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Timeshifted makes Struggle Street bigger than MasterChef
With another 216,000 viewers, SBS doco moves to #1 for its premiere last week.
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Controversial SBS doco Struggle Street has drawn big crowds in Timeshifted viewing for its first episode.
The show rated 925,000 viewers last week, but another 216,000 viewers caught up with the show in the 7 days after the broadcast.
That took the show to 1.14m viewers for SBS -enough to lift it to first place for last Wednesday. In the end the show was higher than MasterChef, which had to settle for 1.11m viewers in second place.
Despite all the criticism, Struggle Street is the most popular documentary SBS has ever screened.
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7 Responses
David it certainly beat master chef on wed. But the premiere was Tuesday at 1.22m so didn’t beat the premiere.
You are so right. Thanks for pointing out.
And a new genre is born.
7,9 and Ten no doubt already drawing up ideas.
Hardly new. ‘Sylvania Waters’ in the early 90’s was probably the first Australian TV series example, but you can go back to very similar observational social documentary TV series from the early 70’s like the US ‘An American Family’ or UK ‘The Family’ (both excellent series, if you can find them).
Arguably, you can go further back to the post-WWII social documentary films from the UK in the 50’s, or even further back to the ‘actuality’ films of the 20’s & 30’s (e.g. ‘Housing Problems’ or ‘Today We Live’).
Been thinking it’s time for a new Sylvania series (but not The Shire). Reckon there are big numbers to be had if they strike the right tone.
Well done SBS controversy rates well. Didn’t watch it but glad the media storm paid off!
Not surprised – %-wise, drama & docos tend to get the biggest boosts from timeshifting. A doco with good overnight numbers has every chance of beating the top-rating steamroller reality programme on consolidated. And the gain SS picked up isn’t even that great (only what, ~23%?).