bluebear_74

Some of you may have already read this on

From next month, Australian TV viewers will see top US programs such as House, Heroes and the controversial Californication within days of them being aired in the US. Changing media use and internet downloads means our free-to-air networks can no longer hold off airing new episodes for five months - as is the norm about this time of the year. New TV series air from September in the US, but are usually not broadcast locally until February. A big jump in internet downloads and web chatter about programs, which generally have weekly "cliffhanger" finishes, are forcing Australian networks to change tactics. Local fans will now seethe latest episodes within days or weeks of US viewers. Channel 10 was quick to the trend last year with it's doomsday Jericho series and the final series of The OC. Channel 9 has screened late-night episodes of Survivor close to the US air date. Channel 7 has upped the ante and will screen off-the-satellite episodes of Heroes and Prison Break from next month. Both began as hits in February with more than two million viewers months after airing in the US, but shed half their viewers as they turned to the internet to find out what was in store.

That explains why channel 10 have been not airing repeats of House, probably trying to catch up. I still hope House and Heroes won't air at the same time because I can only record/cap one at a time.

Also late Happy Birthday to both

dangerous_47 and

thebron_79, sorry it's late, been too bust stressing over my driving test yesterday.