Hot Seat edges on Deal
Nine sticking with Hot Seat is paying off, as it continues to shadow Deal or No Deal with each passing day.
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Hot Seat had another night where it came within striking distance of Deal or No Deal.
Eddie McGuire’s show managed 714,000 to Andrew O’Keefe’s 754,000. While it’s not as close as some episodes it again reaffirms that Nine sticking with the show is paying off, and that old “J Curve” is kicking in.
The audience for Hot Seat is strongest in McGuire’s home town of Melbourne (both shows are filmed in that city). It also won in Brissy.
On Monday, a night that Seven has traditionally used to air its biggest cash giveaways, the gap was a lot wider with Deal at 911,000 to Hot Seat’s 775,000. Nine is wise to the trick and also plays out Monday episodes with big winnings.
Elsewhere on Tuesday, Packed to the Rafters bolted away with another 1.9m, Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation took 1.47m (its lowest yet) and A Current Affair‘s rather dubious interview scoop (1.35m) pipped Today Tonight (1.33m).
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Hot Seat is my refuge from Andrew O’Keefe.
Nah Hot Seat is doing fine building an audience at 5.30 and will eventually overtake DOND.
And 2.5 Men is going gangbusters at 7pm and costs Nine next to nothing.
Win/Win!
By the way, agree Hot Seat should be a 7pm show, not 5.30, and more like the old format so good contestants can take their money once they can’t answer the question rather than having to pass to someone to win a big prize for doing nothing.
Hot Seat is doing better this week because we are seeing big winners each night in their big winners week.
The concept is still bad though. One guy last night sits there, answers 9 questions correctly to get up to 250k, then gets one wrong, then the guy after him who has done nothing all show answers just one question to walk away with $250,000. Very very wrong. Part of the enjoyment of game shows is to see contestants succeed, grow their earnings and take risks, not to see someone doing nothing take away a huge prize. That makes it more of a lottery. That’s why I stopped watching regularly.
Here’s an Idea Eddie and Channel Nine might have overlooked for a decent lead in to the Channel Nine News.
Bring back Looney Tunes Cartoons between 5 and 6pm.Scrap the 4:30pm News Service and Put On Something Similar to what we had with the Channel Niners between 4 and 5pm like what we had back in the Eighties and Part of the Nineties.Then You can have Hot Seat at 7pm Following 6pm News and A Current Affair.
Where does that leave 2.5 men Then in between all this.In the Scrap Heap where it should only be shown during non ratings season.
At least with Deal you can relate to the contestants – because they all have a story – on Hot Steat – you cant get to know the players because they’re wisked off just when they give the wrong answer – Deal is no-brainer TV… with a bit of human emotion thrown in for good measure..
I’ll keep my deal over hot seat any day…