Saturday morning tidbits: extended engagement edition

Hey there chaps! Here are some tid-bits that came up this week, but didn’t go to air! I’m sure you care.

[thr's live feed] posters, posters posters!

Posters/”key art” came out for Mad Men, The new Melrose Place [punny], and Chuck. Pretty sexy stuff.

[<a href="http://www.mediaspy.org/report/2009/07/24/full-go-schedule/?utm_campaign=twitter&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitter">Media Spy]The full schedule for Nine’s second digital channel, Go!, is available to view in the Media Spy forums.

We talked about in on air, but this links to the full listings on the media spy forums. Very close to the “soft launch” so keeping an eye out for more.

[mUmbrella]TV viewers reject Australia’s Perfect Couple for World’s Strictest Parents: Nine’s second evening in a row with a new reality format ended the same way that Dance Your Ass Off did the night before – with a sub-800,000 audience for Australia’s Perfect Couple on Wednesday night.

Oh dear, Nine. Oh dear. Which segues nicely into ….

[mUmbrella] Guest post: Time for Nine to start winning back viewers’ trust: For decades, Channel Nine enjoyed a relationship with the Australian people that the Seven and 0/10 networks could only dream about. Nine logoWhen capital city dwelling members of the Australian public turned their televisions on, practically all of them automatically tuned it to Nine – not because they had the best shows (although more often than not, they did) but because of the trust and the affection for the brand that had built up since they first flicked the switch in 1956. Nine’s logo was one of the most recognised and trusted brands in the land. [...] For the past 15 years or so, Nine has been pissing away the one big advantage that it held over its competitors – audience trust.

[youtube] ‘Dexter’ Season 4 Comic-Con Trailer:

A New Trailer was screeninc at Comic-Con this weekend, and for Dexter fans, this is a VERY big deal. In other Dexter news: Showtime to launch an animated online Dexter “prequel”.