel 10 completely destroy Big Brother by not giving it enough exposure. How the hell are you going to get viewers to catch the show if you are only having a daily show, an eviction show, a nomination show, Friday night games, a nightly uplate show and an uncut show? Lift your game channel 10. ;)
Any of the Brit BBC comedies that accidently stumble onto the commercial channels here. Can't remember the numbers off the top of my head but Oz show are something like 18 minutes long (?) for a 30 minute spot. Lots of the BBC comedies are 25 (?) basically means they have to be cut savagely. Something like that.
viccles
14 Jan 2006, 10:34
Law and Order SVU. 2 new episodes and then repeats!
benny's buddy
14 Jan 2006, 11:52
Agree on Scrubs and Arrested Development. I don't bother with it on TV anymore, got them on DVD. If I have to wait a year to get on DVD rather than watching them on TV now, so be it.
Also, Seven have done their absolute best to ruin The Mole. The season before last (on a few years ago) they put on against the first season of The Block, one of the most successful shows of the last few years. And last year, with Tom Williams...need I say more.
Freo Big Fella
14 Jan 2006, 12:16
Channel 10 completely f**ked Ed over. One week it's on at midnight, the week after at 2pm. :rolleyes:
That takes me back. Did he nail Carol Vessey in the end?
4400 - First season of five episodes was butchered into two nights, then season 2 was ripped off air after five or so interrupted weeks, never to return.
Battlestar Galactica - first season was dumped to 10.30pm slot after about 4 weeks...wouldn't be surprised if season 2 never makes it to our screens.
Thank god for torrents.
m.diddy
14 Jan 2006, 20:21
Stargate.
The West Wing *however i have bought 1st 4 seasons on DVD, and enjoying all!! Channel 9, burn in hell
Arrested Development - Have 1st DVD but wishing for the next release on DVD as Channel 7 have ********ed the viewers on that one, burn in hell
http://dvdboxoffice.com/description.asp?id=8801CF2F-1C58-4B3B-8AEF-0941EB532EB4&class=mvi&wh=MAIN&rate=CAD++%2D1%2E000+++++&pid=90139331
^If you don't want to wait.
(Free shipping worldwide, and the canucky buck is roughly the same as the Aussie version.)
TuskenRaider
16 Jan 2006, 07:18
Battlestar Galactica - first season was dumped to 10.30pm slot after about 4 weeks...wouldn't be surprised if season 2 never makes it to our screens.
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Agreed. A quality show consigned to 11.00pm timeslots.
They did a fine job on The X-Files in the last season or two as well, and ended up shoving it to a Saturday night at around 10.30. Then, as I recall, they put the final on in prime time and advertised it non stop trying to milk it all they could.
Top treatment for a show that served it so well over ten 8 or 9 years.
They also do a crap job on The Simpsons. You never know when they are showing new episodes or repeats as they mix them week after week. Why can't they just run it in episode order?
TheColeTrain
16 Jan 2006, 07:53
NYPD Blue
roogirl96
17 Jan 2006, 12:39
The District
skylark18
18 Jan 2006, 07:45
NYPD Blue
YESSSS!!!!
I doubt very much if they will show the last series the way 10 are going.
Third Watch
The Shield
The Sopranos
The West Wing
The Secret Life of Us was alright aswell, but then all of a sudden all the characters changed overnight. It's absolute crap now.
If I get into a show now I just DL it a couple of days after it was shown in the US. I'm just about to watch the first episode of season 5 of The Shield now.
ManWithNoName
18 Jan 2006, 14:18
They screw The Shield purely by taking it on and off all the time. I can't complain about it's timeslot, it's way to full on for an earlier slot.
lenny&carl
18 Jan 2006, 15:07
Alan Partridge.