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Spearman will be pulled soon…beaten by BH&G by almost 800k. That’s quite a defeat.
And is that the lowest share Ten have had this year? Absolutely shocking. They may as well bring back 90210 and Melrose Place as a double, I can guarantee they will pull more than 400k and would do better in the demos than crappy decades-old movies. Or why not revive Smallville and pair it with the new season of Supernatural like the CW? They need to make a change and foreign versions of SYTYCD and TBL are not the answer.
wow, friday night isn’t a good night for ten is it?
they got absolutely smashed by ABC – 23.2 vs 14.7 – TEN.
and 7pm project only got 493k! thats really poor – i dont know how they are going to lift its ratings next year, viewers have lost all confidence in the show, and i dont see myself tuning in until there is a change in hosts and format. everything is too rushed – maybe a 1hour show would be better?
lol, check out the numbers for 7pm project! totally shocking, ten’s fridays suck major! i would put on fridays guerilla gardners at 7.30 and at 8.30 show movies then at 10 pm or 10.30 show a new season of law and order
After a decent Love Actually-bolstered Friday last week, it’s all gone down the toilet this Friday for Ten. Awful doesn’t even begin to describe the ratings of 7PM, Neighbours, Spearman and the movie.
I think 6pm news is down across all stations this week, any thoughts out there? Although there wasn’t really any interesting to report this week other than Don Lane’s death.
7pm rated very poorly but not too surprising as most of 10s demo is out fri nights. Overall a terrible night for 10 though.
Oh my God, 493K for The 7pm Project!!! Shocking, absolutely unforgivable rating. Ten may as well close down transmission on Friday nights, they’ ve got nothing.
Wow home and away has really declined ratings wise , is it the current storylines that are turning viewers off because in the UK we are only on the Grant is kidnapped by Charlie storyline and Alf finds him murdered on the beach next week.
I agree with Craig. Home and Away is not that great at the moment which is a shame because I’m a big fan. Lately I’ve found myself skipping episodes and not worrying about what I’ve missed. The Annie/Romeo storyline made me flick stations and as for Ruby!! What a whining brat she has become. Also, what happened to Martha’s cancer??!! Come on, lift ya game!!
9 have won 4 nights so far this week…will they win the week…surely???
@ Craig. The Don Lane Special that aired last night was put together late last year once it was known how ill Don Lane was. It has been sitting around for many months in anticipation of his possible passing, which is why it could air within hours of Lane’s death being announced.
Very happy to see Rush in the Top 10 again, last night episode was my favourite on out of all of them, inc. S1. Burn Notice is doing decent numbers for TEN at 9.30 and Im very surprised to see Don Lane Tribute up top.
Wow, Home & Away nearly slipped below the million again last night.
Does anyone know when this year’s series wraps??
I’m getting bored with the current storylines, maybe I’ll start sampling 7PM again.
ABC2 thank you very much for Graham Norton, I laughed my head off for 45 minutes. Rove take note – you interview people by actually talking to them for more than 2 minutes.
Agree re NCIS LA, don’t see the point of it really. Doesn’t do anything for me.
I really like Glee but am hating on the fake baby storyline. I realise it will probably all come out in the wash but in the meantime not happy jan.
good results for burn notice last night, even though rush didnt grow in ratings burn notice still did!
No surprise that the Don Lane tribute topped the ratings last night. Beauty of the Geek dropped from last week, dragging down the figures for The Amazing Race as well.
I started watching the Don Lane special but right away you could tell it was mostly clips and not much commentary, not that that is a bad thing but you could tell it was thrown together very quickly. Now maybe Nine had been working on it for a while, getting clips together but it just felt rushed to me. Still good viewing for fans.
@ Vanessa, yeah, very good point, you’re probably right.
Oh yeh, Starts 1st Novmber
Why are nearly 1 million people watching Beauty and the Geek? God help us.
Seven just announced its second channel 7TWO. Lots of great stuff.
I thin that would apply to gen y certainly but many gen x grew up in that era remembering his show was going until 1983 the gen x decade.
@ Allie says:
October 23, 2009 at 11:15 am
“I’m surprised the Don Lane tribute topped the ratings, considering he hasn’t been on air regulary in over 25 years and most Gen X and Yers would have little, if no, memory of him”
It probably shows that most people watching TV on a thursday night are not Gen X or Y. They are more likely to be out, or using internet, watching download shows or DVD’s than older generations.
