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Tough night for public broadcasters

Ratings: Wednesday night proved to be another winner for Seven, at the expense of public broadcasters.

2014-01-16_2334Wednesday night proved to be another winner for Seven, at the expense of public broadcasters.

ABC and SBS saw modest shares for the night. TEN’s network share was aided by a good result on ONE of 6.4%.

Seven Network share was 33.1% then Nine 25.8%, TEN 22.2%, ABC 14.9% and SBS 4.0%.

My Kitchen Rules topped the night at 1.91m then Seven News (1.05m / 995,000), Home and Away (991,000), The Blacklist (909,000), Million Dollar Minute (449,000) and Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD (379,000).

Nine News (1.04m / 988,000) led for Nine then The Block (964,000), A Current Affair (829,000), David Blaine (674,000 / 414,000) and Hot Seat (562,000).

TEN Eyewitness News (679,000) was best for TEN followed by Sochi Winter Olympics (589,000 / 411,000), The Project (447,000 / 288,000) and The Biggest Loser (339,000).

On ABC1 it was ABC News (794,000) at the front then 7:30 (622,000), Mad as Hell (543,000), Spicks and Specks (442,000), The Moodys (379,000) and Adam Hills: The Last Leg (294,000).

Australia with Simon Reeve (187,000) led SBS ONE followed by One Born Every Minute (162,000) and World News Australia (115,000).

Neighbours led multichannels at 304,000.

OzTAM Overnights: Wednesday 12 February 2014

44 Responses

  1. Adam *does* need to tone it down a wee bit, everyone I talk to is finding him irritating and I can see what they mean, to a degree (I actually like him, but that’s a leftover from Outland). Josh is still a yappy dog, who fails to pace his delivery. He’s improved, but I can’t see the day coming when he’s good enough. Ella isn’t too bad, but she’s no Myf, she just doesn’t have the background and depth of knowledge. The figures reflect the fact that it’s failing to resuscitate, just hoping and saying it’s good doesn’t really wash.

    1. There have been two episodes? I don’t recall Adam “squealing” that he was gay. Spicks has always embraced individuals for being themselves whether straight, gay or in between. The music industry has always been diverse. Grow up.

  2. Far too early to be judging Spicks and Specks by the numbers. It lost 100,000 from it’s lead in. That’s perfectly reasonably. Wait till the Olympics is done. Heck it did better than the Project.

  3. @Lyn – I agree altho’ I’ll give it one more go next week. I have been touched by Suzi Q and it was not unpleasant.

    It’s great that the Moody’s has a couple of fans because I think it’s awful and unfunny. I switched over to SBS2 for a bit of Euro SF after Spicks.

    @Cronker – you accidentally added Crownies to the list of recent decent ABC shows.

  4. What geniuses they have a 10 programming: ‘let’s put our mildly-popular but expensive shows up against shows that are much more popular – that’ll work”.

    The 10 yearly results are going to be horrendous this year and I doubt they will ever make a profit again with their current strategies.

  5. The Project’s time is nearly up, I think. I watched recently and for the entire show not a single thing made me laugh. It is simply not funny without Dave Hughes. It will struggle to see out 2014 at this rate.

  6. @deedeedragons – The Block was under a million last Wednesday as well, a couple of hundred thousand people have chosen to tune out for the Challenge episodes it seems.

  7. The Moodys was hilarious. Four people in this household laughed out loud several times. Deserves a much higher audience.

    The Project at 7pm – tick, tock

    Biggest Loser – ouch. Ten, you are successfully slaughtering your brands, one by one.

  8. I think TBL is officially dead. 10 had their chance at the 7pm slot and blew it in my opinion. It won’t gather an audience now.

    Spicks and Specks was terrific I thought. Who wouldn’t love Ella Hooper and Suzi Quatro together? They should have done a duet. The Moodys are always funny. Really funny.

  9. At our house it was ABC4Kids and ABC1 (after 7pm) all night. Excellent line up.

    How may millions did Ten pay for the Olympics? Seems like they aren’t getting the numbers they would have hopped.

    @Sairy: Yes, it is the second episode from the new season. It seems to be an Australian specific version since Adam Hills refers to Wednesday in the introduction, even though it screens on a Friday evening in the UK. Both episodes are on iView.

  10. I’m not sure why the hate on ABC?
    Crownies, Miss Fisher, Doctor Blake, Janet King etc.
    Spicks is not as good as the original, but then, what is?
    I reluctantly watched Q&A the other night (nothing else on) and it was well made television.
    Imports such as Doctor Who will always keep me spending my 8 cents.

  11. Re The Moodys – Is there some requirement in the world of Australian comedy that the characters have to shout most of their lines?

    People shouting at each other is Soap Opera, not Comedy.

  12. Mad As Hell was the only one of the above mentioned programmes that I was motivated enough to watch. Hilariously funny and in some ways more informative than the regular ‘news’ programmes! Comedy is truth!

  13. The Blacklist was more like an episode of Criminal Minds last night. Also, I saw a preview of Janet King at the end of a Crownies repeat on ABC2 last night, looks really good 🙂

  14. I think the viewers have cast their vote on Spicks and Specks which didn’t improve last night and numbers plummeted. The list of ABC failures is now very long. Randling was ill conceived and canned. Tractor Monkeys even more inept and renewed but still found little audience and now Spicks and Specks. Maybe it is time for the CEO and Head of TV to exert some control over the commissioning team and programmer who have let this stuff go to air half baked. The ABC seems to have lost its way with a lot of its commissioning. It would be better to have fewer shows that are better developed and conceived than some of this dross. In its attempt for ratings it seems to be stuck between public and commercial broadcasting. Some direction from the top is needed.

  15. Spicks & Specks was better than last week.
    But that was because of Suzi Quatro!
    Josh seemed to have calmed down a bit.
    But I still don’t like it.
    And I’m not watching again.
    I don’t see it lasting as long as the original.

  16. Australia with Simon Reeve was a great series showing Australia warts and all and should have been compulsory viewing for everyone living in this fine country! I also enjoyed the Moody’s!

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