Seven is certainly having the last laugh when it comes to Tuesday programming, with its second animal special, Dogs Make You Laugh Out Loud, drawing a bumper crowd last night.
At 1.04m viewers, the dogs trumped last week’s Cats, and finished as the top entertainment show for the night. Not only did it top locally produced drama, reality, current affairs and documentary -it even beat Seven News. Oops.
Given the price Seven must have paid for these specials, it is certainly cost effective television. Next week Seven has threatened Pets Make You Laugh Out Loud.
Yesterday’s programming was subjected to late changes, including a Live broadcast of the AFL rights deal late afternoon, and a Footy Classified special in 3 markets on Nine. Numbers have not yet been adjusted here.
Seven network won with 28.7% then Nine 27.3%, TEN 20.4%, ABC 17.2% and SBS 6.4%.
Dogs Make You Laugh Out Loud (1.04m) trumped Seven News at 1.02m / 1.00m then Home and Away (817,000), Winners and Losers (648,000 / 637,000) and Million Dollar Minute (470,000 in preliminary results).
Nine News (1.22m / 1.11m) topped the night for Nine then A Current Affair (1.03m), The Hotplate (883,000), Hot Seat (687,000) and The Truth About Fat (593,000 in preliminary figures).
The Project (634,000 / 459,000) led TEN’s night. The Great Australian Spelling Bee was 616,000, TEN Eyewitness News was 581,000, NCIS was 453,000 and NCIS: LA was 367,000.
ABC News (843,000) was best for ABC then 7:30 (717,000), Kevin McCloud’s Escape to the Wild (687,000), Foreign Correspondent (599,000), Antiques Roadshow (371,000) and Sperm Donors Anonymous (364,000).
On SBS it was Who Do You Think You Are? (374,000), Insight (308,000), Dateline (181,0000) and SBS World News (153,000).
ABC2’s Curious George led multichannels with 256,000.
Mornings: 139,000 / 76,000
The Morning Show: 120,000 / 67,000
Studio 10: 79,000 / 58,000
OzTAM Overnights: Tuesday 18 August 2015
loved winners and losers last night but did not see that ending coming.
Please keep your comments on topic (dogs and cats). 😉
Next week – bunnies!
It was a good episode of winners. Its been better since its return this year. Its a shame 7 have ruined I with doubles but back to single ep next week.
Think the reason this, and the cat show rated so well that viewers are fed up with all the reality shows, and these programmes are an alternative to cooking shows that go on forever, don’t know if something like this will last very long but if they makes people laugh don’t think its such a bad thing.
Is it weird that even though I don’t watch these shows myself, I just love that they rate so high? lol
I hope this finally puts to rest the age-old dog/cat rivalry. Everyone knows dogs are better and rate higher.
(And @ barrington bumbaclaart I think 1.04 is very much a “bumper crowd”. Not many things rating near that at the moment.)
I’m going to suggest that the higher numbers are of curious people wondering what they missed on last week after the story hit the news sites- so the age old argument on cats vs. dogs hasn’t been settled here.
What a difference one word makes. Could Nine have won the night with “The Truth About Fat Cat”?
Our economy is tanking, we have an appalling government and now according to a few thousand households with people meters – 1.04 million people watched a show made up of youtube videos.
Can this country sink any further?
If you want highbrow then stick to SBS and ABC.
This is the section of the TV spectrum that caters to light entertainment and it did a brilliant job.
Yes, we could have Rudd and Gillard back.
Let’s hope this Wednesday would be the best with more comments inside this story! They did it with Cats, now with dogs!
The Unreported World story on Dateline last night was a beautifully touching piece of television. Thank you SBS for continuing to invest in important, enlightening, thought provoking television.
As for the dogs – embarrassing but not surprising. Well done Australia for providing yet another example of the general level of intelligence in this backwards country and giving the broadcasters justification to continue treating their viewers with contempt.
And David – I’m sorry but 1.04 mil is hardly a “bumper crowd”.
Australian TV has hit an all time low… with 100s of videos uploaded to YouTube every hour looks like Sevens programming is set for the next 1000 years.
It topped all demos too.
Not impressed by Seven pulling Deal or No Deal to extend the news with endless AFL crap about James Hird and navel gazing about AFL TV rights. This was of no interest to anybody outside Vic, surely this could have been restricted to Vic and the rest of Australia receive Deal or No Deal as per normal.
