Bones beats Underbelly
Underbelly's third and final telemovie failed to defeat the competition last night, beaten by a new episode of Bones.
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Underbelly‘s third and final telemovie failed to defeat the competition last night, beaten by a new episode of Bones on Seven.
Bones pulled 1.14m viewers while Underbelly: The Man Who Got Away averaged 1.01m across its two hours (it won the second hour). It is the lowest figure yet recorded by Underbelly.
Last week it was 1.11m.
Top show for the night was My Kitchen Rules at 1.45m, defeating Two and a Half Men / $#*! My Dad Says (1.05m / 873,000), Glee (921,000) and Australian Story / The 7:30 Report (878,000 / 757,000).
Four Corners was third in its timeslot on 763,000, ahead of an NCIS repeat (747,000).
Brothers and Sisters (786,000) beat Q & A (558,000) and GNW was fourth with 487,000.
Mondays are usually the biggest audience for 6pm With George Negus, last night it was 418,000 and the later replay was 235,000.
Best for SBS was Mythbusters at 260,000.
Seven had another comfy win.
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some people have no taste
@JB, I completely agree. And tell themLucifer was here was an unforgivably bad script. 9’s drama department is a joke.
Nine drama disappoints yet again. What happens when SP and RSO tank? WIll they actually Do anything about a slate that is now 5 years out of date? There’s just so much Lisa McCune in a boiler suit a person can take.
@ Craig , that’s funny .
@Greg. What i mean is, the very first Underbelly was massively hyped. Nine hyped it up, the critics jumped on board and fell for the hype and started saying it was the best thing ever. So of course the viewers fell for the hype. It was uncool to not like Underbelly so everyone had to love it. I don’t understand how it got such rave reviews because the scripts were woeful. And although it had great actors, due to the scripts, they looked like amateurs. Overated in my opinion. It was basically an R rated Home & Away.
I’ve enjoyed all 3 Underbelly movies and hope 9 keeps them coming.
@JB – You said “Even the first one which critics seemed to love had terrible scripts” – what planet are you from? It was widely acclaimed and awarded. By the way, speaking of bad scipts, what does this mean “People fell the hype which made them think it was good.” ?
@ Brad, if only Bones was still on 8:30pm Mondays– starting next week it’s Conviction Kitchen on 7.
I thought last night’s Underbelly tele-movie was excellent. Fascinating story about one of Australia’s more colourful criminals.
@Shannon Butler – because Bones is better?
I haven’t watched UB since the first series.
Is it too early to predict Seven will win the week again?
i watched first underbelly and meh, nothing flash. the series is ok and need more than 2 hours to delve into austrlalian crime history. think the franchise is dead but knowing 9 they’ll still keep flogging it til they stoop to Underbelly: The KMart Shop Lifting Files
I think people have finally realised Underbelly was nothing but hype and was a terrible show. Even the first one which critics seemed to love had terrible scripts which made the acting terrible with poor camera work and some nudity thrown in to make it “gritty”. People fell the hype which made them think it was good. Not anymore
I think the Eddy factor will do This is Your Life more damage than good.
House will be lucky to reach 700k..audiences lost interest in it 3 years ago
Last night Bones ep was a good one. I missed some of the ads for it, but I don’t remember seeing anything about Ryan O’Neal being in it nor the gravedigger storyline. Which went back to a few seasons ago.
I think GNW looks like its in trouble as well.
I think putting the Underbelly movies on Sundays would have been a better idea…
Geoff, House will be thrashed by Bones. TIYL may get around 900K given its a premiere but I’d be betting on Bones winning with around 1.1M with House struggling to beat 4 Corners for third place.
@ Bogues, I think House will be lucky to be up against “This is your Life” next week and with over a week’s advertising on TEN (it started last night during Glee to my knowledge) I reckon House will be able to bring 8:30pm Monday back to atleast 900,000.
And the movie on GO! last night did so badly, it couldn’t even make top 50 digital (less than 62,000) even without all the ABC2 shows in the list.
In a lot of the launch material 9 sent out underbelly is placed as a centerpiece of 9s 2011 lineup, like what PTTR is for 7 or what MC is for ten. 9 would be very disappointed.
I think the heartbreaker for them is that their big drama events are being beaten by home and away.
Why people would support Bones then Australian drama Is beyond me , granted the 2nd second Underbelly telemovie was a tad weak , but last nights final movie was great .
Mr. chandler – i agree. How long before viewers realise it’s ordinary. Surely the second series should have given it away.
forget 9, TEN is in serious trouble. Seven is doing so well but are we surprised considering all their local content? Nine has 1.5 hours of American sitcoms from 7pm and one of those is a 7th run repeat of 2.5 Men. Pull your socks up Nine.
Network Ten – you have always been third but I feel like all you do is wait for Masterchef and then let the rest of the year fall away from you. I have no doubt that Masterchef will be stretched out to make the high last longer.
Underbelly only had 1 good series and that was the first one
9 is in serious trouble, i bet the football can’t come quick enough for them.
Not looking good for House next week.