60 Minutes interview with PM 574,000 viewers metro last night. A lot less than last week’s Cleo special (750,000) - and sizeable drop from MAFS 961,000.
Qantas loses luggage but wins TV ratings. Last night’s Four Corners averaged 605,000 viewers metro. Won its time slot - even beat Have You Been Paying Attention? (547,000).
The ABC’s “Back Roads” the number one entertainment show last night. 511,000 viewers metro plus 244,000 regional for 755,000 national total. Easily beat Big Bash cricket.
A lot of love and respect in Australia for Bruce McAvaney is being rekindled right now. He cut back on AFL, tennis etc. so we don’t hear him commentating as much. His Olympics has been impeccable - a reminder of his great talent.
Last week’s National Press Club Address by Grace Tame and Brittany Higgins jumped 27% in 7-day catch-up and BVOD - now sitting on 504,000 viewers nationally. Big figure!
Whoever said “all publicity is good publicity” didn’t factor in the ABC’s Q&A which - after being in the headlines all week - plummeted to a dismal 175,000 viewers metro last night. Has to be its lowest audience ever. Axe?
Ash Barty v Danielle Collins the highest rating Australian Open Women’s Final match of all time. Averaged 3.577 million viewers nationally (2.581 million metro + 995,000 regional). Wow!
Wow! The ABC’s Gruen a massive 943,000 viewers five city metro plus 294,000 regional last night for 1.237 million national total. Easily the number one entertainment show.
My mum turned 90 today. She has been in hospital for 3 weeks (with bronchitis) and now in respite. My dad is 95 and also spent 3 weeks in hospital (with pneumonia) and he is in respite too. They were able to get together today to celebrate. 🥳
Kitty Flanagan’s “Fisk” off to a great start! 532,000 viewers metro last night plus 265,000 regional for 797,000 national total. Sure to be heaps more on catch-up given strong word-of-mouth.
I’m on the record as saying that Bluey should be part of the Gold Logie mix. Another candidate - given massive Fisk figures - is Kitty Flanagan. Hugely popular with Aussie viewers.
What do I feel on the last day of filming of Neighbours? Anger mostly. The nail went in the coffin on January 11, 2011 when Channel 10 moved it to Eleven (now 10 Peach). Slashed the audience overnight. Imagine if they had valued it like Seven does Home and Away.
ABC News Breakfast 221,000 metro yesterday morning beating Nine’s Today (198,000). Do
@LisaMillar
and
@mjrowland68
now have Seven’s Sunrise (254,000) in their sights?
Unfortunately a few days after my mum and dad celebrated my mum’s 90th birthday last week, my father passed away - just a few weeks shy of his 96th birthday - from prostate cancer. Love you dad. RIP. 🙏
Last night’s
@NeighboursTV
finale averaged 1.2 million viewers nationally and peaked at 1.41 million. 41.6% commercial share. Highest rating Neighbours episode in 13 years. 👏👏👏
Sixty Minutes 480,000 viewers metro last night. Well down. So much for “world exclusive” Thomas Markle interview. Clearly most people (wisely) didn’t care.
The ABC’s Planet America (402,000 viewers metro plus 114,000 regional for 517,000 national total) makes the Top 20 again. Big figures for a 9.35pm show!
Last Sunday night’s episode of ABC’s The Newsreader grew a massive 54 percent with 7-day time shift and BVOD. Now up to 1.007 million viewers nationally. Impressive!
Oh the irony of Daniel Andrews telling Victorian public that “a sense of complacency has crept into us” re new lockdown. No, a sense of complacency and utter ineptitude crept into you and govt health officials monitoring quarantine hotels.
Sorry 9, 7 and 10 - in 2020 I reckon it clear that the ABC has the shows with the most PASSIONATE fans - people who REALLY love some or all of Gruen, Anh Do’s Brush With Fame, Back Roads, Hard Quiz, Mad As Hell, Gardening Australia and more.
Channel Seven media release says that yesterday’s AFL Grand Final reached 5.76 million viewers nationally - but it averaged 2.96 million. That suggests a lot of people tuned in but didn’t last the distance. One-sided match a big factor.
What are the shows you wish would come back on air? “The Panel” would be one of mine. In the mornings I think “The Circle” would be a lot better than current offerings.
So I’ve seen the premiere episode of
@masterchefau
2020 and I reckon it is the best first episode in the show’s history. Gordon Ramsay is fantastic and some of the former contestants buckle under pressure. A must-watch.
Back Roads still a huge ABC favourite with 678,000 metro and 349,000 regional viewers last night to punch through the magic million. 1.027 million nationally!
