Comments on: Wipeout wipes out Fifth Grader

By: slydoggie

slydoggie — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:11:31 +0000

@ Ben: OzTam are kind of doing that right now. They are taking out about 25% of the sample and putting in people that have PVRs (which are in about 25% of homes).

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:46:16 +0000

I’m surprised Nine hasn’t tried Gordon Ramsay on GO! yet.

It would seem to be a good fit for the channel, with quite a niche audience, that stuck with the show despite Nine’s best efforts. In particular, the last series of Hell’s Kitchen didn’t even finish broadcasting on Nine, in Sydney at least, so it would be nice to have a conclusion to that.

By: Nigel

Nigel — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:23:02 +0000

When is Go going to comission a new Australian production?

By: mikeys

mikeys — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:41:17 +0000

Well done GO! It serves TEN right for serving up such rubbish to it’s audience… The question is – now that ratings are over, are TEN going to chop and change the schedule? TEN has a history of not doing so, but with numbers like this it would seem unwise to leave things as they are…

By: tasmanian devil

tasmanian devil — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:41:36 +0000

I watched the US Fifth Grader episode just out of curiosity, and it was just as I expected. The Australian version is basically an exact replica, complete with American language, an American classroom, and American everything. Network Ten just seems obsessed with the US.

By: Kat

Kat — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:16:56 +0000

@Sean M, totally agreed! I love that I can have it on early morning or late night and there’s something like Big Bang or Seinfeld on; very smart move

I know the guy who hosts US fifth grader from that Blue Collar whatever show that nine used to play in the wee early hours, but the very idea that people would watch it made me laugh. Like you said David, who wants to watch Americans win money unless they get injured along the way, like on Amazing Race and Survivor?

By: Craig(Buzz)

Craig(Buzz) — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:04:00 +0000

Being Summer non-ratings you will probably see the rare victory by a digital channel over it’s competition.If it was to happen during ratings season heads will certainly be on the chopping block

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:51:17 +0000

Does anyone know whether OzTam or whoever looks after ratings boxes chooses digital only homes or analogue too? Because surely they’d have to present an accurate representation of digital homes right?

By: Sillygostly

Sillygostly — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:37:29 +0000

Foreign quiz shows almost never work as they alienate the audience due to questions that are more region/culturally specific.

Smart one, Ten.

By: Sean M

Sean M — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:08:11 +0000

It is a good channel.

I could switch it on in the middle of the night or during the day. And there might be a decent program on.

By: slydoggie

slydoggie — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:03:55 +0000

@ Vert: couldn’t agree more….the logic that TEN’s programmers are using astounds me. “Mmmm….the Australian Fifth Grader audience started to really wane and they were clearly tired of it…I know! Let’s stick on the American version which is hosted by someone the target audience has never heard of! That will surely do good numbers!!”

I expected better….

By: David Knox

David Knox — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:03:11 +0000

Survivor and Amazing Race aside it’s hard to think of many shows where Aussies are happy to watch Americans winning American money.

By: Shelly

Shelly — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:01:52 +0000

Lawrence, there are so many shows that Nine/GO! are still not airing, there’s no need for original content. I’d be happy to see some other first run show that we are not getting to see or things that have only aired on pay tv.

By: Kay

Kay — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:57:19 +0000

I think a repeat of the Oz version of 5th grader would have done better. For me, the fun in watching quiz shows is guessing the answers, so a quiz show asking US based questions I have no clue about is boring.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:56:46 +0000

@Lawrence I think you’re right. With some original Aussie show’s I could see GO becoming a real force in 2010

By: Edu

Edu — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:27:43 +0000

@bindi LOL, true. I only watch Ten because of Glee and I missed last Thursday’s ep that’s why I didn’t see the promos for Glee on Sunday but I’m still glad that I was able to watch yesterday’s ep.