Was watching The Chase. Seven cut it to go to endless, totally uninterested, no-idea-who-he-is or what’s-this about crap. Something to do about that sports thing they play south of the Murray. Then, rather than resume The Chase they went to the umteenth rerun of The Zoo. Apparently someone “resigned” or was pushed. Really Seven, NSW had -0% interest in it.
Suspect Seven is trying to make NSW interested by hook or by crook.
Not the right way – browning your audience off will never work.
But wait, there’s more.
Girls Fail
Kicks to the Cajonnes
Hamsters in Wheels etc
My goodness, the irony is palpable.
Mr T’s World’s Craziest Fools will be getting moved from 7Mate to 7 soon followed by Rude Tube at 8:30pm (it’s M rated so can air then).
Footy classified last minute created on the day special that was promoted on 9 and on Craig Hutchinson twitter as having an 8.40pm start. Couldn’t understand why the epg said 8.50pm as per my comment on tv lounge. Surely if you decide to air a special on the very day the epg and promo time should be the same. Gave 9 the benefit of the doubt and turned it on at 8.40pm. Sat through that utter tripe hot plate for 10 mins till footy classified started. Was so annoyed at 9 shenanigans that turned off the tv 5mins into classified. Is anyone going to give 9 a slap on the wrist for false advertising? Tired of this rubbish from 9.
Yes I’m aware and will be asking.
I saw your comment that you were checking it on the tv lounge. The comments on the tv lounge were made re. confusion prior to episode airing. These comments were based on what actually happened when aired. Wonder how they’ll respond? 🙂
Nine advertise The Footy Show at 8.30 each and every week. Never starts at 8.30.
Ten advertise HYBPA at 8.30, never starts at 8.30.
Every commercial network advertises show for ‘top of the hour’/’half past’, they never eventuate. Not sure you’re outraged? It happens daily in TV land these days unfortunately.
This wasn’t normal programing. Footy classified was a special episode announced late yesterday afternoon to air last night. Then its advertised on 9 for a 8.40pm start late afternoon/ early evening yesterday yet the epg updates around the same time with an 8.50pm start time. It reeks of extra dodginess than normal dodginess. Even though its really wrong to promote a show a week in advance at 8.30pm and change it on the day to 8.43pm, what makes this worse is it all happened on the same day. 9 had no excuses not to promote it as starting 8.50pm. Very fishy.
That’s the thing, none of these shows are changing start time on the day. 8.43 is the new 8.30 whether we like it or not. I’m with you though, it’s really frustrating that TV Networks believe we are so stupid that if they tell us anything other than 8.30 we’re buggering off. Hate to tell them, there’s a fair chunk of us DVR’ing (and so on) and not watching any of their stuff live any more.
Nine advises ACA ran over.
Not satisfied with that answer from 9. They lose credibility because the epg was updated to 8.50pm start time which was when classified started so u would think they had some prior knowledge that aca would run late. Its just all 9 shenanigans that sucks for the viewer.
It may well have been updated because they knew ACA would run over due to its running order. They have not indicated either way.
I guess the question is whether they knew aca would run over before they aired promos for footy classified with the start time of 8.40pm. That’s what we’ll never know.
Have since watched this episode of footy classified after it was refered to in the media yesterday. They did a pretty good job of the interview with Jobe, much better than the interview with Gillon a few weeks ago. Its a shame that things like dodgy start times distract from content of the ep and put people off watching shows.
Oh dear … my sportsbet bet …
Go back and tell them Cats did not air… isn’t that what you wagered on? Technically Hotplate will rate higher, because there is no ratings for Cats this week.
True. But might just double down for next week. Have a feeling “Pets” will not rate as highly.
Surely Nine must be thinking about bring Funniest Home Video’s back into a Tuesday 7:30 time slot now?
“Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.” (H.L. Mencken)
It would seem the same applies to Australia as well!
Woof Woof
Why waste money on expesive productions when you can just cut n paste a few youtube vids? Oh dear, you just know whats coming next…..
They didn’t even do that. They just bought someone else’s cut’n’paste of YouTube videos…
It’s a doggy dog world out there.
Judging by those figures did the later portion of Studio 10 beat Mornings and The Morning Show? Great news for Ten if so.
Unbelievable this Youtube compilation crap is being embraced by viewers. But kudos to Seven for making it work.
No. They code at different times.