Total Wipeout UK

So what do GO! do when movies are not doing as well as they would like?

Fill up some of the time with The Big Bang Theory.

Last Monday (Feb 21), with a movie at 7.30pm, GO! managed a channel share of just 1.9%. Considering the share averages around 4% usually, 1.9% is disastrous.

Honestly, outside of school holidays and with so much competition now, did they seriously think movies on a Monday evening will do them any ratings favours?

Next Monday (Feb 28), instead of the movie Bring it on, Total Wipeout UK moves into 7.30. This is the first episode of season 4, and is first run content. Bring it on will air on a weekend soon.

Following Total Wipeout, at 8.30pm, is two episodes of The Big Bang Theory.

Vampire Diaries remains at 9.30, with the movie Cellular following instead of Two and a Half Men.

Now GO appear to be ditching the Monday night movie, why not give fans what they want – The Vampire Diaries at 8.30pm, not 9.30pm? Wouldn’t be too hard to do that now… many on the GO Facebook page ask why they have to wait for 9.30 for their weekly Vampire fix.

Yes, 8.30 Monday is a clash with Supernatural on ELEVEN, but how many actually watch both? And besides – it’s easy to record one and watch the other now anyway.

The Vampire Diaries is off during March due to a break in the US. Maybe when it returns, the timeslot could be reconsidered.

GO is giving back some of those late night repeats that were taken away when the channel started airing Home Shopping from 2am – 4am weekday mornings.

From Monday May 17, the show that airs at 8.30pm on Monday to Thursday nights will be replayed at 12 midnight while the show that airs at 9.30pm will be seen again at 1am. Frasier, Seinfeld and TMZ repeats that currently fill the timeslots from 11.30 – 1am will now be out. At 11.30pm Mon- Thurs, South Park will be on.

Using Monday night as an example, the program will look like this:

8.30 Vampire Diaries
9.30 Nip/Tuck
10.30 TBA
11.30 South Park
12.00 Vampire Diaries
1.00 Nip/Tuck
2.00 Home Shopping

Having the extra repeats back will mean better flexibility in viewing or recording and allows prime time conflicts to be better managed. This is on top of many repeats during the day as well. Vampire Diaries for example is repeated at 1pm Wednesday May 19.

On the subject of Vampire Diaries, May 17 is the final episode of that show’s first season. A second season has been commissioned, premiering in the US later in the year. Meanwhile Fringe will have its season two final on Wednesday May 26, while Wipeout UK moves in to an 8 episode third season on Tuesday May 18. The final Wipeout UK will air Thursday May 27 at 6.30pm.

Prime time TV guide for GO is here.

More Wipeout coming to GO. So far, GO has aired both the US and Australian versions of Wipeout, now here comes the UK version – called Total Wipeout UK.

From Monday April 19, at 6pm weeknights, Total Wipeout UK will air instead of the Flintstones and Jetsons. Season 1 of Total Wipeout UK consists of 9 episodes only. The UK is currently airing season 3.

And of course – there is a Top Gear link. Total Wipeout UK is hosted by Top Gear’s Richard Hammond.

At this stage, the US version of Wipeout remains on Sunday nights at 5.30pm on GO, while Top Gear can be seen on GO at 6.30 Sunday and 7.30 Thursday as well as 7.30 Tuesday on Nine and even 7.30 Friday in the AFL states (as the NRL states have NRL on 7.30 Fridays).