
Bachelorette tops demos, Seven wins quiet Thursday.
Ratings: Big Bang, Bachelorette and Home & Away top the entertainment pile -but all are under 700,000.
- Published by David Knox
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It was another quiet Thursday with no entertainment show rising above 700,000 -once a figure that would spell the axe in primetime.
But viewing has fragmented and on a quiet weeknight shows like The Big Bang Theory, The Bachelorette and Home and Away sit at the top of the entertainment pile with numbers above 680,000.
The Bachelorette topped all three Demos, followed by Big Bang. Home and Away followed in the younger Demos.
Seven News and ABC News both won their slots.
There wasn’t much more to get excited about other than the results of the US Presidential Debate. Here’s how they stacked up (incl. repeats on ABC):
Seven: 202,000
Nine: 172,000
ABC / ABC News 24: 152,000 / 109,000 / 102,000 / 12,000
SBS: 38,000
Seven network won Thursday with 28.3% then Nine 25.1%, TEN 21.5%, ABC 17.9% and SBS 7.2%.
Seven News was #1 with 938,000 / 882,000 for Seven then Home and Away (680,000), The Chase (574,000 / 396,000), World’s Angriest (413,000) and Movie: Guardians of the Galaxy (296,000).
Nine News (808,000 / 781,000) led for Nine followed by The Big Bang Theory (694,000 / 670,000), A Current Affair (663,000) and Better Late Than Never (479,000). A Donald Trump Roast sank to just 206,000. Survivor is off the grid at a paltry 68,000.
The Bachelorette (692,000) was best on TEN. The Project drew 539,000 /364,000. Law and Order: SVU returned to 445,000. TEN Eyewitness News was 383,000. A Wrong Girl repeat drew just 150,000.
ABC News won its slot with 732,000 for ABC then 7:30 (661,000), Silvia’s Italian Table (495,000), National Treasure (336,000), Pointless (261,000) and The Tunnel (245,000).
On SBS it was Luke Nguyen’s Street Food Asia (233,000), For the Love of Meat with Matthew Evans (230,000), My Restaurant in India (177,000), SBS World News (149,000) and Outlander (130,000).
Hey Duggee on ABC2 topped multichannels with 245,000.
OzTAM Overnights: Thursday 20 October 2016
- Tagged with 7:30, A Current Affair, ABC News, Better Late Than Never, Donald Trump Roast, For the Love of Meat with Matthew Evans, Hey Duggee, Home and Away, Law and Order: SVU, Luke Nguyen's Street Food Asia, My Restaurant In India, National Treasure, Nine News, Outlander, Pointless, SBS World News, Seven News, Silvia’s Italian Table, Survivor, TEN Eyewitness News, The Bachelorette, The Big Bang Theory, The Chase, The Project, The Tunnel, The Wrong Girl, US Presidential Debate, World's Angriest
16 Responses
How hard is it to update an Epg? Set the recorder for law and order and ended up with a repeat of the right girl
Ten really need to invest in their news service because those numbers are just plain bad.
Ten need to find a high profile newsreader like Peter Overton in Sydney and broadcast a national half hour service and then regional or city half hour news. Still have an hour but focus it more. Local news at 5pm then national at 5.30pm
I would have thought Ms. Sully was entirely high profile? They tried local half hour not so long ago.
They tried it at 6pm and they will never break 9 or 7 in this slot.
So glad to see Outlander on FTA. I hope it manages to find a solid audience amongst the few people who didn’t move heaven and earth to see it before.
Why in the world did 9 move Survivor to 11 pm? Outside of the utter contempt they show viewers that is…
So the Trump Roast was well under half of its lead-in and down on last week’s Shatner one. Both less than what US Survivor was getting. Well-played, Nine.
Silvia’s Italian Table is a real gem and I want to thank ABC for making his great little series.
Has Survivor been bumped to 9GO? On 9NOW today it comes up as a 9GO show? Can we hope for a 7:30 slot now? Not hoping for too much.
No.
But it should be. It should have never left Go!
Numbers for The Chase, TEN News and Family Feud seem to be quite low now.
I’ve noticed this too lately for a few weeks. I guess it just afternoon viewing habits have changed and plus it’s daylight savings time too.
David, any thoughts?
The Chase is still winning. Winter numbers are always higher for TV.
I have to agree there, numbers for Top 20 have been down recently overall. The Chase is consistently beating Hot Seat. Everyone is outside in the sun in the afternoon and viewing catch-up TV later.