I’m sure there are a lot of viewers out there far more excited about the return of Hard Quiz with
@nonstoptom
and Mad as Hell with
@shaunmicallef
than MAFS, The Voice, and Survivor.
Ms Represented with
@annabelcrabb
did very well last night on ABC. 583,000 viewers metro + 260,000 regional for 842,000 national total. Sure to add to that on iview too.
@newscomauHQ
Only works if the stores were re-stocked overnight. Oldies at Mount Eliza greeted by empty shelves. First delivery truck arrived 7.15am. Second at 7.30am. Oldies wasted their time.
Let’s remember that a few months ago Channel 10 was only going to screen the Neighbours finale on 10 Peach. No plans for main channel. It was only media and fan pressure that made them come to their senses.
If any scientists are stuck in lockdown in 2021 - I would really appreciate it if they could invent a BBQ gas bottle that lets you know when it is about to run out.
I reckon the Logies needs to let animated characters into the Gold category because
#Bluey
is easily the most popular personality on Aussie TV right now.
#blueyforgold
As a former network publicity person - can I just say what a fantastic job every publicist associated with
@NeighboursTV
has done over the years. When Channel 10 treated it as a second class citizen there were people who gave it their all. Respect.
One of the things this week’s longer episodes of
@NeighboursTV
proved is that the show could easily morph into a more limited-episode series of 60 minute to 90 minute episodes. Format doesn’t have to stay the same.
The Chase Australia was the number one entertainment show on free-to-air yesterday. 627k metro plus 393k regional. Higher national figure than any prime time show.
The Footy Show (93,000) came 5th in its time slot in Melbourne last night. Beaten by Home and Away, Bachelor in Paradise, 7.30, and a Jack the Ripper doco on SBS.
Jack Irish strong last night with 739,000 viewers nationally. (521,000 metro + 218,000 regional). Good result for an Aussie drama in 2021 and sure to do lots more on ABC iview.
Interesting stat from
@karlkwin
about
@NeighboursTV
in today’s Age. When it was on Ten’s main channel it averaged between 500,000 and 600,000 viewers per night. After the move to digital channel Eleven in 2011 it slumped to 254,000. How to kill a show. 🙄
If Channel 9 can get the Travel Guides participants to the Logies, why the heck can’t Foxtel get the Goggleboxers there? That’s who we want to see on stage. Not executives.
On International Women’s Day I am going to give a shout-out to Dixie Marshall who led the way/broke down barriers in sports reporting when I was at Channel 7.
Channel 7 has announced that The Front Bar will return on Wednesday, February 1 - and there will be a total of 37 episodes in 2023. Also new beer sponsor - Furphy.
You would have to think Aussie TV reality dating shows - so much a trend in recent years - are pretty much done and dusted given current crisis. Hard to see them recovering.
Social distanced The Masked Singer followed by social distanced Have You Been Paying Attention? Credit to Ten and everyone involved helping to keep us entertained in troubled times.
Remember when 7, Nine and Ten had great shows on seven nights a week? Then Saturday became a wasteland. Then Friday. Then Thursday (except for 10). Now Wednesday is a wasteland too!
Gotta love Channel 9 promoting Kylie Minogue as the star (alongside Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson) in San Andreas. Kylie’s in the movie for about 30 seconds!!!
According to The Australian earlier this week
@neighbours
has had 39 weddings, 17 births, 115 car crashes, 64 deaths, and more than 100 kidnapping and hostage situations across its 37 years. Erinsborough a dangerous place!!!
The Project did even worse last night than it did a week ago. Just 225,000 viewers metro for the 7pm half-hour. The problem seems to be Sydney (dismal 39,000) which was way behind Melbourne (93,000) and even Adelaide (43,000).
I wish the Aussie TV industry had more faith in shows. Too many are commissioned for 6 or 8 or 10 episodes - which means they are over before they’ve begun.
Something is very wrong when Sunrise (277k) can do more between 7am and 9am or Nine’s afternoon news (301k) between 4pm and 5pm than The Project (182k and 250k) can do between 6.30pm and 7.30pm.
Home and Away is on 🔥 Averaged 989,000 viewers nationally this week - its biggest weekly average since last August. Catch-up likely to add 20 percent to that. Really building during April and May. Still going strong after 33 years! Congratulations to everyone involved!
Can I call it now? I think we’re starting to see a
@MarriedAU
backlash which should worry Channel 9. Ratings strong but falling. They’ve gone too far and it will bite them on the arse next season.
The Footy Show 328,000 viewers in Melbourne last night. Easily beat Gruen (259,000) and Utopia (242,000) plus Britain’s Got Talent (62,000) and Muriel’s Wedding (54,000).