Doubts over Newton’s sincerity as Seven wins Sunday
Ratings: Matthew Newton's 60 Minutes attracts negative attention but only just wins its timeslot, as Seven takes Sunday ratings.
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The much publicised return of 60 Minutes last night may have won its timeslot last night, but everywhere else the night went Seven’s way in what proved to be a tight tussle.
60 Minutes extended out to 90 Minutes but Nine sneakily coded the numbers into two (1.21m / 60 Minutes Extra 909,000).  The Matthew Newton interview attracted plenty of criticism on Twitter many of whom did not buy his sincerity, including some less-than-impressed industry names including Lachie Hulme, Samantha Armytage, Andrew Mercado, Ros Reines, Melissa Hoyer and Anthony ‘Lehmo’ Lehmann.
Seven’s network share was 31.4% then Nine 27.0%, TEN 19.8%, ABC 16.2% and SBS 5.5%.
Seven News (1.23m) was the night’s top show followed by Downton Abbey on 1.22m. Also for Seven were Sunday Night (1.19m), The Force (1.18m), Border Security (1.1m) and Castle (445,000).
Also for Nine were Nine News was 1.17m then The Block: All Stars (1.12m) with a room reveal coming second in its slot. New episodes of The Mentalist and CSI were 531,000 and 364,000 respectively.
Against some tough competition TEN’s Super Sunday managed to cling on, just. Elementary was 899,000 with MasterChef: The Professionals at 859,000. Modern Family was 752,000, TEN News was 532,000, The Graham Norton Show was 490,000. Bondi Rescue struggled at 476,000 and The Simpsons was just 359,000.
ABC News was best for ABC1 at 852,000 then Midsomer Murders (788,000), Kevin McCloud’s Man Made Home (726,000), Dream Build (629,000), Rick Stein’s Far Eastern Odyssey (276,000) and Rev (275,000).
History Cold Case (230,000) topped SBS ONE followed by World News Australia (187,000) and the marathon Tropfest averaged 181,000.
Plonsters led multichannels with 256,000 on ABC2.
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28 Responses
@ IRT …Yes Simon Reeve did the Bangladesh ship graveyards very well…I like his work…
@Secret Squirrel…I also do not enjoy having a show spoilt by promo grabs…
@fairdinkum you’re watching one “reality” program and calling others bogans. Seriously, pot/kettle much?
Simon Reeve covered the Bangla Desh shipyard in the excellent 2012 BBC series Indian Ocean with Simon Reeve.
I thought the Sunday Night story on the ship breakers in Bangladesh was some of the most jaw-dropping footage I have ever seen on a current affairs show. Sure the storyline and point was a bit confusing (why was the Sydney Doctor there? Was that the only way they could get permission to film it? Was he for or against it?), but those images. Wow. I don’t know how they managed to do the overheads/flyovers without it looking like a helicopter was flying above.
The images of the sweating children earning 47 cents per hour while they dragged steel through grey mud trying to avoid falling shipping parts was haunting.
Fairfax has a story on the use of Drones for cameras today, including on that story. But it also raises Privacy issues.
Good to see Elementary hanging in there, 899k is commendable considering it improved on MCs numbers. Right now it’s one of the few shows I watch on FTA weekly.
The Tropfest on SBS did well for the network, considering it was over 3 hours long, and finishing up close to midnight. SBS should run more local events
Ten’s Super Sunday is down on last week, which is a shame.
On another note, are the Simpsons ratings including that 5-minute short film? I know there won’t be really much diference between these ratings anyway.
is that Castle figure just for the new episode, or is it an average of the two episodes?
What can I say about Matthew Newton…..
Nothing, because if I posted what I think, David would ban me!
