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The Pacific 1.59m beats Hey Hey 1.52m

Channel Seven's Pacific miniseries has beaten Nine's Hey Hey it's Saturday by 72,000 viewers.

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The Pacific has beaten Hey Hey it’s Saturday in its first outing for 2010.

Channel Seven’s wartime miniseries netted 1,593,000 viewers over Nine’s nostalgic variety outing on 1,521,000 viewers -a win of 72,000 viewers.

Seven’s drama peaked on 1.88m viewers and ranked #1 in key demos 16-39, 18-49 and 25-54. Hey Hey peaked higher on 1.92m.

Both shows were biggest in Melbourne, where Hey Hey pulled 603,000 viewers and The Pacific 509,000 viewers. But Melbourne was the only city in which Nine’s show bettered Seven’s.

The win for The Pacific is also more impressive for the fact it started and finished an hour later. The earlier hour for Hey Hey should have favoured it more in final results.

The two-way brawl sent the competition home. So You Think You Can Dance Australia took 832,000. Spicks and Specks was down to 782,000. But The Biggest Loser appeared to stay the course on 969,000, up from the previous night.

The Seven Network also managed to win the nightly share with 33.7% over Nine’s 30.7%. TEN sank to 17.3% in the brawl.

After Nine’s big figures for Underbelly and Top Gear, it was a much needed victory to Channel Seven.

The Pacific will be repeated this Saturday at 11.05pm and next Wednesday at 12midday plus 9:30pm Sunday on 7TWO. Nine is yet to indicate if it will satisfy a call from fans to air Hey Hey on Saturday night.

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  2. So Hey Hey finishes second for the night and they should be unhappy with that? 9 execs would love it because it would have beaten anything else they showed against the Pacific.

  3. I think I will be getting The Pacific from other sources from now on, I jsut started to get into it and bang a commercial, every bloody time. Thought I would give it a chance on the network but not any longer.

  4. That was a surprise I thought HeyHey would clearly win, Now if it keeps swinging towards Seven in the coming weeks will Nine blink and move it’s show?

    ITA The Pacific is a much better show and at over an hour with ads it’s much better viewing than the 2h11m bloated Hey Hey.

    That said I hope Nine comes to it’s senses and at least re-runs Hey Hey on Saturday nights, even if it’s on GO!

    I kinda feel sorry for TEN, left in the wake of the other main channels it doesn’t stand a hope on Wednesday nights for the next few months.

  5. i watched hey hey and it was good. i probably won’t watch it again. i won’t be watching the pacific, because it’s not my kind of show. i am tipping today tonight has a story already about the pacific beating hey hey, for tonights show

  6. Given The Pacific, HHIS, Dance and Specks and Speaks, that must be one of the highest cumulative viewing figures in a very long time. I watch HHIS, and enjoyed it.

  7. Band of Brothers it’s not, but I’d much rather watch an impeccably acted, well crafted war drama than the TV equivalent of your local RSL’s “entertaining” fundraiser and meat raffle night.

  8. LOL The Pacific beats Hey Hey which faced a huge decline since the reunion specials. Just imagine Darryl Somers this morning. Those frowning expression lines on his face…hang on what am I talking about there hasn’t been an expression on his face in the last decade. How embarrasment for him.

  9. @Clint – I think we’re going to have to accept that The Pacific isn’t Band Of Brothers, and stop comparing it as such. It may not live up to the ridiculous high standards we all have, but it’s a different examination of a different war.

    Also, why do they need to mention Australia’s involvement in the war? That seems just daffy. The story is about these specific marines, it doesn’t need to name drop every armed forces division that was involved in the war.

  10. Thank god for the Americans who saved us Aussies and the world….rolls my eyes. Hate war stuff and was annoyed my partner insisted on watching.

  11. I reckon The Pacific will get better in particular in the next few weeks when we hit the episodes that were filmed in Australia. Next week its all about the episode that was filmed in Melbourne.

  12. I embraced hey hey…… it was great to see live television and bands perform. You have no idea how important that is to this industry. I taped The Pacific so i am lucky i get to enjoy it both. I think its ignorant to deny hey hey any success as its gonna sculpt so much variety in this country

  13. i wouldn’t be celebrating too soon all you anti-Hey Hey people, as MillerT1 has commented, thats a very close result, and still a good figure for Hey Hey, sure not as great as the reunions last year, but i don’t think anyone on the Hey Hey team would expect it to match the hype of last years shows. The tables could still turn…

  15. A very deserving win too. Here’s the hourly breakdowns courtesy of CJM at mediaspy.

    Nine
    7.30pm-8.30pm: 1,644,000
    8.30pm-9.30pm: 1,404,000

    Seven
    8.30pm-9.30pm: 1,625,000
    9.30pm-10.30pm: 1,582,000

    So head to head at 8.30, The Pacific had about an extra 200k viewers.

  16. Saw a little of The Pacific and it was dullsville. I suspect it will drop off over the coming weeks while Hey Hey will stay around the 1.5m mark.

  17. You gota love the photo of Daryl popping the champagne on news.com.au.
    When did they take this photo ? Yesterday ? Only he would have the nerve to have a publicity photo like this taken before the ratings were even known.

  20. Having watched up to Episode 5, The Pacific just doesn’t hold up to Band of Brothers – it seems to sit more with the soldiers reactions to war, rather than the battles, for almost 2 episodes, they didn’t fire a single shot.

    Plus, it would be nice if they mentioned Australia was in the war and doing their bit from time to time, I mean, I know, to Americans, the war didn’t start till Pearl Harbour was bombed, but seriously!

  21. The Pacific is great that got better as it went on. It wasn’t full on violence but it managed to show how surreal war is. One minute, quiet boredom in what otherwise would be a tropical paradise, the next terrifying violence on a brutal scale that is almost impossible to comprehend.

    Only saw 5 minutes of HHIS but it doesn’t look any different to what I watched 20 years ago. OK for nostalgia butmaybe something should move on.

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