Just one day after his season return, Nine has dumped Gordon Ramsay.
From next week Kitchen Nightmares is replaced by the return of RPA.
Last night the show attracted just 515,000 viewers. In Brisbane where the show didn’t air CSI: New York took 144,000 viewers – a timeslot total of 649,000.
It was thumped by the premiere of Life on Mars with 1.14m and Grey’s Anatomy on 1.08m.
Both Ramsay and CSI: NY have been removed by Nine effective immediately.
Just 12 months ago Gordon Ramsay was a hero of Nine’s, but played as many as three times a week has undermined his long term appeal to Aussie viewers. It has also been a show that put Nine in hot water with ACMA.
Earlier this week Nine Programmer Michael Healy was reported as saying Nine’s schedule was not packed with risky shows which would fall by the wayside quickly.
In the lead up to the start of ratings, Nine has lost four nights to Network TEN this week.
I, like a lot of other people enjoyed watching Ramsay’s rants, but unfortunately stepping on the toes of a princess will get you axed no matter how popular you maybe, even after a public apology, how chidish can 9 be.
Bring Ramsay back, we love him. what a loss. I have been looking forward to watching him and now he is gone…….unhappy as are many of my friends. we loved that show or at least put it on later in the evening so your loyal fans can watch it.
Auzzie TV sux – good job we moved out here for the more exciting things then the zombie box
Must admit not happy for Ramsey to be axed but thats life
M said: “What do they expect, putting it against Life On Mars and Grays Anatomy? One has been over-advertised to the max and the other is a cult favorite. Ramsay’s wasnt even in the TV book for god sake! Nine are idiots. This is getting ridiculous.”
Took the words out of my mouth! They should get Ramsay into Nine’s scheduling department to kick the programmers @$$#$! Foolish people. Do they want any viewers to stay with them at all?
And TEN are replacing BB with a nightly cooking show, OMG is that gonna tank bigtime!
What The F***!!!!
I’m starting to think if they ever get their second HD channels up and running and use them for the “axed” shows – then that’s where you’ll find me.
How on Earth you can even assess ratings fairly when printed tv guides weren’t showing the correct programming? It’s is beyond me.
I read something recently – I think it was in a Melb paper and the Ch 9 programming guy said something like “we will continue to move/change our shows that don’t perform, even though we realise some of our viewers don’t like it” – that was the gist anyway. Well, they are losing more and more viewers who aren’t even bothering to start watching a show because they expect it to be canned or moved to the graveyard shift. They don’t give shows an opportunity to build an audience anymore. if it’s not a ratings winner in a heartbeat – Whoosh! It’s gone. Makes for enjoying, relaxing viewing – Not!!
That episode of Kitchen Nightmares was enjoyable for the transformation of the chef and the restaurant, but we also saw how he helped out the whole family too. It’s a damn shame that this show has been given the arse. I don’t want to see people getting cut up, I want to see Ramsay carving people up. Nine has lost this viewer.
Well I guess channel nine were serious when they said all ‘dog’ shows would be cut immediately.
So they remove CSI:NY because of one showing in Brisbane? How does that make any sense?
And wtf are they doing with Flashpoint? They’re skipping episodes again. I guess 3 episodes in their correct order was too much for them.
Good riddance.
updated axings list of 2009 (ratings season)
ABC: -
SEVEN: -
NINE: Big Bang Thoery/CSI-NY/Ramsays Kitchen Nightmares
TEN: -
SBS -
Wow! I guess channel Nine meant it when they said they would remove “dog” shows immediately.
Yes Ramsey has had his day….would have probably done a tad better if Private Prac was on and it did go up against the launch of Life on Mars but 650k in a prime timeslot was never going to be enough. I think Big Bang will be back soon. I really like Life on Mars better than the UK version but will it last is the US? Lie To Me will be interesting this week, numbers will depend on the state of play in the cricket. Looking forward to seeing the numbers posted on Monday…Let the games begin. All networks need to look up the word “Sustainable”
I get where you’re coming from RichoTB, it’s no longer as fun to make fun of these people who are genuinely stupid and incompetent at their jobs.
I agree with M. Of course it wasn’t going to rate well against Grey’s (which has been on a downward slide for some time now, IMHO) and a brand new show Life On Mars. The axing was very premature as personally I watched Life On Mars and was somewhat disappointed, so I won’t be watching it again. I wonder what the ratings will be next week.
Whilst it may not officially be ratings season this week, I think it should still be included. 7 and Ten have basically unveiled their entire sched, and 9 about half of it.
