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Birth for a nation
The final week of the ratings year is over and it was a Rafters baby that defeated singing Idols, Celebrity Masterchefs, new Apprentices, Geeks and Robbie Williams. Seven enjoyed a clean sweep of Week 48, winning all 7 nights, 3 key demos and all 5 cities -it was almost a microcosm of 2009, but this year Nine has seen to it that it didn’t quite enjoy that triumph.
The Seven Network won Week 48 with 31.3% over Nine’s 26.8% and TEN’s 21.3%. The ABC had 15.2% and SBS 5.4%.
GO! had 3.1% over …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Public broadcasters, public broadsides.
Why is it our two public broadcasters ABC and SBS can’t seem to get along?
We always seem to be hearing about digs from one side of the fence to the other with about as much regularity as Sydney and Melbourne or Holden and Ford. Is it not clear to both that there is a place on our screens for two networks?
We love the light entertainment on the ABC. We love its news and current affairs. Those British period pieces and crime thrillers are terrific. And on SBS Top Gear is an …
Carla Cametti PD tops SBS summer
The summer schedules keep coming. SBS has Carla Cametti PD, new Top Gear (UK), Inspector Rex, Food Safari, Iron Chef, Tour Down Under and Dakkar Rally.
Carla Cametti PD features Diana Glenn (Satisfaction) as a cop from a family riddled with gangsters. Ironically, Vince Colosimo this time plays a detective seconded to curb Melbourne’s burgeoning gangland activity.
While some of the shows were already flagged for summer by SBS some weeks ago, we now have definitive times.
There’s another motorcycling series by Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman, Long Way Down, a Muslim comedy …