According to a post on the show’s fansite forum, Nine would resume airing the remainder of Season 10 from Tuesday 5th September, after True Story with Hamish & Andy finishes their 1st season the week before. Given the relative success of Kath & Kim reruns (& therefore taking True Story’s slot after it finishes), as well as the popularity for new eps of TBBT falling, I wouldn’t be surprised if they don’t air them until after 9:30pm.
The same post said that Nine can’t confirm on whether they’ve bought the rights to Season 11, which starts in the US next month. With that in mind, I wouldn’t be surprised if Seven bought the first run rights to the show from Season 11 onwards, given their success with wall-to-wall reruns of the show on 7mate & 7flix. I wonder if that’s also partly the reason why Nine are holding off the remaining 6 eps of TBBT that are yet to air?
TBBT spin-off Young Sheldon enjoyed an impressive debut in the US. A special screening of the pilot had a 18-49 rating of 3.8 and a whopping 17.21 million viewers before the regular season starts on November 2. It will be interesting to see which Australian network gets the rights to Young Sheldon (if at all).
Or better yet, after a new ep of TBBT would be more preferable.
Season 11 started in the US yesterday (our time), which means Nine could air it a week after the Season 10 finale (which airs in 2 weeks time, and is already available on DVD here for the past 2 weeks). Given the show’s recent resurgence in popularity here after it very nearly faded away with ratings below 500k a few months back, Nine would be mad to hold off airing the first few eps of Season 11 until 2018, because otherwise, its resurging popularity could be short-lived, with people going to ‘other means’.
Elsewhere, as mentioned on the 7flix thread, the Seven Network are not showing any TBBT repeats from next week. Considering that October was the month in which Seven started airing TBBT repeats in 2015 (with S8 added on that same month in 2016), its possible that the repeat rights are currently up for negotiation. Could Nine try to wrestle the repeat rights back from Seven?
Nine doesn’t need an output deal with WB to be able to broadcast the show. It makes more financial sense to only purchase the shows that have a proven success. If Nine had an output deal they would also have paid for Me, Myself and I that did not perform well plus many other underperforming shows.
Not true and you have been proven wrong time and time again.
You can pick and choose the hits by waiting. If you just take all the rubbish the American studios give you, it’s an expensive exercise which leads to disappointment these days and financial ruin.
The days where network can wait and schedule programming wherever they want to maximise success are over. If Young Sheldon premieres here in February, it will 100% fail.
Yes you are stuck in the 90s because the days where Australian networks can have success from American imports on free-to-air are over. You just have not realised it yet.
As far as Nine is concerned, I don’t think TBBT is much of a priority for them these days, to the point that the Season 10 DVD has been released here before Nine even finishes with the season, meaning that the last few eps of the season, including the season finale, are already legally available here. I guess the reason it’s currently doing well on its Tuesday night timeslot is due to having The Block as its lead-in, as well as having fairly weak competition from other networks.
Correction: Those eps never aired here in January.
Of interest, here are the ratings for each episodes from Season 10 that have aired here to date:
Ep
Aus. Airdate
US Airdate
Aus. Overnight 5-City Ratings
Aus. Timeslot
1
13.10.2016
19.09.2016
859,000
8:00pm Thursday
2
20.10.2016
26.09.2016
692,000
7:30pm Thursday
3
27.10.2016
03.10.2016
739,000
7:30pm Thursday
4
10.11.2016
10.10.2016
811,000
7:30pm Thursday
5
15.11.2016
17.10.2016
714,000
7:30pm Tuesday
6
17.11.2016
27.10.2016
657,000
7:30pm Thursday
7
22.11.2016
03.11.2016
710,000
7:30pm Tuesday
8
09.02.2017
10.11.2016
603,000
8:30pm Thursday
9
16.02.2017
17.11.2016
602,000
8:30pm Thursday
10
23.02.2017
01.12.2016
582,000
8:30pm Thursday
11
04.04.2017
15.12.2016
686,000
7:30pm Tuesday
12
04.04.2017
05.01.2017
742,000
8:00pm Tuesday
13
11.04.2017
19.01.2017
705,000
7:30pm Tuesday
14
18.04.2017
02.02.2017
698,000
7:30pm Tuesday
15
12.06.2017
09.02.2017
539,000
8:45pm Monday
16
19.06.2017
16.02.2017
428,000
8:45pm Monday
17
26.06.2017
23.02.2017
506,000
8:45pm Monday
18
03.07.2017
09.03.2017
453,000
8:45pm Monday
19
05.09.2017
30.03.2017
593,000
8:40pm Tuesday
20
12.09.2017
06.04.2017
767,000
8:40pm Tuesday
21
19.09.2017
13.04.2017
736,000
8:40pm Tuesday
22
26.09.2017
27.04.2017
727,000
8:40pm Tuesday
I know for a fact that it premiered in NZ on TVNZ 2 tonight (Wednesday), a day (considering the time difference) after it aired in the US. According to their website, they’ve also confirmed that they’ll air Young Sheldon.
No surprise Young Sheldon has been picked up for a full season after its impressive debut this week. Its 18-49 rating of 3.8 made it the highest-rated series premiere in the demographic since Empire in January 2015.
According to both YourTV & the EPG on my TV, Nine have scheduled an encore airing of an upcoming new episode (S10E23, which aired in the US on May 4) this Tuesday at 11:20pm, along with an earlier usual 8:40pm airing on the same night.
Perhaps Nine are taking hints from 7flix on running the same episode of the show within the same night?
You could throw in Season 9 as well, considering that Nine’s rights to the season had apparently expired, and will air on Foxtel’s Comedy Channel from next weekend.
If Nine are not airing Season 11 the week after the Season 10 finale airs, then there’s also the possibility that they haven’t bought the rights, and therefore may end up somewhere else, such as Stan (as mentioned above) or possibly even Ten after CBS takes ownership of the network (yes, I know TBBT is not a CBS-produced show, but it airs on the network in the US).
