House

9.30pm Wednesday, February 23 on Ten

Looks like Plainsboro’s poster boy. Taub. is in a bit of hot water. He failed his last medicalexam. and it is now up to Foreman to play tutor and bring him up to speed.

Meanwhile. House discovers there’s a new lady in Wilson’slife. and he’s not happy. Not happy to the point of sabotage.

And the medicaldilemma of the week sees a woman with an extraordinary memory experience temporary paralysis. which is further triggered when her sister comes to visit.

Even before the show has aired, Seven have back flipped (again) on the Monday night timeslot for Conviction Kitchen.

Set to premiere tonight (Tue Feb 22), at 9.30pm after Packed to the Rafters, Conviction Kitchen was to move to its regular timeslot of 8.30pm Mondays from next week – Mon Feb 28.

Now, it will remain at 9.30 Tuesdays, meaning that Parenthood will not be seen in the interim.

Next Monday, Feb 28 at 8.30 will be Bones, while the following Monday, March 7, 8.30pm is TBA.

Now – I wonder what it was that made Seven change their mind? Was it the fact that Ten are putting House on now at 8.30 Mondays or are they concerned about “feel good” opposition in This Is Your Life on Nine?

Or could it have been the two and a half star review that David Knox gave the show on TV Tonight yesterday that have made Seven decide to leave it after the Rafters?

Honestly, the change is last minute enough – surely they could have at least seen how it rates tonight before making this decision? Just another 24 hours? Yes, Bones will outrate House and yet another show hosted by Eddie, but moving Conviction Kitchen perhaps signifies Seven may not have too much faith in the show.

Third week of official ratings is not even half way through and already, between the three commercial main channels and some of the digitals (namely GO!, GEM and 7mate mostly) we have seen an average of at least one timeslot or program change a day between them all.

And that does not include minor amendments like classification updates or corrections or program story line updates!

Ten have made some changes to their nightly line up from next week, including moving House from Wednesdays to Monday nights at 8.30pm from Mon Feb 28, after having a week off.

The NCIS repeat that airs on Monday 8.30 this week moves to Tuesday next week, at 9.30pm, making an NCIS double, while Lie to Me as a result moves to Wednesday night at 9.30pm from March 2.

It sums up like this:

Mon Feb 28
7.30 Glee
8.30 House
9.30 Good News Week

Tue Mar 1
7.30 Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation
8.30 NCIS new
9.30 NCIS rpt

Wed Mar 2
7.30 The Biggest Loser Families
8.30 Blue Bloods
9.30 Lie to Me

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Lose weight or eat food?

Perhaps one temptation for the families on the Biggest Loser might be to attend and eat at one of the dinner parties in My Kitchen Rules!

The only night that the two shows are against each other is Wednesday night.

Next Wednesday, after the final instant restaurant in My Kitchen Rules, there will be a cook off between the two teams with the lowest score in each group. That will happen at the end of scoring for the sixth team in group 2, which means that the cook off will extend the show by 30 minutes.

In response to Seven’s scheduling, Ten have extended The Biggest Loser on that night to 90 minutes as well, as an attempt to avoid viewers flicking over for the cook off.

That means the scheduling for the rest of next Wednesday on Ten (and Seven) will be delayed by half an hour.

Also, on that night, Blue Bloods is a double episode, House has a week off.

The night for Ten looks like this:

7.30 The Biggest Loser Families
9.00 Blue Bloods
10.00 Blue Bloods
11.00 6PM with George Negus
11.30 Ten news with Sports Tonight
12.00 Overtime
1.00 Letterman

Letterman seems to sink later and later into the night, but at least it is not against Craig Ferguson on ELEVEN.

 And on Seven:

 7.30 My Kitchen Rules
9.00 Criminal Minds
10.00 City Homicide

9.30pm Wednesday, February 16 on Ten

Looks like Plainsboro’s poster boy. Taub. is in a bit of hot water. He failed his last medicalexam. and it is now up to Foreman to play tutor and bring him up to speed.

Meanwhile. House discovers there’s a new lady in Wilson’s life. and he’s not happy. Not happy to the point of sabotage.

And the medicaldilemma of the week sees a woman with an extraordinary memory experience temporary paralysis. which is further triggered when her sister comes to visit.

Some more first run content returning to Ten in coming weeks.

On Tuesday February 15, at 9.30pm, will be the season premiere of Lie To Me, with an episode called In The Red.

Cal goes to great lengths to prevent a man, fuelled by revenge, from robbing a bank and in the process, is given the opportunity to right a wrong by holding a guilty man accountable for his actions.

On Friday February 18, at 8.30pm, is the season return of Law and Order: UK, with an episode called Samaritan.

A young police officer is killed when he responds to an emergency call and inadvertently gets involved in a shoot out with a drug dealer.

Then, at 9.30pm Friday Feb 18, is the season return of Medium – Means to An End.

Allison starts having recurring dreams about Detective Scanlon and his dead brother. Meanwhile, Ariel is up in the wee hours of the night searching for her mysterious college roommate.

And – Queensland viewers, don’t forget that the season return of House – scheduled for tonight (Wed Feb 2) at 9.30pm, but replaced with cyclone news, can now be seen on Friday Feb 4 at 9.30pm, after the encore of Blue Bloods.

