Comments on: Mondays don’t make The Cut

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:04:40 +0000

Pity that The Cut rated poorly. On the subject of Dexter I don’t think it’s that much of a shame, because if you’re a big enough fan you can already go out and buy/rent the season 2 DVDs and watch it without ads.

By: Benny

Benny — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:08:10 +0000

I thought the ads for The Cut looked terrible. It looked like a lame sitcom padded out for an hour with a paper thin plot, lame one-liners and poor acting. It’s almost as bad as Chandon Pictures. Almost.

By: Steve Roderick

Steve Roderick — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:00:08 +0000

i thought it was a great show.

nothing wrong with it whats so ever,

By: Stuart

Stuart — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:20:47 +0000

Sorry ABC, but you’ve missed with this one. The promos made it look promising and I was looking forward to it but just ended up diappointed. Weak plot, bad acting and a total lack of depth anywhere. I’ll give it one more go but I’m not hopeful of a big turnaround.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:25:47 +0000

Dexter rated so bad because the DVD’s of series 2 have been out for like 6 months or more! What do they expect?

I hope they don’t move The Cut or take it off like the knee jerk reactions of other networks! It’s only got 6 episodes just air them.

Most people would have been watching Underbelly then stayed on the Oscars to see if Heath won or whatever.. so that would have also affected ratings for both Dexter & The Cut, lets just hope they do better next week.

By: Zambora

Zambora — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:41:45 +0000

I watched it despite lack of promotion.
Nice relaxing viewing – no need to engage brain to watch it.
Mind you, never seen a people meter or had ratings book or been asked by netwok whats hows I watch, so again we rely on a minute amount of people nationwide to give overall guessitmates of what the whole of Australia watches.
Call me cynical , but most folk I know turned off Underbelly after 1st week and some shows that get high ratings, no one watches.

By: Baggygreen

Baggygreen — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:54:38 +0000

Caught the second half of this and it did look a bit light on. As for Dexter those who havent seen it on Pay or DVD should really check it out because its a great show. At least 10 havent chopped it yet (golf clap 10), but I fear its fta days are numbered.

By: Bernadette

Bernadette — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:29:37 +0000

I was going to say it’s not surprising given it was a very average show but then most people would have been like me and not known that until it was over so it must have been time slot related.

I would be stunned if even half those viewers came back for episode 2 next week – really not up to Auntie’s usual standards. It was boring, bland and trying too hard to be appealing to the under 30′s. At one point there’s a stupid line about John Wood’s character’s son not wanting to swim up and down the pool so he could become the next Ian Thopre – only this character would have been 10 years older than Thorpey so it wasn’t a sensible reference but I assume it was included because his is a name ‘the kids’ would have heard of. Daft.

And then there was the woeful acting from Julieanne Newbould and Ben Oxenbould.

And did I mention the dull, predictable plot?

I certainly won’t be watching again.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:09:39 +0000

Can’t even say I knew this show existed but Monday following Four Corners and Media Watch just seems like a dumb timeslot – ABC should try this sort of thing 8.30 Thursdays where they’ve have a lot of success with dramatised docos

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:22:55 +0000

I really enjoyed The Cut last night. Had a good pace to it and had a great plot. Pity no one saw it.

By: koverstreet

koverstreet — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:13:05 +0000

Jimmy that’s hyperbole. 2.3m is only a tad over 100k less then the 2nd episode from the 1st night hardly a few hundred thousand each week.

By: stevie g

stevie g — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:28:43 +0000

No surprises here. bad timeslot, plus the whole pemise didn’t seem that interesting. and what a boring name for a show, The Cut?

By: Sean M

Sean M — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:24:04 +0000

I think most ABC shows get less than a million. I don’t know what kind of numbers they were expecting. Maybe 800k at best.

Enough Rope was an established show with a well known host.

By: Earthquake

Earthquake — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:27:43 +0000

I TiVo’d this show last night and attempted to watch the whole thing but couldn’t do it in the one sitting.

I couldn’t pick whether it was a drama or a comedy or a dramedy or satire?

One thing I could pick was the use of my suburb of Concord as the set for the series.

It was very strange seeing this shop/office open up for a month in Majors Bay Road and then close – but now I know why!

By: Dr Rudi

Dr Rudi — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:08:29 +0000

Sorry – The Cut just doesn’t look like an ABC program. I didn’t even think about switching it on. Bravo tho’ for Julieanne Newbould having a role on television.

That said, a bit of programming nouse wouldn’t go astray. There are two ‘obvious’ options.

Firstly, Q&A to Monday nights, with The Cut to Thursday. Q&A might pick up some of the Denton audience (not me, because it’s worse than talkback radio). And, let’s face it, Q&A is just ‘Monday Conference’ with another name.

Option 2, is Foreign Correspondent to Monday night, with The Cut to Tuesdays.

Either of these will be a fit with Four Corners, making Monday ‘current affairs’ night on ABC1; in the same way that Wednesday is ‘comedy’ night; Friday and Saturday are ‘police’ nights.

David – pass this on to someone in programming at Aunty will you?

By: retter2critical

retter2critical — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 04:56:57 +0000

Your prob best of putting a randome Brit show against big-ass drama from the networks. Save the new costly drama for a slot it can get viewers in. Dont know if they should change it though. I have no sugestions. Wed is booked up and not appropriate because the show is an hour. Thursday there is footy shows which compete with the subject matter. After the Bill? I think the brits stop watching the ABC once the Aussie shows come on (Like my parents do!).