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Programming war heats up the kitchen

Nine is "disappointed" that Seven has scheduled Restaurant Revolution against Hot Plate. Huh?

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Last night The Hot Plate went head to head with Restaurant Revolution -not exactly a win for viewers.

But competing like-minded shows is hardly new, despite some of the language being thrown about.

This week a Nine spokesperson told the Aust. Financial Review: “We are disappointed Seven have decided to schedule their restaurant series directly against ours – as you know we released our launch date over a week before they decided where to put their show. They have also since changed their scheduling plans to ensure the two series are directly head to head.”

Sorry, but to that I say two words: Reno Rumble.

It was Nine that cheekily hired former House Rules cast for a revival of a format it ran years ago, and brazenly pitted it against a new season of House Rules. That split the audience, but it was all part of the master plan.

As one source very high up in the food chain said to me, if Reno Rumble managed to undermine the Seven show, “It will have done its job.”

Indeed, it may well have killed off plans for a second House Rules later this year. Seven seems to have gone quiet on that front of late…

At least everybody appears to have held off simulcasting stunts this week.

21 Responses

  1. Nine and Seven have been copying each other for years…same news stories…you name it…..old hat/playground stuff…and boring…. *yawn*

  2. Eventually (once the last viewer has left the building) one of them will realise that if they offered a traditional varied line up across the week they’d be on to a winner – and it would probably end up being rather cost effective too as long gone are the days when reality TV was cheap filler considering they’re now renovating houses every week or opening loads of pop up restaurents.

  3. Think people have more than enough of reality shows, cooking, cooking, cooking, renovations, renovations, renovations, if one channel has success with a show all the others follow suit hoping to get the same amount of viewers but as all of these shows have basically the same format what have people got to look forward to that has not already been done, nothing, at least I suppose Restaurant Revolution is slightly different, but still cooking, and please don’t tell me we have to endure another two renovation programmes this year if they go ahead as anticipated, The Block and House Rules, think the channels will be hard pressed to get any viewers at all.

  4. Ten almost killed MasterChef with all their spinoffs, but decided to pull back and they saved it
    and now Seven and Nine are killing both Renovation and Cooking entirely.

  5. What a f***ing joke. Someone should make a miniseries about this BS. Just don’t put it on 7 or 9 because I wouldn’t watch.

    Thank Malcolm for the internet otherwise I would have had to read a book or something. ABC and SBS for me tonight. Looking fwd to Bosch. Yes! First-run new(ish) drama on Aus TV. It must be my birthday again.

  6. Hot Plate and Restaurant Revolution…more reality drivel with faux drama. Thank heavens that Auntie had Joanna Lumley’s Trans-Siberian doco to watch . The commercial channels no longer seem to make quality dramas to provide the audience with a choice. I feel sorry for the Aussie actors and writers who are no longer employed.

    1. “Thank heavens that Auntie had Joanna Lumley’s Trans-Siberian doco to watch . ”
      Yes. Was wonderful.
      So pointless/annoying how the commercial channels, (mainly Nine and Seven), continue to insist on pitting almost identical shows of the same genre against each other and then wonder why they fail to achieve good ratings.

  7. There are a limited number of kinds of contest show and viewers will only watch a limited amount of the same stuff. But only popular movies rate on weekends and first run drama & comedy are moving to cable and now streaming.

    Looking at Choi’s analysis of Oztam figures ratings are down 7% on last year, nearly double that with viewers under 50.

  8. I flicked bet ween both for the first 40-45 mins. Neither one appealed to me at all. Both have hosts im unfamiliar with (which is ok, but doesn’t necessarily draw me in). Hot Plate had the same vibe as British Baking Off (yawn) and RR was just like i was watching all other Seven reality programmes. I think the ratings reflect our Not-So-Fondness of these shows. I gave up, Modern Family wasn’t an option so I watched a pre-recorded Martha Stewart show! Spelling Bee & Bachelor are suddenly looking like great options this quarter…

  9. Really Nine is complaining, sometimes they are like a spoiled kid and when someone else wants to play in their space they kick up a fuss. I’m amazed that either of them didn’t put it up against Master Chief in it’s finals week.

    Not that it matters to me I don’t watch most reality shows, haven’t watch Master Chief and won’t be watching either of these shows.

    1. Me too! These two reality cooking shows are boring to watch. I may as well avoid this rubbish. This is similar to Reno Rumble v House Rules battle.

  10. Maybe 9 if you offered something other than the same old reality crap at 7.30pm than you would have a genuine alternative offering and wouldn’t be in this position to begin with.

  11. Not a direct simulcast but Seven did replay this episode on both 7two and mate later in the evening. I notice they have also scheduled an ‘encore’ at midday today. Seems multichanneling just presents the opportunity to play the same rubbish more times. I’ve decide I will now boycott any show that is treated this way. An encore screening later in the week is fine (particular where competing shows overlap) but continuous screening to the detriment of other shows is not on.

  12. I saw Hot Plate last night…my jaw hanging the whole time. Not because the food or drama was good, purely as its a carbon copy of MKR!!!!!
    Same contestants…Same food…Same judges…Same orchestrated “drama”.
    Wont be back

    1. Same judges? Surely you don’t mean “Mute Fake Manu” and “Bill S. Shorten, Esquire”?

      Seriously, the unshaven guy looks like a slightly tubby Manu, and every time someone asked him a question he replied with a blank stare & waited for Chuck’s stepson (who looks like he’s just given those terrible Royal Commission people a right seeing too, what ho!) to step in and answer for him…

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