Programming amendments for extended coverage of Cyclone Yasi. The storm is expected to cross the coast at 10pm EST.

On Ten, in Brisbane, there will be an extra news bulletin at 9.30pm tonight (Feb 2), meaning the season return of House will not be seen there. Regular Late news at 10.30 follows in all markets.

The missing episode of House will now air at 9.30pm Fri in QLD.

On Thursday morning (Feb 3), Ten morning news at 6am will be extended to 2 hours in all markets, and will start at 5am in Brisbane, continuing to 10am there as well. News at 9am remains as normal except in QLD.

On Nine, regular programming continues, with the cricket starting, as scheduled at 2pm AEDT. In Sydney and Melbourne, A Current Affair will follow the 6pm news, with cricket coverage resuming from 7pm.

UPDATED: In QLD, the news will be at 5pm, with CRICKET BACK at 5.30, news again at 6pm, then ACA and cricket live from 7.00pm.

UPDATED: Like during the floods, Nine will air a late news bulletin, after the cricket. 10pm NSW and VIC, 9pm QLD. Also Today on Thur Feb 3 in QLD will be extended to 10am, followed by Nine’s morning News at 10am instead of 11am in QLD.

On Seven, rolling coverage continues – presumably until they reach the 4.30 news.

UPDATED: Today on Nine and Sunrise on Seven both will start at 5am (4am QLD) Thur Feb 3, finishing at 10am. Seven look like continuing rolling coverage for Thursday, according to their ticker on the current rolling coverage. It shows news at 12 midday which would suggest Sunrise / The Morning show will continue coverage, then the morning news at 11.30 merges into the coverage.

ABC News 24 and Sky News continue to provide full non stop rolling coverage. The Weather Channel also features regular segments and updates.

Radar image taken around 2.30pm AEST, Feb 2.

Go here for live and up to date images.

Travolta turns down Glee role

John Travolta has turned down the opportunity to make an appearance on Glee, saying he didn’t feel he could perform well enough in the short time he would get on the show. He said: “I really have a criteria or pride that I would want to knock them dead, and I don’t think I can knock them dead in a week.”

Uproar over Jersey Shore’s Italian shoot

The president of the National Italian American Foundation has criticised the decision by MTV to shoot the fourth season of jersey Shore in Italy. Joseph V. Del Raso said: “It is unfortunate that American television producers want to export an image of young Americans that has little to do with the image of most of our youth.  American youth has so much to offer the modern world and it is certainly not representing by the caricatures portrayed by the Jersey Shore cast.”

Edgar Allen Poe pilot ordered

American network ABC has ordered a new drama pilot based on the fictional exploits of Edgar Allan Poe. The pilot, entitled Poe, will portray the writer as a detective who employs unusual methods to solve crime in 1840’s Boston.

House cast yet to gain contracts

The cast of House are yet to be contracted for an eighth season of the medical drama, with only lead actor Hugh Laurie on contract. Actress Lisa Edelstein explained: “There are still some issues to be worked out. I believe NBC [Universal] wants Fox to take over the cost of production, and Fox doesn’t want to. Until that’s resolved, they can’t even begin to talk to any of us.”

Twas the week before ratings began for 2011 … and networks started filling their schedules with new content…

After two months of repeats and generally inferior free to air programming, finally the time has arrived for season premiere after season premiere.

This is where we will go from having nothing to watch one week, to having too much to choose from the next.

In week 6 (Jan 30 – Feb 5) – the last week of summer TV Ten will launch three new shows as well as premiere new episodes in season returns of others.

Already revealed is programming for Sunday Jan 30 which includes the premiere of The Biggest Loser Families at 6.30pm, two NEW episodes of Modern Family at 7.30pm, the premiere of Hawaii Five-O at 8.30 and new NCIS: LA at 9.30pm.

During the day on Sunday Jan 30, is a Video Hits Big Day Out Special, featuring the best Aussie music acts from Brisbane, the first stop on the Aussie leg of the Big Day Out tour.

Monday Jan 31 – after two months of repeats finally new episodes of GLEE are here! In Season 2, episode 9 Special Education, its sectionals time, and the Glee kids are fighting. Narcissism and secrets are threatening to blow New Directions’ chances.

Glee returns to Mondays, 7.30pm from Jan 31.

Undercover Boss (US) remains at 8.30 Mondays with new episodes. At 9.30, Mon Jan 31 is The Melbourne International Great Debate 2008.

Tuesday Feb 1 – New NCIS is back, at 8.30pm with season 8, episode 7 Broken Arrow. At 7.30, Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation remains in repeat. 9.30 TBC.

Wednesday Feb 2 – Biggest Loser Families continues at 7.30pm.

Premiere of new series Blue Bloods is at 8.30, Wed Feb 2. In the first episode, we are introduced to the Reagan family as Jamie (Will Estes) is graduating from the Police Academy and joining the NYPD, after deciding not to pursue his career as a lawyer.

At 9.30, House returns with season 7, episode 9 Larger Than Life! Guests stars Candice Bergen and Matthew Lillard.

Thursday Feb 3 – Biggest Loser Families continues at 7.30. 8.30 is another new episode of The Good Wife, with new Law and Order SVU at 9.30.

Friday Feb 4 – Biggest Loser Families continues at 7.30pm.

At 10.30pm that night, is the season finale of Outrageous Fortune.