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Dancing down but Seven still wins the night

Ratings: Dancing with the Stars has its lowest season launch, but Big Brother lets down Nine too.

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Kyly1Renovation may have pipped dancing for the top spot of the night, but that didn’t stop Seven from winning the night.

The Block (1.18m) defeated Dancing with the Stars‘ return (1.04m), but the latter’s average was across a 2.5+hr broadcast. This time it wasn’t just multichannels that got Seven over the line -it won on the primary channel share too.

Seven network share was 33.5% then Nine 28.9%, TEN 18.1%, ABC 15.4% and SBS 4.2%.

Seven News (1.12m / 1.07m) was best for Seven. Season 14 of Dancing with the Stars, now produced by FremantleMedia, had the odd Live technical hiccup and its return is the lowest season premiere yet at 1.04m. The show is still performing best with older viewers despite casting moves to engage a younger crowd and giving Ricki-Lee the bigger promo push. Home and Away was 962,000 and Million Dollar Minute was 544,000.

The Block (1.184m) continues its winning streak for Nine. Next were Nine News (1.08m / 1.05m) and A Current Affair (941,000). Big Brother‘s eviction of Katie was 617,000  a loss of 100,000 on last Tuesday, but it still managed second place in younger demos (interestingly, the schoolyard-pick eviction has been abandoned after negative feedback last week). Hot Seat was 595,000 and Arrow was 223,000 / 156,000.

The Project was 628,000 / 418,000 for TEN. Next were the return of NCIS (611,0000, TEN Eyewitness News (607,000) and Jamie’s Comfort Food (418,000). An NCIS: LA rpt was 394,000.

ABC News (807,000) topped ABC then 7:30 (677,000), Foreign Correspondent (623,000), Four Corners (512,000), QI (409,000) and At the Movies (326,000).

The Sixties led SBS ONE  on 209,000 then Insight (167,000), SBS World News (130,000) and Dateline (117,000).

That Peppa Pig again ruled multichannels on 293,000. Don’t mess with the pig.

Sunrise: 339,000
Today: 286,000
ABC News Breakfast: 91,000 / 40,000

OzTAM Overnights: Tuesday 30 September 2014

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  1. Its quite hard to imagine that America’s #1 drama NCIS can’t even knock up decent figures here anymore. It just shows how bad a state the TEN network is in. They will try and deny it but lets face it TEN are in a massive amount of trouble but thats something we didn’t know already.

    Good return for DWTS. It was a long winded episode though. I fell asleep halfway through it. I had to watch the rest online. Its good to see viewers have abandoned Big Brother. The show is worse then the last season on TEN. That’s saying something. Well done Nine. You’ve stuffed up another program. Bravo to you.

  2. I also think that the BB eviction was always going to go back to the original format. Last weeks controversial method was only because they were in pairs.

  3. After last year’s voting debacle in the DWTS final, this household is definitely not watching DWTS on 7 anymore. Instead, we watched the BBC original – Strictly Come Dancing – on UKTV early this year for our yearly dancing fix. SCD’s voting system is much fairer than Australia’s DWTS which is really more of a popularity contest. In fact, 7 could cut DWTS down to just 2 episodes: the first to intro the dancers and then offer the home viewer phone-in vote; and the second ep to give the result.
    Hopefully, the next season of Strictly Come Dancing will be on BBC First in HD later this year or early next year rather than in SD on UKTV.

  4. Watched dancing with the stars last night and really enjoyed it, because I was interested didn’t realize that it was on for nearly 3 hours, and although it may not have been the best start to the show, it still did well to say that the ratings were for the one show over that period of time whereas the other channels were using the hourly or half hourly ratings for the night.

  6. “…the schoolyard-pick eviction has been abandoned after negative feedback last week. It was never expected to be the way evictions would take place, it was only a gimmick and the couple situation let that happen. Once the housemates went back to individuals the housemates choosing between 2 was never going to continue.

  7. @poida – you are forced to select from 3 possible songs for each contestant and it for the show in 2 weeks time so I don’t think it’ll be rigged the songs for each contestant fall within a similar pace to each other so I guess they match the style of dance they are probably already prepping.

  10. DWTS was entertaining last night. Great to see contemporary routines brought into the mix. I have to admit I had lost interest in seasons past (seemed dated and drawn out) after having been a avid viewer in the early years. It was particularly hilarious after Matt Cooper danced seeing Kym Johnson’s reaction to the routine. I liked the initiative to allow viewers to vote for the song the contestants will dance to in upcoming weeks online.

  12. @jennome

    I too looked at the epg last night and saw an approx finish of 10.15 for dancing and thought forget it. There was no way I was sitting through 3 hours of it. I do plan to watch the clips of the dancers I was interested at some point. The epg for 10 did not indicate last night was a new ep of NCIS. I wouldn’t have known accept for this site.

    1. BB is still working in demos and as cost it is value for money because of the output. I asked Nine last week to confirm if eviction style would change (they could have still made them choose btw bottom 2) but did not hear back.

  14. I took one look at the scheduled length of DWTS, and thought “nup”, and watched a DVD instead. I noted that DWTS was STILL going at about 10.15.

    Nearly 3 hours of shrieking audience, and I hate to think of the amount of ads in that time.

  15. “(interestingly, the schoolyard-pick eviction has been abandoned after negative feedback last week)”

    That was because the pairs were split up. It was announced it would happen before Gemmas (cruel) eviction.

  16. What did Target Style the Nation get?

    Or is there a media blackout on branded entertainment here 😛 (I do respect that position by the way – just curious about how it went!)

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