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Secret Men’s Business
In television a second series is invariably much stronger than the first. Everybody knows what it is they’re making, the writers, the actors, the network and the audience. Roger Monk, who co-created and co-created ABC’s East of Everything with Deb Cox, knew when he was watching the first series on air that the scripts he had commenced for the second season had to be thrown out and started from scratch.
“The first series ran really smoothly but we didn’t really know what we were up against,” he told TV Tonight. “We had …
TEN wins second historic week
Network TEN has won the ratings week for only the second time since OzTAM people meters started in 2001.
The last time it won was April 2006 on the back of a week with The Biggest Loser finale leading into Big Brother and Thank God You’re Here.
This week it again won with reality television, the king hit MasterChef Australia. The show was number one for every one of its six nights this week powering to 2.36m viewers on Thursday. Unlike 2006, its share also gets a modest boost from having ONE HD.
As …
Mid year ratings: It’s Seven and TEN
Week 28 is officially the half-way mark of the survey year. And what a week it turned out to be.
In a result symbolic of the year so far, Seven won every night except one, TEN finished second and Nine was relegated to third. And in a move sure to be giving commercial networks a headache, SBS also had its best week of the year.
Seven won with 27.5% ahead of TEN’s 23.1% and Nine’s 23.0%. The ABC had 16.1% and SBS 10.4%.
TEN won 16-39 and 18-49 while Seven snatched 25-54 demos. Last …
The ratings lotto
While the country held its breath on a $100m lotto, networks watched as their numbers stacked up in a routine order for Week 27. It followed two weeks of ratings upsets.
Seven won the week with 27.6% ahead of Nine’s 25.4% and TEN’s 24.8%. The ABC had 16.8% and SBS 5.4% as supplementaries.
Yet again TEN won three key demos 16-39, 18-49 and 25-54.
But while the country returned to a routine for first, second and third, some cities took a different view. Seven won Sydney, Melbourne and Perth, but Nine took Brisbane and …
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 …
Returning: East of Everything
Actor Nick Tate will enjoy something of a ‘comeback’ with his role in the second series of the ABC’s East of Everything.
Tate has had plenty of guest roles over the years, in everything from Lost, Matlock, Murder She Wrote, Star Trek: Next Generation and Party of Five, but it’s been a long time since we have seen him in an ongoing role.
You would have to go back to shows such as Sons and Daughters, Holiday Island and Space: 1999 for some of his well-known regular roles. These days Tate is one …
Ratings: TEN takes second, Nine drops to third
Seven may have won the week again, but it was the might of TEN that was the real news story. It took out second place and pushed the Nine Network to a demoralising third position. MasterChef Australia powered TEN to its best survey week for the year.
Seven won the week with 27.0% ahead of TEN’s 25.8% and Nine’s 25.2%. The ABC had 17.1% and SBS 5.0%.
Once again TEN won 16-39, 18-49 and 25-54 demos. TEN has now overtaken the Nine Network this year in the 18-49 demographic (it also leads in …
Ratings winners upstaged by Nine stoush
Controversy continued to dominate television for the second week in a row, this time as a public stoush between two Nine personalities reached fever pitch. While it saw audiences flock to the coverage, it wasn’t enough to stop Seven from winning the week with a routine week of strong programming. Yet it was TEN that continued significant gains.
Seven won Week 24 with 27.6% ahead of Nine’s 25.5% and TEN’s 24.5%. The ABC had 17.4% and SBS 5.0%.
For the third week in a row TEN won 3 key demo groups 16-39, 18-49 …
Nine scores the week
Week 23 saw all the biffo on Wednesday night. The State of Origin hit a high of 2.28m viewers -a record for the event since OzTAM ratings commenced. It helped Nine win just its third week of ratings over Seven. It was also the same night that The Chaser’s War on Everything offended large portions of the viewing audience with its now-notorious sketch.
Nine won the week with 27.1% over Seven’s 26.4% and TEN’s 24.5%. The ABC had 17.1% and SBS 4.8%.
As expected, Nine won Sydney and Brisbane with Seven snaring all …
Challengers cook up ratings winners
Week 22 saw Network TEN and the ABC give the usually dominant Seven and Nine a wake up call. Light entertainment shows continue to soar with viewers and TEN’s latest reality show is by now a bonafide hit.
Still, yet again it was Seven that won the week with a 27.5% share over Nine’s 25.7% and TEN’s 24.2%. The ABC had 17.5% and SBS 5.2%.
Seven won Monday, Wednesday, Friday, TEN won Sunday and Tuesday, leaving Nine with Thursday and Saturday. Impressively ABC was second on Saturday.
Even more impressive was a win by …
Thank God for laughter
In gloomy times we just want to laugh. On almost every front, it is local content -and especially light entertainment- that continues to resonate with Australians. Week 21 saw another win by the Seven Network as TEN continued a positive run and Nine relied on a glossy drama series to keep its ship on course.
Seven won with a 27.9% share ahead of Nine’s 26.0% and TEN’s 23.4%. The ABC had 16.9% and SBS 5.9%.
TEN won key demos 16-39, 18-49 and Seven took out 25-54. Seven won all cities except Sydney, which …
Seven tops Nine’s introspective week
Week 20 was quite a week for Channel Nine. Amid a media storm over NRL Footy Show host Matthew Johns, Tracy Grimshaw put in one of the interviews of her career. Meanwhile its big new reality series homeMADE bombed, whipped by TEN’s new series Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation -the #1 show of the week.
But it was Channel Seven that quietly took out another win with 28.3% to Nine’s 25.7% and TEN’s 22.9%. The ABC had 17.4% and SBS 5.6%.
Seven won all nights except Thursday and Saturday, snatched by Nine, plus all …