Screentime: Moving Crownies later is for the best

Tim Burrowes

September 27, 2011 10:10

Screentime has put a brave face on ABC1’s decision to move its legal drama Crownies to a later timeslot half way through its run.

The show, promoted as “Sex, Lies and Magistrates” featuring the lives of young solicitors , has struggled to pull audiences.

It was announced earlier this month that Crownies would be pushed back to 9.30pm to make way for The Slap.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.

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2 COMMENTS

Jenny 28 Sep 11

Was a little hesitant to watch Crownies – mainly because of the publicity – Sex, Lies & Magistrates. I’m not in the young demographic and the advertising made me think this show would not be for me. BUT, I really like this show. The scripts are strong, production is great and the mainly young cast are mostly very good. A couple of characters don’t appeal, but on the whole very good. Congrats to everyone involved.

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Brian 28 Sep 11

Crownies is okay, but would have benefited greatly from a short first season so that changes could be made before committing to too many episodes. A 22-episode order for a genre that is pretty unproven on the ABC was a pretty ill-informed gamble.

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