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Micallef’s joke on the ratings
Cute gag from Shaun Micallef this week in Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation....
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Cute gag from Shaun Micallef this week in Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation….
He introduces the teams with the words:
“All three Generations are represented here tonight… six human beings who represent millions of people.
“Very much like how the TV ratings system works.”
It airs 7:30pm Tuesday on TEN.
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17 Responses
David, I missed that episode but love Micallef’s sense of humour. Thank you for posting this light-hearted story…and yes @Jimbob, it is a story worth posting!
You do have to wonder at ratings figures.
On most nights at Prime Time if you total up figures you get around 4 million watching, add in Regional, Pay, Time Shifters you get to about 7 million, so that means on any night 15 million aren’t watching TV (so by that roughly 2 thirds of Aust apparently don’t watch TV).
Thanks for the link, Andy. Classic stuff.
Shaun Micallef is brilliant! This story reminded me a bit of a scene from Micallef Tonight:
youtube.com/watch?v=tAB1rInMUqM @1:59
Bring back Newstopia!
I love Shaun Micallef and anytime you want to write about a gag he has said go ahead!!! I’ll be eagerly awaiting the next one!
@ Will – Perhaps you should look at a tv guide? The way networks do their programming these days, you can never be certain that a show will stay where it is.
Will – it moved to Tuesdays several weeks back (I think we had two episodes the week it changed – one on Sunday and one on Tuesday – but I’m not completely sure).
David, I don’t like the way you have polls and post pictures of stars and have a separate section for ratings, news etc. and don’t publish enough music stories and talk about TV all the time. Sorry…what was that? This is your site and I don’t have to visit it if I don’t want to? Oh….I thought from jimbob’s post that you were answerable to us, since we’re your audience…! 😉 You do a great job, David – that’s why you have tens of thousands of visitors to your site!! Keep up the brilliant work!!
Thanks Carta…. it is kinda weird when people say “why is this a story?” about things. TV can be too serious, I like to throw in a few fun things here and there. It’s especially important for a blog where people are stuck at the office and look for the odd distraction. I happily file on the big stories of Packer chomping into TEN to a quiz question in Hot Seat. Whatever floats my boat at the time. It’s not an either / or. It’s TV in all its glory as a big, heaving mass media for better and worse.
The ratings system really needs an overhaul, the current system relies on a hand full of people and assumes 22 million other people follow the same trend.
people refer to ratings on TV everyday, I don’t see the need in making a post about this David
Not every post has to be major news. Nothin’ wrong with a little light fare. At least you know that’s my style, from this point forward…
Hmmm. I’ve been tuning in every Sunday night for weeks to attempt to watch this show and it’s never been on. Now I see an article about the show “this week”!!!! Did it move to a different night/time slot???
Hah.. that is great! That has always been a sticking point for me with ratings, and to see it actually acknowledged on TV and by Shaun like that is awesome.
I wasn’t aware that OzTAM used as many as six people!
haha… spot on.
Like it!
But then I always appreciate Shaun’s take on humour…