The Sunday night team should be made to sit and watch 60 minutes to actually watch how to put an interesting show together. The Alex Cullen flirt piece with Julie Andrews was woeful and I am actually still trying to work out the point of the story of the ship scrapping yard in Bangladesh. Secondly Mathew Newton should be made to sit down and watch the 1st story on 60 minutes about the digger who lost both legs in Afghanistan which I dont think even made the ad and learn something about perspective of life. The 60 minutes Robert Plant flirt piece was actually well done and the mountain trek story was also amazing (and full credit to Alison Langden for doing it). And poor ten just cant take a trick. Watched recording later of MCP and it was very good and deserving of better numbers as is Modern Family. Something quickly needs to be done to address problems with Ten or it is in real danger of imploding. And Graeme Norton was hilarious. It really suits the sunday night slot.
Mathew was totally unconvincing. He only seeks help when he is looking like going to jail. He has a long wat to go. I wish him well.
MasterChef in the High Country was an excellent show and deserved a bigger audience. Generally the series is excellent and deserves 1mill. The trouble is the commercial audience would rather watch Bogan’s stuffing things up on MKR than people who can actually cook. Oh my!
Masterchef and Elementary were the only things worth bothering about for me last night, both were awesome episodes.
I rest my case re armchair psychologists 🙂
I am in two minds about Matthew Newton – while I feel for his plight, I did not get the feeling that he has completely come to grips with his past. Knowing something is wrong and cognitively making sure that behaviour never again rears its ugly head are two very different things to me. Let’s hope he’s on the mend because he is a great talent. What was lacking in the interview was a sincerity toward his victims at the heinousness of his violence towards them. He had to be prodded by the interviewer to acknowledge that he was violent. I think he still doesn’t “quite get it”, but perhaps with more therapy and support, he will.
par3182 – Graham Norton last night was in the Top 20 (with just under 500K watching) – quite sure it’s never been in the top listing before and this is due in part to Ten’s responsiveness in creating a promo that featured some of the saucier moments of Mark Wahlberg’s ‘car crash’. Was terrific television!
Forgot to watch Norton again but now I know why. I turn off before the end of Elementary because I don’t want the next ep to be spoilt by seeing what’s in it. How many people do they really think won’t watch the following week if they don’t show them some grabs?
New episodes of CSI? There’s the problem right there. I love CSI and had no idea they were new episodes.
Newton is a train wreck and no amount of pandering from others in the industry is going to change anything… especially Newton.
Does The Graham Norton Show rate better on a Sunday than its pervious (first run) Saturday slot?
There is serious concerns for TV’s future in general. Such low numbers over the entire Sunday….a mixture of strong traditional competition vs non traditional competition means ratings are weak per show and the advertisers wont pay what is required for big budget TV. This is a real concern. Ten has no future and eventually we will become a two commercial network nation but still then 7 and 9 are only bleeding a few of their viewers to TEN.
Troubling times ahead for profitability
Newton was very unconvincing.
Well I thought Matthew Newton seemed sincere. At least he is seeking help for his issues. There are thousands of men out there who refuse to admit they have a problem and who think it is normal to hit women regularly. Matthew is one of the rare ones who seeks help, yet still cops criticism from armchair psychologists.
I am so over hearing about Matthew Newton and his problems, everyone has problems, perhaps he should grow up and take responsibility for his actions.
Nine will have to do something else at 8.30 Sundays. The Mentalist and CSI (two former heavyweights) have suffered from irregular programming – Sundays and Thursdays at present and are drawing woeful numbers. Thursday screenings will stop soon for the Footy Show so I suggest just once a week from 8.30 Wednesdays will do better business. They are now not up to the prime Sunday slot.
There is a 5 minute over-run to take into account but due to the split figures we know that 90 minutes lost ~300k as viewers switched to dramas at 8:36pm, and that a further ~400k people didn’t not stick around to watch The Mentalist at 9:05pm.
Ten got 14.8% share for its Super Sunday. And Elementary and Masterchef held most of their younger viewers. Better than the second half of last year when Ten was getting less than 10%.