This summer on the commercial free to air networks there will be a lot of cricket, heaps of tennis and a few celebrities in the jungle as the networks continue to offer up new content this non-survey season.
Seven
Seven will continue with new episodes of Fantasy Island, The Goldbergs and Border Security: Australia’s Front Line. America’s Got Talent will continue into the first week of the non-survey period with the grand final results show airing Wednesday December 1st.
The network will also play out unaired episodes of Ambulance: Code Red (Dec 1st), Nurses (Dec 2nd), Unbelievable Moments Caught on Camera (Nov 30th), Gordon Gino & Fred, plus a new season of Born to Kill.
Seven has also previously indicated they would run Mates on a Mission and Fam Time across summer.
Seven have unaired episodes of 10 Years Younger in 10 Days, Criminal Confessions, Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly and a single episode of Survillence Oz, which Seven indicate are under consideration to air.
7mate have new series Secrets of the Supercars and Supercars Customizer: Yianni, as well as new episodes of Storage Wars, Storage Wars: Miami, American Pickers, Counting Cars and Pawn Stars.
7two will return Hotel Inspector to the schedule and bring new series Australia’s Big Backyards into the line-up.
7flix has Holey Moley USA and The Voice USA.
Note: Thank you to Seven for engaging with this story to assist viewers with their summer choices.
Nine
Nine will continue with new episodes of Taronga: Who’s Who in the Zoo and Snackmasters.
The network will air the second season of A+E After Dark.
Bondi Vet will continue to air in a weekend afternoon slot. These are new episodes for the Sydney and Brisbane markets, but the initial episodes will be repeats for Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth.
Mega Zoo will roll out a new season for northern states, but again, these will be repeats for southern states.
Nine are sitting on new episodes of See No Evil, Inside Phuket Airport, Celebrity IOU and Desert Vet. There are three unaired special episodes of The Weakest Link. There are also some missing episodes of Country House Hunters Australia and Space Invaders for some markets.
Nine previously advertised a new series called Country Home Rescue at their upfronts which was to play this year. Nine have still not aired the third season of Manifest on linear, nor the final season of Westside.
On the multi channels, I understand Nine will air the new season of Young Sheldon, but they also sitting on new seasons/episodes of Lip Sync Battle, Duncanville, Secrets of the National Trust, Hidden Potential, Instant Dream House, Raising House, Flipping Virgins, House Hunters Family, Bargain Mansions and House in a Hurry.
Note: Nine were contacted for comment on this story and chose not to respond.
10
There is not a lot sitting on the shelf for 10, however, they do have 3 new episodes each of Bondi Rescue, Territory Cops and The Royals Revealed to air.
They will have a limited number of new episodes of CSI: Vegas, FBI, NCIS: Los Angeles, Bull and Blue Bloods to screen if they choose.
10 will continue with new episodes of The Graham Norton Show and The Dog House Australia.
Although unlikely to ever see the light of day, 10 do have new episodes of Changing Rooms and Celebrity Name Game on the shelf.
On the multi channels, 10 Peach have full new seasons of Charmed, Nancy Drew and Undercover Girlfriends to air. The channel, for whatever reason, continues to deny viewers of the three new seasons of Mom, which I understand they have acquired, which have never aired on FTA. 10 Peach also have the options of beginning new seasons of The Neighbourhood, The Conners and A Million Little Things.
On 10 Bold, the channel is expected to roll straight into season 5 of Seal Team and continue to run out the final episodes of MacGyver. Star Trek: Discovery is expected to remain in the schedule to play out its first season.
The channel continues to fall behind the US with episodes of 48 Hours Mystery. Season 2 repeats of In the Dark will play weekdays but there is no indication on whether they would run into the unaired third season.
10 Shake has two unaired seasons of The Masked Singer US but have not indicated whether they will air, but will continue with new episodes of True Life Crime and The Twilight Zone.
10 Shake has unaired episodes of Pimp My Ride, Inside Amy Schumer, Drunk History US and Fear Factor sitting on the shelf.
Note: 10 were contacted for comment on this story but chose not to respond
