Awkward first date for Kiss Bang Love
Ratings: Seven's new reality show lands fourth in its slot. But it's a sweet night in for MasterChef.
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Somewhat surprising results today indicate that not all the audience for Seven Year Switch has segued into Kiss Bang Love.
The boldly-titled show drew 513,000 last night, fourth in its slot behind ABC’s Indian Dream Hotel and outside the Top 20.
On social media some viewers were cynical about the concept after single Lisa choose a guy she knew already. While the show lacked the generous MKR lead-in afforded to previous dating shows, it’s not a good start. Sydney viewers were warmer on the show than other cities.
But it was good news for MasterChef winning its slot with 1.11m viewers and topping all the demos. It was also a slight rise on last week.
Nine News topped Nine’s evening and Britain’s Got Talent also rose. Nine won in primary channels but Seven’s multichannels got them over the line.
Seven network won Tuesday with 26.7% then Nine 26.1%, TEN 23.25, ABC 16.7% and SBS 7.4%.
Seven News was 1.12m / 955,000 for Seven then Home and Away (799,000), House Rules (746,000), The Chase (719,000 / 417,000) and Kiss Bang Love (513,000). Best Bits drew 256,000.
Nine News was #1 with 1.17m / 1.12m for Nine then A Current Affair (956,000), The Big Bang Theory (868,000 / 765,000), Britain’s Got Talent (738,000) and Hot Seat (655,000). 2 Broke Girls was 278,000 / 180,000.
MasterChef Australia won for TEN with 1.11m. NCIS was 719,000, The Project was 702,000 / 516,000, TEN Eyewitness News was 594,000 and NCIS: LA was 439,000 / 230,000.
ABC News (826,000) was best for ABC followed by 7:30 (600,000), The Indian Dream Hotel (587,000), Catalyst (526,000), Foreign Correspondent (397,000) and Antiques Roadshow (318,000).
On SBS it was Great Continental Railway Journeys (378,000), Insight (290,000), SBS World News (174,000) and Dateline (153,000).
Shaun the Sheep shot to the top of multichannels with 275,000.
The Morning Show: 150,000 / 122,000
Today Extra: 137,000 / 113,000
Studio 10: 65,000 / 42,000
OzTAM Overnights: Tuesday 24 May 2016
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20 Responses
Hi David,
what was Perths share in figures for Kiss Bang love ?
The West seem to inflate all of sevens content (they cant all be that simple going on TV audience per population)
I only take note of East Coast Figures, they tend to be more realistic with public opinion.
78,000.
I’m from Perth. Wouldn’t waste my time on this show. Same as House Rules .
Really enjoying Britain’s Got Talent. This show is everything that the Aussie version was not. It has a great host and a very likable judging team, the talent is superb and production is first class.
I agree btg is a much better production but i think the main difference is that they do actually have talent
Watched BGT Was fantastic last night.
What can I say about Kiss Bang Love TV.
Absolute Nonsense
Catalyst wasn’t even Catalyst last night. Just some semi-advertorial for Jordan Nguyen and his smart wheelchair, produced by someone else but broadcast with Catalyst titles. A bit disingenuous.
I think the ABC should scrap Catalyst and replace it with a completely new weekly science show produced by a new team. Despite the fact that scientific knowledge and technology are developing at an exponential rate Catalyst is really boring. Too many of the episodes cover a single topic and have 5 minutes of science content and 20 minutes back story fill to pad out the remaining time (and sometimes Catalyst doesn’t even adhere to scientific principles and norms – eg statins, wi-fi).
“Somewhat surprising results today indicate that not all the audience for Seven Year Switch has segued into Kiss Bang Love.”
I enjoyed Seven Year Switch – of course taken with a grain of salt but strangely addictive.
But have no interest whatsoever in watching Kiss Bang Love – really scraping the bottom of the barrel this time around…
Love today’s News papers – James Weir calling it “Kiss Bang Coldsore”, giving it the panning it deserves. “Ryan’s biggest revelation comes when he finds out they’re being sent to Noosa. “I don’t know where that is, no,” he confesses. He laughs, but I’m absolutely sure he’s not joking”.
513, 000 is about 500, 000 more than it deserves. I honestly can’t believe people will watch stuff like this. I didn’t watch it – never will – but it makes You’re Back In The Room seem like Shakespeare in comparison.
“513, 000 is about 500, 000 more than it deserves. I honestly can’t believe people will watch stuff like this.”
Indeed.
Kiss, Bang, Gooooone
so they kiss to start with and then love at the end if all goes well…….what does the “bang” in the title refer to then?
As my review indicated that came during the overnight date in a hotel, but cameras did not oblige.
RE: Kiss Bang Love – Hopefully a) Seven have stretched the friendship with dating shows and now viewers don’t want to commit to another one
b) It is not a sign of wider dating show fatigue – and Bachelor/ette will still do good business for TEN later in the year
..that awkward moment when the imported ‘filler’ version of your talent show rates better than the expensive local version….
and another awkward moment when you realise that the imported ‘filler’ is way better than the expensively produced local version…..talent, judges & production
and Hughesy-free as well.