The Graham Norton Show’s regular timeslot is now on Thursday nights, and will get decent lead-ins from I’m a Celebrity then Gogglebox from February 20. However repeat movies on Sunday nights are a no-no.
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10 have been told 
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Sunday Night Movies was once a big thing on FTA. That was 20 years ago. lol.
Monday to Friday: Great schedule. Sunday is 50-50. Saturday (apart from Love It or List It) is average.
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Monday to Friday great schedule? There’s only one Australian program in prime time. Everything after I’m a Celebrity is US and NCIS Sydney is repeats. Not great at all.
10’s Late News, The “late” Project and the AACTA Awards are Australian. While Crime Time, The Ex Wife, FBI Most Wanted, Elsbeth, NCIS Hawaii, Graham Norton are all new and not repeats (only NCIS Sydney is)
Yep, poor.
They start every year like this. Where’s some Aussie stuff while we wait for HYBPA, The Cheap Seats, Taskmaster etc.
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Would be nice to have, but what would you rather… the network put as much Aussie content to air as they can with a selection of imported first run programming to have a fairly well rounded schedule to kick off the year.
Or, spend up on local content amid an advertising downturn which would presumably mount to massive losses for the network, despite any possible ratings increase, and even further slashed budgets than they already have been resembling something like Three NZ.
We criticize 10 a lot (and a large part of the time it’s fairly warranted) but the alternative is not to have a third commercial free-to-air in the not too distant future if they don’t continue to adapt and spend responsibly.
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The news is too late on M-W… should be the 10pm start.
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Fridays edition airing very close to 11pm too.
It is pretty late, but 10 probably like (and probably flows better with retention) The Project rpt following the news rather than sandwiching the news between two similar programs for the sake of it airing earlier.
There’s always 10 play or YouTube if you want your hit of late news earlier.
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it was almost 20 years ago that Sunday Night Movies stopped screening due to being unable to access enough new release movies. Around 40 years ago Sunday Night Movies and Saturday Night Movies were a big thing. I remember a movie event on DDQ, NEN and NRN called Summerthon that screened throughout the 1980s. It was Summer of1987-1988 that I believe NEN did their last Summerthon with these 2 stations from adjacent regions. NRN continue with this “tradition” until the Summer of 1990-91, the year prior to aggregation
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Didn’t Ten pull pin first to launch a primetime lineup? Thought it was ratings related rather than accessibility but might be wrong.
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Yes, movies didn’t bring in the big audiences like they had, mostly because of the home VCR machine and then Foxtel meaning that most had seen the movies by the time they reached broadcast TV. That was compared to the past where it was the only place outside the cinema to see a movie.
Because they weren’t available on pay tv ad free.
In June 2006, Ten had US Procedurals (Law And Order franchises), I am not sure how much earlier than this it was
I am not sure of the exact reason, but it was considered a striking game changer in 2007(?) when 10 moved Rove to 8.30pm Sunday, a slot that had a long tradition as the big movie night for all networks. 10 really shook up the TV landscape throughout the noughties.
I think it was Criminal Intent or SVU in 2004 first. I’d only started posting here around 2005 (when I say only, 20 years ago lol) and recall reading about it. TV3 (NZ) had done similar in 2004 with CSI and Criminal Intent.
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It was 10 moving Law and Order: Criminal Intent and NCIS into the 8.30pm slot when they departed away from the traditional Sunday night movie. Rove moved to the Sunday slot from 9.30pm Tuesdays some years later.
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April 2024:
A Ten spokeswoman yesterday confirmed rumours that, from next month, Ten would fill the 8.30pm slot on Sundays with American series such as Law & Order, locally made mini-series and made-for-television movies.
The emphasis would be on programming that viewers have not seen before.
“Movies have been declining in value for TV networks over the past decade,” she said. “By the time they make their TV debut, most people have seen them at the cinema or on video or DVD.” For the first four decades of television, The Sunday Night Movie was a programming mainstay, uniting millions of Australians. In 1977, when The Sound of Music first came to TV (10 years after it was in cinemas), it was watched in 52 per cent of Sydney’s homes and 57 per cent of Melbourne’s homes, with a national audience estimated at 4 million.
The logic is inescapable, and Nine and Seven are bound to follow Ten’s lead - or to demand big reductions in the fees they pay to Hollywood studios for the right to show movies.
It now seems that the bigger the blockbuster, the smaller the TV audience later - as Seven learned in 2001 when it paid more than $2 million for the rights to show the most successful movie of all time, Titanic, and got an average audience of 1.7 million.
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Apologies - I thought it was Rove that broke the Sunday Movie tradition. In any case, it was a big game changer and I believe all networks soon followed suit. Rove did have a big promotional push in that slot though.
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“Movie: Will Smith’s Gemini Man” is what is currently listed on 10’s EPG at the moment (in Sydney and assumedly in Melbourne). Is this the first time they have an actors name been on the EPG? I know there were some times in recent times with “NEW” in their EPG. But this is different.