I’m surprised the Don Lane tribute topped the ratings, considering he hasn’t been on air regulary in over 25 years and most Gen X and Yers would have little, if no, memory of him. ACA flogged yet again by TT – almost 200,000 extra viewers for TT. The less said about the Nine News turkey, the better. The Secret Millionaire did very good figures for a 9.30pm slot – I would not be surprised if it is moved to an earlier timeslot, as it appears to be a winner.
7.30 is a strange slot for a show like GW it’s more an 8.30 show.
I’ve been watching some of Secret Millionaire lately as there’s nothing else on that interests me and found it to be excellent feel good tv. Not must watch by any means but it’s heart warming and deserves decent ratings.
How can Seven continue to destroy its Thursday nights by leaving Ghost Whisperer to flounder at 7.30?
on those figures would not be surprised if secret millionaire is moved to a earlier slot. maybe swap with csi on thurs or 630pm on sunday.
All Saints has had higher ratings than Rescue, City Homicide & Rush this week.
Given that it AS has been axed, all these other shows must be under some pressure long-term. (Rush has been renewed for season 3)
Agree with the consensus that City Homicide is dying on the vine in the slot Seven have it in at the moment. It needs to be moved post haste. Seven is by far the most successful network for Australian drama, has been for quite some time, so i don’t understand why they are killing something that was formerly so successful for them.
Also agree with everyone about the bizarre nature of the NCIS:LA set. I have the show on in the background and only watch snatches of it, but I don’t understand the set. Do they work out of stately Wayne Manor or something? I can’t figure it out.
don’t usually watch rush but gave it another go tonight and i was pretty impressed! there was so much going on it kept me entertained the whole ep. and burn notice’s ep would have been one of the best it has ever had, so much action going on it was so kool! and i loved the end when they asked michael to come back and work for them and he just jumped out of the helicopter into the ocean as if to say stick it!
@koverstreet that’s exactly why i didn’t get the point of the show. it’s an entirely different show, not a spin off. Just like NCIS was a spin-off from JAG but at least they gave them different titles and completely different feel to it. But then they go and call it NCIS:LA like it’s a CSI type franchise show, but it isn’t. I haven’t really warmed to the show, the characters, the whole lot and i just don’t get the need for it.
City Homicide belongs on Sunday night or Monday night. Border Security/The Force lead in is perfect and it could have been an all Aussie crime night. Heck could add Beyond The Darklands at 9.30. Perfect fit. Another quality episode last night, but no one watched it. Seven had a hit and they stuffed it up.
Glee. Brilliant episode. Best one yet. I am officially a Gleek.
I might give it a proper go but I guess I was expecting an NCIS clone and it’s completely different.
As for CH Seven need to put it somewhere where it has a decent lead in. It’s a quality show and I’d hate to see it axed because of 7s incompetance.
Ryan, Koverstreet.
Linda Hunts character doesnt say ‘stupid sh*t.’ Thats how she is, wise and odd. I agree about the setting, it needs working on because it doesnt look like a police place.. but its not as bad you think.
City Homicide fails to crack a million with terrible demos and fourth, Fourth, in its slot for total people, on the highest rating network and the most successful network for Aussie drama. Definitely should have kept All Saints instead.
Rather close at 9:30 with all shows on ABC1, Seven, Nine and Ten scoring within the 700,000s. CH repeats and NCIS repeats seem to be doing the job against new CIA.
And thank God for the low ratings for Seven’s factuals. Four days in a row of boring, repetitive, lazy television deserves those numbers.
Hungry Beast is the worst crap ABC has crapped out in a very long while.
Hungry Beast is really bad, I mean Really bad, really preachy, really 1st year sociology uni student “i care about all the issues on the planet” and why we should all really care about the “issues” like refugees, and why the West are soo Evil.
Typical ABC BS.
They just come off like a bunch of unfunny uni losers, the type that hiss at all the commerce students for being money hungry, rolex wearing capitalists.
W*nkers.
Is Hungry Beast made in Sydney or Melbourne? See how the ratings for Safran increased from the HB lead in in Sydney. The demos were weird for HB in Sydney too.
I have a similar reaction to NCIS LA to a poster below – what is up with that weird set? It’s very unappealing and the cast just don’t do it for me. They lack the charisma and charm of the orginal in a big way. And the old lady is supposed to be some ducky clone that doesn’t come off. I’m a huge fan of NCIS but won’t be bothering with the spin-off.
