Paul Hogan Show

You never really know what will be on Nine on Tuesday night until you get there.

Yet another programming change sees the scheduled two episodes of Two and a Half Men replaced by repeats of the Best of the Paul Hogan Show at 9pm, following “supersized” Top Gear, as of this Tuesday, July 13.

Adults only 20 To 1 will follow at 10pm.

With so many programming changes to Tuesday nights on Nine, who knows what printed guides will actually say – or even if this amendment will actually be what ends up airing on the night. The sooner they can get new Top Gear on, the better the night will be for them.

Maybe then a stable program will emerge. Maybe ratings will come with stability.

Meanwhile, Nine have attacked the GO schedule again, with movies now on 7.30 Friday instead of Allo Allo, Black Adder and CSI, and the final ever Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles has been moved to 1am Saturday night.

The network most known for last minute programming changes and crazy schedule re-arrangements is at it again. Yet again, it is the networks’ miserable Tuesday night they are playing with.

Nine have decided to bring forward the final Ladette to Lady episode to next Tuesday November 17, airing after the regular episode at 9.30. That means two hours of Ladette in a row. It also means that Secret Diary of a Call Girl – only recently placed at 10.30 Tuesdays after replacing Moonlight is out of the schedule.

Also airing on Tuesday November 17, is the second Very Best of the Paul Hogan Show Special.

The following Tuesday, November 24, the variation of 20-1 called 50-1 (same thing, only a lot longer) will air with the subject being 50-1 Greatest Movie Quotes. Sounding similar to a 50-1 aired in 2007 called 50-1 Movie One Liners, the new name coupled with a few clip changes means that Nine do not have to call it a repeat even if it is essentially the same as the 2007 show.

Following 50-1 on Tuesday Nov 24, is the movie, the Castle – repeated once again. This will be the third time this year that the Castle will have been played on Nine. Once back in March, the week after the first series of Ladette to Lady finished (sensing the Déjà vu here?), and then again in May in memory of Bud Tingwell in May.

Some of my favourite DVDs don’t even get played this much in a year! Surely Nine could come up with something different?

In reality, Nine will not do well that night against the Packed to the Rafters season finale on Seven and part one of the final of Celebrity Masterchef on Ten as well as NCIS. Only the GO share with Survivor Tocantins nearing the end of its current rushed through season will help Nine from an embarrassing third for that night.

Programming info: Tv Tonight