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Dancing with the Stars hits new low

Ratings: Seven's dancing contest falls to its lowest ever number, with The Block leading by a country mile.

2014-10-08_0833With just a handful of nights remaining The Block viewers continues to dominate the viewing landscape, last night pulling 1.39m viewers -more than 500,000 above Dancing with the Stars.

Seven dancing contest slipped to 882,000 in its second week. Down from 1.04m last week, it marks the lowest ever ranking across all 14 seasons.

Nine network won the night with 30.2% then Seven 28.5%, TEN 21.2%, ABC 15.3% and SBS 4.8%.

Despite the dominance of The Block, Nine News was under the magic million at 982,000 / 935,000 then A Current Affair (932,000), Big Brother (677,000) and Hot Seat (523,000). Arrow was 248,000 / 177,000.

Seven News won its timeslot with 1.06m / 1.03m then DWTS (882,000), Home and Away (875,000), a win by Million Dollar Minute (599,000), followed by Scandal (362,000).

New NCIS (788,000) topped the night for TEN. The Project spoke to jilted Sam Frost again netting 667,000 / 469,000. NCIS: New Orleans premiered to 633,000, TEN Eyewitness News was 533,000 but Jamie’s Comfort Food had to settle for 495,000.

ABC News (741,000) was best on ABC then 7:30 (646,000), the premiere of Changing Minds (512,000), Foreign Correspondent (502,000), QI (421,000) and At the Movies (360,000).

Insight (265,000) led SBS then The Sixties (225,000), Dateline (147,000) and a struggling SBS World News (110,000).

Neighbours was best on multichannels at 264,000.

The Morning Show: 136,000 / 85,000
Mornings: 133,000
Studio 10: 42,000 / 34,000

OzTAM Overnights: Tuesday 7 October 2014

27 Responses

  1. DWTS —what stars? I dont know who any of them are, nor care (well Lynne McGranger is a legend, but cant watch the whole show just for her) -the rest-Dancing with the Extras.

  2. Agree that Dancing goes on for too long and two hours would be enough and although the figures are not good at the moment they are not too bad for a show that is televised so long when other channels have half hour and one hour ratings, and I am sure that it will be better once a few dancers have been eliminated and other reality shows have finished. Its a pity that family shows are not appreciated any more like they used to be.

  3. Why does Seven take 3 hours or more while the US version can do the same thing live in just 2 hours with no overruns. Maybe that is why the US version still tops the ratings & Seven can’t even get a million viewers.
    You never see overruns on US tv so why do we tolerate it here?

  4. The TV industry continually rants on about ratings as the excuse for messing with shows and time slots but then conveniently ignore it in cases like Studio 10 … 42,000??? It should be long gone! Same was true with The Project for a very long time. Sounds hypocritical to me … whatever excuse is convenient for them at the time.
    I still do not accept that the “random sample” used to get the ratings is appropriate, it never has been … there has to be a more accurate way to measure what Aussies really watch instead of what they use now!
    I watch more TV than anyone I know and I have never been included in these supposed “ratings”!

  5. @steviem, he may have been the highlight, but also a reason it went overtime

    @ditto, the female is meant to be the star, not sure who she was, no one really knowing them, probably the reason they were voted out first.

  6. 882k for DWTS isn’t that bad for something that goes for nearly 3 hours and is also second most watched show of the night other than news and current affairs.

    Would love to see the hourly breakdown.

    Had it on late last night as weren’t really paying that much attention to the TV by then – but often also found myself asking my wife “who is the ‘star’ and who is the dancer”?

  7. I’m just sick of the show running so far over. Last night Scandal started and finished over 10 minutes late – lucky I was monitoring the end and extended my record to catch the whole ep.

  8. People are right , 3 hours is too long. I record DWTS and fast forward all the shit. I think 2 hours is the maximum you can expect an audience to sit through IMO.

    @stevieg no way, mark holden was the highlight of the show.

  9. DWTS is better this season, couldn’t handle last year with the people involved. Better personalities and better dancing this year… but agree, an almost 3 hour show is a grind to sit through.

  10. Why do hosts of TV shows shout so much? Do they think the audience is hard of hearing? The host of DWTS shouts over the top of everyone. I almost want them to bring Daryl back.

  11. I watched DWTS last night and I have enjoyed the show in the past but it really was a struggle to get through last night. Firstly, it’s far too long clocking in at close to 3 hours. There also seems to be a larger number than usual of ‘Stars’ who I’ve never heard of or seen before in my life. Finally, huge portions of the show were ruined by Mark Holden’s showboating and over the top antics.

  12. DWTS is always a struggle at the start because the initial shows drag on for so long, too many contestants at the start. The other networks often have two or three shows on during the same time period so how can it be fairly compared?
    I always record it and skip through to the bits I want to see … most of it ends up just filler to me. Less contestants and less fluffing around is what it needs!

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