Comments on: Mid year ratings: It’s Seven and TEN

By: Sonny

Sonny — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:41:54 +0000

@ Johnny 1.5

Castle was only for 10 episode up until May 11th in the USA, the next lot starts on September 21st there from what I can gather, so July 19th Episode is the final one for now.

By: Johnny 1.5

Johnny 1.5 — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:12:47 +0000

Well Nine have coming up Farmer Wants A Wife, Australia’s Perfect Couple, Dance Your Ass Off, Seven have City Homicide, Double Take, True Beauty and TV Burp thus far, it may be Rush on Ten will get a good audience Idol, 5th Grader, Rove, Good News Week, New Simpsons will be consistent, so Ten may just keep on going given what the opposition will be trying to tempt us with, Thank God You’re Here and Talkin’ Bout Your Generation both finishing will be similar rating losses, so yeah really (Sunday Night with Bones and Castle for 7 will remain for a bit yet of course).

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:23:19 +0000

since it’s mid-year in the ratings, do you have a list of the years ratings for the year so far?

Like what’s rating for the year, what’s not, and who’s winning what timeslot etc?

By: damo

damo — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:01:49 +0000

there is still abother 11 week of the rubbish dwts and the cringeworthy eliminations. god that was woeful last night. i hope the rating plummit from now on end

By: Harry

Harry — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:41:20 +0000

TEN wont have new NCIS until October, same goes with Lie To Me. NCIS: LA is on TEN as well, hopefully that can pick up a strong audience as well. Idol, 5th Grader etc etc will rate consistenly. They have Glee at the end of the year as well as Rush starting soon. Strong lineup.

By: slydoggie

slydoggie — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:32:05 +0000

TEN’s line up hardly seems weak. Idol, 5th Grader, Rove, Good News Week, New Simpsons, New NCIS, New Lie To Me, New L&O UK, New House, Glee, 7pm Project, Rush…some great choices there.

Someone BBBA: You can bet TEN has Masterchef wrapped up….they wouldn’t have launched into a massive production like that without first options moving forward

Will be interesting to see what happens when Nine launches their new youth channel

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:41:54 +0000

Does anyone know when SBS last had a weekly share this high?

By: Darryn

Darryn — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:06:30 +0000

Strangely, i had nine coming 2nd also. Not that it matters. A crushing win for 7. Very average week for 10, 9 & abc. Great week for sbs.

By: David Knox

David Knox — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:09:48 +0000

“Tv”: figures are as per OzTAM. No error thanks.

By: Benno

Benno — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:23:33 +0000

I’m choosing 9 in 09…….choosing not to watch!

There’s no way to spin nine’s failures – losing every demo and TP figure.

By: Vic

Vic — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 07:40:53 +0000

And just a little something I wanted to add: Seven should have just branded TV Burp at ‘The Soup: Aussie Flavour’ or something like that. As it is right now, they’d be hard tasked to find a more distasteful name for the show.

By: Vic

Vic — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 07:38:53 +0000

Interesting how Ten was able to leverage Good News Week for a no-nothing into a fairly strong show. Very good acquisitions this year, and nice to see them taking a slightly more intelligent course when laying out their programming. They do need some stronger comedies though. Wouldn’t hurt if they maybe relaunched The Office, maybe striping it as a 7:30 show, and showcasing new episodes after its got a good penetration. I will say, Glee is a damn good acquisition, as the cross-promotion potential is great, though I’ll be interested to see just how it does in the ratings once the US season starts airing proper.

I think this weeks performance spells out quite well how we’ll be seeing the respective networks performing over the next few years. Nine is continuing its graceless decline, and the reveal of Go will no doubt be just another repeat of the mess they’re are in. What they really need now is a management restructure, and not just the culling of the sacrificial lamb. Throw out the CEO, and all the other dead wood. Get a consultant or ten from the US, and get them to tear apart the whole structure. Who cares about the ’spirit’ of Nine, or them not having Aussie sensibilities, as a completely outside perspective is exactly what they need.

By: Neon Kitten

Neon Kitten — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 06:46:42 +0000

Ah, Nine. Still the… last.

By: David @ Green Point

David @ Green Point — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 06:44:51 +0000

I understand the Powers That Be at the Nork Network have made a substantial offer to the entire cast of the Harry Potter movies to take over the hosting of all of the network’s shows in the hope it may improve ratings…

By: Someone BBBA

Someone BBBA — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 06:33:48 +0000

I wouldn’t be surprised if Nine tried to buy Masterchef next year… I’m not saying they would succeed, but surely it would be something to consider, especially given Ten’s financial troubles at the moment.

By: FJ

FJ — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 06:16:37 +0000

Aus TV is so sad atm. 7 leads the news and it is the most dumbed down news on TV. I can’t remember the last time I watched anything on 7.