1.7m for Hamish and Andy
The big audience for Hamish and Andy this week will further the call for the two funny boys to make a permanent return to television.
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The big audience for Hamish and Andy this week will further the call for the two funny boys to make a permanent return to television.
Their Caravan of Courage won its timeslot with nearly 1.75m viewers, beating the combined Matty Johns Show / Vicar of Dibley figures on 939,000 and Getaway on 891,000.
The show also landed above Sea Patrol‘s 1.1m and How I Met Your Mother‘s 666,000.
Recently the two radio stars said they were contemplating doing more television in the future. Their last Caravan adventure was 1.3m.
MasterChef was again the top show of the night on 1.82m as 21yo accountant Matthew was eliminated from the series for incorrectly naming dried apricots in a carrot cake.
An Argentina v South Korea match scored with 593,000 viewers for SBS.
Seven continues to have trouble with Thursday nights, finishing in third place for the second night in a row. TEN was a clear first in primary channels but the boost from GO! gave the Nine Network another win.
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I clearly don;t watch enough FTA – I had no idea this was on (or even what channel…). They’re H&A Live show several years ago on Seven was fantastic, I hope they can do something similar again.
A two time a year 8-12 season variety/comedy show for Hamish & Andy would be a hit.
How about another crack at Real Stories? We need news satire to fill the void left by Newstopia. And if we are going to move radio to TV, I vote to ressurrect Tony Martin and Ed Kavalee with Get This! It’s never too late…
Gotta watch that H&A special.
I think they do better on radio, and I reckon if they go for a fulltime Tv career now, they could ruin everything. It’s been done before, not just radio personalities moving to tv, but also moving to other timeslots. Remember the Shebang? Used to be the highest rating show for the drive home, then it moved to breakfast and failed miserably. Although, on the flip side, Kyle & Jackie O moved from an evening shift to the morning, and they took off big time.
There’s no reason why H&A couldn’t pull a bit of a kyle sandilands, and work both a tv regular/ seasonal spot, and continue driving millions of aussies home.
Well considering 2 mil listen to H and A not surprising that they get 1.7 mil
I thought it was a great show tonight however i dont think a permament tv show would be right. I know I will probably be bored of their shows after maybe a month. I like what they are doing right now with these specials.
How I met your mother is actually decent television.Anyone seen that rubbish benidorm.How anyone except British people can stand such filth
OMG! please pass me the sick bucket… and fast!
Wow?
I find them to be the style of humour to act and look like you’re saying something funny, have the other one laughing over the top as, while, after you say it. Not actually be saying anything that isn’t obvious or particularly funny.
Good on Hamish & Andy. I think they should definitely have a permanent show. They just need a few TV friendly people to add to their posse and they’ll be right. Maybe two girls? H & A are the main stars but then there’s other people to do stuff when necessary.
H&A / Ch10 could have easily turned this into a series of 2 – 3 shows, I agree it seemed a little rushed.
If they do put a show together it needs to revolve around ‘off the cuff’ stuff – their humour really starts to lack when they have to script large blocks of text IMO.
Side note – did anyone notice when they were in Ireland they had duct tape over both the UK & Irish flags but not the Aussie one!? What was that about? Not offending someone?
A Hamish and Andy show would fill the void of not only Rove, but also of the inevitable cancellation of Hey Hey.
Natasha, the World Cup figures for the Argentina-South Korea match were excellent. Especially when you consider that Argentina looked like romping home after little more than half an hour. What were you expecting?
Hamish & Andy were fun. It’s a shame the show was crammed into a one hour block. It just seemed a little rushed.
@ Natasha, I think everyone likes to watch their origin of ethnicity team but I would expect pretty big numbers again for the Socceroos next game.
@ Craig, yes bring on 10’s 3rd channel. They need that little bit of extra help.
For SBS I would have thought 593 000 viewers was pretty reasonable? Given that it’s not a local team after all…
593,000 is great for SBS.
@Natasha. I would think SBS would be thrilled with 593k, given the fact that it’s still only the first week of the World Cup and the game was between 2 countries that probably don’t encourage large audience numbers here.
This was another risk-taking programming move for Ten that paid off. In fact, much more people watched Hamish and Andy than Glee, which returns next week for the second last episode of the first season. Unfortunately, it will then take another break on July 1 due to AFL, before returning for the season finale on July 8.
Is this definitely not just because MasterChef ran 5-10 minutes over? Not bad!
I hate that Seven have basicly destroyed any chance of How I Met Your Mother working on TV… Bloody hell.
i think it was helped by the powerhouse that is masterchef
With Nine getting pushed over the line thanks to GO! I hope TEN reconsiders it’s plans and gets their 3rd channel up and running before the end of the years…
Oh and what’s the ods Cougar Town will be finding a home on 7TWO very soon…
An Argentina v South Korea match scored with 593,000 viewers for SBS.
Is everyone getting over soccer or they only watch their own team? Those figures are terrible.