According to the printed guide: Next week on Ten:
Four Holidays: Monday (23/12) at 8pm and again on Wednesday (15/12) at 12.40pm
Elf: Tuesday (24/12) at 7.30pm, and again on Thursday (26/12) at 3pm
Bare library of Christmas movies for Ten?
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New Years Eve will be shown on 7Flix on New Years Eve this year. Nine will have to air something different this year.
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It has to be “Can’t Stop The Music”, right?
I’d rather they had a Year in Review full length news special to be honest.
Not that I’m planning on being home to watch TV haha.
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…or even a “Decade in Review” Special, since we are about to enter the 2020s!
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Of course!
That would be amazing and be able to fill most of the night.
Like 20 to One format perhaps interviewing journalists who worked on reporting particular events.
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A new promo on 10 tonight advertising movies every night throughout summer.
Australian-US movie Frisky premieres on 7TWO on New Year’s Eve at 9.30pm. It was made on a tiny budget of $5000.
At the same timeslot on 7mate is the premiere of another Aussie movie, the 2012 horror flick Muirhouse.
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I noticed this last summer too, Seven and Nine (on 7Two, 7mate and 9Gem) have been acquiring a lot of first run Australian and NZ very low budget or non theatrical release movies? A lot in recent weeks.
Is it because they want to save their Hollywood studio movies for survey period? Or some deal with local producers to air them? Or something else I wonder?
Because they’re certainly not rating, so perhaps they can get some soecific sponsors for these timeslots? @TV.Cynic
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The Australian movies premiering on Nine in the next seven days are:
Killing Ground: Friday December 27, 9.30pm on 9Gem
One Less God: Sunday December 29, 7pm on 9Gem. This is one of four movies (also including Hotel Mumbai which was released earlier this year) that are based on the 2008 terrorist attack on the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai, India.
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It’s good that the networks are airing these Australian films. It’s not often these low-budget films get a shot on fta.
But are they airing them, in the last week of the year, on the multi-channels, to fill in the Australian drama quota for the year?
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Has to be.
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Nine for many years ran unknown first run Australian movies over December and January just to boost up their drama quota.
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First time all three movies are on 10 after being part of Nine’s schedule for more than a decade. They last aired on 9GO! in late January to early February 2019. They are co-produced by Village Roadshow and distributed by Warner Bros.
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Not in AU/NZ territory, all rights (theatrical/home ent./digital/TV licencing) is handled by Roadshow Films’ Roadshow Television.
As has been the exclusive arrangement here since Village Roadshow Pictures launched in Hollywood over 20 years ago.
So 10 must have bought the rights to Oceans series from Roadshow Television. Could this pave the way for Ocean’s 8 to air on 10 in 2020?
Looks like a Marvel movie will have a FTA premiere on the first Sunday of January against the return of I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here. It’s rare to have such a big premiere movie during the Christmas/New Year period.
Nine sources tell TV Tonight they plan to screen M rated Black Panther on Sunday January 5 at an 8pm start -now able to run without two credit sequences.
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I think Nine still have first look/run rights with Roadshow? Based on 10 only airing Roadshow movie re-runs, while Nine have premiered quite a few Roadshow movies this year.
Seven’s main channel will air some golden age classics at midday Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday this week: Casablanca, North by Northwest and Singin in the Rain (two of these days coinciding with New Year’s).
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Guess they ran out of G / PG rated lifetime movies…
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