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Seven retreats on Restaurant Revolution after dire launch

Now airing 2 nights a week, after plummeting to 415,000 viewers.

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Seven has frantically rescheduled Restaurant Revolution after disappointing numbers this week, pulling it back from 4 nights a week to 2.

It will now run double episodes on Monday (7:30pm) and Thursday (8pm) -still four hours a week.

But it has had to resort to factuals Dr Harry’s Craziest House Calls on Tuesday and Border Security on Wednesday to fill in the holes.

It’s a rare move by Seven to blink so early on a failed format (it previously stuck to its guns much longer on House Rules, The Mole and The Big Adventure when they all tanked, and managed to see House Rules strengthen). Even Celebrity Splash fared better than this.

This week Restaurant Revolution launched with 676,000 viewers, but within two days it had plummeted to just 415,000. Nine’s Hot Plate also lost ground, but not as dramatic, from 784,000 to 656,000. Both lagged behind TEN’s The Bachelor.

But on Monday TEN launches The Great Australian Spelling Bee, which enjoys another point of difference from cooking overload.

Meanwhile Ramsay’s Hotel Hell is now out on Monday while Tuesday also sees a double Winners and Losers, bumping Chicago Fire out of its return.

The burning question is: how soon can Seven get to The X Factor?

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  2. It’s August now, and we have had continual cooking shows since “after the tennis”.
    Both Hot Plate and Resto Reno, suffer from Cooking Show fatigue!

  3. I reckon for class of show Masterchef beats both RR and HP for dead. Think you will find The Biggest looser will do well this year coming on steam at the start of the summer. That’s much better programming from Ten. Ten need to sort out what they want to do with One. Its programming is all all over the place.

  4. 7 are getting desperate with their restaurant revolution promos. Just watching the afl tonight and during half time Cameron Ling and BT are standing in the North Melbourne change rooms and have quite poorly tried to do restaurant revolution promos twice. There has also been excessive ads during the telecast and ad breaks.

    1. Maybe they are trying you give it a bit of a refresh. That said I would not be surprised if the ratings go downhill (due the format being tired and the fact that less eyeballs are seeing ads for it)

  6. I went to Puerto in Brisbane last Saturday night with my wife. We had a great meal although we both thought the portions were small.
    Maggie ( the mum) was a real character and she came over to talk to us and posed with us for some photos. It was a nice night out and there was certainly a lot of people waiting to get in.
    I wonder if it will remain popular if the show tanks.

  7. I am glad this is happening. There is a light at the end of the tunnel of this era of endless renovation and cooking shows from 7 and 9. Maybe they will follow 10’s lead from their very sucessful 2015 and actually provide us viewers with somthing different and take a risk with their 2016 programming.

  8. What a shame, Seven should have stuck to its guns. It would have built up over a few weeks I suspect, because Hotplate is such a carbon copy of MKR it’s not funny. I really loved My Restaurant Rules back in the day so it’s good to see it back in a tweaked format. It has all the elements of the original, building a restaurant from scratch, fitting it out and hiring staff, right through to the reality of actually running it with real customers. I hope people start warming to it because I have always preferred the format to MKR.

  10. I saw a couple of promos and took an instant dislike to RR. Indeed, I have almost completely lost faith in the commercial networks to aspire to produce anything beyond the mediocre. They seem to be treating their audiences and customers with contempt, rehashing the same tired formats and marketing them as the ‘next big thing’. If I was paying for TV advertising, I wouldn’t be happy at all.

  11. This is what happens when you stretch out a genre this far, having what should be two hours of content spread across four nights and cast stereotypical ‘characters’ rather than everyday people like Masterchef aims for. Nice to see it fail, and have some good numbers for TEN. The commercials were enough to confirm that I did not want to watch it.

  12. I can’t see it lasting another week in this format either. It would have made more sense to trim back to 1 or 2 short, sharp episodes. I doubt that Seven will launch The X Factor until The Voice is done after last year’s costly mistake.

  13. @cookie that’s actually a pretty good schedule.

    I reckon seven should’ve waited atleast another week. But coming back from 415k smh. Just great now HP will probably raise on RR’s days off sigh

  14. In my opinion (as a reno and cooking show tragic) 2 reasons rest rev and hot plate don’t work. 1. Fans of cooking shows just finished season of the slickly produced masterchef and need a break. 2. Rr and hp smacks of unoriginality and are lacking heart. To me it feels like the producers cobbled together aspects of other successful reality shows, served up the slop and expected a ratings winner from ‘gullible’ fans of the genre. Anyway that’s why I’m not watching.

