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Updated July 29th, includes up to Sat Aug 14, 2010

From August 10, The Bachorette moves to Tuesday nights instead of the usual Wednesday night. Season Final of Gossip Girl Thursday Aug 12.

More Big Bang Theory on Wednesdays now - from August 11. 

Friday July 30
6:00 Movie: Tom and Jerry Blast off to Mars
7:30 Movie: City Slickers 2
10:00 CSI: Miami. 11:00 CSI: NY
12:00 Movie: Finale Desitination 2 
2:00 Sex Shop. 2:30 Seinfeld. 3:00 I Dream of Jeannie.
3:30 Bewitched. 4:00 Just SHoot Me. 4:30 TMZ

Saturday July 31
5:30 The Nanny.
6:30 Movie: Richie Rich
8:30 Movie: Ocean's Twelve
11:00 Movie: The Fallen
1:30 Sienfeld. 2:30 Get Smart. 3:30 Hogans Heroes. 
4:30 Green Acres

Nine are busy promoting to the media what to expect to see on their network for the rest of the year - listing shows for both Nine and GO! - who recently on Facebook have been telling everyone that all their recent programming changes have been to make way for “hot new shows”.

Shows to come in the remaining four months of the ratings season on Nine include:

Hot off the GO Facebook page:

GO! TV: GO! is making way for some new hot shows straight from the USA... stay tuned.

What could this be about?

What new hot shows could they be referring to… and will any of them be given enough chance for an audience to grow.

We have seen time and time again GO programming change at the drop of a hat in rapid response to unfavourable ratings. While it is well understood that the networks need to achieve good ratings to make money, it would make more sense to run a more stable schedule and allow shows to build.

GO has been playing with their program again.

On Monday May 17, the night of the final episode of the first season of the Vampire Diaries, GO have chosen to show the movie the Convenant from 9.30 meaning that Nip/Tuck and the Underbelly replays are no longer in the schedule.

The following Monday, May 24, in the Vampire Diaries timeslot of 8.30 will be part one of the two part mini series called The Gathering. Nip/Tuck will follow at 10.30pm. Unless changed prior, part two of the Gathering should screen at 8.30pm Monday May 31, with Nip/Tuck still in place at 10.30pm.

Monday nights on GO! bring viewers Australian premiere episodes of three of the sexiest programs on television – The Vampire Diaries, Nip/Tuck and Weeds.

Starting at 8.30pm on Monday, March 29, are new episodes of The Vampire Diaries, fast- tracked from the United States. When we last left the crew from Mystic Falls, Damon (Ian Somerhalder) had finally done what he’d set out to do for centuries – open the tomb. But his world came crashing down when he found the love of his life, Katherine, wasn’t in it.

Following The Vampire Diaries at 9.30pm, new episodes will launch the sixth and final season of the award-winning drama, Nip/Tuck. Christian (Julian McMahon) and Liz (Roma Maffia) return from their less than blissful honeymoon. Heartbroken over how coldly Christian is treating her now that his cancer is in remission, Liz decides to get even by taking half of everything he’s got. But can she really go through with it?

From Monday, February 8 at 8.30pm on GO!

The Vampire Diaries makes its highly anticipated return exclusively to GO! next Monday, February 8 at 8.30pm.

Several mysterious new characters spice up the romance as the first season of the supernatural-fantasy horror series hurtles towards an explosive finale.

“We’re leading up to the town’s Founder’s Day celebration where all hell breaks loose,” said Kevin Williamson, executive producer of The Vampire Diaries.

The Vampire Diaries had 3.7 million viewers in the United States when it returned to the CW Network, with numbers climbing every week.

The Vampire Diaries returns: Monday, February 8 at 8.30pm on GO!

It’s been a big week of TV and no doubt some people have missed certain shows due to not being able to record one while they watched another or simply forgetting what was on. All three commercial networks are repeating some of their big shows this week in an attempt to catch people who may not have watched first time. This is common practice for new shows to help build audience share.

Channel Ten are repeating Celebrity Masterchef, NCIS: LA and NCIS on Friday night (Oct 2) from 7.30 (NCIS:LA 8.30, NCIS 9.30). That means the Simpsons and the movie are out this week. GO Girls will still air at 10.30pm. It also means that Ten will have aired 6 hours of NCIS this week.

Celebrity Masterchef and NCIS:LA were on at the same time as Hey Hey on Nine so did not achieve the audience that perhaps they should have. NCIS was on Tuesday night against Packed to the Rafters.

In 2009 we have seen numerous examples of bad programming decisions from channel 9 but what happened last night - Monday Sept 28 - simply takes the cake!

Channel Nine would have known well in advance, that after 3 months of hype, Seven’s FlashForward would win the 8.30 Monday time slot. They have chosen to put the Mentalist on at the same time - which is not a bad decision considering the Mentalist tends to skew a different more female demographic to what FlashForward does. There was not enough promotion of the Mentalist in comparison. In fact, from what I saw, there was more hype around the premiere of the Vampire Diaries on GO at the same time as there was for the Mentalist. And the debut of the Apprentice Australia warranted so much attention that it had water marks during the Mentalist and was to be aired on GO at the same time as it was on Nine.

Monday, September 28 at 8.30pm on GO!

Most romance stories are written with love. This one is written with blood.

The Vampire Diaries, this year’s hottest new series, premieres exclusively in Australia on GO! direct from the United States, on Monday, September 28 at 8.30pm. The Vampire Diaries drew the CW network’s biggest-ever premiere audience when it opened in the United States.

The TV Guide for GO for the channels’ big launch of October 4 has been released.

New shows on GO for that week include South Park (season 5), Curb Your Enthusiasm (season 6) and Weeds (season 3) all on Sunday nights. On Saturday nights, there is more South Park and Reno 911 (season 1).

Overnight programming of music videos on weeknights has been replaced with a repeat of the days’ prime time viewing followed by Charlies Angels, TMZ and The Partridge Family from 4am.

On both Friday and Saturday nights, there are movie marathons into the morning.

Here’s the summary of nightly prime time:

Sunday:
6.00 Seinfeld
6.30 Wipeout
7.30 Big Bang Theory (Season 2)
8.30 South Park (S5)
9.30 Curb Your Enthusiasm (S6)
10.00 Weeds (S3)
11.00 Movie: Van Wilder

Mon-Fri:
6:00 The Flinstones
6:30 TMZ
7:00 Entertainment Tonight
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