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I Will Survive, now beaten by SBS and 7TWO.

Ratings: TEN talent show I Will Survive was beaten by a bear documentary on SBS and even a rerun of Heartbeat on 7TWO.

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TEN talent show I Will Survive hit a new low last night of just 281,000 viewers at 7:30pm.

The show was last in its timeslot, beaten by a bear documentary on SBS and, humiliatingly, even a rerun of Heartbeat on 7TWO. Even Neighbours on ELEVEN an hour earlier and The Bold and the Beautiful in the afternoon pulled more eyeballs.

Against the Reality drawcards of The X Factor and Big Brother the show was smashed, but no matter how much TEN holds onto its carrot of a $250,000 it’s clear the audience has not connected with the premise.

Once again Seven won the night, with 33.3% then Nine 26.2%, ABC 18.5%, TEN 16.0% and SBS 5.9%.

The X Factor (1.5m) was best for Seven then Seven News (1.21m), Today Tonight (1.01m), Home and Away (943,000), Criminal Minds (868,000), Deal or No Deal (517,000) and Covert Affairs (441,000).

Nine News (1.09m) topped Nine then Big Brother (951,000), ACA (936,000), The Farmer Wants a Wife (775,000), Embarrassing Bodies (632,000), Hot Seat (550,000) and Embarrassing Kids Bodies (297,000).

ABC News again won its timeslot with 1.05m for ABC1 followed by Gruen Planet (939,000), 7:30 (806,000), Qi (724,000), Randling (549,000), Would I Lie to You? (459,000), At the Movies (308,000) and Lateline (231,000).

Puberty Blues remains TEN’s best performer but with no lead-in slipped again, now at 673,000. TEN News was 658,000, Modern Family was 433,000,  The Project 6pm was 423,000, and I Will Survive languished on 281,000.

Meet the Amish (333,000) led SBS ONE followed by Bears of the Frontier (330,000) and World News Australia (205,000).

Heartbeat topped multichannels with 325,000.

Wednesday 12 September 2012

44 Responses

  2. David – do you have any news if TEN is still planning to screen the new Don Cheadle series (13 eps) House of Lies?

    Think they had slotted it a few weeks ago, but it suddenly disappeared from the schedule. The SMH Guide lauded it as “Show of the Week”…

  3. I don’t think IWS failure has anything to do with not being family friendly. I have kids and I wouldn’t censor them from seeing men dressed in drag. /shrug ???

    It just holds no interest. Like TM said the movie happened donkeys years ago, this show probably would have rated through the roof in the 90s. It’s not the 90s anymore. Priscilla has been done to death already.

  8. @itsjusttv, i agree. Hey Ten, Glee starts back in the US today. So where is it? Why aren’t you planning to fastrack it? I for one ain’t waiting, and i doubt the young audience it atrracts will want to wait. There’s all your viewers gone. Stuff I Will Survive, it’s a dud, and was always going to be one.

  9. @RatingsTruth. a valiant effort in trying to spin IWS’s figures, but nothing in that comment makes me think it is any less of a disaster. if you are going to get technical about advertisers, it’s only fair that you also get technical about production/promotion costs, brand dammage, and loss potential.

    heartbeat reruns cost 7two almost nothing and is not targetted anywhere near young demographics. whereas IWS has high production costs, high promotion costs. and is targetted at young viewers.

  11. Was Embarrasing Bodies:Kids even shown on WIN ?

    Because I was channel surfing and at 10pm it was the ordinary embarassing bodies and then when I was about to go to bed Househusbands was showing.

  12. Except of course when you look at it on a real demographic. Keep in mind that the vast majority (somewhere around 7-60-70%) of advertising space is bought against People 25-54.

    No one ever buys against Total People (becuase in reality it’s skewed by people 55+ who watch way more television than anyone else), yet total people is always what’s reported.

    On People 25-54 the ratings are:

    I Will Survive – 160,000
    SBS (Beast of the Lost Frontier) – 117,000
    7TYWO (Heartbeat) – 52,000

    Neighbour did 163,000 and Bold and the Beautiful 124,000.

    Still not good for I Will Surivive, but not the disaster everyone is claiming.

    1. Not a disaster? How much did it cost per hour? How much damage is it doing to network evening share, shareholder shares, Puberty Blues, TEN brand, Hugh Sheridan brand, Fremantle brand, potential ad rates for 2013? Exactly what constitutes a disaster?

  13. I Will Survive is a very entertaining show… I don’t understand why people think it’s not ‘family viewing’ (is it because there are men dressed as women? We wouldn’t want to confuse the kiddies..?).

    What’s killing it is dumb scheduling… putting a light entertainment show with singing and dancing up against a juggernaut show like The X Factor was always going to make I Will Survive struggle. It would’ve been better placed on a Thursday/Friday… or even as a 2 hour show on a Saturday before something like Graham Norton..

  14. Who is IWS targeted at, apart from a few posters on here I do not know anyone who is watching it. What were they thinking?

    As for ch10 at the moment, the figures are compelling, it is like watching a full on train wreck happening live…..great stuff

  15. Ten should fast track Glee next Wednesday as it would be a much better lead-in to Puberty Blues. Another Modern Family repeat followed by Last Man Standing new episode would do better than IWS on Tuesday. IWS could be moved to 9.30 Wed and Thu or to Eleven.

  17. IWS may have been up against X-Factor and BBrother, but was still soundly beaten by ABC1, SBS1 and 7Two. Being 3rd may have been sorta OK, but 6th??
    It has absolutely no appeal to anyone, 18 thru 68, in our household.
    @Evan43 – “… improved numbers for 7.30 were because of Rudd’s appearance?”
    ?? Mon 917,000 Wed 806,000 Th 806,000

  18. IWS just isn’t a 7.30 show. And the movie that inspired it came out almost 20 years ago. It began a kind of fad during which time a show like this might have fared much better. But the concept’s just a bit too ‘meh’ for me now.

  21. I feel so bad about IWS – I think it’s a great concept, but in Ten’s current downward spiral it doesn’t stand a chance in any time slot.

    They probably should move it – but what have they got to replace it??

  22. I’m really enjoying the bridge on Sbs2.Besides the intrigue of solving the mystery of the two person corpse,some of the shots of Malmo and Copenhagen at night are astonishing..and it’s got tonnes of humor,which i didn’t expect.Saga,the blonde Malmo detective is a wacky neurotic(besides being a cheap bar date).Her interplay with Martin ,the Danish guy(who keeps rubbing his genitals for reasons explained..lol) is hilarious.

  23. Good suggestions by Evans43 and StevenG.

    I watched the first few eps of IWS and enjoyed the novelty of it but felt that it was definitely not a family friendly kind of show.

    And putting it up against reality shows that cater to the families, young girls and teens was akin to hari kiri.

    Ten should shift it to Eleven and – if possible – shorten it by having double and triple eliminations.

    Dragging it out on Ten is hurting other shows – like Puberty Blues – as well.

    I shudder to think what Ten is planning for the Julian Assange movie. Up against the AFL Grand Final or X factor finale perhaps?

  24. The sad thing about I Will Survive, which i love, is that the network hasn’t moved it to a later time slot. Right or wrong it just isn’t family entertainment and the mums and dads are keeping their kids away from it in droves. In a later time slot it may have had a better chance and could have been made edgier than it is.

  25. Ten should either move IWS to Eleven or shift the program to Thursdays, so it’s not up against X Factor. It’s a far better show than the now axed Sarah Murdoch Dancing program – they should give it another chance to gain a wider audience.
    I wonder if the improved numbers for 7.30 were because of Rudd’s appearance?

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