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First Dates tops demos as Seven wins Tuesday

Ratings: The Block wins its slot in Total People but not in the Demos. Jamie Oliver flops for TEN.

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Given Nine’s brass takes the view that Demos are more important than Total People, it won’t be happy tat The Block was pipped in all 3 demos by First Dates last night.

That’s despite The Block winning its timeslot in Total People. But it is rare for the show not to win its Demos, save for another show’s finale. Jamie Oliver flopped for TEN scoring a dismal 379,000 in 4th place.

Gold Coast Medical pipped Unreal Estate while Streets of Your Town debuted ahead of Todd Sampson’s Bodyhack.

Seven News and ABC News won their slots.

Despite Nine winning primary channels, Seven network won Tuesday with 30.0% then Nine 28.5%, TEN 18.1%, ABC 16.9% and SBS 6.6%.

Seven News was #1 with 1.02m / 970,000 for Seven then First Dates (854,000), Home and Away (705,000), The Chase (580,000 / 378,000) and Gold Coast Medical (566,000). Cold Feet drew 293,000.

Nine News (997,000 / 927,000) led for Nine then The Block (897,000), A Current Affair (784,000), Unreal Estate (525,000) and Hot Seat (507,000). An Hour to Save Your Life was 276,000.

The Project (577,000 / 423,000) was best for TEN. TEN Eyewitness News drew 463,000, Todd Sampson’s Bodyhack was 450,000, Jamie’s Super Food Family Classics was 379,000 and NCIS: Los Angeles was 291,000.

ABC News (803,000), 7:30 (607,000), Catalyst (513,000), Streets of Your Town (464,000), Pointless (274,000) and Mambo: Art Irritates Life (267,000) comprised ABC’s night.

On SBS it was Insight (306,000), Who Do You Think You Are? (240,000), Dateline (205,000) and SBS World News (136,000).

7mate’s Highway Patrol topped multichannels with 243,000.

The Morning Show: 164,000 / 110,000
Today Extra: 109,000 / 71,000
Studio 10: 91,000 / 50,000

OzTAM Overnights: Tuesday 8 November 2016

6 Responses

  1. Somehow Jamie just isn’t quite working this time. His style and vocabulary get very repetitive after more than one episode, and I am finding that his recipes feel wintery and too heavy for this time of year. And he uses a lot of ingredients which might be common in the UK, but are weird here.

  2. TEN is still running summer filler programming a few weeks early! Seven made a good tactical move it seems in rushing First Dates forward to boost its demo performance.

    1. Yeah, I think TEN were left with no ideas after Aus Survivor finished early, with 3 instead of 2 eps a week. Killing time until the BBL, but still more than a month to go. I think at the upfronts they mentioned having local content at 7.30 for the whole ratings period, so to avoid the ‘filler’ programs (like now) and the gaps between key shows starting and ending, like I’m A Celeb and Masterchef.

          1. $$$ It would be better spent on another genre, but I would switch on for the babes in BnG and their various ‘eye candy’ outfits..

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