Homeland among 13 series fast tracked by Ten in coming weeks
Network Ten will next month shift its focus to overseas programming, fast-tracking several series as it attempts to change its ratings fortunes.
The network will fast-track 13 shows from the US and UK, starting from later this month.
The moves comes as Ten finds itself struggling in the ratings after Everybody Dance Now and I Will Survive were unable to deliver major prime time audience figures.
A spokesman for Ten told Mumbrella that the move was also as a response to viewers’ expectations not to wait for a show to air locally once it has been broadcast in the US. he said: “The aim is to meet the expectation of viewers, who these days want to see most new shows as soon as possible after they’ve launched overseas. People are increasingly not prepared to wait until February.”
The line up includes the return of Homeland, The Good Wife, NCIS and New Girl as well as four new series, The New Normal, Ben and Kate, Vegas and Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals.
Homeland, Modern Family and Glee did well for the network earlier this year.
While Ten would not announce the dates it plans to put the shows to air, according to The Hollywood Reporter, The Good Wife will launch on CBS on September 30, Showtime will launch the return of Homeland on the same night, while New Girl will go out Tuesday 25 September.
While Glee launched last Thursday in the US, due to sporting commitments and the Presidential elections, Fox will rest the show for a few a few weeks in November. After this time Ten will begin airing the new series so as to play it without gaps.
The fast tracking tactic has grown over the years bringing more shows from the US directly into the schedule. Already this year Foxtel has launched its campaign Express from the US to bring new US series straight off the satellite. And the ABC is making Dr Who available for online streaming hours after the BBC shows it in the UK.
Has anyone seen the promo’s for this running at the mo? they’re sooooo good.
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Great show, but on air it will have twice the amount of commercial breaks as the US, and they will all be for Ten’s reality TV programming. Which makes me sad.
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Is it really fast tracking anymore. Now that these episodes become available on the net as soon as they are aired, it would just seem the logical thing to do .
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Good move. Homeland is an excellent show.
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This is too funny, the networks and Foxtel have just realized this is the answer?
Meanwhile during HSC stuvac week at the back of a school library in 2004, 8 students gathered around a computer hooked up to a TV watching downloaded episodes of Family Guy, The Simpsons and One Tree Hill, pretending we were studying the narratives for English. #Just sayin…
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Hey TimeShifter … what’s your logic there? Homeland is made to fill a 60 minute slot in the US (like nearly every other TV show). They make the show to run for around 44 minutes leaving 12 minutes for ‘national’ ads and 4 minutes for ‘local’ ads. So, if Australia is going to run twice the ads does that mean 32 minutes of ads and Ten will cut 16 minutes of the programme. Or did you just blow that out of your arse?
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Good move but people will not wait for the delay. Yes there are problems with U.S elections, or U.S holidays but if they aren’t playing them within 24 hours of the U.S release then people will get them another way and once you’ve lost those people it’s pretty hard to get them back to watching tv with ads.
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Homeland sucked. the suspension of belief was beyond comprehension. Crap! Bipolar? She didn’t act like i do when i’m not on my meds. And when i do take my Tegrato and Lovan, i’m like anyone else.
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Soz, Tegratol.
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Here’s a list of confirmed Australian broadcast dates: http://whenitsonfoxtel.com/201.....cal-order/
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I love Homeland. If only ten could get a hold of some more quality HBO style drama along with continued local commissions it might give them something to say they stand for. Mad Men and Boardwalk Empire please!
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Fast-track whatever you like. Appointment model of viewing TV is dying unless it’s live sport.
The Pirate Bay, EZTV and co offer shows whenever you want them – an almost impossible model for broadcast TV to compete with, I know, but nightsoil-carters didn’t have it any easier.
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Impossible for the broadcasters to compete with – apart from the fact that it is those very same broadcasters that create the shows that people ‘fast-track’ (i.e. pirate or steal). Send ’em broke and you’ll soon crave to watch shows even half as crappy as The Shire or Lara Bingle.
Also have a look at the SMH today … http://www.smh.com.au/entertai.....2643a.html
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