Interesting turn of events for...
Nov. 18th, 2005 12:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krazykitkatWest Wing in Australia.
http://www.terrytelevision.com/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1132194686&archive=&start_from=&ucat=12&
West Wing re-surfaces.....and you will be able to watch
By Terry TV
In a move that will delight its fans, the Nine Network has sold the West Wing, the US series about the President of the US, to the ABC.
The move is the latest in a series of deals by Nine this week to lighten its inventory of unwanted or under-performing programs while raising some much needed money at the same time.
Nine has been critcised by fans of the program for not showing it but the network's reply has always been that it has been an under performer, even in late evening time slots where hard core fans would be expected to watch.
Nine has not done the right thing by fans, dropping it without warning earlier this year when 10 episodes of series five unscreened. The decision to terminate it after 12 episodes had been shown set off an outcry from loyal fans which Nine ignored.
News of the sale to the ABC which plans to show the series from the start, follows the news earlier this week that Nine had done a deal with the Ten Network on four series" Smallville, Supernatural, Reunion and Veronica Mars.
Nine has sub-licensed two other shows to Ten a year ago in the OC and One Tree Hill.
Nine offered the West Wing to the Ten Network which declined because it didn't fit its audience profile. The West Wing appeals to an older demographic compared to shows like the OC, SUpernatural and Veronica Mars.
Nine has sat on Smallville for last two years since it pt it to air. It was not a success for Nine.
News of the sales to Ten and the ABC were a subtext at the Free Television Australia seminar in Sydney Wednesday afternoon at which the heads of Nine, Sam Chisholm, Ten, Grant Blackley and Seven, David Leckie spoke.
Nine's deals are part reducing its inventory and part generating more revenue against the expensive Warner Bros production contract which costs $35 million this year and is understood to rise sharply next year to between $40 million and $50 million.
And that's bullshit about it not rating well in its late night slot. During season 3 and 4 iirc it often won its timeslot.
Maybe we need to ask them to start up in season 5, otherwise they're going to cop the wrath.
http://www.terrytelevision.com/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1132194686&archive=&start_from=&ucat=12&
West Wing re-surfaces.....and you will be able to watch
By Terry TV
In a move that will delight its fans, the Nine Network has sold the West Wing, the US series about the President of the US, to the ABC.
The move is the latest in a series of deals by Nine this week to lighten its inventory of unwanted or under-performing programs while raising some much needed money at the same time.
Nine has been critcised by fans of the program for not showing it but the network's reply has always been that it has been an under performer, even in late evening time slots where hard core fans would be expected to watch.
Nine has not done the right thing by fans, dropping it without warning earlier this year when 10 episodes of series five unscreened. The decision to terminate it after 12 episodes had been shown set off an outcry from loyal fans which Nine ignored.
News of the sale to the ABC which plans to show the series from the start, follows the news earlier this week that Nine had done a deal with the Ten Network on four series" Smallville, Supernatural, Reunion and Veronica Mars.
Nine has sub-licensed two other shows to Ten a year ago in the OC and One Tree Hill.
Nine offered the West Wing to the Ten Network which declined because it didn't fit its audience profile. The West Wing appeals to an older demographic compared to shows like the OC, SUpernatural and Veronica Mars.
Nine has sat on Smallville for last two years since it pt it to air. It was not a success for Nine.
News of the sales to Ten and the ABC were a subtext at the Free Television Australia seminar in Sydney Wednesday afternoon at which the heads of Nine, Sam Chisholm, Ten, Grant Blackley and Seven, David Leckie spoke.
Nine's deals are part reducing its inventory and part generating more revenue against the expensive Warner Bros production contract which costs $35 million this year and is understood to rise sharply next year to between $40 million and $50 million.
And that's bullshit about it not rating well in its late night slot. During season 3 and 4 iirc it often won its timeslot.
Maybe we need to ask them to start up in season 5, otherwise they're going to cop the wrath.
