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ELEVEN have made some significant changes to their nightly programming starting as early as this Saturday February 25 with The Simpsons and Futurama playing on Saturday nights instead of all those Everybody Loves Raymond and Frasier episodes, while on weeknights, Craig Ferguson moves back half an hour to an 11pm start instead of 10.30pm.

Here’s the summary:

Saturday Feb 25
7.30 The Simspons 
8.00 The Simpsons
8.30 Futurama
9.00 Futurama
replaces Frasier and Everybody Loves Raymond

Sunday Feb 26
7.30 The Simpsons instead of Futurama
8.00 Futurama remains

Monday Feb 27
10.30 Frasier which moves back
11.00 The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and bumps out Cheers from the schedule

Tuesday Feb 28
10.40 Frasier
11.10 The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Wednesday Feb 29
9.30 Futurama instead of The Cleveland Show
10.00 The Cleveland Show – NEW
10.30 Frasier
11.00 The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Thursday Mar 1
10.30 Frasier 
11.00 The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Friday Mar 2
8.30 Snog, Marry, Avoid instead of the third episode of The Simpsons
9.00 Snog, Marry, Avoid moving back Sex and The City
9.30 Sex and The City
10.05 Sex and The City – now only two episodes
10.40 Frasier
11.10 The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Saturday Mar 3
Same as Saturday Feb 25.

The later start now for Craig Ferguson on ELEVEN now means his show overlaps with Letterman on Ten on many nights – may cause problems for some of the talk show junkies out there.

Snog, Marry, Avoid – what is this I hear you ask? W-ell: First ep goes like this: Join us as we ‘Make Under’ a fake-tan obsessed Levi from Kent and glamour model wannabe Tamsin. Will these girls return to their old ways? and the second: Tonight two girls and one boy band will experience the magic of a makeover. With corset lover Dominique, pink Barbie obsessed Jules and a boy band called “Girls That Scream”.

Information correct as at February 22, 2012.

We are not done yet with programming changes today!

Another one from ELEVEN – this time, Saturday nights get reworked – and they need it! Changes take effect from Saturday Feb 5.

Saturday night is ELEVEN’s worst night of the week in ratings, which is not good seeing it is also Ten’s worst night of the week, and ONE without AFL, barely manages a blip in ratings figures – an all round bad night for the Ten network. So the question must be asked – what were they thinking with Hogan’s Heroes and Get Smart on Saturday nights anyway? Did anyone think these shows would work in prime time?

Predictably, Get Smart has now also been dumped from Saturday nights on ELEVEN.

Instead, another ex-GO! show Frasier, coupled with Everybody Loves Raymond – in some programming looking more like something you’d see on GO! will now fill Saturday nights. Yes, if Nine episodes a week of Raymond are not enough, here are another two for you – why – that’s ELEVEN episodes a week now of Raymond (in prime time)! At least there are 10 seasons of it to get through!

Saturday nights (from Feb 5) on ELEVEN now looks like this:

6.00 Family Ties
6.30 Everybody Loves Raymond
7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond
7.30 Frasier
8.00 Everybody Loves Raymond
8.30 Frasier
9.00 Everybody Loves Raymond
9.30 Movie

Don’t get the reference to GO programming? Until recently, here is what GO had planned for Sunday nights:

6.30 The Middle
7.00 The Middle
7.30 The Big Bang Theory
8.00 The Middle
8.30 The Big Bang Theory
9.00 The Middle
9.30 Movie.

GO!, of course, have since amended the Sunday night line up to 2 Middles, 3 Big Bangs and a Two and a Half Men in that order.

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