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Say bye to variety for me
The Noughties will end with a nail in the coffin of variety after Rove McManus announced he was winding down his show last Sunday. It closed a ten year chapter for the genre with a string of Logies, A-List guests and live memories to take home. Without any advance warning it also didn’t pull the kind of figures such a farewell deserved. Both the night and the week went Seven’s way for the second last week of the ratings season.
The Seven Network won Week 47 with a big 30.0% ahead of …
The last Rove
The last ever episode of Rove signed off with 760,000 viewers.
While it was far from the show’s biggest audience, it was a shock announcement at 9:37pm. If the powers that be chose to give it a big send-off it could have enjoyed a much bigger farewell. But ’surprise’ was the key word and it managed to avoid most leaks.
But Sunday belonged to Seven with a huge share thanks to The Force, Border Security, Seven News, Bones, Sunday Night and Castle all winning their slots.
Even on the back of the Australian …
Are we there yet?
Are we there yet? Just two weeks to go until the 2009 ratings end, with a baby Rafter, a new Idol, a Celebrity MasterChef, and a first Apprentice all due. Audiences are already showing signs of switch-off as numbers diminish -either from fatigue, daylight saving, multiple entertainment choices or all three. But they are hanging on for Julie Rafter whose motherly condition ensured she was the week’s top show. And Seven again won the week.
Seven Network won with 30.1% over Nine’s 26.3% and TEN’s 19.8%. The ABC had 18.0% and SBS …
Idol: Too long, too low.
Australian Idol sank again last night.
At just 890,000 it was the second-lowest return all season (it took 883,000 in early September)
TEN’s insistence on dragging out the show across two hours this year, together with viewer fatigue, is proving a fatal mix. In previous years the show would get shorter as the contestants were eliminated. While they have previously allowed their finalists to sing two songs, last night viewers had to sit through three each from just three singers.
With no elimination at the end of the show there wasn’t enough to draw …
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 …
7TWO: day one
Day One for 7TWO was a modest debut -but then, nobody, including Seven execs, was expecting it to make a big splash just yet. It will take some time to create awareness, and its better titles are not until mid-week anyway.
7TWO finished with 1.8% compared to GO! on 4.2%, ONE had 2.1%, ABC2 0.4% and SBS2 0.3%.
82,000 watched the channel launch at 12pm, with 88,000 averaging for the Michael Jackson concert that followed.
But Seven had a huge Sunday share overall.
Seven had a clean sweep of the top five programmes on Sunday …
Airdate: Electric Dreams
Next month TEN will air the three part series Electric Dreams, a UK series which follows one family as their home is “renovated” back to a typical house in 1970 and then fast-forwarded over six weeks through the 70s, 80s and 90s.
The series has added Australian narration by Amanda Keller, who previously fronted Beyond 2000.
The show has been described as a mashup of Nova, Colonial House and Back to the Future, with some Mythbusters geekery thrown in.
As one review noted, “…Britain’s labor disputes linger in the background. When the power …
Amanda Keller fronts Electric Dreams
The success of Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation continues to prove to be a revelation for Network TEN. Now regular panellist Amanda Keller is to have her own 3-part series, looking at technology.
Keller, who previously fronted Beyond 2000 and Mondo Thingo, will present a short-run series later this year that will look at how developments in technology have affected lifestyles in the past 40 years.
Electric Dreams will follow one family as their home is “renovated” to the standard of a typical house in 1970 and then fast-forwarded at the rate of a …