boric Posted April 16, 2007 Share Posted April 16, 2007 For those not downloading Jericho, it's apparently back on Ten on Friday the 27th April after Big Brother at 9:30pm. Given it follows a live Big Brother you'll need lots of padding around any timers! Unfortunately with Jericho in that timeslot and more big brother after it Veronica Mars disappears. I'd have rather kept Veronica Mars, but Jericho is better than nothing I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timmy Downawell Posted April 16, 2007 Share Posted April 16, 2007 For those not downloading Jericho, it's apparently back on Ten on Friday the 27th April after Big Brother at 9:30pm. Given it follows a live Big Brother you'll need lots of padding around any timers! Thanks for the heads-up. I was happy to wait for it to return. I like it, but it wasn't BT-worthy IMHO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
des Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 And Now its not, PussyCat Dolls going in its slot instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neerav Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 And Now its not, PussyCat Dolls going in its slot instead. Are you sure? I swear i saw promos saying it would definitely be back on the 27th @ 930pm ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Bishop- Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 Actually, even though there has been a few dud and silly episodes, I think the series is improving, it's a little hit and miss at times, but it's showing promise of becoming a solid series with some good direction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neon Kitten Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 Are you sure? I swear i saw promos saying it would definitely be back on the 27th @ 930pm ? Sadly it appears to be true: http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2007/04/jerich...e-in-flash.html That Pussycat Dolls show, by the way, is possibly the single most moronic thing I've seen on TV all year. If Ten is surprised it's not rating, maybe they should consider the fact that: A: It doesn't exist to be an exciting documentary about finding the new member of a band, but rather for the sole purpose of showing plastic girls in bras and panties writhing around; B: its target audience is obviously 13 year-old boys, and C: said 13 year-old boys are already enjoying uncensored hardcore porn on the internet. The show never stood a chance, except perhaps as the masturbatory fantasy of Ten's programmer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mel slirrup Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 When will these programming changes be reflected in the TV guides? On-line guides (yourTV and Ten's own tv guide**) are still showing the pussycat dolls show as being on after Rove on Sunday 22/4. A search for Jericho in the Ten guide returns a listing for 27/4 at 9:30pm. ** Flashblock users - This page'll give it a good workout; search still works if you leave everything blocked tho'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kent Rigel Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 Tangible proof that Free to Air is slowly dying from the wounds inflicted upon it by Pay TV and BitTorrent are becoming painfully obvious. The networks aren't substantially increasing their budgets to compete, they aren't taking necessary steps and they are substituting more and more pap to fill in between their more lucrative shows. Vague scheduling, false advertising, bone head time slots and unusually pathetic choices are becoming commonplace. The only advantage Free to Air has over pay at the moment is that it is showing some TV shows in advance of Pay, whereas Pay is trailing along buying TV series as they become older, cheaper and harder to market to new Free to Air's. BitTorent is non descriminate in it's crushing displacement of both, not only access to all the new material but quick access to a growing ammount of old media and all at the price of a broadband connection. As for Jericho I think it has a lot of potential, if they look hard and take the necessary gambles, to become a first rate television show. Just because it's had some hiccups early doesn't necessarily mean it'll be put out of it's misery at the drop of a hat. I'm enjoyinging it but I think it needs some more substance, so far it's primarily been nuclear fallout, pun intended, and small town politics with the occasional allusion to mysteries revolving around the bombings and Robert Hawkins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swordfish805 Posted April 20, 2007 Share Posted April 20, 2007 The reason for the delay in the States... Still no sign of Jericho returning - does anyone have any news? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neon Kitten Posted April 20, 2007 Share Posted April 20, 2007 Tangible proof that Free to Air is slowly dying from the wounds inflicted upon it by Pay TV and BitTorrent are becoming painfully obvious. The networks aren't substantially increasing their budgets to compete, they aren't taking necessary steps and they are substituting more and more pap to fill in between their more lucrative shows. Vague scheduling, false advertising, bone head time slots and unusually pathetic choices are becoming commonplace. Actually, I think the networks are causing their own deaths - and not by reacting to BitTorrent-triggered ratings declines, either. The whole problem started back when Oztam began, and suddenly they had instant access to seriously flawed viewer statistics that they decided they'd follow like religion, regardless of US (and local) evidence that suggests that it's better to give a show time to find an audience and not to move it around, run it late, edit it down, etc. It's just another example of what will REALLY kill Australian FTA television - the commercial networks' slavish following of the mantra "they do it in America so we must too". Trouble is, the local networks are too incompetent to do things even vaguely as well as their US counterparts do (and they've still got major problems with incompetence themselves!) Case in point: US networks put a discreet watermark in the corner of the screen and run subtle and occasional pop-ups to advertise what's on next. Australian copycat networks put a huge, near-opaque watermark bang in the middle of the screen and run massive, multicoloured, animated and totally intrusive pop-ups every five minutes to advertise irrelevant programming. They do it to themselves, they do, and that's what really hurts, to paraphrase Radiohead. The result? Well, I - who used to "illegally" download one or two shows - had to raise by broadband monthly limit to 20GB to cater for all the shows I now "illegally" download, and it's looking like even