You and @JohnsonTV should form a support group.
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Didnât someone suggest it was a tactic, so The Empire Strikes Back (which will be the highest-rating one) can avoid head-to-head with Block finale?
Iâll say it again - repeat movies are the only way to program against the Block, and youâd probably want the potential best performer of the series up against it. Iâd suggest the âbreakingâ of the âpromiseâ is due to the poor ratings performance of the franchise over the last few weeks.
Very much so.
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But it wouldnât have screened on The Block finale night anyway, if they had kept to âStar Wars Sundaysâ; it would have been Revenge of the Sith which is showing this Saturday night instead so there will be two Star Wars movies shown two nights in a row with A New Hope being shown on The Block finale night anyway.
All true.
However itâs partially not Star Warsâ fault (even though that shouldnât be an excuse - competition is there for a reason).
If it had minimal competition, equivalent of a Saturday night, theyâd be rating big.
Similar to how big Indiana Jones has been rating (which if on Sundays lately, wouldâve rated half what they did).
And wasnât the first time we saw a Saturday scheduled, before the first Star Wars even aired?
Just like âIndiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Arkâ (1981) was formerly known as justâŚ
Raiders of the Lost Ark 
Coincidentally on TV⌠Again⌠Right now.
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This was the promo from Seven for :Coming to October
Coming to October
Their schedule has now been released up to November with no Instant Hotel of Secret Daughter to be seen. I wonder why they didnât make the cut as both would be ready to broadcast and why US import The Good Doctor, instead, made it into the line-up.
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I think Seven putting The Good Doctor in the schedule is a last minute decision after the programmers saw its US ratings. They may start Instant Hotel during Melbourne Cup week.
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That means it has been airing in the US already which also means people can watch the show via other means. I donât know why they bother.
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Not sure why Seven would go with US content when they apparently have new Australian shows available.
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Yeah. There shouldnât be any American content on the main channel.
Theyâre turning into Ten! 
Remember when Ten was criticised (and still is at times) for airing too much US programming in prime-time?
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âGoodfellasâ (1990) will air in Adelaide and Perth on 7mate on Friday night, first time on Seven (after airing for a long time on Nine).
A gangster-crime classic!
At least Seven are utilising their new Warner Bros deal a lot lately
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But back then all those shows rated well for Ten, so why wouldnât they continue airing them?
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Itâs all relative. You might think Ten were rating âwellâ but Seven and Nine were rating spectacularly in comparison.
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NCIS was rating âspectacularlyâ though?
Over 1.5m (metro) for those middle seasons (4-6, 2007-2009) particularly.
Spectacular for now, but Nine and Seven had a couple of shows a week which would hit 1.5 million. 6pm Sunday news, basically all of Sunday and most of Mondays would do 1.5 million reliably.
Go back to 2001 and youâll find that there were something like 60 shows which averaged over a million for their entire season.
But most of them were American, so actually sav001 has a point.
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Indeed. Packed to the Rafters was still rating 1.8-2.3m.
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10 years ago in 2007, US drama /comedy was a big part of all commercial network line-ups. A popular show would often deliver the night for the network. Ten would win nights with shows like NCIS and especially House while Seven had Desperate Housewives, Greyâs Anatomy and Ugly Betty while Nine could win a night when CSI or CSI Miami was shown. ABC wasnât immune either with New Tricks and Midsomer Murders in the top rated shows.
Of the top dramas on TV at the time only a few were Australian and Packed to the Rafters hadnât started when the Chaser ad was made. City Homicide was the number one serial drama at the time with House number two followed by Greyâs and CSI.
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Twas a great show.
Sevenâs answer to an Aussie police procedural, after Blue Heelers was axed after 13 years.
What were Heelersâ ratings when it was axed, surely double or triple (if not more) of some of the Aussie dramas on now? Many were so upset ir didnât go a few more years. Tied with Prisoner didnât it? All good things must come to an end I guess
I feel strongly that US comedy and drama would still be a large part of the schedule if networks delivered them in a timely fashion and scheduled them in regular time slots. Viewers just became tired of having to work so hard to keep track of their favourite shows and the unreliability. Now Australian drama canât find an audience because end times for the big tent pole shows are so haphazard. They really have shot themselves in both feet.
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