IMO first axings of the “ratings” season this year are Big Bang and Ramsay. First move to graveyard 24.
Sell the rights to Foxtel and let them show it!
Barrie hit the nail on the head. Not everyone gets their TV info from EPGs and internet – and why should they. There’s nothing like having the guide next to your lounge and near your TV! Missing the printed guide deadlines for Sunday papers would be a major contributor (other than content itself, of course) as to why 9 is 3rd this week.
Perhaps if it started on time, it may have done better. It was 15 minutes late to start.
I used to love bashing Nine, now its not even fun any more because they are just hopeless. They won’t dig themselves out of their hole, they’re not even fighting anymore in the ratings, its like they’re screwing up and losing just for the sake of it. Are they intentionally shooting themselves in the face??
Ramsay was amusing for a while, but they overplayed his shows, and I got tired of the same old f*#k f*#k f*#k act week after week.
Nine deserves to fail, and they are.
The sooner 7 & 9 get their 2nd SD channels up the better, then they can ‘dump’ these shows their and as long as the onscreen guides are kept up-to-date everyone will be happy.
Maybe they need more staff keeping track of shows and guides updated?
TEN made a switch here.
But we’re not in ratings yet so summer changes don’t count or we would add in The Zoo, In Plain Sight, Out of the Blue, 24, ANTM, Gossip Girl, ER etc.
Shark is still on but there are a few interruptions of repeats. Monday its Bro & Sis but Shark back Tues.
Ramsay flopped last time they brought him back, why did they think this time would be any different? Good riddance, I think Nine have finally realised this guy’s shelf life is well and truly stale. It will now dissolve to 10:30 filler, if its even brought back on air again on the normal channel
I like Ramsey but I like RPA even better so I am glad that if they have to replace Ramsey it is with RPA at least I can get my Ramsey fix on you tube wonder how many more shows will last 1 episode on 9
Why would anybody bother choosing Nine in 09′ when they continue to chop and change their schedule as often as they do
Underbelly may well be their only decent-rating series of the season
So now that means that as most weekend tv guides will have already been printed no-one will know that RPA is on and Ramsey isn’t.
Yes nine marketing should be sacked for not having a TV guide ready. I didn’t even know Ramsey was on. Why should I bother having to find out from the internet whats on if nine can’t be bothered printing a tv guide. I checked the TV guide and saw “Life on Mars” was on so I was curious to see if it was like the UK version. It was exactly the same and I decided that i wouldn’t bother with it next week. I wonder if LOM ratings will dramatically drop next week as well after the curiosity factor. Ramsey could make a comeback yet.
wasn’t his show cut just after the olympics after it pulled similar numbers. not sure what they were expecting here. i have no sympathy for 9 they brought this 100% on themselves while being greedy airing 3 eps a week.
shows scheduled to air in ratings period to be canceled tally:
ABC: nil
SBS: nil
seven: nil
TEN: nil
nine: 2 – big bang theory, ramsay
pshish, ratings hasn’t even started. i’d say the next to go will be among flashpoint, wipeout, or singing bee. all of 7 and 10′s shows seem to be doing ok
Can anyone enlighten me as to what’s happened to Shark on 7 @ 2pm Mon-Fri??? It was replaced today by last Monday’s ep of Desperate Housewives. Shock – Horror. Just give me my Shark eps, please….
Why the hell are Nine not screening RPA at 8.30? It was doing 1.4 at the start of 2008 and would definitely do good against two very young skewing shows.
Nine has traditionally been my favorite channel but they’re driving me nuts with some of their stupid moves!
So the score so far has Nine leading with 2 changes (Ramsay and Big Bang Theory), followed by Seven with 1 (24 replaced by Bones), and Ten with no changes. I would love to see some sort of counter on the home page keeping track of changes for each network this year.
What a waste of space that bloke is
From Hero to Zero !
Nine’s overload of particular shows comes home to hurt them bigtime.
Channel 9 – You reap what you sow.
ahahaha! I love being right
What do they expect, putting it against Life On Mars and Grays Anatomy? One has been over-advertised to the max and the other is a cult favorite. Ramsay’s wasnt even in the TV book for god sake! Nine are idiots. This is getting ridiculous.
That is two shows by Nine this week, Big Bang Theory and now Kitchen Nightmare’s. Won’t be long until we see the next one, from any network.
They’re arguably bad ratings, and i think nine are starting to realise the meaning of the word ‘overexposure’ – well except with 2 1/2 men. Then again, nine management are idiots, so i wouldn’t be surprised if they don’t even know that much.
And good riddens to bad language!
And as always, the viewer comes last.
****!