Great to see NCIS LA 7th – its growing on me. Still the original cannot be outdone! TEN would be happy with the Celeb MC number – I had predicted its figure to rise and it will continue, Caught the last 10 minutes, its light entertainment at its best.
I’m ambivalent about 2.5 Men, but there is no denying it is a runaway train, ratings wise. I cannot believe that it can be shown in prime time 10 times a week without a viewer backlash. I don’t watch the 7pm episode as I usually watch Jeopardy on W Channel (and sometimes the 7pm Report on sufferance). However, I do occasionally catch it, and whilst I’m not overly nuts about the morality of the storylines (the Charlie as amoral Man Whore theme is getting stale), I do acknowledge that it is very well written and exceptionally well cast. It reminds me of both Seinfeld and Frasier in that sense, in the the casting and performances were pitch perfect for the show. Production and performance wise there are no weak links, but the humour in the show is risque and definitely not to everybody’s taste.
I think that 2.5 men is on more than the Simpsons and the Simpsons only get one episode at 6pm each weeknight and 6pm Sun and Sat during non AFL season, and then a new and last season ep on Tues 7:30pm, that equates to 8-9 per week. Whereas 2.5 gets 5 episodes each weeknight at 7pm, then 1 on Mon, 1 on Tues 1 on Wed and 1 on Fri at 7:30pm that equals 9. and if they had no so called Seinfeld reunion you would get 10. I think they even ha tabled it to go on Wed after the Hey Hey reunion 1, instead that week had nothing but Mark Boris From Apprentice. If nine wish to win each week consecutively, they might put 2.5 on GO and have only the Mon and Wed 7:30pm eps on Nine and these would be new. Instead they would use Sale Of The Century at 7pm for the oldies to counter Home and Away for young people, The 7pm project for nobodies, ABC news for those needing the news and SBS. It might just mean Home and Away and the 7pm project has a decent rival. Also Why doesn’t nine use Burke’s Backyard on Fri 7:30pm. It might leave BHG begging for viewers? In conclusion I think Nine are now more like 9.5 men. without the good old shows.
great to see celeb masterchef grow, next weeks ep looks good with our own aussie miss universe contestant:) I cant believe ten are even considering keeping the 7pm project, it might be cheap to produce but it would still cost a bit of money and its going downhill, the show needs someone more sophisticated to host the show like kim watkins! didnt watch ncis l.a last night, its a bit weird that show i mean look at the place they work at! what the hell is it? a palace? and that stupid little woman that says the stupidest sh*T! good to see it do well though cause its better than what else is on at that time.
@Rutzie: That’s how I would have done it. But Seven seems to place a high priority on Bones, to the detriment of CH and CM.
Nice to see the new NCIS holding it’s own and TEN almost beating Seven to 2nd, must be a sad situation when 2.5 Men re-run is the most watched show and helps Nine win the night.
go 2. 5 men, great show
Even without hey hey nine still wins wednesday easily. Great to see some of 7s boring factuals bomb it’s all they have really. Not so good to see one of their few decent shows in city homicide do poorly. It’s excellent at the moment and 7 seem intent on killing it off. Grrrr 7!!
Agree with Rutzie – we are “all factualled out” by Wednesday night. Although Border Security seems to always hold up well against 2.5 Men – so maybe we’ll see it back on Wed night 7.30.
Alex is too fashionable to get tzjushed up by QEFTSG. Otherwise you’re assuming the wrong thing.
Ten is having a better week, improving there share on Sunday, Monday and Wednesday week to week. Hopefully Glee and Rush can can grow back to over 1mi tonight. & had an waful night with nothing over 1mil from 7pm onwards. 9 did suprsing well with 2.5men ancoring there line up and money for Jam back up.
If i were ten i would of gone with
Tues – Simpsons Hour, NCIS, NCIS LA
Wed – Celb MasterChef, House, Lie to me
With no much Wednesday comp i think House Would be retaining or possibly growning on Celb MC. It apprently had 1.5mil between 8 – 8:30 with the 1st half hour bringing down its total viewers. I think House could retain alot more of the 1.5mil than NCIS LA as its more demo compatable with MC. House deos well after reailty in general as well and would of been a good way to regenerate intrest in the show in what is an aswome season so far.
Also, I meant to note that The 7pm Report must be on very shaky ground. Its ratings this week have been pathetic and it was a fag paper width away from being out of the Top 30 last night. 602,000 nationally for a show on at 7pm? Abysmal!. Ten may as well flush the money it is paying to Roving to produce this down the toilet.
