Comments on: Week 34

By: abdiaz

abdiaz — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:22:59 +0000

i’m just glad burn notice didn’t end up really s**t lol

hoooray to BN yes i am obsessed with it if ur wondering lol

i mean its not a bad show after all lol

By: Tony

Tony — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:58:33 +0000

What happened to Judith Lucy on Rove last night? Has she been “boned” already?

By: Tobey

Tobey — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:41:13 +0000

Channel 10 deserved to have a shocking night on Friday. I for one, hate latre changes to programming and end up resorting to downloading shows. The whole ratings system in this country needs revamping. There is no reporting for shows that are recorded and watched later. I along with a lot of my friends are out on Friday nights but have been recording So You Think You Can Dance to watch at a later date (usually Sunday when you need something that doesn’t require to much thought to watch and that isn’t sport). Imagine our annoyance when we go to watch the programme and you have some movie repeat on.
Commercial television in Australia treats it’s viewers like rubbish.
I think that it’s the programme directors that need to be canned not the shows.
So what if a show is not being watched live, it doesn’t mean people don’t want to see it.

By: Trev

Trev — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 22:52:53 +0000

Unfortunately Ryan, this is what happens with self regulation.

By: ryan

ryan — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:40:58 +0000

why is it that channel 10 are the only ones who show on the epg when a show is going to over run?? constantly 7 and 9 have shows running overtime but their epgs say differently! i thought it was a rule to have the right times?

By: Nicola

Nicola — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 07:08:42 +0000

I just have to say everybody watch Bones tonight! I am a major fan and tonights episode is my favourite…ever!!! Also I just wanna say that I’m really enjoying Stephen Fry In America. It’s a great show!!
(BTW I’m not some 60 yr old that likes SFiA….I’m only 14 and I think it’s Awesome!)

By: Alex T

Alex T — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 02:38:25 +0000

Harry i don’t think it’s as easy as that.. The last thing TEN wanna do is over expose their audience with cooking. I mean yes, it might do alright to begin with.. but in the end, it could damage their Masterchef brand.. They wouldn’t want that..

And also, it’s always going to be a battle for ten to do well on a friday, because their key audience is out at the pub or doing stuff with mates.. Seven has programming which skews toward the older, who are all in on a friday night.. So in the end, that’s what it comes down to… (or at least that’s how i see it)

By: Alvin

Alvin — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 02:08:52 +0000

for the biggest loser, they should do something similar to masterclass, like nutrition class. LOL.

By: Craig

Craig — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 01:39:01 +0000

Dumb Question but was the Seven Friday movie “Because I Said So” only on in Syd/Bris? thus the low ratings and not making the top 30?

By: Harry

Harry — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 16:33:29 +0000

Honestly TEN, grow up. Bring back a permanent weekly Masterclass. Not Masterchef, just Masterclass. After the success of Masterclass on Fridays during Masterchef, Im sure having a non mc edition of it will succeed. Its pretty much their only hope!

By: Janey

Janey — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 14:30:40 +0000

George, Ten have tried older skewing first run drama with Medium and Law & Order, and they’ve tried female skewing reality with U.S. So You Think You Can Dance, as well as Simpsons and repeat movies. Fridays are just really tough because Ten’s younger audience is out and they are competing with AFL on Seven, NRL on Nine and older skewing British drama on the ABC…add to that the cricket on SBS and there’s not a lot of viewers left who would be interested in watching anything on Ten.
Masterclass worked really well while Masterchef was on the air, but would it work without the interest of following the characters of the popular reality series? Also, is it overkill for the franchise?
Someone also suggested that Ten play first run movies every Friday rather than repeats. While that is a great suggestion, unfortunately Ten do not own that many first run movies and there are 40 weeks of ratings to cover, remembering that they also have movies on Saturday before and after AFL. and this year they needed movies for a few Sundays as well.
Fridays are really tough for Ten, just like the U.S. Networks with younger skewing audiences like Fox have the same problem. Ten can schedule older skewing shows like Law & Order, but because the older audience are not used to watching Ten they will always choose the ABC first…and by putting older skewing shows on, Ten are alienating any younger viewers who happen to be home looking for something to watch, so their younger demos will be terrible.
I cannot think of anything else Ten can do that they haven’t already tried.

By: Jed

Jed — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:38:54 +0000

OK i flicked over to GO! at half time of the footy. Dance Your Ass Off. OMG! I knew it was crap and didn’t want to watch, but i wanted to see how bad so kept it on for a bit. OMG. Really whoever came up with that shoudl hang their head in shame, whoever gave the go-ahead for it though should have their head checked. I’ve never seen somethign so terrible in my entire life. They had the fat people pole dancing and then were giving them comments like you really worked the pole well. I was in shock. Wow. That’s all.

By: Johnson

Johnson — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:33:59 +0000

Woeful ratings for Ten last night. With the sixth season of So You Think You Can Dance starting in the US on September 9 (five days after season 5 finishes on Ten), Ten will have to think whether to show the series itself or sell the rights to Foxtel so the latter can show it via satellite, similar to American Idol.

By: George

George — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:46:12 +0000

Maybe TEN could focus on a different demographic for Friday nights? They could skew older programming and try to get different advertisers for those slots so they can maximise their profits, because 16.2% is pretty darn sad for the nation’s 3rd largest network.
Plus I’d like something other than Simpsons and a movie repeat to watch on a Friday evening. >_>

By: RoySyd

RoySyd — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 11:08:11 +0000

Great Ratings for NRL on Friday nite & only in 2states
And Great Game!! Go Parra!!

By: Andrew B

Andrew B — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 09:31:29 +0000

Agree that a Masterclass based show would do very well, and make it 1 hour like it was 7-8pm.