Be proud of yourselves, Australia. Be very proud.

prufrock | June 25, 15:54 CET

I have high hopes for season 2 of Tru Calling. The season finale was very promising regarding possibilities for a great second season.

stiansaint | June 25, 16:42 CET

I'll be very surprised if Tru Calling gets a primetime slot on Sky One next year as well. It was used as the lead in to Angel this year (for obvious reasons) and with Angel not being around for their 2005 schedule i doubt Tru Calling will be all that important to them.

They may not even show season two if ratings dont improve, they certainly didn't stick with Alias despite it having better ratings for them.

Sorry Eliza, i tried to like it, i really did, but as far as this show goes it's a case of "can i have a side of bland with that bland"!

Disciple of Spike | June 25, 17:35 CET

"I have high hopes for season 2 of Tru Calling. The season finale was very promising regarding possibilities for a great second season."

Well you're certainly optimistic. I agree they finally went to some new places with that show, but I wonder if next season is simply going to be Tru and Jack both running around town trying to beat each other to the future corpse.

"Sorry Eliza, i tried to like it, i really did, but as far as this show goes it's a case of "can i have a side of bland with that bland"!"

Hey now, I....I'm ...still trying to like it. It's kinda.....they really try to.....Ah who am I kidding, you're right. But it's a whole lotta bland with Eliza in it....and sometimes she runs....in slo mo.....hmmmmm Eliza......ghrrlrhlhlhlhl

EdDantes | June 25, 18:21 CET

"But it's a whole lotta bland with Eliza in it....and sometimes she runs....in slo mo.....hmmmmm Eliza......ghrrlrhlhlhlhl"

EdDantes, you just hit the nail squarely on the head as to why i gave Tru Calling as long as i did before giving up on it altogether.

Not only Eliza, but Eliza running ... and sometimes bouncing!

You would think that alone would make for a good tv show but i guess i must be growing as a person, hehe.

I can just hear the female members of this site gnashing their teeth right about now!

Men huh!

Disciple of Spike | June 25, 18:56 CET

While I am proud shows like this in Australia are getting the ratings they deserve, Channel Seven are largely at fault and deserve be at the bottom of the commercial channel ratrace. I mean come on, what is it; "Girl Power Friday!"; with that cheesy voiceover guy they've had for like ten years now. Seriously, they need new advertising director. They've basically been the only commercial channel I've watched over the years, making great choices like Buffy, Angel, Alias and Stargate, but they've consistently stuffed things up and ruined a chance at topping the lot with quality television.

Buffy had always been pushed to the 10:30 time-slot, and while it did get good ratings and loyal viewers willing to stay up and put up with the weeknight changes, it could have done so much better if they'd actually put a little more effort into promoting it.

It's been even worse for Angel, moving all over the place, especially recently in it's perhaps best season yet. I reckon I've missed about 2 episodes worth because of unshceduled time-slot changes. And to make it even worse, it's been put after shows like Celebrities Uncensored at 11:30 on a Thursday! Channel Seven, you suck.

And I won't even mention Stargate, they played half the latest season, which would be about two behind the US, and then just gave up on it altogether. I had no idea it was even on. : (

kaivaal | June 25, 19:00 CET

"You would think that alone would make for a good tv show but i guess i must be growing as a person, hehe.

I can just hear the female members of this site gnashing their teeth right about now!

Men huh! "

Oh well. We're guys. What're you gonna do;-) I have a good understanding with my wife on this. She drools over James Marsters and I drool over Eliza. And we understand each other's drooling. Needless to say, one of our favorite scenes is Spike and Faith having their basement conversation. Come to think of it, our names are 'Cellar Dweller' and 'Rogue Slayer' so that's actually kind of obvious probably......anyway......ahem....

And Kaivaal, it's funny. I live in Los Angeles, but I'm from Holland originally. My mom still lives there and is a Buffy and Angel fan, and she's had similar problems with ridiculous scheduling. They suddenly started showing Angel S4, starting with Angelus' return. Then they follow it up until Jasmin is born, and then the next week.....they started with Angel S2....

