Time for James Bond again on Nine (9 Gem in NRL states)
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They didn’t air the more modern ones (Daniel Craig) last time, abruptly stopping after Pierce Brosnan’s final outing of 2002’s Die Another Day, which was really strange, perhaps a rights thing? Good to see them continuing, but disappointing it’s now disjointed for viewers who might’ve been following for months, they’d all rated really well (as they always do). Wonder if they’ll go back to Dr No eventually and re-run them all once more or stop at Spectre.
They might also have the FTA premiere rights now for No Time To Die? It’s on their Stan. And unlike other territories (with Amazon now owning MGM), due to Nine-Stan’s long-time agremeent, I’m not sure if Amazon Prime here have svod rights to Bond, I think only first pay window like rent/buy?
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9Go! Monday 22 May 8:30 pm
Quantum of Solace the following Friday.
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This was one of plenty Hollywood studio films released during and affected by the COVID pandemic, thus also suffered terribly at the box office, despite star power and an intriguing premise. It was also released simultaneously ad-free in the US on HBO Max. It was taken place theatrically by “Mortal Kombat” coincidently also very recently premiered on Nine. Both from WB, which Nine signed with a year back, following Seven’s output lapse. It is currently available on svod on Netflix and Foxtel/Binge and of course digital first pay platforms and physical home media.
I’d be interested in this, some reviews were more positive, while many were mediocre suggesting there are better similar movies and the sub-genres didn’t seem to mesh. I’d DVR record and remove the ads, however I currently have a Binge sub, so will most likely stream there.
7Bravo ‘Movie Club’ on Sunday nights actually airing some decent titles in coming weeks: the late great Sydney Pollack’s Academy Award-winning Out of Africa with Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer and Meryl Streep; followed by the early 90s popular chiller remake Cape Fear (and often parodied such as “The Simpsons”) starring Robert De Niro, Juliette Lewis, Jessica Lange, Joe Don Baker and Nick Nolte. With some good promotion and if FTA is lacking at the time, both could pull some good shares and possibly highs for the channel, especially the latter.
Makes you wonder where 7flix is left at the moment, especially with Blow Up being dumped there, really is becoming their ‘least preferred’ channel and shares still haven’t really recovered since Simpsons/Family Guy/American Dad left (although various Law & Order/Ramsay/movies seem to be holding those shares for now as opposed to continual dropping) and really since they lost Seinfeld and before that Big Bang (where shares went above 3% regularly and a few 200k metro audiences around 2016 and 2017).
Seven Friday 2 June 12:00am (Saturday morning)
Seven / 7Mate Saturday 3 June 7:30 PM
9Go! Sunday 28 May 9:45 PM
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From Seven’s Fox output (unknown if lapsing or renewed - now controlled by Disney no doubt), probably should’ve premiered 1 year ago (but maybe due to all the special events Winter Olympics, Queen Jubilee, Election, Warnie funeral, Comm Games, Queen death, multiple Swans/Lions games on main channel into Syd Bris) didn’t and one of the last actually signed off/produced/released by Fox in late 2019 pre-COVID before Disney bought Fox.
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An animation (and FTA premiere) with three markets (including Sydney and Brisbane) on main channel, like a throwback to old ‘kids/family movie’ and pre-COVID, I think 2018-2019 the last seen regularly (at 7pm though) when (e.g.) Finding Dory, The Good Dinosaur, The BFG, Zootopia, The Peanuts Movie were some. Followed by their mature/older audience staple and rater in Con Air.
Wonder if they’ll continue, there’s another month at least with main ch 3 markets for these vs 2 for AFL, even if don’t rate high, going off last night can’t do much worse than what FTA (outside news, AFL and maybe ABC) did across the board on a market basis, plus Seven have network AFL to fall back on/actually drive their shares and means they’re extracting value from their output deals and getting advertisers for specific target demographics often hard to reach, many of which might be theatrical/cinema sponsors such as Universal AU with Fast X at the moment and no doubt Paramount AU (or is it Disney AU) ramping up soon for Indiana Jones 5.
And once again or as always, I’ve thought too much on this 
FTA premiere promo (a somewhat rare for these days full 20sec variation - a shorter 10sec one had been used in the ad break prior and during the week - also variated for channel in some markets):
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10 Shake Saturday 10 June 7:55 pm
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An odd-ball choice, similarly to 7flix’s religious Hollywood one some months back “The Shack”.
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is on Seven for what I think is the first time on 17 June. But on 9Go on 16th is Lost World Jurassic Park.
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You can guess for the last times on Nine, the OG JP this week too after another F&F encore/marathon each night (also probably the last time).
IIRC the later movies (usually FTA premieres from cinema releases a couple of years earlier) seem to land at the new network first (sometimes maybe only one or two airings on the first run network), before the older titles from the back-catalogue (aired many times), been a number of examples of this on both Seven and Nine recently. Such as “Kong Skull Island” and “Wonder Woman” for example.
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Friday 23 June Seven/7Mate
TV_Central has this as a “premiere”. However a quick check suggests it aired on Seven previously as far back as a Friday late night on main channel in Sydney in 2012 eleven years ago. And previously on Ten in late 2000s.
It was last on 9Go! in December.
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Late (after midnight -varies per market) on Friday 30 June, Seven
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nothing says Christmas like late June…
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Also a strange time for a premiere movie, as late as 1:00 am in Adelaide.
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