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Better Homes and Gardens plans live event
Spicks and Specks, RocKwiz and Top Gear have all done it, now Better Homes and Gardens will stage a live event, in October at Sydney Showground, Sydney Olympic Park.
The joint magazine-TV brand will offer live demonstrations, interactive workshops and classes, plus appearances by celebrities from Seven show. Over 200 exhibitors will participate in the three-day event in food, home, gardening and lifestyle zones.
Julia Zaetta, Editor of Better Homes and Gardens magazine, says, “Better Homes and Gardens Live is a one-of-a-kind event built to further satisfy the interests of our smart, strong …
Survivor double dose
Survivor isn’t getting bumped by Nine, but boosted.
Next week Nine continues with the double episodes, which will see it catch up to the US even faster.
“Tonight We Make Our Move” and “Knights of the Round Table” will both air next Tuesday -the latter aired in the US only last week.
Ratings last night were rather soft, 735,000 / 710,000, thumped by My Kitchen Rules (1.53m) and NCIS (1.4m). It was a significant drop from Top Gear’s 1.31m lead in.
Perhaps plugging the leak from illegal downloads via a quicker turnaround of episodes will …
Cooking pips cars on Tuesday
Nine might have to rethink its advertisements for Top Gear touting it as Australia’s new #1 show after last night it was pipped by My Kitchen Rules.
It was a line ball tussle but Seven’s cook-off pulled 1.4m viewers ahead of Nine’s first-run roadtest on 1.38m -well down on its season premiere. Both left Bondi Rescue / The Biggest Loser in their wake (934,000 / 774,000).
Nine’s second episode of Top Gear, which had already aired on SBS, slipped to 1.15m behind NCIS on 1.36m but bettered Grey’s Anatomy on 1.04m.
Other networks battles …
After Easter, it’s war.
It’s hard to believe, but we’re only three and a half weeks away from non-ratings again.
Yep, two weeks of Easter non-ratings begin on March 28th and end on April 10th. It barely feels like the television year has begun, and certainly with the Olympics it hasn’t been much of a level playing field.
Between now and then Nine is rolling out Top Gear, V and Survivor while Seven and TEN are by and large staying the course with shows already unveiled.
From April 11th the ball game changes. That’s when networks have a …
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 …
Top Gear added to GO!
Nine shows no sign of discerning titles between Nine and GO! as it adds old episodes of Top Gear to GO!
Episode 2 from Series 9 will air at 8:30pm Thursday March 4, following more Big Bang Theory repeats.
That pushes ER back to 9:40pm for the premiere of its 15th series with a single episode. That’s the umpteenth start time for ER fans.
Meanwhile plans for The Bachelor next Tuesday at 8:30pm are now out, replaced by Seinfeld repeats.
Returning: Survivor
The latest season of Survivor, “Heroes vs Villains” will air on Nine from Tuesday March 9th.
The reality series will premiere at 8:40pm following a new episode of Top Gear -and by the looks of things, Nine will be running a 70 minute episode of the motoring show. Nine has maintained it didn’t make cuts to the first episode which aired last week.
The big audience lead-in should help Survivor which has not been given such a profile timeslot by Nine in the ratings season for some years.
Two episodes of the new season …
Nine uncovers new Sherlock series
Channel Nine has picked up Sherlock, the new British miniseries being developed by Doctor Who writers Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss.
Starring Benedict Cumberbatch (pictured, Hawking, The Last Enemy, Tipping the Velvet) in the title role of Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman (The Office, Love, Actually) as Doctor John Watson, the 3 x 90 series is a re-imagining of the classic Sherlock Holmes tale set in modern day London. It also features Rupert Graves (Wallander, Waking the Dead, Ashes to Ashes).
A Press Release indicates, the character of Sherlock is “an analytical deduction …
Nine shifts ratings win into Top Gear
The Nine Network has won Week 8, its first week of survey ratings for 2010.
Boosted by its Winter Olympics coverage and Top Gear Nine just managed to clear Seven to take ratings gold.
Nine finished with 29.9% to Seven’s 29.2% and TEN’s 19.5%. The ABC had 16.4% and SBS 5.1%.
Nine also won three key demos 16-39, 18-49 and 25-54.
In digital channels the results were GO! 3.3%, 7TWO 3.2%, ABC2 1.5%, ONE 0.9%, ABC3 0.5% and SBS TWO 0.4%.
Top Gear’s first new episode for 2010 was the #1 show of the …
Nine slates ‘Top Gear special’
Top Gear fans aren’t likely to be cheeered by this one.
Nine has a 2 hr Top Gear special to play on Tuesday March 2nd, consisting of one new episode and one old.
But instead of proceeding with Episode 2 of the 14th Series, it has Episode 4* with Guy Ritchie.
It will be followed by S5E1 from 2004. Both will be packaged as a ‘Special’ by Nine.
Next week the show is off due to Cricket.
It looks like Nine is intent to draw upon the back catalogue of episodes given it only has 6 …
Top Gear’s top cuts?
Following on from questions about edits to Top Gear’s Tuesday night episode, Nine has denied it trimmed the show.
Some readers have noted not only a longer version as having aired in the UK, but changes between the Eric Bana interview between a promo and the final episode that aired. So what’s going on?
In the UK Top Gear airs as a 60 minute version on BBC TWO as it doesn’t have commercial breaks.
BBC Worldwide sells a 50 minute version to all territories around the world because most broadcasters are commercial.
The international version …
Top Gear drives up 1.68m viewers
Nine’s reputedly big fee in hijacking Top Gear from SBS appears to have paid off with a huge 1.68m viewers tuning in for the new episode last night.
The show was the #1 programme for Tuesday, driving right across My Kitchen Rules (1.21m) and The Biggest Loser / Bondi Rescue (722,000 / 966,000).
With all the advertisements Top Gear fans are questioning whether the episode had been trimmed. The BBC delivers a 52 minute international version to its clients. Nine maintains it didn’t edit the show, but it certainly dumped the credits …