Details of the schedule for the first week of Nine’s new digital channel Go! has been published online on MediaSpy and TV Tonight.
The new channel is set to launch at 6.30pm on Sunday 9 August.
Go! will be an entertainment-themed channel with titles including Gossip Girl, Weeds, The Hills, Moonlight, Fringe, Entertainment Tonight, TMZ, Survivor, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Eleventh Hour, Ellen and The Bachelor. Some of these shows have already been tried on Nine and withdrawn from the schedule but are more suitably themed for Go’s younger target audience.
Comedies include Big Bang Theory, The Nanny, Seinfeld, Just Shoot Me and classics including The Flintstones, Bewitched and I Dream Of Jeannie.
Overnight, Go! will feature music videos with The ARIA Music Show.
Other programs to feature on Go! include Australia’s Funniest Home Video Show, stripped five nights a week at 6.00pm, and Dance Your Ass Off which was pulled from Nine’s schedule after only one outing last week.
Nine Network chief David Gyngell is aiming for Go! to capture around a three per cent market share which would rank it higher than Network Ten’s digital channel One which launched in March.
Go! Prime-time schedule for week commencing 9 August:
Sunday 9 August: 6.30pm Wipeout, 7.30 The Big Bang Theory (4 episodes), 9.30 Aliens In America, 10pm The New Adventures Of Old Christine, 10.30 Movie: National Lampoon’s Vacation, 12.30am ARIA Music Show
Monday 10: 6pm Australia’s Funniest Home Video Show (AFHVS), 7pm Entertainment Tonight (ET), 7.30 TMZ, 8pm Seinfeld, 8.30 Dog The Bounty Hunter (2 episodes), 9.30 Neighbours At War (2 episodes), 10.30 Bad Lads Army, 11.30 Just Shoot Me, 12am Ellen, 1am ARIA
Tuesday 11: 6pm AFHVS, 7pm ET, 7.30 TMZ, 8pm Seinfeld, 8.30 Survivor: Gabon, 9.30 The Bachelor, 10.30 The Bachelorette, 11.30 Just Shoot Me, 12am Ellen, 1am ARIA
Wednesday 12: 6pm AFHVS, 7pm ET, 7.30 TMZ, 8pm Seinfeld, 8.30 Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, 9.30 Fringe, 10.30 Eleventh Hour, 11.30 Just Shoot Me, 12am Ellen, 1am ARIA
Thursday 13: 6pm AFHVS, 7pm ET, 7.30 TMZ, 8pm Seinfeld, 8.30 Gossip Girl, 9.30 Moonlight, 10.30 The Hills (2 episodes), 11.30 Just Shoot Me, 12am Ellen, 1am ARIA
Friday 14: 6pm AFHVS, 7pm ET, 7.30 TMZ, 8pm Seinfeld, 8.30 CSI Crime Scene Investigation, 9.30 CSI Miami, 10.30 CSI NY, 11.30 Just Shoot Me, 12am Ellen, 1am ARIA
Saturday 15: 6pm Seinfeld (3 episodes), 7.30 Dance Your Ass Off, 8.30 CSI Crime Scene Investigation, 9.30 CSI Miami, 10.30 CSI NY, 11.30 Movie: American Outlaws, 12.30am ARIA.
Some prime-time programs are also repeated the following day, classifications permitting.
Go! is also expected to be carried on the digital signals of regional affiliates WIN and NBN.
