season 1 of forget the rules ran on channel v (foxtel), hutchison 3g mobile phones and on the web, and consisted of nine minutes of drama produced every week featuring audience-driven story directions. three-minute episodes were broadcast on monday, tuesday & wednesday, starting october 10, 2005. audiences voted on a choice of three possible story directions following the wednesday episode. the 117 minutes of production (39 x 3min episodes) represents the equivalent of 5 x 30min episodes on free-to-air tv.