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2012 Mid-Year Report Card

At the half-way point of the 2012 Television Year what are the Hits and Misses so far?

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Tomorrow marks the half-way point of the 2012 Television Year -counting 20 weeks of surveys.

Strictly speaking we will have several weeks of Olympics, which as an abnormal event is usually separated from standard data.

As of Sunday Seven was leading in Total People, but Nine was in front on Demos.

I’ve taken a look back over the year and made a few assessments on the Hits and Misses so far. This is purely a subjective view, and based on Total People figures, not critical reviews (some of the shows I’ve deemed a “Miss” I personally enjoyed).

I also haven’t ranked every show, because a lot of others fall into a middling range that is neither glorious nor disastrous. So you will some don’t rate a mention -they’re doing ok business.

Furthermore I’ve judged some on the kind of numbers the network can reasonably expect on its respective network in its timeslot. So while 500,000 may be a Miss for one show on one network, it might be considered a Hit on a different network in another timeslot. I also considered their previous performances for comparison.

I’m sure plenty will disagree with the way I’ve called them, but here they are:

SEVEN: B+
HIT:
My Kitchen Rules
Revenge
Once Upon a Time
Downton Abbey
Packed to the Rafters
Seven News
Sunrise
The Morning Show
Please Marry my Boy
Australian Open

MISS
Australia’s Got Talent
Dancing with the Stars
The Price is Right
Criminal Minds
Desperate Housewives
Sports Fever
Border Security
Titanic
The Amazing Race

NINE: B
HIT:
The Voice
The Block
Beaconsfield
State of Origin
Domestic Blitz
Nine News
Hamish & Andy’s Gap Year
The Big Bang Theory
Today
The Footy Show (AFL)
Logie Awards
One Day Cricket
60 Minutes
Hot Seat

MISS
Tricky Business
Excess Baggage
Alcatraz
The Voice US
Two and a Half Men
Top Gear
The Footy Show (NRL)
Unforgettable
Harry’s Law

SBS:  C
HIT:
Eurovision
Once Upon a Time in Cabramatta
Tour de France
Heston’s Feasts
Indian Ocean with Simon Reeve
Coast
Machu Picchu Decoded

MISS:
Danger 5
Man Vs Wild
Bollywood Star
Dateline
Shameless
Freddie Flintoff vs The World

TEN: D+
HIT:
The Biggest Loser
MasterChef Australia
Offspring
Homeland
New Girl
Modern Family
NCIS

MISS:
The Project
Breakfast
House
Glee
Hawaii Five-0
The Circle
Young Talent Time
The Finder
A Gifted Man
Touch
Terra Nova
It’s a Knockout
The Glee Project
Californication
Ringer
Mobbed
Jamie’s Thirty Minute Meals

ABC: D-
HIT:
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries
New Tricks
Australian Story
Q&A
Shaun Micallef’s Mad as Hell
Death in Paradise
The Diamond Queen
Media Watch

MISS:
The Straits
Mabo
Randling
Laid
Woodley
Outland
7:30
Wild Life at the Zoo
Dumb, Drunk & Racist
Auction Room
Photo Finish
Australia on Trial
Dragon’s Den

42 Responses

  1. Pretty much agree with everything you’ve written, though I’m surprised Being Lara Bingle wasn’t listed in Ten’s misses. The ABC is stuffing up badly with their commissioning choices. A lot of their content has not resonated at all with the audience.

  2. I pretty much agree with the list. Sad to see so many locally produced ABC shows bomb particlarly the expensive dramas. Curiously though David I notice that you didn’t give Adam Hills Gordon St tonight a hit or miss. Personally I think it was the biggest Miss the ABC had so far this year. Dreadful.

  3. So many good shows in the “miss” section. 🙁

    Hardly a surprise with many of them though. For example did anyone at Ten really expect The Finder to rate when anyone with half a brain knows it was canceled after only a few episodes? Why get involved with a show you know won’t last?

    I know you have based this purely on ratings figures David, but I wonder what the list would have looked like had you taken into account advertising/promotion and also regular timeslot, if you even could?

  4. Don’t forget Laura Bingle.. a miss for sure.
    I also thing Downton Abbey is a miss since those episodes was shown last year in the UK and have even already been shown (and released on DVD I believe) in New Zealand! Time for Seven to catch up..

  7. Sports Fever was great it was just the timeslot should be on a friday night before the footy

    if the abc wants good ratings for wednesday

    8:30 mad as hell
    9:00 gruen
    9:45 the chaser

    danger 5 was funny sh!t

  8. I would say that another ABC(2) hit is the Annabel Crabb cooking series with the politicians (I can’t remember its name).
    I would also dispute The Project being a flop. The Project-Sunday absolutely is, but the weekday version is making ground-especially at 630 in SA & WA where 9 is not strong.

  9. I’d add Ten Late News to Ten’s miss list. It’s rating on average 40% less then the old version. Classic case of “if it aint broke, don’t fix it”.

  12. You don’t know what you’re talking about Darcey09. Agony Aunts and Uncles consistently outrated their lead-ins at 9.30pm. And were the top Iviewed shows on the ABC for months. You can’t ask more than that.

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