that might not be enough to cover the local networks' incompetence. But the point is, I don't need them any longer. And that's entirely their own doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyestrain Posted April 23, 2007 Author Share Posted April 23, 2007 And that's entirely their own doing. Indeed, an apt epitaph ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Bishop- Posted April 27, 2007 Share Posted April 27, 2007 The result? Well, I - who used to "illegally" download one or two shows - had to raise by broadband monthly limit to 20GB to cater for all the shows I now "illegally" download, and it's looking like even that might not be enough to cover the local networks' incompetence.But the point is, I don't need them any longer. And that's entirely their own doing. Exactly the same thing for me, the bigger net plan is worth the extra money and effort, and the result is you watch what you want when you want, and often stuff that is not even on TV here. Some shows I still wait for, but most times it's shows that are screened within a moderate time from the US, although a few I still BT because I can't stand the local station hype and misdirection, which distracts from the show making it less enjoyable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyestrain Posted May 5, 2007 Author Share Posted May 5, 2007 Imagine the surprise ... seeing the promo for the return of Jericho during the now only once a week episode of Letterman! What luck??? Anyway, TEN/Southern Cross is advertising that Jericho will return on Friday, May 25. No time was given but around 10.30pm would be a guess??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwhast Posted May 5, 2007 Share Posted May 5, 2007 Well TEN are a bit set in their ways, so I can't imagine them shifting BB into another timeslot. Maybe they've decided to ditch the Pussycat Dogs... fingers crossed for 9:30. Hopefully we won't end up with another good show in an insane timeslot (see VM, 4400, Letterman, etc.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neon Kitten Posted May 9, 2007 Share Posted May 9, 2007 Anyway, TEN/Southern Cross is advertising that Jericho will return on Friday, May 25. Good, good. Just in time to fill the multi-show gap left by the end of the TV ratings season. The US season, that is, as that's pretty much all I watch these days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwhast Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 I have some bad news. Jericho has been axed by CBS! Clippy from The New Zealand Herald US FANS of post-apocalyptic series Jericho, which screens here on TV3, have gone a little nuts over CBS network's decision to can the show at the end of season one, without resolving the cliffhanger. Adding to the huge number of written complaints, nut retailer NutsOnline has started a "Nuts to You, CBS" campaign, encouraging fans to send quantities of nuts to CBS in protest. Yesterday at midday outraged fans had ordered nearly 5000kg of nuts, making NutsOnline more than US$14,000 ($19,225). And it looks like the prank has worked. On the Jericho fan message boards, this from Nina Tassler, president of CBS Entertainment: "We truly appreciate the commitment you made to the series and we are humbled by your disappointment. In the coming weeks, we hope to develop a way to provide closure in the compelling drama that was the Jericho story." Another one bites the dust. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyestrain Posted May 25, 2007 Author Share Posted May 25, 2007 I have some bad news. Jericho has been axed by CBS! Just gotta love the timing ... could TEN have done better ??? Thanks for the update. It will make watching the last episodes either a waste of time or sadder? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neon Kitten Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 This was announced a week ago. But really, Jericho is one of the least of the disappointments axe-wise. This one we could see coming a mile off (as in, half a dozen episodes in). Watchable show, sure, but it was no "Studio 60" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwhast Posted May 27, 2007 Share Posted May 27, 2007 How can one push Ten to show Veronica Mars after Jericho finishes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neon Kitten Posted May 27, 2007 Share Posted May 27, 2007 How can one push Ten to show Veronica Mars after Jericho finishes? One cannot. Like all Australian networks, you as the viewer are an inconvenience. Download it. "Illegally". The whole of the third (and sadly, probably last) season is now online in the usual places. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyestrain Posted May 27, 2007 Author Share Posted May 27, 2007 How can one push Ten to show Veronica Mars after Jericho finishes? Veronia sure would be a great replacement, but maybe TEN could also give us back Battle Star Gallactia? But in the end is does appear either downloads or dvd's are the only way to see the entire series these days! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neon Kitten Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 Bad news, Jericho fans: two weeks into recommencing screening it, Ten has pulled Jericho from the schedule again: http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2007/06/gone-jericho.html Confirmed on Ten's own listings. TV in this country is doing wonders for broadband ISPs' revenue streams, I'm guessing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest herbo Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 Good on ya ten... so they kill it just after CBS annouces that they are bringing it back (for ~7 episodes) next year..... See here: http://community.tvguide.com/blog-entry/TV...newed/800016550 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyestrain Posted June 8, 2007 Author Share Posted June 8, 2007 Good on ya ten... so they kill it just after CBS annouces that they are bringing it back (for ~7 episodes) next year..... Nuts to TEN ...pity the viewers limited to watching the program via TEN or Southern Cross. Anyone got a good reasonably priced broadband plan they would recommend? :ph34r: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mddawson Posted June 8, 2007 Share Posted June 8, 2007 Bad news, Jericho fans: two weeks into recommencing screening it, Ten has pulled Jericho from the schedule again:http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2007/06/gone-jericho.html Confirmed on Ten's own listings. TV in this country is doing wonders for broadband ISPs' revenue streams, I'm guessing. The program info was for Jericho while Mean Girls was airing I loathe the commercial fta stations Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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