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Prank Patrol ABC3’s top show

Prank Patrol was the top show on the weekend on ABC3, with 83,000 checking out the show after the official launch by the PM.

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ppAn audience of 192,000 viewers watched ABC1’s Countdown To 3 live show on Friday as the PM was joined by Cassie Davis and Short Stack. It peaked at 222,000.

At 6pm 83,000 of them migrated across to the new channel to check out Prank Patrol. Whilst ABC hasn’t released a complete breakdown of figures for its first night, it claims it peaked at 91,000 later that night with a FTA share of 49% amongst its target 5-12 year olds.

The jewel in the crown for the broadcaster, My Place, was not one of the top 5 titles on its opening weekend:

Prank Patrol – 83,000 Tot Ppl (16.2% FTA Share 5-12yo)
CJ the DJ – 65,000 Tot Ppl (14.1% FTA Share 5-12yo)
Studio 3 Evening – 60,000 Tot Ppl (11.7% FTA Share 5-12yo)
News on 3 – 55,000 Tot Ppl (13.4% FTA Share 5-12yo)
Studio 3 AM – 46,000 Tot Ppl (20.5% FTA Share 5-12yo)

ABC3 has so far reached 15% of 5-12 year olds in metro cities since its launch.

The official website attracted 44,000 visits and 331,000 page views over the launch weekend with over 3000 children signing up to be members of ‘Club 3’.

Director of ABC TV Kim Dalton said “These figures are fantastic and just confirm what we have been saying for quite a while now- Australian kids want their own free to air channel. The response to the first three days of ABC3 make all the hard work worthwhile.”

PLEASE NOTE: ABC3 advises, “The first series is almost over, so it’s a little too late to apply to be on Prank Patrol. But that doesn’t mean Prank Patrol won’t be looking for more Pranksters in the future, so keep checking abc.net.au/abc3 for updates!”

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  2. hi, i always watch your prank patrol stuff and love it so i really wana prank my bestest friend because she allways pranks me and i wana get her back………………..please can you help me i really need your help thanks

  3. Hi I’m from england but I live in adelaide. Scotty you’re awesome and I’d love it if you could help me prank my friend he’s called Jakeb He lives closeto me and I just really want to prank him

  4. My name is Ruby and i am 10 years old. i would really like to prank my sister because she is always annoying me and making silly faces my back when i’m not looking she’s only 6 but she is really annoying so i would really like to prank her! i would love to see her face if she gets pranked!!! So i would like to come on the show and prank my sister.
    Thank you!!!
    Ruby

  6. HI i really wanna go on prank patrol.
    I have got this best friend and she always pranks me and it is getting worse.
    it is time i get even with her. To set things straight.
    I reaally wanna go on your show. I think it is Really funny.
    And i would love to have the chance tp be on it and prank my friend.

  7. hey my name is james and i have just started watching this tv show
    i reckon its awsome i was worndring how i can be on the show because i love it
    i want to prank my mate blake relly bad it wouyld be sick
    so please send me an email back
    ps how do i send in a video.

  8. hey prankpatrol i really like your show i really want to prank my mum and i got onto the thing were you prank someone but me and my cousin jay wanted to no when we can prank her we only did it on the 15/12/09 so please let us now as soon as possiable because we really want to prank her because when she laughs its really loud and funny but we need someone really funny to make her laugh. thanks just email us soon please

  9. Yo pp. I need to prank my friend big time because he is always getting me I love the show and I never miss it.

  10. My name is Macy, I am 6 years old and I would love to prank my daddy because he is always tickling me and calling me a gherkin! It’s time for Payback.

  11. I would like to know how to send an e-mail to prank patrol because my sister is always pulling pranks on me (in a way) and it’s time for pay back.

  12. hey i have been watching the show i love it i want to prank my brother because my brother is annoying P.S. how do you send a video in.

  14. tasmanian devil:
    I have been closely following children’s programming on (free to air) TV for years, mainly from the animated side. I am very critical as I had seen the children’s programming really degrade over the last few years on the ABC, and someone needs to speak up. It has dramatically changed, if you compare to only a few years (2007) ago.

    I still regularly watch animation via DVDs and legal streaming online. So I know there are still good quality series around, that have never been shown on (free to air) TV before, and are suitable for children.

    Unfortunate there is little positive to say, since the ABC has become much worse than even commercial TV networks, in terms of handling kids programming. You must have noticed many of the issues, I have mentioned in previous related comments. I could go into even more detail, but this message would be far too long.

    In terms of the ABC3, I can only say the upcoming Black Panther series looks promising, although it is quite short (6 episodes).

  15. @Kirben, re the ratings system: precisely what I’ve been saying for a long, long time now.

  16. @Kirben, I agree with some of your points e.g. the ratings system, kids don’t like being talked down to, unfunny toilet humour, but every time there is a story about the ABC it seems to me that you criticize them on practically every point raised. Overall I think the ABC have done quite well with this channel, aside from an excessive amount of repeats and the notion that kids will watch anything of a children’s genre and nothing else. As for dumbed down content, although there are few things I dislike more, I would say that regular documentaries are not much better because at least the content on ABC 3 is made specifically for kids, so you feel like you are being talked to directly. If kids want to watch a regular documentary, and I’m not saying they don’t, then they can watch another channel. It is a little disappointing though that Prank Patrol was the top show and not something that offered (at least) some educational value.

  18. yes those figs are very good. if they get better which i’m sure they will one of the commercials might try to do a kids channel. most likely 7 with all their disney channel shows and movies which seem to be underused on the current channels.

  22. I’m tired of reading about so called ratings, when the ratings system is majorly flawed. A few thousand people choose what we are forced to watch in each area, made even worse when it is divided into gender and age groups. I frequently think the TV networks would be shocked, if the realized how many people don’t even watch TV any more.

    There currently isn’t any new content on the ABC3 even worth watching in my opinion.

    The new cartoon series are silly, stupid, and use toilet humor. So much for providing any serious or even decent content.

    The edutainment suffers from been dumbed down for kids, as I expected. Why can’t the ABC just stick to regular documentary series? kids don’t like been talked down to.

    The new live action series aren’t much better, bland and generic. My Place in particular suffers from the usual issues growing up story lines, and would be more suited to an earlier timeslot.

    I still think Degrassi: The Next Generation would have been a much better evening choice, than showing Heartbreak High again.

  23. hey i wanna b part of the show cos i have a mate who really needs 2 b pranked

    please help me prank patrol

  25. For a network targeting such a small demo: 5-12 year olds, those are some pretty damn impressive shares and viewing numbers.

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