Well it is official. Channel 9 will fast track the new series of Two and a Half Men, from Monday September 28. This will be the 7th season of the sitcom but, rather than replacing a repeat episode with the new season, 9 have opted to add an extra episode into the weekly mix.
The new episodes of Two and a Half Men will ait at 8pm Monday nights, replacing Big Bang Theory - which itself only has a few episodes to go in its current season. At least Big Bang fans can see the show on GO, but it has been doing quite well at 8pm Mondays.
That does mean, though, that on Monday nights, there will be 3 episodes of Two and a Half Men in a row. Two repeats and one new one. And if it wasn’t for Hey Hey Its Saturday on Tuesday being on the Tuesday night that week as well as the one after, that would make 10 or 11 episodes of the show on 9 per week in capital city markets.
At 8.30pm Monday Sept 28, with school holidays in all states except NSW, channel 9 will be showing the movie Shrek 2.
To Sundays now, and with Domestic Blitz now over, the 6.30pm Sunday time slot is open for something new. On Sunday Sept 20, a show called the Best of the Best - essentially a clip show highlighting the last 50 or so years of television will air.
But on Sunday Sept 27, 6.30pm will be yet another time slot for 20-1. Maybe they feel the need to make sure we can see two of these shows each week, as that week, the usual Tuesday night episode makes way for Hey Hey.
And speaking of Hey Hey (again), it is now confirmed the show will go for two and a half hours, not two.
On Sunday October 4, it's the NRL Grand Final, so normal programming is out the window that night. That would pave the way for something different to land at the 6.30pm timeslot on Sunday nights.
Finally, the final episode of The Gift will air at 9pm Wednesday Sept 30. No word yet as to what replaces it, but it may be possible they bring Without a Trace forward to a 9pm start. I’m guessing they will be watching carefully how channel 7 goes with City Homicide on Wednesday nights and how Ten goes with NCIS:LA. What ever they do on that night, it is tough competition. Let us not forget Spicks and Specks on ABC also 8.30 Wednesday nights and usually the winner of that time slot. Maybe 9 could consider putting “V” on then?
Some information here sourced from Media Spy.
