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Revealed is in the wrong timeslot

Okay somebody needs to say this out loud.

RevealedOkay somebody needs to say this out loud.

Revealed with Hugh Riminton is sitting in the wrong timeslot and needs to move.

Last night the show pulled 245,000 viewers. That was down slightly from 252,000 last week. For the second week in a row it was last in its timeslot, beaten by Vikings (263,000) on SBS . It’s so low even TEN’s own ratings report today didn’t give it a mention. Again.

Yet it had a lead-in of 575,000 from Law and Order: SVU. The problem is the drama audience is showing next to no interest in sticking around for a mix of local and international current affairs.

While TEN has sought to give the show a soft launch, away from the big hitters earlier in the week, it hasn’t offered the show any traction from a like-minded audience.

Yet on Sunday morning they have The Bolt Report and Meet the Press which strike me as much better pairings.

New SVU will be back soon, but I’m not convinced that will make a big difference. If TEN wants its Thursday share to go up they’d be better off resuming their double of premiere / repeat eps and put Hugh Riminton to 9:30am Sundays with a live political interview packaged with other stories. We have a brand new government and with his excellent political background there will be much to discuss.

Nine network won the night with a 29.2% share followed by Seven 28.7%, ABC 19.3%, TEN 16.8% and SBS 6.0%.

OzTAM Overnights: Thursday 19 September 2013

32 Responses

  1. Why do Ten persist with trying to be a news network? They’ve never been known for news and the disaster that was their expanded news experiment a couple of years ago should have been a wake-up call.
    I’m not saying they never do it well, but it’s not what their audience wants from them.
    Not that they have much of an audience these days.

  2. I wouldn’t imagine Ten’s audience wants to watch news and a current affairs type shows at night apart from the news. The Project talks about current events but very different from Hugh’s style. Are Ten making this show because it’s cheap and it keeps up their Australian content quota?

  3. @David Knox..May I please question your assessment of The Bolt Report and Meet the Press as being a better pairing and in many vested interests eyes possibly so, but for just who? Gina,Lochy’s daddy Rupert and News Corp. and of course PM Abbott and Co, and all other right wingers, did you also think that many of us may think of this being possibly the worst pairing.
    Thus leading me to agree in part, whilst also strongly disagreeing and to also question ” We have a brand new government, and with his excellent political background there will be much to discuss ” which is absolutely correct, but wasn’t the time for this excellent political background to beneficially come into play, ” Was Before The Election” ????
    Is network Ten and Hugh going to be as diligent with the now imposed black out boat arrivals numbers, as they were before the election of the Government they got…

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