Dawson's Creek down under

[Ben Smith]

Does anyone know what happened to Dawson's Creek in Australia. They started
airing the season where Pacey gets his job in that corpoation, but they
seemed to end it a few wekks into the series. Was it axed or was it just
because of Australian Idol?

[Evie Bicos]

the ratings werent going well so they took it off air
i have hopes that maybe it will come back in a different time slot, but it
might look like we haveto wait till the dvds come out to see the rest of the
season!!
im tempted to buy that season finale dvd, because im loosing hope that they
will air the rest of it here in Oz.

Evie

Post by Ben Smith
Does anyone know what happened to Dawson's Creek in Australia. They started
airing the season where Pacey gets his job in that corpoation, but they
seemed to end it a few wekks into the series. Was it axed or was it just
because of Australian Idol?

[Eric Zuniga]

Post by Evie Bicos
the ratings werent going well so they took it off air
i have hopes that maybe it will come back in a different time slot, but it
might look like we haveto wait till the dvds come out to see the rest of the
season!!
im tempted to buy that season finale dvd, because im loosing hope that they
will air the rest of it here in Oz.
Evie

Ratings were down everywhere the last couple seasons. Although they did
show the last season in the States.

[Anybody]

Post by Eric Zuniga

Post by Evie Bicos
the ratings werent going well so they took it off air
i have hopes that maybe it will come back in a different time slot, but it
might look like we haveto wait till the dvds come out to see the rest of
the season!!
im tempted to buy that season finale dvd, because im loosing hope that
they will air the rest of it here in Oz.

Ratings were down everywhere the last couple seasons. Although they did
show the last season in the States.

The last season is still being shown here in New Zealand at 3:00pm,
Sundays. At a guess, we're around half-way through the season.

[DRP535]

On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 14:56:14 +1100, "Evie Bicos"

Post by Evie Bicos
the ratings werent going well so they took it off air
i have hopes that maybe it will come back in a different time slot, but it
might look like we haveto wait till the dvds come out to see the rest of the
season!!
im tempted to buy that season finale dvd, because im loosing hope that they
will air the rest of it here in Oz.

Channel 10 is supposed to be showing the rest of season 6 starting at
episode 4 (they only showed the first 3 before pulling it and replacing it
with that incredibly annoying Ashton Kutcher show) at around 1:30pm
weekdays starting in December I think.

Ratings were the reason apparently. It didn't rate, so it got pulled.

I dislike being treated with such disdain by the TV stations in Australia,
so I'm downloading the episodes instead. I'm up to episode 8 - Spiderwebs
right now.

[Rose]

Dawson's Creek will be back on Aussie TV (Well at least Southern Cross Ten)
in Mid December, Monday to Friday in around the 1230 timeslot. Keep tuned
to the TV guide and learn to use the timer on the VCR !

Rose

Post by DRP535
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 14:56:14 +1100, "Evie Bicos"

Post by Evie Bicos
the ratings werent going well so they took it off air
i have hopes that maybe it will come back in a different time slot, but it
might look like we haveto wait till the dvds come out to see the rest of the
season!!
im tempted to buy that season finale dvd, because im loosing hope that they
will air the rest of it here in Oz.

Channel 10 is supposed to be showing the rest of season 6 starting at
episode 4 (they only showed the first 3 before pulling it and replacing it
with that incredibly annoying Ashton Kutcher show) at around 1:30pm
weekdays starting in December I think.
Ratings were the reason apparently. It didn't rate, so it got pulled.
I dislike being treated with such disdain by the TV stations in Australia,
so I'm downloading the episodes instead. I'm up to episode 8 - Spiderwebs
right now.

[Ben Smith]

Post by DRP535
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 14:56:14 +1100, "Evie Bicos"

Post by Evie Bicos
the ratings werent going well so they took it off air
i have hopes that maybe it will come back in a different time slot, but it
might look like we haveto wait till the dvds come out to see the rest of the
season!!
im tempted to buy that season finale dvd, because im loosing hope that they
will air the rest of it here in Oz.

Channel 10 is supposed to be showing the rest of season 6 starting at
episode 4 (they only showed the first 3 before pulling it and replacing it
with that incredibly annoying Ashton Kutcher show) at around 1:30pm
weekdays starting in December I think.
Ratings were the reason apparently. It didn't rate, so it got pulled.
I dislike being treated with such disdain by the TV stations in Australia,
so I'm downloading the episodes instead. I'm up to episode 8 - Spiderwebs
right now.

It's commercial TV's problem. They don't care about the people who actually
watch it, they base the ratings on a selected group who are supposed to
represent the population of the city or country or whatever, and if they
don't get high ratings they need to pull it of popular time slots so that
they don't lose advertiser's interests, because all advertisers care about
is showing their product to the largest audience possible, so they want
their moneys worth. Commercial TV is only free because of ads, so there is
nothing we can do if the rest of the population doesn't tune in. How sad.

[DRP535]

Post by Ben Smith

Post by DRP535
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 14:56:14 +1100, "Evie Bicos"

Post by Evie Bicos
the ratings werent going well so they took it off air
i have hopes that maybe it will come back in a different time slot, but

it

Post by DRP535

Post by Evie Bicos
might look like we haveto wait till the dvds come out to see the rest of

the

Post by DRP535

Post by Evie Bicos
season!!
im tempted to buy that season finale dvd, because im loosing hope that

they

Post by DRP535

Post by Evie Bicos
will air the rest of it here in Oz.

Channel 10 is supposed to be showing the rest of season 6 starting at
episode 4 (they only showed the first 3 before pulling it and replacing it
with that incredibly annoying Ashton Kutcher show) at around 1:30pm
weekdays starting in December I think.
Ratings were the reason apparently. It didn't rate, so it got pulled.
I dislike being treated with such disdain by the TV stations in Australia,
so I'm downloading the episodes instead. I'm up to episode 8 - Spiderwebs
right now.

It's commercial TV's problem. They don't care about the people who actually
watch it, they base the ratings on a selected group who are supposed to
represent the population of the city or country or whatever, and if they
don't get high ratings they need to pull it of popular time slots so that
they don't lose advertiser's interests, because all advertisers care about
is showing their product to the largest audience possible, so they want
their moneys worth. Commercial TV is only free because of ads, so there is
nothing we can do if the rest of the population doesn't tune in. How sad.

I actually don't mind the endless ads and rise & rise of
reality/cooking/renovation/gardening/holiday/manufactured pop idol shows.

Since I don't watch any of them and they all occupy completely the
prime-time viewing slots, it has forced me to find alternative ways to
watch what I wanna watch. Necessity being the mother of invention, you
quickly become proficient at downloading and converting to (S)VCD all your
favourite TV shows that aren't being shown by the commercial TV stations
anymore.

And with this comes the added benefit of no ad interuptions at all. I watch
virtually nothing on free, live to air broadcast TV anymore. The only
things I watch live to air are broadcast by ABC or SBS these days.

The miniscule loss in quality by watching a downloaded DVD or TV-rip is
easily compensated for by not having 3 minute long ad breaks every 7
minutes I can assure you!