Comments on: Week 5

By: Natasha

Natasha — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:41:30 +0000

I guess nobody watches the cricket anymore. Hee-Hee.

By: Craig

Craig — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 03:42:11 +0000

How did “Prince Charming” work out for ch9? I don’t see it on the list but McLeod’s Daughters is, what a stupid ratings move to have the final of such a great show ending 11:30 on a Saturday night are such a poor rating crappy movie.

By: Andrew B

Andrew B — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:44:22 +0000

Actually for most people who work, 7pm is a much better time for news – this maybe why ABC has stuck to 7pm and succeeding (combined with a lack of viewing options).

Found an old newspaper from the 80′s – 1982 to be exact – 7 and 9 used to have news on at 6.30pm (and some regionals had local news at 6, then national / capital city news at 6.30, like NBN-3 and WIN-4 in the 1982 program) . 10 would be “first at 6 with Eyewitness news”. ABC was still 7pm. Those were the days!

By: gerrard

gerrard — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 06:08:56 +0000

Wow. Interesting to see that both seven and nine news improved heaps on Friday. Obviously because of the fact that Nine had their news on at 7pm (instead of 6pm). So people that watch the news at 6pm would have watched seven, and people that would rather watch the cricket instead of the news, would have caught nine news. Maybe channel nine might moves their news to 7pm permamently, but i doubt that will happen.

By: David Knox

David Knox — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 05:05:05 +0000

Those figures are absolutely for tennis which is why I put “does not include overruns.” Preliminary ratings are always for what was scheduled not for what actually played out.

By: RichoTB

RichoTB — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 05:00:34 +0000

Open Water is a bad Jaws knock-off, it wouldn’t have gotten more than 500k in viewers, I do agree those results are botched and that those figures are really for the tennis.

By: Craig

Craig — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 01:00:58 +0000

Again went was Open Water on because the tennis ran long her in Qld and I didn’t see it, not that it was a good movie anyway. Was the high rating because of the tennis and a mix up with the system again? There is no way that movie got 1.5Mill!

By: Andrew B

Andrew B — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:55:25 +0000

For those who did not see the tennis last night, the game went till 1.15am – so the high rating ch 7 shows you see in Fridays’ ratings list are actually for the tennis. I can assure you Disorderly conduct and Quigly would never rate that high!

It is very disappointing that the ratings system cannot accomdate late running sports events in the way it shows the ratings for the advertised show and prompts me to question the accuracy of ratings overall especially considering 7 and 9 run continuously 5 minutes late every weeknight from 7 – 10.30pm.

From what I can see from the examples of sports running late, the networks running 5 minutes late in weekday prime time appear to be a ploy to use some of the ratings for their previous hour to count towards the next hour or show meaning the figures would be actually scewed. This is what ch 9 will be doing by having Laddette to Lady straight after Underbelly knowing full well that Laddette has no hope of being a block buster but 9 have to make sure at least some of their shows will rate above 1 mil.

By: James

James — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:38:36 +0000

Ten news on Friday did a fantastic job it must be because of the Heatwave in Adelaide and Melbourne why everyone is watching it

By: Harry

Harry — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:19:29 +0000

Go Neighbours! Honestly, Neighbours rocks this year. Every episode is more out there than the previous! Example, Susan calling Kelly a ‘stupid, stupid girl’ and Karl calling Kelly a ‘crackpot’. Worth watching!

By: Tepee

Tepee — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:09:49 +0000

Seven have truly whipped the competition this week. Nobody that I know is watching anything other than the tennis, so it goes to show that nothing stumps the people meters.

Neighbours doesn’t seem to be getting anywhere. Although I wouldn’t be surprised. They’ve been having this big hoo-ha at TEN becuase they’ve supposedly improved the storylines, but they took a huge backstep today when Toadie’s girlfriend (the one that looks like the Vicar of Dibley) was revealed to have the ability to have some sort of “sixth sense”. A bit too Bold & the Beautiful for me.

Just one thing about the tennis: although I am enjoying the match-ups and quality of tennis, Seven’s coverage continues to prove very underwhelming. The commentators are very annoying and sometimes you can tell who they want to win (Todd Woodbridge in particular is starting to grate). Plus the cross-promotion is not very convincing: I don’t think Jim Courier is that much interested in Desperate Housewives, for one!

By: George

George — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:09:37 +0000

Looks like TEN is going pretty good with News at Five… Then being crushed with The Simpsons, only to slowly build once Neighbours is on.

TEN needs to do something about the 6PM timeslot. I reckon if they fix that up then their primetime schedule will be cemented well.

By: live89

live89 — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:36:40 +0000

@ RichoB. Because the 9 fan boys are in temporary hibernation. There’s no way to spin what has been a huge week for 7

By: RichoTB

RichoTB — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:06:01 +0000

This is the lowest # of responses to a ratings post in months. Hopefully it picks up when the new shows premiere and return next week

By: Andrew B

Andrew B — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:04:13 +0000

Did 10 news used to get 1 million before or is this a big improvement to usual? Seems to have jumped in recent days.

By: D.S.

D.S. — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:24:13 +0000

Terminator did well, 269 000 viewers for 12.30am….