Facts aren’t excuses.
yes, they could. they’re not going to employ staff at a cost of $1m+ during a worldwide pandemic, however.
Same stories, different edits.
Most likely.
The answer is an insignificant amount of money. Really very cheap television. A few more stories. A few repeated stories. A few live crosses to people already in place. More weather. And a high rating show in Primetime on Saturdays
Very weird that 10 commits to news at 6, 6 nights a week. and not the 7th, especially when they just have to extend what is already there,
It does defy logic.
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Kinne Tonight
Returns Monday 25 May At 9.30pm
The Kinne Of Comedy Is Back.
Are you ready to laugh so hard you’ll leave skit marks? Kinne Tonight returns to 10 for a hilarious second season of home grown hi-jinx, from Monday, 25 May at 9.30pm.
Hilarious bloke-next-door, Troy Kinne, and his gang of comics, will once again put the intricacies and idiocrasy of modern life under the microscope. From social media, relationships, family, and the workplace – we’re looking at you, Susan in finance – to fad diets, cycling and other questionable lifestyle choices. Anything and everything is fair game for Kinne and the crew.
This season, Kinne’s all-star comedy line-up includes Christie Whelan Browne, Natalie Tran, Nicolette Minster, Max Price, Oliver Clark, Dave Thornton, Elliot Loney, Tommy Flanagan, Sarah Bishop, Genevieve Hegney and Nina Oyama, plus special guest appearances each week.
In true Monday-funday style, Kinne Tonight will follow Have You Been Paying Attention? to have you laughing your way into the week ahead.
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Why haven’t they been promoting this yet? I’m sure they don’t need to have a MasterChef promo in every break on Ten and could promote Kinne a bit instead.
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It’s just been announced today, and premieres in 2 weeks time? It’s a fairly low budget comedy with an excellent lead-in, which will serve it well again. No doubt we’ll see some promos soon.
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Promo just aired during HYBPA.
Should do very well. 10 has Mondays sorted.
Starting one of your few performing shows twenty minutes after the scheduled start time isn’t going to piss off viewers at all. Had the DVR set to record with an extra fifteen minutes added to the end and it’s still not enough. Lucky I thought to check after an episode of a drama I’d been bingeing on a streaming service finished. They wonder why people aren’t watching mid evening shows anymore.
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It’s just plain stupid by Ten. I’ve started to add 30 mins to programs like HYBPA, though I shouldn’t have to add any time.
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You can’t rely on printed schedule times. Have to check the updated to-the-minute times, and even then, still have to add 10-15 mins in case of live overruns or news updates.
You can’t even rely on network EPG times to be up to date. I set the DVR to record HYBPA after 6pm and it was showing 8.30pm. Given they record the show on a Sunday and made a joke about starting late, it would appear Ten had plenty of time to update the EPG but just couldn’t be bothered to keep the audience informed. This is one of the only shows I bother to keep track of on FTA these days. I’ve given up on everything else except news and ABC/SBS product because the FTA networks show such a lack of regard for the audience. The death spiral they find themselves is their own doing.
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Yes. It surely can’t be too difficult for Ten to get the EPG correct. The ABC manage to have generally have it spot on, until shows live shows like Q&A and the late news go overtime but that is forgivable.
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I mean
I feel like updating an epg is something that a tech guy can log in at home 24/7 and do
A show was scheduled to run 96 minutes
It comes in at 116 minutes
Content prep people send an email
Person updates EPG
This seems so simple to me
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I saw the EPG had updated around 7pm before I called it a night. It had 8.50-9.50 listed.
Ten aren’t as good at reliably updating it as they were maybe 2-3 years ago.
Agreed. They have screwed the viewer experience and convenience at their own loss to streaming. Numbers will only go one way.
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Heres an idea? How about watching a show as live on FTA, and watch those shows oni those streaming sites later?
When you record a program you can skip all the ads, which you can’t do on the catch-up streaming services. If I watch HYBPA on Monday nights I usually try to start watching it at about 9:00pm if it starts at 8:30 so I can skip the ads.
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That only further highlights the problem with the networks promoting misleading program starting times. If a program is promoted as airing at 8:30pm, it should start at 8:30pm (with leeway being acceptable in some circumstances such as sports overruns) - not 8:37pm, not 8:42pm, not 8:50pm, etc
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I think Monday was initially a mistake from 10. There was a series of updates to MasterChef program lengths for the week (that I posted above) but for some reason they forgot to change Monday. Otherwise 10 are usually very good with getting the broadcast EPG correct. This is based on how closely the preliminary ratings numbers match the final adjusted numbers. (Last night MasterChef has unchanged meaning the EPG was correct while HYBPA was adjusted by 3,000). Not sure if that translates to those watching in regional areas.
However, the bigger mystery for me is why the reality shows like LEGO Masters, House Rules, MasterChef etc have their broadcast times adjusted at all, and why they are such odd lengths. I would have thought that a network would commission a series and purchase a set number of broadcast hours or in the case of Seven Studios be told how many hours to produce. So why do the episodes come back with such with odd times. Does Endemol say, we just had to add extra to the show this week, there was no other way to edit it? So for example last night’s Episode 9 of LEGO Masters was 59:28 but Episode 8 was 52:59 and 4 was only 49:42 (others are much longer). I’m interest to know how these shows travel in international markets are they re-edited for example to fit a more standard timeslot in New Zealand??
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I for the life of my can’t understand why:
Networks don’t dictate run times and producers have so much free reign to run whatever length they want
This is the single biggest thing that has killed any post 9pm show and contributors FTAs rapid overall downside slide
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Maybe, but they’re probably the worst at advising a guide time (8:30pm or 8:45pm) in print and online… Only for the on-screen EPG to be an easy 15-20min later than that!