Excited for the final room reveals on The Block tomorrow night? So are we. Or should that be, ‘were we’…
Because tomorrow night’s tools-down episode has already aired.
Yep.
We know, guys. We know. Image: Channel 9.
Channel Nine ran the show at 7:30 tonight after a test-losing performance from the Aussie cricket team left a gap in the programming.
Understandably, The Block fans were less than impressed with the network's little head-start, and logged in to social media to vent their frustrations.
@TheBlock I feel ripped off ! Nobody told me the block was on tonight, I've missed the first half hour ???? #9TheBlock
— Glynis Whitbread (@GlynisWhitbread) November 7, 2016
Ummm excuse me, why is @TheBlock on???? I was under the impression it wasn't on until tomorrow night? #9TheBlock #annoyed
— miLLs. (@Milsta_Riv) November 7, 2016
Channel 9's poor little social media minion tried to help angry viewers see the silver lining in the switcheroo, writing: "The cricket's finished early and we just couldn't wait for room reveals!
Nice try with the smiley face emoji, but we're not buying it.
The fact you correctly assumed we would be glued to the TV tonight anyway is entirely irrelevant. It's still mucked up our entire, carefully planned viewing schedule.
And you made the TV guide lie to us, which is not okay.
Although, to be fair, you don't deserve all of the blame. We all know who the real villain in this whole saga is: the Australian cricket team.
We're looking at you, Steve Smith. Run. Image: Getty.
Basically, we all missed one of the final episodes of this season of our favourite reality renovation show because our national team didn't run up and down a dead strip of grass as many times as South Africa's did.
You better start running now, fellas. Fast.
P.S. Tomorrow night's episode will be what should have been Wednesday night's, and Wednesday night's will be... well, that's TBD. But check your TV guide. Actually, maybe just tune in.
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Top Comments
I really don't like how the free-to-air channels treat us like idiots. Shows that are scheduled that don't end up being on. Shows being on that aren't scheduled. And the worst is shows that are scheduled for a particular time slot & are shown at least 15/30/45 minutes late which means if you taped them then you miss the ending. FFS the last couple of weeks I've taped a show including an extra 30 minutes after it was supposed to end and as it ran 45 minutes over I STILL missed the end of the show. F'n ridiculous.
Not to mention their habit of showing a couple of new episodes of a series, then a few re-runs, then maybe one more new ep... never knew what you were getting. We've all but given up on free to air, apart from the odd show and ABC. Foxtel and dvd sets for us!
Once again proving that the drover's dog could do a better job of the programming schedule than whoever the networks currently employ.
A show is doing well in the US? Let's move the timeslot here every couple of weeks and then bring back the second season with no advertising and at 11pm, that will take proper advantage of it! Let's not start airing it until it has already reached midseason finale in the US and half the audience has streamed it already! Let's randomly air epsiodes on a different day unannounced, or randomly air a double episode!
You'd think shows like the Big Bang Theory and Modern Family are so big they'd be immune to this, but it's complete chook lotto as to whether a new episode will air in any given week and, if so, what time slot. The fact that it even happens to a huge local show like The Block is just mind-boggling.
How they expect to build audiences for most of these shows when they treat them like this, I have no idea.
I like how channel 10 runs the first season of a successful show, then moves it to another one of their digital stations. - I've had to stop watching a few of those shows, because it's always gets moved to one of their stations that I can't tape through my foxtel box :(