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Nine readies new catch-up TV
Ninemsn is believed to be planning to launch a major catch-up TV service next month.
The Australian reports that issues with rights have held up the launch so far.
It would follow the success of the ABC’s iView and Seven’s new PLUS7 portal which launched in January.
Nine sales chief Peter Wiltshire has previously said Warner programs which included Two and a Half Men, Cold Case, and The Mentalist, would be available online for 28 days from the midnight of the day on which the show first screened.
Nine has previously made a selection of …
US dramas directed by John Polson
Aussie director John Polson sure is doing well for himself in the US.
In the next 7 days there are 2 US shows he has directed airing on Australian television.
Tomorrow night’s episode of The Mentalist “Blood In, Blood Out” airs at 8:30pm on Nine.
Next Sunday night the Tropfest creator has also directed “Unorthodox”, an episode of The Good Wife. It airs at 8:30pm on TEN.
Charlie puts the Sheen on Mondays
What is it about Melbourne viewers and Two and a Half Men? Last night the new episode hauled 635,000 in that city, rising to a big 1.58m viewers -and very probably assuring its place as the week’s top show. No doubt the end of the long weekend in Melbourne helped as viewers settled in for an early night.
Both the Charlie Sheen comedy and My Kitchen Rules have been battling it out for top place recently. Last night Seven’s cooking contest ina pseudo MasterChef kitchen settled with just under 1.4m viewers, still …
House tops Timeshifted
Top Gear’s premiere episode rose from 1.68m viewers to 1.77m viewers after Consolidated figures were released for Week 7. That meant 86,000 had Timeshifted the show within the next 7 days, boosting its status as the #1 show of the week.
But the biggest rises went to House (up 135,000) and The Good Wife (up 100,000) against One Day Cricket.
NCIS also gained 88,000 -enough to see it move from #5 for the week to #3.
Drama continues to be the big winner in Timeshifting, with extra gains for Grey’s Anatomy (Ep 1, 97,000 …
International shows top Nine’s week
International shows are elbowing their way back into the top ten. Two and a Half Men, The Mentalist and Customs, which has Australian narration, helped the Nine Network win the week, leaving Seven to wave the Aussie flag.
Nine finished with 30.2% ahead of Seven’s 28.4% and TEN’s 19.7%. The ABC had 16.4% and SBS 5.2%.
Nine also won 3 key demos 16-39, 18-49 and 25-54.
On digital channels GO! was 3.4%, 7TWO 3.3%, ABC2 1.3%, ONE 0.9%, ABC3 0.5% and SBS TWO 0.4%.
With its Olympics coverage, Nine won 5 straight nights Sunday to …
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 …
And the first amendment of the 2010 ratings year goes to…
Channel Nine is officially holder of the first amendment of the 2010 ratings year after it issued a switch this morning.
It’s adding a repeat of The Mentalist to 9:30pm this Thursday, in place of a double episode of CSI: New York.
Now instead of two CSI episodes airing, it will just be one, “Communication Breakdown” moved to 10:30pm.
The Mentalist repeat is “Bloodshot” S1E16.
Of course late on Friday TEN also suddenly dumped Malcolm in the Middle in favour of more Simpsons repeats plus Biggest Loser replays, while Seven last week added a bunch …
Summer’s winners and losers
The summer ratings season of 2009 -2010 has ended.
And while Seven has come out on top, Nine also found reason to smile.
Seven won summer in Total People, but Nine and the ABC both increased their shares based on last summer. TEN took the biggest dive of all 5 Free to Air Networks.
Total People: 2009 – 2010 (2008 – 2009)
Seven: 29.4 (29.6)
Nine: 27.6 (26.9)
TEN: 18.5 (19.7)
ABC: 17.5 (16.6)
SBS: 6.9 (7.1)
But comparisons to last summer are tricky given not all networks had digital channels operating, and Timeshifting was also introduced on December 27th.
Both …
Seven’s Kitchen yet to rule
Seven will be reminded today that MasterChef Australia was no breakout hit for TEN, after a soft launch for its new cooking reality show, My Kitchen Rules.
The show managed 1.1m viewers in its premiere, beaten by a new episode of Two and a Half Men on 1.51m which boomed in Melbourne. The Big Bang Theory also bettered it with 1.24m viewers.
Seven’s show, with a format that so far skates dangerously close to Come Dine With Me, will be trying to get viewers to bond more with its personalities with another episode …
67th Golden Globes: nominees
Rose Byrne, Simon Baker and Toni Collette were all nominated today in the Golden Globe Awards.
Their three television performances in Damages, The Mentalist and United States of Tara were the only Australian nominations in the film and television accolades chosen by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
Baker and Collette are both up for Lead Actor / Actress trophies while Byrne is recognised in the Supporting Actress category.
Leading the TV nominations this year is newcomer Glee on four nods. 30 Rock, Big Love, Damages, Dexter, Mad Men, Grey Gardens, Into the Storm and …
Nine confirms Cops LAC drama
The Nine Network yesterday confirmed its new Sydney drama Cops LAC as part of its 2010 Programme Launch.
The “Local Area Command” drama was first leaked by TV Tonight in early November.
As previously noted, the characters in the series include 2 Academy graduates, one male, 29, one female, 19; a third generation cop who wants to become a detective; an ‘old school’ Senior Sergeant on the cusp of retirement; an early 30s detective who can read human behaviour in an instant; a mid-40s female Inspector with an impeccable work ethic; and …
Extra 7PM Project pays off
The first weeknight of summer ratings was good news and bad news for TEN.
Its move to extend The 7PM Project has paid off with 826,000 viewers. The network is airing one hour episodes on Mondays and Fridays through summer as a way of attracting new eyeballs to the show. Last night it spent longer on topics and didn’t have its first commercial break for 15 minutes. It also tweaked the set with more orange and brown hues.
But it wasn’t all going their way. Futurama dropped to 664,000 while Supernatural was only …