What do people on here think about Seven’s selection of midday movies?
I notice most of them seem to be of the mystery/obsessive genre involving whodunnits, murders and stalkers. I wonder how it rates?
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Aren’t most of them telemovies from Hallmark Channel in the USA?
It’s one of Seven’s longest running continuous timeslots so I’m guessing it must rate ok not to replace with B-grade UK or USA reality shows.
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Schedule Update:
The Women’s Big Bash League has been moved to 7Mate in Sydney and Melbourne so all markets will get the same schedule next Thursday. This follows very poor ratings in those markets on Thursday.
Chicago Fire fans should also note the addition of a Thursday episode. Also now a double episode of Black-ish.
Thursday 14 October
07:00 PM Home And Away
07:30 PM Home And Away
08:00 PM Home And Away
08:30 PM America’s Got Talent Audition 2 S16 E02
10:30 PM The Latest: Seven News
11:00 PM Chicago Fire S09 E11
12:00 AM Black-ish S07 E06
12:30 AM Black-ish S07 E07
AGT will now be on the main channel in all markets.
Still on 7flix on my EPG. However, everything else has changed.
As it should have been all along… Perhaps Seven getting too ahead of themselves?
Week commencing 17 October 2021
Sunday 17 October
Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide
07:00 PM TBA
08:00 PM Border Security - Australia’s Front Line S15 E07
08:30 PM Movie: Ford v Ferrari (2019) Premiere
11:45 PM The Blacklist S08 E18
Perth
06:00 AM Telethon 2021 Big Night In
08:00 AM Weekend Sunrise
10:00 AM Telethon 2021 Family Festival
04:00 PM Telethon 2021 Telethon: Who Dares Wins
06:00 PM Seven News
06:30 PM Telethon 2021 Finale
08:15 PM Telethon 2021 Telethon: The Final Tally
08:30 PM TBA
09:30 PM Movie: Ford v Ferrari (2019) Premiere
12:45 AM The Blacklist S08 E18
Monday 18 October
07:30 PM TBA
Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide
09:00 PM Movie: Anna (2019) Premiere
11:30 PM The Goldbergs Season 8 Premiere
Perth
09:00 PM Flashpoint
09:30 PM Movie: Anna (2019) Premiere
12:00 AM The Goldbergs Season 8 Premiere
Tuesday 19 October
07:30 PM TBA
09:00 PM Unbelievable Moments Caught On Camera Season 5 Premiere
10:00 PM S.W.A.T. S03 E16
11:00 PM The Latest: Seven News
11:30 PM The Goldbergs S08 E02
Wednesday 20 October
07:30 PM Highway Patrol - Dreadful Drivers
08:30 PM America’s Got Talent Audition 3 S16 E03
09:30 PM The Rookie S03 E13
10:30 PM The Rookie S03 E14 Season 3 Finale
11:30 PM Chicago Fire S09 E12
Thursday 21 October
07:00 PM Home And Away
07:30 PM Home And Away
08:00 PM Home And Away
08:30 PM America’s Got Talent Audition 4 S16 E04
10:30 PM The Latest: Seven News
11:00 PM Chicago Fire S09 E13
12:00 AM Black-ish S07 E08
12:30 AM Black-ish S07 E09
Friday 22 October
07:00 PM Better Homes And Gardens
08:30 PM Movie: Interstellar
Saturday 23 October
07:00 PM Movie: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
10:00 PM Movie: The Wolverine (2013)
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With Big Brother VIP only starting in November, does that mean Seven will air filler content for the weeks commencing Sun 17 Oct, Sun 24 Oct and potentially even Sun 31 Oct?
They’ve got the civilian season of SAS.
Ahh yeah I forgot about that.
Fantastic schedule 
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I’m pretty sure the TBA’s are SAS:Hell Week.
Update
Sunday 17 October
Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide
07:00 PM 7NEWS Spotlight: The Vanishing
08:15 PM Border Security - Australia’s Front Line S15 E07
08:45 PM Movie: Ford v Ferrari (2019) Premiere
12:00 AM The Blacklist S08 E18
Perth
08:30 PM 7NEWS Spotlight: The Vanishing
Since the Seven Network 2022 thread is still locked until its upfronts day on Tuesday, I will post this here:
So Seven are rebooting MKR yet again? Yawn.
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The Australian is also claiming MKR will be making a comeback with new judges. They’re also reporting a House Rules spin off called Apartment Rules will be part of Seven’s 2022 schedule.
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Yeah, MKR hasn’t really been off-air long enough for people to be interested in the show again. In 2-5 years time, maybe but even then I doubt it.
Either way, a particular former judge will NOT be on any revived version of MKR for obvious reasons!
Talking about flogging two dead horses. Does Seven realise that the audience for those two shows have long left? No one cares for them anymore, especially not against Nine and 10’s juggernauts. Seven needs more established formats which are well-known worldwide, not reboot has-been and rejects.
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I think that a rebooted MKR could work if Seven follows the template they used to relaunch The Voice. In other words, a short, sharp season which mostly (or entirely) consist of ‘instant restaurants’ (ie; the aspect which attracted mega numbers in the show’s heyday) and focuses on the cooking. Such a ‘reimagined’ show airing around October/November next year could perform decently in a way DWTS did for so long for Seven before they decided to mess around with it.
Two points:
- Aside from MAFS, none of the reality tentpoles Nine and 10 air can really be considered to be ‘juggernauts’. I’m a Celeb does decently in Summer but it doesn’t set 10’s ratings on fire. Meanwhile, the shine has well and truly come off off Ninja Warrior and MasterChef while Nine had to manufacture conflict and pull out their well-worn ‘scandal’ card in order to revive The Block’s ratings this season. To be frank, all three commercial FTA networks find themselves in roughly the same good but not great position programming-wise. It’s just each have their own problems associated with that which they need to address
- It’s all well and good to say that “Seven needs more established formats which are well-known worldwide”. However, there are two issues with that. Firstly, the established and successful reality format pool isn’t as big or diverse as it seems to be. Secondly, audiences aren’t rewarding networks who take risks. Seven were left with egg on their face in Q1 this year when they gambled on Holey Moley and Ultimate Tag - two formats which fit what you say they should do. Meanwhile, we all know how Makin’ It has gone down for 10. I want networks to take far more risks than they currently do. However, you can understand why they just keep putting out the same shows/formats year-after-year when audiences keep voting with their eyeballs that’s what they want.
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My Kitchen Rules
Oh god.
Apartment Rules
Oh Godddd.
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Update:
Monday 18 October
07:30 PM SAS Australia: Hell Week Season 3 Premiere
Tuesday 19 October
07:30 PM SAS Australia: Hell Week S03 E02
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