Yeah. To say mom was confused is an understatement. Then they finished out S2 aaall the way to Pylea....and then they went back to Angel S4 with Jasmin again.

Btw, all the while changing timeslots and days, ranging from wednesday at 8 to saturday at midnight! And showing Buffy S7 as well, sometimes next to it, sometimes with it, leaving out eps, suddenly starting over etc. Big mess.

Is it so hard to just broadcast things how they should be broadcast? Apparently so. Now they have Firefly there, and the order of eps is a mess. And not even the same as Fox's...no it's pretty much completely random. My sister thinks they just chuck in a tape every week without checking anything at all.

EdDantes | June 25, 20:16 CET

Too funny, EdDantes. My wife and I drool, respectively, over Giles and the Buffster. (May be helpful to know that, while we live in L.A., I am English and wear spectacles, and my wife is American, somewhat diminutive and snappy . . .). OK, maybe our choices are somewhat more vanilla but hey! whatever floats your boat ;)

Hear you all on the scheduling thing. Just found out last night that two of our good friends - also allegedly Buffy/Angel fans - *have never seen* seasons one and two of Buffy, chiefly because the way the story has been turned around so much on TV, they didn't know what they were missing. Also because they're not obsessed (is that the right word?) enough to check things out or buy DVDs. Needless to say, I am deeply envious of them, S1 and 2 virgins. I'd love to be watching them again for the first time.

SoddingNancyTribe | June 25, 21:22 CET

The problem is that we don't like the more acceptable kind of programming that "regular" people want to see.

Because we want a little more than a 24 hour a day schedule of reality shows, cheesy soaps and chat shows we are considered strange and therefore unworthy of decent treatment by the networks and television channels throughout the world.

So you see, it's our own faults really, if only we were more normal and fell in line with the majority of mindless sheep everyone would then be happy.

Simple really! ;)

Disciple of Spike | June 25, 22:12 CET

"Too funny, EdDantes. My wife and I drool, respectively, over Giles and the Buffster. (May be helpful to know that, while we live in L.A., I am English and wear spectacles, and my wife is American, somewhat diminutive and snappy . . .). OK, maybe our choices are somewhat more vanilla but hey! whatever floats your boat ;)"

Cool, heheh. And hey, it's not like the Buffster leaves me cold....*grin*. And my wife has a whole separate thing for Giles. That 'older guy-mentor' thing apparently, hehe. But for pure 'Ro-OWRrr' yeah, Spike and Faith kinda beat the rest for us.

"Because we want a little more than a 24 hour a day schedule of reality shows, cheesy soaps and chat shows we are considered strange and therefore unworthy of decent treatment by the networks and television channels throughout the world."

Yeahh....'nerds' and 'geeks'. That's us. We actually want stories that are good, and interesting and original and daring. We must be mad. Don't we want to see what bachelor gets voted off this week? Or who can eat the most worms?

Ugh.....now I'm depressed....

EdDantes | June 25, 23:48 CET

Tru Calling is hard to judge. For me, at the moment, it's a way to fill in an hour after wok while I wait for the comedy genius that is the Glass House. On the other hand, it's like Charmed. Only better. But Channel 7 suck beyond belief, so it doesn't matter what they do. They screw everything up.

I mean come on, they put on shows like this with little warning on a Friday night. Against the football. Yes, that's smart.

Buffy had always been pushed to the 10:30 time-slot, and while it did get good ratings and loyal viewers willing to stay up and put up with the weeknight changes, it could have done so much better if they'd actually put a little more effort into promoting it.

I remember when they actually advertised Buffy. And it was on at 7:30 pm. Then I think half way throuhg S2, it ended up at 10:30. WTF? At least Angel isn't on at 11:30 anymore.

Gouki | June 26, 10:12 CET