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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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  1. So glad about that result. Hey Hey got what was coming to it. Sure 1.5m is still a great feat but its trailer trash and nostalgic crap. The Pacific on the other hand is excellent drama at its best. The first hour was slow but it picked up immensely in the 2nd hour. All i say is go The Pacific. I hope MC destroys Hey Hey next week.

  2. I was quite disappointed with The Pacific. I had high hopes for it but I won’t be watching any more. For a start, they could have used a dialogue coach to get the language right. The liberal use of the “f-word” was way out of place. It was simply never used back in the 40’s – in the services or anywhere. Overall it was very slow-moving and boring.

    The ridiculous and arrogant way Seven treated the credits completely dismissed any proper “credit” to anyone.

  3. The Pacific was brilliant. Yes it is an American story. We shouldn’t forget the fact that if it wasn’t for the Yanks finally turning up in the Pacific we very likely wouldn’t be here. Our troops were pretty tied up in New Guinea, Borneo, Africa and where ever else the mother land sent us.

  4. 1st episode of “The Pacific” on HBO in the US.

    “Sunday night’s premiere of HBO’s The Pacific was watched by 3.1 (3.079) million viewers another 900,000 or so caught the encore telecast bringing the cumulative total for the night to 4 million.”

    Including regional areas the audience in Australia would be over 50% of the US audience.

  5. @FJ – Don’t be ridiculous. It’s a story about these particular US Marines, nobody is rewriting history. It’s a personal story about what the war did to these men, not a documentary series that needs to name drop every country that was involved in the war just so nobody feels bad they weren’t included.

  6. The story isn’t that The Pacific beat Hey Hey.

    The story is that Hey Hey only got 1.5 million. That’s about 800,000 down on last year.

    Expect the number to fall with each week.

  7. Bugger The Pacific. Just Americans re-writing history and pretty much saying Aussoes never even fought in it as they were supposedly all over in Africa lol
    Get a clue.

  8. Daryl’s justification for the Hey Hey it’s Wednesday experiment was more than a little pathetic. There is too much other tv on Wednesday, so it was relagated to being a filler during the ads for me…

  9. Thank god for the second digital channels.

    It was the 7 TWO and GO for me. Watched Lost and Atlantis, taped Fringe and Terminator. Spicks and Specks repeat on ABC2 tonight.

  12. @rickster

    Hey Hey started an hour earlier then The Pacific, so it would have picked up a lot of viewers who needed something to tie them over until The Pacific or other shows that started at 8:30 which is why I assume it peaked higher.

  14. C’mon – its hardly surprising Hey Hey did best in Melbourne – it is filmed there and most of the ‘talent’ have had gigs in Melbourne since it was axed. Blackman & Red on radio, etc.

    Next week’s episode of Pacific is set in Mellbourne, isn’t it?
    That should counter the local appeal of Hey Hey (plus the natural drop-off after last night’s snooze-fest)

    PS: 782,000 for Spicks and Specks. Gees, I’d forgotten that show was still on!

  15. Way to go Melbourne! More proof that we are Australia’s armpit!
    Time to relocate to Adelaide & leave this town to President Eddie McGuire and those who deserve him.

  17. rickster, no one cares about peaks outside the network press release office. if anything that peak for hey hey shows how many people were interested in it, tuned in didn’t like it and tuned out (seeings that the peak was in the 1st 1/2 hour) it would be doing it a disjustice airing those figures.
    it is a possibility that Hey Hey helped The Pacific. Hey Hey got 1.9mil Bums on seats at 7:30 a lot of which were then looking for something else to watch come 8:30.

    considering that The Pacific had a significantly lower rating timeslot (8:38-10:44) vs Hey Hey’s (7:34-9:41). for it to top Hey Hey is a big achievement.

  19. ok that dosent make sense to me, Hey hey peaks at 1.92 mil and The Pacific peaks at 1.88, yet it is deemed to be the higher rating program, werid. Ethier i’m going mad but the 1.92mil is more then 1.88, amazing how it works.

  20. @ Craig

    I remember a Wednesday night line-up on channel 10 that had the ratings powerhouses of The Simpsons (730) and The X-Files(830)… those were the days

  22. What really got on my nerves was that they had a ten minute promo of the pacific on 7Two while it was starting on ch 7. It was like they wanted you to forget about Lost!

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