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Gone: The Boss is Coming to Dinner

The Boss is no longer coming to Nine's Dinner, having just got his marching orders from the Programming boss.

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Channel Nine has pulled The Boss is Coming to Dinner after just two episodes.

The series, in which an employer meets 3 prospective candidates over a home-cooked meal, pulled just 655,000 viewers in its second outing – a drop of 465,000 viewers from The Block which preceded it.

On Wednesday night it was thrashed by The Gruen Transfer on 1.4m and Spicks and Specks on 1.21m. City Homicide nudged 1.1m and House was 919,000.

Based on a UK format, the series was produced by Shine Australia who are believed to have had a deal for 10 episodes.

It will be replaced by RPA, which pulled 720,000 in the later 9:30pm timeslot. At 9:30pm Nine will air new episodes of Amazing Medical Stories.

Nine has also pulled “Encore” episodes which were to screen over the weekend.

Figures for The Block haven’t been spectacular but Nine will be happy it held its audience in the second week.

Nine is yet to indicate any plans for unaired episodes of Boss.

34 Responses

  1. The Block I can understand but whatever did happen to those changing rooms and airline/airport type shows?bring back some of the latter would be nice

  2. Good, I’m glad its gone, I’m pretty well anti-Shine. I think it’s an organisation made up of people who think we love Reality TV.

    I hope everything they touch turns to lead. I want less reality on my TV, the only reality on TV I want to see is when sport is on or when I’m watching ABC News 24.

    Bring back Drama and Comedy to TV, let’s at least have the appearance that people who work on TV have a brain and an original thought from time to time.

  4. @jase and your comment ” I think it must just be me but I never watch Nine. I just don’t like the network….t?

    Be interesting to see how TVTonight viewersslect programmes and channels.
    ike you Jase, I place Nine at button list after channel 31,sbs2,..

    Trusting Nine’s prgramming is a waste.

  8. I think it must just be me but I never watch Nine. I just don’t like the network….there is just something about it which repels me. And Welcome Home as their promo? Welcome Home to what?

  10. Shudder – the premise of show make me want to vomit
    As per usual can’t imagine someone living in small pokey flat or cramped house would make last 3 – I suppose all homes are spotless, no clutter and have right sponsors produvts in view.

    Nine’s programming geniuses and talent spotters must be starring this year.
    Flop shows on the up…
    Hot shows well there is……

  11. Woeful idea to start with! All the clever editing in the world couldn’t make this tripe worth watching. How about letting some script writers have a go? Ever heard of sit-coms Nine?

  12. Really…? Who was the genius at Channel 9 that thought this would actually work? And against such good quality competition, like House, CM and Spicks/Gruen combo? Hell, give it another month and I swear Anna Pihl on SBS would’ve been beating it.

  22. Surprise!!! Not. Another awful program from Nine. Not suite sure why they can’t see how stupid these programs are. Almost like someone dared them to put it on for a laugh! This show belongs in the same bin as Dance Your Ass Off.

    My mate and I have a ‘Nine Weeks’ game, where we bet on whether or not a new Nine show will last to Nine weeks, needless to say, we both won on this one 😛

    Can’t wait to see what rubbish show Nine comes up with next 😀

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