Allie – I agree about Celeb MC last night – really really enjoyed it.
The 3 celebs were fun to watch – but Alex totally stole the show. What a deliciously wicked sense of humour.
He would have been perfect for the Australian Queer Eye for the Straight Guy But…. seriously???
Anyways – I hope Celeb MC overtakes that dreadful unfunny sitcom 2.5 men next week!
Nine news was a disaster last night – I guess that seagull scared viewers away?
love wednesday nights. masterchef followed by spicks and specks then the new john safran show. its the only night of the week where i actually turn on the tv knowing theres good stuff to watch.
I think by Wednesday viewers are all factualed out judging by those numbers for Coastwatch and Medical Emergency. I’d expect to see Border Security repeats in the 7.30pm slot next week. City Homicide is a perfect example of why you should not move a show around. The quality of this season is not reflected in the ratings. Seven should have put FlashForward on Sunday and kept CH on Monday and held Bones over until next year, which also would have allowed them to show new eps of Criminal Minds at Wednesday 8.30pm instead of Monday at 9.30pm.
Disappointing figures for City Homicide (last night’s episode was a beauty, too). Seven should learn from this: moving high-rating shows around can screw them up. CH dominated Monday nights, but ever since they moved it to Sundays it’s lost viewers.
Nine News is falling apart. Good. Seven’s news coverage is much, much better.
2.5 Men is the worst show on TV. I can’t believe how many people watch it.
I don’t understand why Two and half men keeps winning ratings. It’s just same ol same ol each episode……
I thoroughly enjoyed Celebrity Masterchef last night, and note that it has picked up in the ratings. Alex Perry was a hoot, that guy is wasted on cable TV, he needs wider exposure as he has a great sense of humour and screen presence. Simon Katich and Wendy Harmer were also delightful. Loved Alex’s comment when he said he has never been more relieved when something was over (meaning the pressure test), even more relieved than when puberty was over! LOL
Absolutely dreadful night for Nine News, well out of the top ten. In Sydney, Seven beat it by over 60,000 viewers and in Melbourne by 87,000 viewers. That has to hurt. Nine News has dropped the ball completely with news coverage.
The 2.5 Men juggernaut rolls on. Has ever a sitcom been embraced by the Australian audience than this one. It screens 10 times per week and constantly either tops the ratings or is in the Top 10. Unbelievable for something that was a resounding flop when first screened.
Nine News again below the “magic million” figure. Shed another 30K Wed. night. Now 221K less than on Monday. No, don’t blame DST, AEST, late shopping, parties, sunshine, rain or whatever. Not even the seagull stopped GTV from dropping 3K.
I love City Homicide, great show, hope it doesn’t get axed, but in a way i’m kinda happy for those numbers cos it’s a bit of a “up your” to Seven for screwing around with it. Sunday or Monday night is where it belongs. And pick a night and stick to it, there was no need to move it mid year from Monday to Wednesday, it’s gotten the lowest ratings ever since it moved to Wednesday, don’t know why they didn’t leave it and just bring back new Criminal Minds to Wednesday.
2.5 Men #1 again, how depressing. And Nine News very bad ratings.
Sorry David i kinda agree with Craig, i’d rather we were given separated ratings for Nine/GO & Ten/ONE. They’re different channels. You have connections don’t ya, tell the guys at OzTam to end this madness.
Regarding the ratings for Today Tonight and A Current Affair,
The Adelaide editions of each need to lighten up a bit.
Craig I break out digital channels in weekly ratings reports and I also indicated those for 11th-17th October here (not just for one city and not three days later). Daily figures are network totals as supplied via OzTAM and in line with industry practice, as it has been since ABC2 began and not merely when GO! began. As any long term reader here knows, ratings info is evolving with the site and changes to our industry (including timeshifting from late December) and will continue to do so. But if a print newspaper gives you preferred ratings results then go for it.
It seems to me that the Herald Sun Newspaper,the biggest selling newspaper in Australia seems to have the ratings,in the correct form and not including them in the overall scheme of things,as i keep mentioning to you David that makes alot more sense,than it does on this site.For Melbourne people from the 11th-17th October Seven:27.5 . Nine:26.0 . Ten:20.1 . ABC:15.0 . SBS:5.6 . Go!:2.7 . One:1.6 . ABC2…:1.2 . SBS2…:0.4……….From the info i have gathered this is the correct way thanks for reading
@ryan, how is Ten coming third on it’s strongest night good?
