Spearman sinks
TEN's experiment would appear to have failed with Magda's clip show landing fourth in its timeslot.
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As an experiment it would appear to have failed.
TEN’s new light entertainment show, The Spearman Experiment took a big dive in its second week. It dropped from 1.03m to 699,000 -a drop of more than 300,000 viewers.
The show hosted by Magda Szubanski was fourth in its timeslot, beaten by the ABC. It even trailed its lead in The 7PM Project (a rising 780,000).
At this rate it could be headed the same way as the short-lived clip show Szubanski hosted for Nine, Magda’s Funny Bits.
Many readers of TV Tonight have said that while they still love Szubanski as a performer, they were disappointed in the clip show which most agreed was a cheap knock-off of Nine’s 20 to 1. Several were critical of the poll-voting conducted prior to the show.
Last night 20 to 1 thrashed Spearman with 1.25m in the same slot.
Seven’s traditional Tuesday shows won the night with Packed to the Rafters on 1.8m and the return of RSPCA Animal Rescue on 1.49m. Newcomer Last Chance Surgery took a strong 1.4m.
Elsewhere in Tuesday results, the Today show (377,000) had a win over Sunrise (367,000), no doubt bolstered by the US Open.
43 Responses
Love the fact that they use a square root sign to describe the “so called” commentators. Mathematically it reads ” rooted TV personality” or “rooted sportsman” and most of them are if they are prepared to be on this show!
What total crock. We know 20 to 1 is done by a room full of producers who have no idea what is popular or not.
But this show claims to poll the public.. has anyone voted? Axe this rubbish. Its made worse by the B grade celebs who wouldnt do Burts crappy show.
Sorry very bad rip off 20 to 1, wonder what was going through Magda Szubansk head when her agent asked if she would like to do it? As it’s Magda Szubansk that has the finally say if she wants to do the show or not. So Magda must have said yes. 20 to 1 is far better then TSE
just utter crap. where all a little dumber for watching this show
think this show is the shi**est ever!!!…they sit there give there opinions even tho there all c list stars!!mayb if they were a list we wuld give a s**t bout there opinions but there not.. put something decent on !!!!!! channel 10 isnt the same its not worth watching either.
Love Magda and for a moment I thoguht this was better than 20 to 1… that moment was the time I believed that there was an actual vote, I just missed it. That would’ve made this show better, 20 to 1 is clearly just someone sitting down and grabbing 20 things and putting them in a list in an order that makes no sense to anyone and while I had the luxury of believing that Spearman was actually voted on by the people of this country it worked. Of course now that I learn that there was no real nation wide internet polling and the answers were all predetermined I’m thinking of going back to 20 to 1 cos at least it admits that it’s not voted on by anyone.
If TEN renew this (Doubtful but heck, they’ve done stupider things) then all I ask is they have an actual poll on their site that everyone can vote on, not just a tiny selection of demographics. Make it like the voting process for Idol and I’m in, keep it as it is and Magda might wanna find something else to do on TV
Poor Magda……thin and saddled with a bunch of dribbling losers…give us a break
Get this crap of the box…..
I agree, but the reasoning behind this would be the lack of vision the TV Chiefs have, let me explain , Magdas star rises they buy in. This show was not only a rip of of 20 to 1 it was an embarressing attempt, I felt sorry for her having to be the idiot to garner the smallest of laughs. Can anyone tell me what Comedy writers are paid or is it enough for them to watch the show and laugh at the presenter embarrassing themselves.
TV Cheifs grow up, look to panels of Australians to test your markets.
I don’t see why Magda is viewed as some sort of hot TV commodity. When you look at her past track record her only success has come in a an ensemble environment (ie Fast Forward) or in a supporting role (ie Kath & Kim). After the disastrous “Magda’s Funny Bits” I’m surprised she was given another solo vehicle. Not that the poor production values of “The Spearman Experiment” help much either.
*yawn*
A waste of Magda’s talent, the public have got it right on this one. A bit lazy Ten, your audience expects better
At least it took a lagre chunk of Kyle Sandilands out on it’s way down. It deserves a gong for that.
They need to re-tool it to have a more obvious voting system. Announce at the end of the show what next weeks topic is, then go online to vote for 24hrs, producers then have the next 5 days to record their vox pops (or just drop that 20:1 facet altogether for a Szubanski monologue over a longer clip). That way the audience has more of a reason to tune in next week to see what their result was… They keep saying “You voted Australia”. I never voted, I didn’t know where to vote, I wasn’t aware a vote existed, therefore I have no vested interest to find out what the result was.
I love Magda,but this show is a stinker,She has so much talent and shes hosting this crap show,but in tv performers have to earn a living,Ten must of gave her big bucks to do it,lets hope one day she returns to what she does best..comedy characters.Love to see her doing some new characters.
I honestly thought this was a one off special and I watch channel 10 more than any other channel, I’m sure I wasn’t the only one.
Everyone saw this coming, except, obviously, Magda and TEN.
Duh.
the thing is she is always saying…’as voted by you’…who voted? I never got a say….
I was amused to see the comment about “it’s a knockout”. My mates and I were talking about that recently and how much fun it would be to see it back on the TV. with Hey hey having a revival in popularity, maybe it’s a a sign that all that is old is new again? Perhaps Ten could do a one/two-off special to see how it would rate?