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Seven’s Kitchen on the rise
As 2010 audience trends continue to settle, it’s good news for Seven but not so good for TEN on Mondays. And Nine had good news in the morning.
My Kitchen Rules is rising like a soufflé for the network. The reality show took a cool 1.47m last night, as the night’s #1 show. Seven also introduced 5 new teams to the gameplay surprising both contestants and viewers. The show beat Two and a Half Men / The Big Bang Theory (1.32m / 1.08m) and thrashed The Biggest Loser (658,000). TEN’s reality show …
Top Gear’s top gag from SBS to Nine
When SBS ran its last ever episode of Top Gear on Monday, it couldn’t resist a bit of corporate comment on the show being bought by Channel Nine.
After the credits rolled, it ran a sneakily-edited clip which made their feelings known about being out-bid.
May: “I mean what’s going on?”
Clarkson: “We get a big bag of money!”
May: “Fabulous!”
SBS: SEE YA!
After years of building up the brand in this country, who can blame them?
The gag was totally in keeping with the comedy of the show. Let’s have more stuff like this please, people!…
2010: SBS looks beyond Top Gear
Next Monday night SBS bids farewell to Top Gear for the final time.
The show drives off to Nine after a ferocious acquisition battle last year that SBS lost due to being outbid.
But the network is keen to remind us it was just one hour of television a week, and that it still has plenty to bring its “six billion stories” theme to life.
This year SBS has the World Cup exclusive, a third series of East West 101, Eurovision in Oslo, more Mad Men, Skins, Inspector Rex, Entourage and Shameless.
Over summer, the …
October 09: ‘Jackson Jive,’ Don Lane, Letterman, Good Game, All Saints
October:
2.1m as Hey Hey thumps MasterChef
Matt LeBlanc signs for ‘dumbed-down’ sitcom
Top Gear airship mishap
Comedy Channel series slims down to special
Hot Seat beats Deal (for real)
Chris Lilley lands joint ABC, HBO, BBC series
Sunday Arts gravitates to online
Letterman admits affairs with staff
Josh Lawson for US comedy series
Nine pulls Hey Hey repeat
Angry Hey Hey fans call for Nine boycott
GO! has official launch
Sacked WIN boss takes legal action
Nine News crew rattled in Indian report
Nine says Daryl asked to drop repeat
NRL final scores 2.41m
Letterman: “My wife has …
Vale: Erik Gates
Erik Gates, a regular cast member on MythBusters, has died after a freak accident, aged 47.
Gates was walking on the roof of a building when he fell 30 feet to his death through a skylight he was working on. He died later in hospital.
A Rocketry expert, he provided rockets and expertise in several myths, starting with the very first experiment—the Jet Assisted Take-Off Chevy Impala.
The official Twitter page for Mythbusters has expressed condolences:
“Team MB wishes to express our deepest sympathies on the passing of our beloved rocket expert, Erik. You …
Mythbusters to take Top Gear slot
Mythbusters’ Adam and Jamie will return to Monday nights on SBS ONE, in the slot vacated by Top Gear.
The science / entertainment show has previously been in the prime Monday slot but moved to Saturdays by SBS some time ago.
It’s kitchen catastrophes as Adam and Jamie throw fuel on the fire of a newspaper story while Kari, Grant and Tori tackle an explosive movie myth before they put cheese to the test.
First up, Adam and Jamie investigate a story they found in The Florida Tribune. The report says a 30 …
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 …
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 …
Balloon hoax all for Mythbusters-style show
The parents of ‘balloon boy’ were looking for a way to generate media attention to help them pitch a Mythbusters-style show to TV stations, according to a former colleague.
Colorado police have said they expect charges will be filed in the case of the 6-year-old boy who vanished for five hours while the world thought he was zooming through the sky in a flying-saucer-like helium balloon.
The publicity-hungry Heenes have not been arrested, a sheriff said but he expects to recommend charges of conspiracy, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, making a …