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Hamish and Andy serve up 1.45m viewers

Hamish and Andy managed to do exactly what they had been paid to do -deliver the numbers.

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Last night Hamish and Andy managed to do exactly what they had been paid to do -deliver the numbers.

The show pulled up an impressive 1.45m viewers, well ahead of The Renovators (909,000), Law & Order: LA (620,000), Crownies (543,000), and Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations (185,000).

The show was #1 in the 3 key demos, and together with The Block and The Footy Show helped Nine to a cushy 34.7% share for the night.

The Block won at 7pm with 1.3m over Home And Away Seven (939,000), ABC News (826,000), The 7pm Project (663,000).

Masterchef Australia was first at 7:30pm with 1.51m tuning in to see Ellie eliminated. It bettered Hot Property (1.02m), The Vicar Of Dibley (511,000), 7.30 / Catalyst (455,000 / 439,000), and French Food Safari / Oz And James’s Big Wine Adventure (278,000 / 154,000).

The Footy Show won at 9:30pm with 743,000, with 339,000 in Melbourne and only 133,000 in Sydney.

Seven now leads Nine by just 1% for the week.

Week 31

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  2. The show needs to be tweaked. It may have delivered very impressive numbers on its “10th last episode’ but will the numbers hold up in coming weeks? Also, referring to the show as “H&A” could get quite confusing with another top 10 show (Home & Away).

  3. They may have done well last night but last night was quite bad to be honest with you. I would be very surprised if they got the same ratings next week. It was bad. They don’t deserve these numbers. They deserve 600k not 1.45m. Thats how bad it was.

  4. I missed this last night but it’s being crucified in the papers.
    I really loved the Inside The Human Body series(if it can be called a series) and really miss that.
    Hamish and Andy can be funny, but they’re not strong enough to hold a whole show or series, they better suit as guesties like Hamish on spicks and specks etc and sticking to their one-offs.
    Channel Nine is in serious trouble, they can’t ride off redos of the Block forever, Scott Cam just doesn’t have the same pulling power he used to, maybe bring back a younger Burkes Backyard or something?

  5. I like Hamish and Andy but I don’t know if they can carry a whole show. Their specials are usually good and they’re pretty funny when they do a segment or appear as guests on someone else’s show, but I don’t think their schtick has the legs to run for a series like this.

    I turned over to watch at about 9pm but turned back before 20 mins was up. It wasn’t bad, just not enough to hold my interest – it was basically the same-old-same-old.

    Plenty of people would have tuned in out of interest and prob stuck with it thru inertia or wanting to finish watching the show. The real test is whether they’ll tune in again next week. I agree with those who think that the ratings will drop significantly over the next couple of weeks. If they stabilise around a mill, I think everyone involved would be reasonably happy, but 850k feels more like where this is heading.

  8. Should clear up what I meant I realise that they must because that is how peak ratings are determined what I want to know is how often they poll?

  9. Re: the ratings maybe David could clear something up for me, the few hundred of these magic ratings boxes that seem to dictate what is good and bad to a population of millions, do not to my knowledge monitor the whole hour that this rubbish was on.
    If say for example someone such as myself had a box and gave it a go for half an hour then decided to watch something better like the test pattern on my oscilloscope, would I still be part of the 1.45 million?
    Because I would be prepared to bet everything I own a huge percentage would have dropped off and won’t be back.

  11. One problem is that it is too much of these 2 – I liked them on Rove, because you’d only see them for 5 minutes or so

    But I did like their one-off specials (eg. Caravan of Courage / Learn India, etc) but this one wasn’t up to par. Hopefully it’ll get better – I’ll still watch because I like this kind of show

  12. So against competition of Hamish and Andy… The Renovators audience increased??

    Since H&A won in the demos does that imply that the oldies from Seven defected and went to TEN at 8.30? Strange..

  14. Hamish and Andy were rubbish last night. Even Ben Elton’s show was funnier

    Seven need to axe Vicar and play some fresh content. They have the rights to Happy Endings which has been renewed for a second season in the US, why not give that a shot?

  15. @Mike k: the news.com.au article was written long before the ratings came out. Was a review of the show. One that I agree with. Wont be watching next week, I think I have grown out of Hamish and Andy’s style of presenting I think.

  16. it held it’s audience last night so if it was curiosity, people would have switched off after 10 minutes. You could tell the boys were nervous but it only means the second ep will be better. I’ll watch next week.

  17. @milk crate: Old Vicar of Dibley. Hasn’t been any news episodes for about 4 or 5 years from memory. I’m sure there is something else Seven could have played in this spot which is brand new. Vicar should be on 7Two with the rest of the classic UK sitcoms, not on a prime time slot on a main channel.

  18. I PVR’d this, and will give it a shot. Usually I find Hamish and Andy much funnier on their radio show than on TV, but hopefully I enjoy this too.
    I guess if the ratings stay above or around 1M then some people at TEN would be wishing they signed a deal with them when they chance was available.

  21. After reading an article on news.com.au which strongly implied that the show was a “dud” ie had bombed, I came straight here to check the ratings (something the story was silent on). I’m not sure what news.com.au are on about. Given the competition, these ratings are fantastic. Nice work lads.

  22. I guarantee it won’t make the same numbers next week. I was a victim of curiosity last night watching Hamish and Andy but upon seeing how woeful it was I will not be watching next week.

  23. Loved the show.
    It looked like the guests did too.
    It felt “true” to their brand.
    Wonder who made it? Were Aussie key production people flown over there?

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