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I thought last night NCIS was intriguing. Finally got to see Ziva in action working for Mossad and the last 15 minutes had me in hysterics. This ep ends Zivas arc with Mossad but not her personal relationship with her father.. evil man.
I saw the Seinfeld Reunion advertised on both 9 and Go!.
After Seinfeld last night on Go they made a special point of telling you it was on 9 at 9.00pm.
Not to mention the fact that David told us all about it.
Curb Your Enthusiasm (9.30pm 9 Tuesday) wasnt advertised I dont think… I didnt know about it until checking the TV guide.. so I alerted my brother (another huge seinfeld fan) who also didnt know about it
im sure many more seinfeld fans missed it unfortunately
why does ten even bother with the 7pm project? it never wins demos, i remember when friends was on they usually won the 16-39 demo, the fact is there is way too much news that isnt news at all, pointless crap that leaves you going huh? i mean god we have 4.30 pm news on 2 channels, 5pm news, 6pm ,news, 6.30 news stories, 7pm news stories and more news on abc, do we need more??
I thought last nights NCIS was total meh tv and hopefullly that is the very last time they do the ‘oh no one of our own has been falsely accused of a crime’ storyline – wearing a bit thin now people.
FYI Ziva’s mosad coworker is ‘Zane’ from the Bill – cracking the big time!
@ ryan – I don’t want Raymond in a prime time spot ever again thank you very much!
not good for 9 news to drop below the mil on a tuesday. i watched L2L last night and was very unimpressed felt like tuning out the whole way but stuck with it, didn’t mind all the previous seasons but i will not be back. figures don’t surprise at all.
but great to see PTTR still doing well so far into the series. with only 5 eps to go this season average is still less than 40k down on last season which is great retention.
How vindicating to see Ladette to Lady fail spectacularly.
Survivor Gabon is awesome (even though I’ve already seen it). There was 3 different things at once that I wanted to watch, so i decided i’d watch the rest online (no i don’t have a PVR). I think that even thought The 7PM Project is staying throughout the summer it won’t be back past the non-ratings period and I am a bit shocked about the ratings for Curb You Enthusiasm.
Nine got what it deserved by misleading viewers about the ‘Seinfeld Reunion.’
good night for ten, and good to see simpsons jump, i agree with harry about the 7pm project, its bringing tens night down!! the show is just boring as now and i cant stand anyone on it anymore. I rekon try either everybody loves raymond, or futurama in the 7pm slot.
I’m surprised Curb Your Enthusiasm didn’t rate better with the Seinfeld “reunion”. I thought it was a one-off, but they must be back for a few more episodes. Personally, I find Larry David too annoying to be funny, but the whole Seinfeld story-line is very clever.
All New Simpsons rating worse than the repeats is a little weird, especially since I thought last night’s episode was one of the best I’ve seen in a long, long time. Then again comedy hours always increase at 8pm, eg the Simspons Hour on Fridays and last year with ‘Two and a Half Men Wednesdays’.
Watched the Seinfeld reunion last night. Was that it?
755,000 for Seinfeld Reunion.
Was that good or average?
I’m intrigued where 9 would go from here.
Show the other seinfeld eps as they come up in the schedule of the show,
or just leave it at that.
@ Jed
There is no doubt in my mind that this has been the best season of survivor ever..
Absolutely love Matty coming back from the dead so many times.. I hope he and sugar go all the way!
wonder if they’ll axe moonlight again, I didn’t watch it on 9, I just saw that episode on GO! 2 weeks ago.
Apparently 9 are starting to advertise V, they are going to give it every chance it seems but that might not help it, we all know their history with sci-fi, I really thought this would be exclusive to GO! it will end up there either way.
Bummer at TEN coming third last night over Nines horrific lineup. Oh well, great number for NCIS – another episode which had me in hysterics last night! Lie To Me drops under 1 million, if it can hold onto 900k for the rest of the year, it would be good for TEN.
The 7.00 slot is what currently is bringing TEN down. The least the 7PM Project could be doing is attracting 850-900k.
Sundays are up across the board everywhere. More people home…
@Allie. The quality of reporting for Nine News in Adelaide is terrible. Reporters are amauterish at best and a live cross even had the camera zooming in and out and left to right in the middle of a cross. Their choice in some presenters is also questionable…i’m talking bout you Troy Gray. Nine seems to get closer on Sunday nights though, dunno why.