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Come Fly with Me soars on Nine -but not WIN

Nine has a hit on its hands with UK comedy Come Fly With Me -with ratings numbers that send a clear message to WIN Television.

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At last the Nine Network has a hit on its hands with UK comedy series Come Fly with Me.

Last night the show pulled in 1.48m viewers, possibly fuelled by WIN / NBN pulling the “controversial” series from the sensitive eyes of regional viewers.

Yesterday a WIN spokesperson told TV Tonight “The WIN Network will monitor the performance of the show and the timeslot in the metropolitan markets this evening and introduce to our schedule within the coming weeks.”

Based on last night’s ratings WIN should install the series into its schedule pronto, and Nine-owned NBN should never have abandoned it.

Compared to the performance of some other Nine shows this year, 1.48m is TV gold.

But it wasn’t enough to topple MasterChef Australia, which hit 1.57m viewers and won its timeslot. Talk of the show’s average ratings due to the success of Australia’s Got Talent are premature. One show’s success does not always mean another is tanking.

But the same cannot be said for No Ordinary Family, which in the 7:30 timeslot took a hit for Seven at 811,000 (last week 952,000). The show has already been axed in the US. Expect movement on this one shortly…

That didn’t do The Amazing Race Australia any favours, but the show did win its timeslot rising to 1.25m viewers (it would have been higher if not for the lead-in). Offspring‘s two episodes were 927,000 / 760,000 and the two CSI‘s were 748,000 / 568,000.

Nine’s first-run Big Bang Theory at 7:30pm also did good business at 1.24m.

On ABC1 Australian Story was 743,000 and Four Corners 733,000.

Neighbours was the top show on multichannels with 387,000. The premiere of An Idiot Abroad (278,000) on ONE beat SBS ONE’s Man vs Wild on 260,000.

Seven won the night.

Week 21

44 Responses

  1. @ Moanique Rothschild
    That was Not Catherine Tate it was Sally Rogers who played Seargent Jo Masters in The Bill,playing the part of the Check-In Supervisor.

  2. First we had people telling us that Emma Bunton was in the first ep, now it’s Catherine Tate. Apart from a rudimentary physical similarity her voice was completely different. It was Sally Rogers from The Bill. Might want to put your phone down and actually watch the program.

  4. I recorded it on GO! (but haven’t watched either yet) just to see what all the fuss is about. Only problem for Nine and it bing a hit is there are just 6 episodes and nothing to carry it through the rest of the year.

    I like NOF, just a shame it’s not getting the numbers and had now been axed in the US.

  6. I caught CFWM at the later time slot last night and thought it was fantastic.

    I can’t quite believe that we regional viewers are deemed too sensitive or maybe not intelligent enough to understand CFWM but it strengthens my resolve to watch as little as possible on this network. This is from the network that serves up the Footy Show and ACA, I hardly think they’re the arbiters of good taste.

  7. I can’t quite believe regional TV decision makers are threatened by CFWM – weren’t the British doing over the top gay characterisations decades ago with Are You Being Served? It’s a pretty weird attitude considering the face of regional Australia has been slowly changing over the years. Half of my family live down Dunsborough way (the Margaret River region) and they certainly encapsulate the modern face of Australia where people are judged on their individual merits, not on their country of birth, sexuality or religion.

  10. TARA was very disappointing. 7 won’t be happy at all. I loved it thought was well done deserved 1.5mil will fall next week ad most shows do after premiere. Not good sign

  13. I missed it, we were all TEN in our house last night.
    Mum wanted to watch ‘Offspring’, I wanted to watch ‘An Idiot Abroad’ and my sister wanted to watch ‘Supernatural’.

    Incidentally, David, do you know what happened with Offspring Ep 1 not having any captions? I thought primetime on a main channel had to be captioned?

  14. I agree with most comments below… there is definitely an underlying reason why the regionals didn’t take it.

    They Still mustn’t agree with modern lifestyles. Get over it. They should amend the aphorism about being the only one in the village, as I’m sure they grow them out on the land too! 😉

  18. @KFed- “regional folk” are at the behest of what the management of Prime, based in capital cities, serve up to us. Unfortunately it’s not like the good days when regional management ran the local station.

  19. Gay Gay Gay – get over it people. They can use the language ie swearing all the time, tv radio and print but can’t watch or see gay people?! What’s wrong with society! Next they won’t let them get married! Hah

  20. Gone: No Ordinary Family . Returning: Border Security, Airways.

    I expect NOF will probably take over Thursdays 7:30 once HIMYM wraps up…or possibly 9:30 Thursdays, Grey’s/PP/DH only have 6 episodes left of their current seasons

  22. Now Seven have competition in the 7:30pm (with Masterchef), I think we can see the changes coming in. Airways gone last week, My Ordinary Family this week. No longer can the stick factuals in and hope it rates okay.

  24. Does anybody else remember when Prime in some regions pulled WIll & Grace? Is there a perception that regional folk are scared of catching the gay through their TVs?

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