Now we know why they ditched Christmas with the Australian Women’s Weekly. They’ll be doing a Christmas special with SMH’s Good Food.
They spent a lot of time showing all the past Nine dramas. I guess it’s because there is a lack of new content in 2020.
Doctor Doctor and two throwbacks Halifax and Informer 3838.
Is SeaChange axed?
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Was SeaChange confirmed as coming back? Did I miss that?
Or were they just showing a clip from this year?
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Not another Underbelly. Probably won’t be able to show it anyway due to legal reasons.
I thought Ten’s was underwhelming. This is worse.
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More new shows than ten.
But looks like 9 and 10 are just going with what worked this year for prime time so very underwhelming.
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Really? How many more new shows do Nine have?
-The Parent Jury
-Emergency
-Taronga
-Step Back in Time
Not quite new:
-Informer 3838 (Underbelly spin-off)
-Halifax (reboot)
Have I missed anything?
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Looks like Talkin about your generation is out and will be replaced by Step back in time
Halifax, Taronga, Parent jury, informer 3838, emergency. So there’s a few more there than ten.
It was consistent … ly underwhelming.
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They said it was a panel show but I guess it could be a panel/game show.
Heavily focused of the current programming line-up. Something that advertisers know .
The BBC doco and two new dramas were the only interesting new programs (for me).
No new reality stripped formats.
Not listed specifically in the media releases though highlighted in the closing package were Seachnage and Love Island.
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Um, Christmas eve is a Tuesday this year. Under Carols it says Monday.
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On a Saturday at 5:30pm. It should be on a weekday at 7:30pm for one hour, I think.
While that was to be expected considering how well their stripped reality formats have performed this year, Nine should have done more to address their post 8:30pm/9pm weakness. Aside from Travel Guides and Paramedics, not much has performed well for them.
Not to mention there’s likely going to be again a Q4 hole that they’ll need to fill because I doubt Love Island will be renewed if it continues to perform as underwhelmingly as it has
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Whilst I don’t watch it nor care for these type of shows do we know it’s performing poorly on other metrics other than total people? It might be huge on BVOD and catch up. Who knows? They’ll evaluate then see if they renew.
So this is the big headline that NewsCorp goes with after the Nine Upfronts.
Karl’s show axed from Channel 9:
https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/karl-stefanovics-this-time-next-year-axed-from-channel-9s-2020-lineup/news-story/baa96d745e90e69a2dfa15873bfe00df
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The big item from today’s upfronts is Nine’s new partnership with the BBC for nature documentaries. If this works well, it could lead to collaborations in other genres like drama.
Otherwise, the 2020 line-up is much of the same from this year.
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