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Seven Year Switch starts well, but social media takes aim.

Ratings: Heavily criticised on social media but Seven's new reality show wins its slot, while Hot Seat tops The Chase.

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On the back of MKR, Seven Year Switch had a decent launch last night with 858,000 at 9pm – more than enough to win the timeslot. It also did well in the demos at #2.

But on social media many derided the concept and those who participated, including couples leaving their children for the 2 week duration. Whether that leads to further curiosity or a seven day switch-off remains to be seen.

Also debuting last night was ABC’s new documentary series Keeping Australia Alive. At 500,000 it was third in its timeslot.

Nine’s season final for Here Come the Habibs! was second in its slot, up slightly on last week at 683,000. Hot Seat also had a win over The Chase.

Territory Cops and Bondi Rescue were modest returns for TEN, while Foreign Correspondent (357,000) may have contributed to Dateline (147,000) losing 34,000 viewers.

Seven network won with a 32.5% share then Nine 27.2%, TEN 16.9%, ABC 16.5% and SBS 6.9%.

My Kitchen Rules ruled with 1.38m for Seven then Seven News (1.02m / 1.00m), Seven Year Switch (858,000), Home and Away (808,000) and The Chase (535,000 / 333,000). Bones was 291,000.

Nine News (949,000 / 937,000) led for Nine then A Current Affair (903,000), The Big Bang Theory (807,000 / 755,000), Here Come the Habibs! (683,000) and Hot Seat (553,000). Movie: Muriel’s Wedding was 288,000.

The Project (549,000 / 397,000) was best for TEN. TEN Eyewitness News was 515,000, NCIS was 469,000, Territory Cops was 454,000, Bondi Rescue was 444,000 and NCIS: LA was 372,000 / 214,000.

ABC News (751,000) topped ABC’s night followed by 7:30 (655,000), Catalyst (593,000), Keeping Australia Alive (500,000) and Foreign Correspondent (357,000).

On SBS it was Great Continental Railway Journeys (324,000), Insight (285,000), Dateline (147,000) and SBS World News (124,000).

ABC2’s Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom led multichannels with 249,000.

Today Extra: 149,000 / 103,000
The Morning Show: 114,000 / 65,000
Studio 10: 78,000 / 48,000

OzTAM Overnights: Tuesday 15 March 2016

14 Responses

  1. I was in hospital for a week recently so had time to watch all three morning shows. I was really impressed with Studio 10. It is a pity it doesn’t have anything decent as a lead in before it. I often forgot to change the channel to get the 8.30 am start

  2. Seven Year Switch is competently made. They’ve taken 4 stereotypically flawed males and given them a chance to impress 4 new women. Will they be able to fool them or will it force them to look at themselves and reform?

    A soap opera that women will love, that will provide minutes of entertainment for others. By now we can perhaps assume that somebody on Twitter doesn’t like everything. It rated will with women under 50 so Seven will be very happy.

  3. the seven year switch looked terrible. Great numbers for TodayExtra and the final ep of the Habibs was funny last night and good numbers for The Hot Seat.

  4. I think the ABC will be disappointed with Keeping Australia Alive’s numbers. I know that the big cheeses have been really excited about it and there was a lot of expectation for the show to rate. Really is shame that important, well made, engaging shows get passed over for tacky rubbish.

    1. I thought the way it was edited very annoying. It was allover the place..it was like they inserted mini ads for their own program between segments..very confusing.

  5. Today extra seems to have one day a week being extremely high and then very low for the rest! Seven would be happy that even though Hot Seat beat The Chase Sevens news is holding up without the massive losses in Sydney and Melbourne~obviously Brisbane still an issue. All of a sudden hot seat rating very high in Melbourne?

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