  15. The big risk Seven has, is if X Factor auditions are brought into play earlier due to RR’s failure, there is a extreme possibility of a much longer head-to-head run with The Voice live shows.

    As “randwick” correctly predicted on this site’s Seven’s 2015 highlights piece post upfronts last year: “Restaurant revolution looks like an accident waiting to happen ….”

    That comment has become a self-fulfilling prophecy and unfortunately, Seven is paying for it badly.

  16. Seven can’t afford not to show it, but they don’t want it to destroy Winners and Losers or Criminal Minds.

    They will take their lumpy bits with double eps on Monday and Thursday when they aren’t doing very well anyway.

  17. I’m still yet to watch this weeks ep of winners and losers. The double episode that aired last Tuesday is putting me off and it looks like there are more doubles to come. 1hr Australian dramas are pretty much MIA and 7 are ruining theirs but burning it off in doubles. What a joke.

  18. Seven (and Nine come to think of it) need to look at their content, outside of news, no-one is watching much they have to offer. Perhaps ditch the cooking and reno shows and under-performing, tired soaps invest in some new Australian drama not solely aimed at 20-40 year old women.

  19. So nice to see when seven have a failure. Brings them back to earth given there programming has not been that good over the last few years.

    And ten are getting results. If they only had a quality news service with credibility between 6-7 that people wanted to watch they would be the number 1 network for the last few months. Maybe that is stage two of their growth.

    1. You mean like Ten tripling their investment in News and putting on a quality news current affairs by a serious journalist like George Negus between 6-7pm. It rated half what Nine and Seven’s news and current affairs did and less than repeats of the Simpsons.

      There is no room for a third news at 6pm.

      1. George negus was a terrible decision. He presented poorly and the production value was very basic. The point I make is ten will never be a high rating network with their news at 5pm. News constantly rates highly so there is high demand for it. For ten to ignore news puts too much pressure on their evening schedule to work. If ten are to be number 1 or a high second… They have to have a creditable news service between 6-7pm. It will not work immediately. But it has to happen if they have had enough of being placed third and fourth.

          1. Ten ‘frequently’ win 5-6pm by a lot smaller margin than they badly loose 6-7pm in in third place.
            And tens news experimentation between 6-6.30pm followed a 5-6pm full news service. Basically a repeat. This has to be long term thinking. It will not be an instant winner. Cause ten will never be a winning number 1 network again with current 6-7 pm content against high demand local news services.

          2. They may loose but their 6-7 numbers could be stronger then ever. Plus Family Feud and The Project commonly feature in the top 5 I the demos.

  20. I think Seven ruined this from the start. They were going around saying it was a revolution and nothing like this had been done before. I understand the name change, but this is just season 3 of My Restaurant Rules. I think they should have used the success of MRR and built on that. The shipping containers are a great idea. The problem is I think they’ve rushed everything. The reason MRR worked is we got to know the couples as they built the restaurant, picked staff and battled for money. It was also about 8 weeks in when the restaurants opened, which gave the restaurants and show better publicity. It’s been a rush to get to opening and we haven’t connected with the teams as we did in MRR. It should have only been on Monday and Thursday (MRR was Sunday / Thursday and that worked). I also think off the back of Masterchef and against Hot Plate it was always going to be a disaster.

  21. Why are they burning of W&L? They should leave Chicago Fire where it is. Unless season 5 will follow (which I doubt)? 7 seem to be in trouble. 9 are doing well thanks to prevent State of Origin numbers, The Ashes and The Voice. 7 has nothing exciting & better be careful when & where they launch 800 Words. 10 has also done really well. I’m glad they have had a good run of late.

  22. I don’t think this news is surprising and could have been predicted even before the show launched. What i find more interesting is the overall state of 7 – they haven’t been this weak for a long time. 7 news, Home & Away, Winners & Losers, MDM, The Blacklist – all failing to take off.

    On a side note, annoyed Hotel Hell has been taken off – i enjoyed that show!

  23. Why not make it consecutive days? Having such a gap between episodes will make me forgot. Especially as Home and Away is a double episode on Thursdays.

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