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Cougar Town pounces on ratings
Seven’s campaign for Cougar Town through the Australian Open has paid off with a big debut of 1.34m viewers. It was the #1 show of the night, defeating Law and Order: SVU 1.01m and Adults Only 20 to 1 on 693,000.
The Cougar word is certainly all the buzz at the moment, even being the subject of recent stories on A Current Affair and The 7PM Project.
Seven won the night despite a lukewarm debut for The White Room on 812,000 which had nowhere near as much marketing hype. But it was a …
TV Tonight Awards 2009: The year of Shaun Micallef
The votes are in.
Readers have spoken on their best and worst television for 2009 in the third annual TV Tonight Awards.
The winners: Shaun Micallef, MasterChef and Packed to the Rafters.
Over 1000 surveys were completed this year, and there were some definite trends. Some choices were clear decisions, others were tight races.
Several “winners” were also “losers” elsewhere, showing a divided audience, and a number of populist shows proved their mettle by staying ahead of underdogs.
Shaun Micallef won both Favourite Male and Most Underrated Performer, while Talkin’ ‘Bout Your …
Survivor: It’s double Samoa
Survivor fans really need to be on alert lately, with extra episodes and amendments proving to be their own Survivor Challenge.
Updated: But it’s good news for them with a double episode slated for 7:30pm Tuesday December 15. Continues in doubles Dec 22.
If Nine keeps up the double eps through summer it might minimise damaging leaks about the winner, given the season is currently airing in the US.
On Tuesday it took 788,000 third in its slot behind The 7:30 Report and Accidentally on Purpose.
Seven was fourth with Gary Unmarried.
Nine moves the movie …
Lib Leadership battle on ABC
If you’re interested in Aussie politics, ABC is the place to be tomorrow morning.
6-9am (AEDT) On ABC2 – News Breakfast special edition
Insider’s presenter Barrie Cassidy is in Canberra and joins the ABC News Breakfast team for full coverage as Liberal MPs arrive at Parliament House for the leadership vote.
9am (AEDT)
On ABC1 – ABC News Special: Liberal Leadership Challenge
For the best live television coverage and analysis of the Liberal Leadership challenge, Barrie Cassidy will host this ABC News Special from Parliament House from 9am (AEDT).
He’ll be joined by ABC Online’s new Chief …
7TWO ties with GO!
It will only be a matter of time before 7TWO has its first win over GO! And it could come as early as tomorrow.
Last night both tied on a 2.0% share.
ABC2’s Doctor Who repeat was the top show on digital channels last night at 125,000 with 7TWO’s movie Category 7: The End of the World next at 104,000 viewers.
Those channels would have had competition from SBS, Monday is its strongest night. The network took a healthy 8.4% share last night with Top Gear pulling 726,000, beating Jamie’s American Road Trip and …
What’s Kerry worth?
How much does the ABC pay The 7.30 Report’s Kerry O’Brien?
That’s what a Liberal Senator wants to know at an estimates committee today in Canberra.
ABC managing director Mark Scott has told a Senate hearing the information is commercial-in-confidence.
“I can assure you our on-air talent, by and large across the board, … is paid less, significantly less, than their counterparts in private sector,” he said.
But Senator Ian Macdonald pointed out ABC presenters were happy to comment on the salaries paid to politicians.
No word if he discerned that politicians were voted in and …
2.7m tops AFL Grand Final
A huge 2.7m viewers watched the 2009 AFL Grand Final on TEN, becoming the second biggest TV audience of the year. The game peaked at 3.62m, just in the 5 metro cities. But because the game was not in primetime, TEN didn’t win Saturday. It is an irony that will be all the more cruel next week when NRL pushes across primetime for Nine. The match also bettered the 2.58m average for 2008’s final. But for the third week in a row, Nine snatched ratings glory from Seven, with the …
Gary Unmarried moves for Narnia
Has Seven given up on Gary Unmarried already? Possibly.
The show airs next week along with How I Met Your Mother but a week later (yes in the week from hell) it isn’t playing.
Instead it is playing a repeat of The Chronicles of Narnia (2005) at 7:30pm.
As a result My Name is Earl is also out.
Last night Gary Unmarried took 800,000 -beaten by The 7:30 Report.
Seven’s plans for October 8th remain TBA from 7:30pm – 10:30pm.
The network has previously indicated it plans to fastrack a new season of The Amazing Race which …
Denton project: “The 7:15PM Reject”
At the end of the month Denton’s long awaited new project (aside from 30 Seconds) will air on the ABC.
Build around the theory that the media is a ‘hungry beast’ that devours everything and is never satisfied, the show has a whopping 19 newcomers to television. The new talent follows a nationwide call for young talent.
Each week, they will produce a half-hour of topical TV, as well as daily web content, bringing viewers news from outside the loop. Under the editorial instruction: “tell us something we don’t know,” they have been …
Feelgood telly wins the week
Week 35 saw the ABC reinforce its appeal when Midsomer Murders took a cool 1.26m viewers on Sunday night, winning its timeslot without any dancing or singing as a lead-in. For a new Aussie drama like Rescue: Special Ops it was particularly brutal. Meanwhile GO! did well on Sunday with a 2.8% share, allowing Nine to sing its praises before it diminished by the end of the week. TEN had reason to smile over Rush too, but cutting through it all was Seven, taking yet another week in Total People.
Seven took …
ABC: Timing the Time Lord
In television programming, as in comedy, timing is everything. Marena Manzoufas is fully aware of fervent Doctor Who fans who are never satisfied with anything less than a same day & date screening of a sci-fi darling.
In the second of a two-part interview with TV Tonight, ABC’s programmer explains how equally frustrating it is to wait for the supply to deliver it to her audience.
This year, in a breakout move, the 2008 Christmas special aired in January. Whilst it still wasn’t enough to please fans, it wasn’t an ideal outcome …
Hot Seat’s bewitching week
For the second week running Nine’s ratings enjoyed a boost from GO! that blurs its performance. While all networks enjoy share from their secondary channels, in the case of Nine figures for its titles included viewers that watched shows on GO! On three nights Hot Seat beat Deal or No Deal, but how many of them were viewers for Bewitched? All will be revealed this week when the figures break out from today.
Seven won Week 34 with 28.3% ahead of Nine’s 26.6% and TEN’s 20.8%. The ABC had 16.5% and SBS …