Tough sell on Pilot Week, but viewers enjoy new comedy.
Ratings: It had a big lead-in but at least those who stayed to sample a new sitcom seemed to like it.
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TV is a tough game.
Last night new sitcom Part Time Private Eyes enjoyed a big lead-in from Australian Survivor of 809,000 but while it drew strong feedback on social media there was a big chunk of the audience that wasn’t even going to stick around to sample it.
The comedy drew 344,000 viewers -much better than Sydney’s Crazy Rich Asians– landing third in its slot. Will I Am Roxy fare any better tonight?
The Block won its slot with 968,000 followed by Australian Survivor then 7:30 (503,000), Dogs Behaving Very Badly (421,000) and Foreign Correspondent (390,000) all followed.
Old People’s Home for 4 Year Olds (657,000) won against Seachange (550,000). An episode of The Proposal with a bisexual single only drew 252,000, fourth in its slot.
Elsewhere News Breakfast: 136,000 / 47,000, a total of 183,000, was breathing down the neck of Today on 196,000. Sunrise easily won at a cool 293,000.
Nine network won Tuesday with 30.9% then Seven 25.5%, 10 18.8%, ABC 17.6% and SBS 7.2%.
Nine News (981,000 / 900,000) was best for Nine. A Current Affair was 819,000 and Hot Seat was 465,000 / 276,000 and Decades (241,000).
Seven News was #1 with 1.05m / 955,000 for Seven then Home and Away (660,000) and The Chase (597,000 / 347,000). Ramsay’s 24 Hours to Hell and Back was just 151,000.
The Project was 479,000 / for 10 then 10 News First (382,000). Celebrity Name Game was 220,000 and NCIS was 153,000.
ABC News (654,000), Louis Theroux (316,000) and The Drum (176,000) comprised ABC’s remaining shows.
On SBS it was Britain’s Most Historic Towns (220,000), Insight (146,000), SBS World News (126,000), Dateline (118,000) and Mastermind (65,000).
Peppa Pig pounced on multichannels at 183,000.
OzTAM Overnights: Tuesday 10 September 2019.
- Tagged with 10 News First, 7:30, A Current Affair, ABC News, Australian Survivor, Britain's Most Historic Towns, Celebrity Name Game, Dateline, Decades, Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly, Foreign Correspondent, Home and Away, Hot Seat, I Am Roxy, Insight, Louis Theroux, Mastermind, NCIS, News Breakfast, Nine News, Old People’s Home for 4 Year Olds, Part Time Private Eyes, Peppa Pig, Ramsay's 24 Hours to Hell and Back, SBS World News, SeaChange, Seven News, Sunrise, The Block, The Chase, The Drum, The Project, The Proposal, Today
16 Responses
Enjoyed Part Time Private Eyes, was a bit of lite fun, was also good that it was half an hour and not stretched out to an hour.
Part-Time Private Eyes had lots of laughs packed into half an hour. I hope Ten give it a full series run.
It was an annoying piece of rubbish! Poor story, terrible script and the most annoying cast I’ve encountered in a long time.
Petition for 10 to bring back Audrey’s kitchen!
Replying to Angela below
Or the ABC. Loved Audrey’s Kitchen.
Actually,i don’t mind The Proposal,but unfortunately on those numbers it may not be around for too much longer.
Didn’t mind Part Time Private Eyes but yes, very flimsy plot.
I actually found the fart scene where they were hiding in the wardrobe the highlight and only really funny bit which doesn’t say much for the rest of the show !
I do like Heidi Arena though – she was brilliant in ‘Audrey’s Kitchen.’
How many shows from last year have actually aired with success? hmm…
People must remember as a pilot the budget would be minimal. I applaude 10 coming up with the concept, at least they are giving us the opportunity to sample new shows.
‘No budget’ shouldn’t mean ‘no ideas’-and a pilot should be developed before actually being green lit and made.
Part Time Private Eyes had a wafer-thin plot (seriously, a guy gets his teeth fixed – that was the best idea they could come up with for the pilot?) and no actual jokes, but at least it managed to avoid everyone swearing at each other very loudly, which is how most Oz comedies attempt humour.
If you look up a list of successful comedies, i think you’ll find ‘wafer thin’ has quite the place…
Indeed isn’t the golden rule of comedy that nothing should ever really change.
Certainly the rule of sitcom is that the characters never learn and we end up back at the beginning. Gilligan never gets off the island. The Hillbillies never shake off their roots. Hyacinth never drops her standards. Once you do these, the show is over. Simple works in sitcom, but you can have layers….
Survivor was great again last night , I stuck around for Part Time Private Eyes but wouldn’t bother again.