Dancing drama still ratings magic
Ratings: Dancing builds the drama around an accident by one of its dancers, while Hot Seat thumps Million Dollar Minute.
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It ran overtime by around 30 minutes again but Seven won’t mind in the least that Dancing with the Stars drove the network to another win last night.
It pulled out 1.24m viewers in preliminary data, down from 1.33m last week but still 370,000 in front of its nearest opposition.
The show positively milked a drama surrounding Cosentino’s dance partner Jessica Raffa suffering a back injury and withdrawing from the show. She was replaced by Sriani Argaet while the first eliminated contestant was model Jordan Stenmark.
Seven network share was 34.7% then Nine 24.9%, TEN 18.3%, ABC 16.6% and SBS 5.4%.
Elsewhere for Seven, Seven News was 1.09m, Body of Proof was 976,000 /425,000 in preliminary figures, Home and Away was 944,000, Today Tonight was 905,000 but Million Dollar Minute underperformed at 459,000.
Nine News (1.21m) and A Current Affair (1.03m) both won their slots for Nine then Big Brother (870,000), Hot Seat (645,000), Big School (581,000), Come Fly With Me (479,000), and Movie: Horrible Bosses (331,000 in 4 cities).
The Project topped the night for TEN with 573,000. Next were TEN Eyewitness News (535,000), Recipe to Riches (524,000), Sleepy Hollow (459,000), NCIS: LA (456,000). The Simpsons was 344,000.
ABC News (917,000) was best for ABC1 then 7:30 (723,000), Foreign Correspondent and David Attenborough’s First Life (both 598,000), Australian Encounters (415,000) and At the Movies (357,000).
On SBS ONE it was Who Do You You Think You Are? (277,000), Insight (222,000), World News Australia (160,000) and Dateline (131,000).
Neighbours led multichannels with 327,000.
Nine’s Afternoon News: 290,000
Seven News at 4:30: 205,000
Nine News Now: 181,000
The Daily Edition: 61,000
OzTAM Overnights: Tuesday 8 October 2013
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I like DWTS, but that drama about Cosentino’s partner was way over the top. I don’t like it when they treat us like idiots.
It looks like there is life in DWTS yet. It doesnt really have any competition but its good it can still pull high numbers after so many season.
@Josh777 I agree, Recipe to Riches is a quality concept and it works well. Sleepy Hollow is solid but nothing spectacular for me.
The glaring problem for Ten is the lack of a quality 6pm product. We all say that Ten should offer an alternative to the Big 2, but I feel a local 6pm news bulletin would definitely provide a better lead in for The Project. The Simpsons is simply far too polarising – people either love it or hate it.
The Million Dollar Minute format may have worked elsewhere, but I found that hearing the full question before a buzzer was rare. Which meant that you were not connected with the show as in Hot Seat.
Not wholly tongue-in-cheek, I partly watch Hot Seat for a touch of mental excercise after a days work … which M-$- Minute does not allow.
ran over time!!! just lucky I noticed it was still running when I went to bed, or else I would have missed recording the end of Body of Proof. Tivo had already started recording as the EPG was not updated. Just because a network is winning the ratings does not give them the freedom to ignore their own advertised scheduled times! Networks should be penalised for running so extremely late – a few minutes here and there is OK, but not 30 mins – not happy with FTA television at the moment and am watching it less and less!
I started watching Recipes to Riches last week and am absolutely hooked. And that paired with Sleepy Hollow has be on Ten from 6:30pm till 9:30pm. It’s just a shame that Ten’s numbers aren’t higher as it is really good quality stuff.