Logies draws winning audience for Nine
Ratings: Nine's share for the night showed viewers were very much invested in TV's night of nights.
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Who said viewers don’t watch the TV Week Logie Awards?
Last night the show drew an average of 1.12m viewers across its four hour broadcast, with 1.06m watching the Red Carpet Arrivals. While those are averages for the extended broadcast, look no further than the evening share to see how significant it was in Sunday night viewing.
Nine network won with 37.1% then Seven 24.9%, TEN 17.3%, ABC 15.4% and SBS 5.3%.
Seven News was 1.23m for Seven then House Rules (864,000), Sunday Night (567,00).
Nine News drew 1.19m for Nine then the Logie Awards (1.12m) and Red Carpet Arrivals (1.06m).
MasterChef (905,000) was best for TEN followed by Modern Family (518,000 / 326,000) and Shark Tank (479,000). TEN Eyewitness News was 354,000.
Midsomer Murders (749,000), Grand Designs (746,000) and ABC News (717,000) comprised ABC’s night. Compass was 232,000.
On SBS it was Secrets of the Colosseum (216,000), SBS World News (150,000), World War One at Sea (127,000) and The Eichmann Show (122,000).
GO!’s movie Alvin and the Chipmunks topped multichannels with 208,000.
OzTAM Overnights: Sunday 8 May 2016
27 Responses
Logies go waaaay too long. No reason for a midnight finish after a 7.30pm start. It needs to move quicker – too much time on performances, talking to the Gold nominees, long intros to some of the awards, too long on Noni, etc.
I started playing my recording at 8.30 and had already caught up to live by just after 10 just by fast forwarding unnecessary bits.
Majority of tweets after 11pm were all along the lines of “when will this show end?”.
My favourite tweet though: Logies Director: “Everyone’s falling asleep! Quick, get Barnesy to shout at everyone!” (around 11.15pm when Jimmy Barnes was on!)
This year’s Logies seemed much better than recent years – of course way too long though.
Gee, The ABC did well – they really cleaned up with multiple awards, especially for their dramas.
Ten also did well – pleased to see Gogglebox and The Living Room win.
Good to see Alex Dimitriades finally receive the recognition he deserves – such a brilliant actor.
Best and funniest Logies in years! Pete Hilliar and Kitty Flanagan should host the whole thing next year.
Absolutely agree with this suggestion!!!
I watched the Logoes right to end. I thought it was a classy show for the most part (except for some swear word slips). The big question for me is who was the young boy with Lee Lin Chin? He was up way way past his bed time.
I presume it was her grandchild?
On the red carpet her said he was her date for the evening. Didn’t look like he could be her grandchild.
I thought the Logies this year was one I’ve watched in recent time. Because it was broadcasted in HD helped.
All the performances were awesome (everybody should be happy that there was no international performance this year)
JuliaMorris was fantastic as always. In my opinion she should host it next year.
Here’s how I would do it for next year;
NineNews: 6-6.30pm
Logies RedCarpet: 6.30pm-7pm
Logies: 7pm-11pm.
Hosted: Julia Morris and Shane Jacobsen
RedCarpet Host: Same as this year
P.S. Karl,Lisa and Slyvia were good on the Red Carpet and I liked what ShaneJacobsen did in the audience.
I watched The Spoils Before Dying on SBS2. It was pretty entertaining – lots of purposely-included cliches and tropes, corny dialogue, hammy acting, and not-quite-right singing with weird hokey lyrics.
I was pleasantly surprised to see that Michael Kenneth Williams was in it (and Haley Joel Osment whom I didn’t recognise until I saw the credits). Kristen Wiig was good again.
Strange that it ended up on SBS-the first related series ‘Spoils of Babylon’ was on ABC 2 last year.
Oh yeah. So it was.
I’m sorry I just don’t get why you would sacrifice the first episode of The Shark Tank on Logie’s night? Plus whoever has all that time and resources to get the Logies produced still can’t get the timing right. Finishing on midnight is a joke.
The Noni taped tribute went on far too long before her very long speech. Really , don’t the producers have the power to cut these things ? It was hardly off the cuff…
This is probably the first year in a long time that I didn’t watch any of the logies. I just didn’t see the point. What’s their to celebrate anyway. Extra news, heaps of reality and the odd australian drama that graces at screen post 9pm on the commercial f.t.a. Sadly at the moment only one channel has a 1 hour weekly australian drama and thats the abc. Its kind of sad to look at in particular what commerical free to air has become.
I’m pretty sure janet king finishes this week and I may have missed the article but does anyone know what drama abc has plans to air next week in its place? I hope its something I’m interested in.
Just checked and Rake starts next week. Not a show i watch so no 1 hour australian weekly drama for me from next week.
@ tvf I am a positive person and know that you have been in the past! But I agree that the state of Aussie drama is sad!
I like the short 8 week series, but that limits the number of episodes we get to engage with the characters!
Winners and Losers may be the last Aussie drama to have had 22 episodes for a season (their final season is only 13)! Outside of weekly series like Neighbours & H&A.
Does the news count as local content because I see it as lazy programming!
Thanks for your thoughts.
State of drama may not be perfect but I don’t think sad is the right word. There is a lot in production, including a lot of genres (a paranormal series just won a Drama award). Yes news counts as local content, so does sport. But there is a separate Drama content requirement.
Fair point David. Perhaps I should have said: I think it is sad that in Australia there isn’t enough drama telling Australian stories during the whole ratings period!
I think sad is the might be the right word. 7, 9 and 10 have not aired a 1 hour weekly drama this year and its may. They’ve had 3 months. Yes 7 aired a 2 part biographical telemovie and 9 aired a 6 week comedy but they are not 1 hour weekly fictional dramas. When they do finally air something it will probably be post 9pm anyway. Abc is doing the right thing with dedicating thursday to aussie drama but the next 2 rake doesn’t interest and cleverman promo just didn’t look appealing. To a viewer it looks like production isn’t translating to screentime.
I agree Nine and TEN have been late with local dramas. Seven aired Wanted.
Correction to my previous comment. 7 has aired a 1 hour fictional drama this year which I forgot about. So its 9 and 10 that haven’t. I forgot about wanted but I guess it was kind of forgettable and it was only 6 episodes.
Yes, disappointing about Shark Tank. I intended to watch but then got sucked in to Midsomer Murders with the half an hour headstart. Hopefully it will build without the Logies next week. Ten have plenty of other things to crow about this morning anyway.
Man shark tank was getting a lot higher figures last year. Would Ten be happy with those ratings?
That was defo an improved Logies telecast from previous years…. Of course there were some cringe worthy moments, mainly from actors who cant ab lib if their lives depended on it.
But at almost 4 and a half hours they really need to look at trimming it down for future years…
The Logies broadcast was real cringeworthy, car crash TV, but thats to be expected considering the awards are pretty much a joke.
But you have to admit they somehow manage to get worse every year. Who would have thought it possible?!
Loved Shark Tank as well. Should have gotten better ratings in my view.
Geez Shark Tank returned with a strong episode. It’s become an extremely enjoyable show.