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Gone: AFHV Daily. Returning: 2.5 Men
From Monday the Daily Edition of Australia’s Funniest Home Videos on Nine is no more.
Charlie Sheen starts all over again with Two and a Half Men -right from the Pilot episode (which is a bit of a concern for what that might mean).
Will news of his personal life now affect the show’s following?
You have been warned….
So what’s been your summer gem?
The other week a journalist asked me for some quotes on how our TV summer season was faring and I pointed out that historically, the 09 / 10 season has offered an abundance of choice -at least compared to when we had just 5 channels, half of which were stuck on sport.
This year the amount of content has boomed, thanks to our extra digital channels.
But when the article appeared in print, readers hit back saying summer is still a dead zone. I got slammed. Well, it is if you stick with …
ABC News up in summer
For the third night in a row, ABC News has won the 7:00 slot.
On Tuesday, following the Liberal Party leadership spill, it reached 1.17m. It again won last night with 1.05m well ahead of Australia’s Funniest Home Videos on 790,000, How I Met Your Mother on 753,000 and The 7PM Project on 714,000 -at least TEN is now holding its own against commercial rivals.
Summer figures continue to remain modest, with Seven News the night’s top show on 1.25m.
But it was Nine’s share that delivered with a very strong 31.0% thanks to …
7PM Project on the road
On Friday at the Kid’s Choice Awards Carrie Bickmore let slip to TV Tonight about some future plans for The 7PM Project.
“It’s still fun, it’s not work yet. And we’re taking the show on the road to other cities,” she said.
There are whispers the show could be doing that sooner rather than later, in a bid to lift a national profile for the show.
TV Tonight hears the network hopes to put the show down in another city before the year is out.
It follows the show getting an extra 30 minutes airtime …
Primetime Survivor on Nine’s summer
Primetime Survivor, the return of Cold Case, Flashpoint, Motorway Patrol, Wipeout, CSI: New York, the premiere of Crusoe and continuing ER, Getaway are some of the offerings in Nine’s first week of summer.
Nine will also repeat Rescue: Special Ops, David Attenborough’s Life in Cold Blood, Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory, and will strip Australia’s Funniest Home Videos in a 7pm half hour version after watching the idea perform on GO!
It will premiere Burying Brian, a NZ dramedy about a woman who wants to kill her hubby, but …
Cassie Davis at Funniest Home Videos final
The grand finals are rolling out all over the place.
Australia’s Funniest Home Videos will wrap up the year at Warner Bros. Movie World, Gold Coast.
Appearing at the final is Cassie Davis, who will perform a one-off mash-up of “Do It Again” and “I Like It Loud”.
But it’s the videos of pets, kids and stacks that we’re here for. Shelley Craft will be hosting the Grand Final before an audiene of 2000.
The winner of the year’s best video will win a cool $250,000 cash. Not bad for a forty second video.
It airs …
Race that tops the nation
Week 45 saw Seven launch its new digital channel 7TWO with a mix of broad entertainment offering. It addressed the Nine / GO! combo that had upstaged it in the last few months. In sheer audience figures the 2009 Melbourne Cup’s record 2.67m viewers was the week’s top story. It was even Seven’s biggest audience all year. But the real news of the week was actually a lot more humble: the government’s lifeline to Community Television. After a lengthy campaign it will begin to dual-cast on analogue and digital some time …
October 4th: All systems GO!
GO! will become a fully fledged channel on Sunday October 4th.
It follows the digital channel’s “soft launch” by Nine on August 9th.
As part of the completion of the channel, GO! will premiere the new US series The Vampire Diaries from writer Kevin Williamson (Scream, Dawson’s Creek). The teen drama from the CW Network stars Nina Dobrev, Paul Wesley and Ian Somerhalder. An airdate is yet to be confirmed.
Since its August debut, the channel has been considered a ‘work in progress’ by Nine. But already it is attracting numbers to smile about. …
Seven swims through topsy turvy week
It was a topsy turvy week of ratings in Week 33. While Nine had one night rising past the 30% share, TEN had another that sank below 15%. And the ABC has a new hit on its hands. That left Seven to remain steady through it all and win another week.
Seven finished with 28.0% over Nine’s 26.3% and TEN’s 21.6%. The ABC had 17.5% and SBS 6.6%.
But it was actually Nine that won 18-49 and 25-54 demos while TEN took out 16-39.
Seven won Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. Nine won …
It’s a Shelley showdown!
Yep, as predicted recently, Shelley Craft will indeed go up against Shelley Craft when Seven returns The Great Outdoors to 6:30pm Saturdays.
The show will go up against Nine’s Australia’s Funniest Home Videos, which Craft has been hosting since early 2008.
The episodes, which includes segments filmed quite some some ago, is back from August 15th.
May the best Shelley win!
Lock it in, Eddie.
Never has the catchphrase “Lock it in Eddie,” seemed more apt.
On Thursday’s episode of Hot Seat, the final contestant ‘Kerrie’ was playing for a big pile of cash: $50,000.
Her question (amusingly a Nine related question) needed her to determine the earliest host of Australia’s Funniest Home Videos from Jo-Beth Taylor, Kim Kilbey, Catriona Rowntree and Toni Pearen.
She had 45 seconds to answer.
After trying to choose between the four options she eventually answered Kim Kilbey -when host Eddie McGuire told her she didn’t lock in an answer in time.
While McGuire awkwardly checked …
Three way brawl for ratings week
Week 26 was the tightest ratings race all year.
TEN was riding high on MasterChef, Nine had the State of Origin and Seven… well, Seven really just had another week of regular programming. By Saturday we had ourselves a three way tie.
But a cleverly timed Michael Jackson tribute helped Nine take the final night and all three had to contend with ABC programming too.
Nine won Week 26 with a 26.3% share ahead of TEN’s 25.8% and Seven’s 25.5%. The ABC had 17.6% and SBS 4.8%.
TEN again won key demos 16-39, 18-49 and …