Is the Highway Patrol repeats on Wednesday and Thursday next week just a red herring? Does Seven have new episodes of The Big Music Quiz ready to go, or plan to hold them back until State of Origin is over?
In the series premiere of RUSH HOUR, cultures clash and tempers flare when a stoic, by-the-book Hong Kong police detective is paired with a maverick LAPD detective to investigate the theft of Chinese artifacts in Los Angeles.
A reimagining of the hit feature film franchise, Rush Hour is an action comedy about a maverick LAPD detective and a by-the-book detective from Hong Kong who knock heads when they are forced to partner together. Detective Lee (series star JON FOO) is reserved, honorable and a master at martial arts who comes to Los Angeles to avenge the alleged death of his sister, Kim (recurring guest star JESSIKA VAN), and learn more about her connection to a Chinese organized crime ring. Detective Carter (series star JUSTIN HIRES), on the other hand, is a wise-cracking cop who plays by his own rules.
Yet as exasperated as he makes his boss, Captain Lindsay Cole (series star WENDIE MALICK), she knows Carter is a brilliant detective who gets results. Attempting to help the two get along is Sergeant Didi Diaz (series star AIMEE GARCIA), Carter’s friend and former partner who doesn’t hesitate to call him out on his antics. Secretly aiding them as an informant is Carter’s cousin, Gerald (series star PAGE KENNEDY), who is a low-level offender who runs with a tough crowd. Even as cultures clash and tempers flare, Carter and Lee can’t deny they make a formidable team, and grudgingly admit that sometimes an unlikely pairing makes for a great partnership.
The 13-episode series screened in US earlier in the year and has been cancelled by CBS.
If Rush Hour were to finish before the Rio Olympics, then Seven must show it in double episodes. Plus Seven will have Thursday night AFL for four weeks starting 23 June.
CHANNEL 7 programs The Great South East, Queensland Weekender and Creek to Coast face an uncertain future, with the network reportedly cutting ties with the production company making the local television shows.
Seven is reportedly parting ways with TPD Media, the production company it has partnered with to make the popular lifestyle programs for nearly 20 years.
The move is the first major decision from new station general manager Ben Roberts-Smith VC.
Sources tell Sunday Confidential Roberts-Smith is keen to cut costs by moving the production of all local content in-house.
TPD Media boss Karen Hanna Miller is rumoured to be shopping around the shows to rival networks.
These three shows have been rating well for Seven in the region, so why did the network cut ties with the production company? I fear Nine could pick them up and turn them into the QLD version of Postcards.
7Brisbane is crazy!!! Those shows are great viewing and a good lead in to the weekend news, I’m sure a big part of the reason those bulletins rate well. Madness.
Sunday 12 June
07:00 PM House Rules
08:20 PM Sunday Night
09:20 PM Bones S11 Ep11 and 12
11:20 PM Castle Rpt
Monday 13 June
07:30 PM House Rules
09:15 PM Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders x 2
11:15 PM Grey’s Anatomy S12 Ep20 Rpt
Tuesday 14 June
07:30 PM House Rules
08:45 PM Kiss Bang Love
10:00 PM Ramsay’s Hotel Hell
11:00 PM The Goldbergs S2 Ep20
11:30 PM Bates Motel Season 3 Premiere
The finishing times of House Rules are so inconsistent throughout the week. So strange. Why not air it until 8:30 on Sunday? And finish at 9:00 on Monday and 9:00 again on Tuesday. It would just provide consistency. At the moment it finishes at different times every night.
All the networks do it with their primetime shows (though some worse than others.
Not 100% sure on exact reasons, but I’m guessing it’s a combination of:
allowing for lazier editing since there’s no fixed time to get an episode down to
lets them fit more ads in - there a limit on the number of ads that can be shown per hour, so longer show means more ads that are allowed to be shown to a captive audience.
somewhat prevents viewers from changing to a different show afterwards - not everyone’s going to want to watch a show they’ve missed the start of, so it gives them no choice but to stay on the same channel.
