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Viewers dive into Holey Moley

Ratings: Seven wins first round as Holey Moley defeats MAFS and Amazing Race.

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Seven’s brash news mini-golf extravaganza Holey Moley has launched to 983,000 metro viewers on Monday, in a heated TV war.

It beat out Nine’s Married at First Sight: Grand Reunion on 781,000 and the return of The Amazing Race Australia on 501,000.

10’s heavily promoted reality race was fourth in its slot behind ABC’s 7:30 (577,000) and Four Corners (576,000).

Seven’s new mini-golf show, produced by Eureka, also topped the demos and helped Seven to a 29.7% win. Nine followed at 28.5% then 10 17.9%, ABC 16.7% and SBS 7.2%.

Seven News topped the night at 1.04m.

2021 survey officially begins this Sunday.

OzTAM Overnights: Monday 1 February 2021

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  1. So Graham from tonight’s Holey Moley is a serial game show contestant – I’ve seen him on Blind Date (Julia Morris hosted) and First Dates Australia!! Now Holey Moley!

  2. So here we are communally talking about another cheap “repeating-loop” game show. A program getting oxygen where we should be enjoying a quality drama or similar – where writers, directors, cast and crew show their best. Seriously – now watching a few people play mini golf? The dumbing down of public airwaves is almost totally complete. Thankfully, unlike the past, we can put the computer on the big screen and go elsewhere.

    1. A few points on this…. The End got a 4.5 star review and Daily Pick on TVT today. Aussie cast and crew at their finest, check it out. But serials aside you won’t see a drama at 7:30 on any of the primary channels given it isn’t 2002 anymore. Some will sit in slots after 8:30, including Harrow on Sunday and soon Amazing Grace (ABC also has Aftertaste comedy on Wednesday). Seven has been pretty burnt with recent drama outings, but in the end it comes down to what viewers watch. Viewers have demonstrated an appetite for early evening Reality and prefer to timeshift dramas without ads.

      1. Appreciate you pointing me to The End – will check it out! Just finding my tastes and the current offerings in most timeslots, after many years, have nothing in common. Freedom is being able to look elsewhere, thankfully many more sources around now. I guess HM 983,000 metro viewers available from 16.5 million (66% of us live in metro cities – source: McCrindle) means a lot of people have made a similar choice given the many alternatives. Somebody, one day, might be able to turn these industry numbers around! I suggest overall that quality might have something to do with it.

      2. See I find part of the issue is viewers have been burnt over many years waiting for their favourite drama to start at 8.30 or 9pm but then have to wait around for an extra 15 to 20 minutes to actually see the show. So the viewer becomes annoyed and when the favourite drama finishes they chose not to watch the next drama offering because of the bad experience from the network.

        1. That doesn’t help, as does irregular airing of episodes and 20+ minutes of ads and promos in each episode.

          Viewers have actually shown a preference for the back catalogues, kids tv and premium shows on Netflix and Disney+, and the networks streaming services. They have all shown rapid growth from a base of zero, while TV audiences are falling 13% year on year (though slowed in 2020 with Covid restrictions and declining employment). Constest shows are beating drama and comedies in viewing (and in the case of MAFS in streaming as well).

  3. Yeah, all three shows are probably too long…

    Anyways, for TARA I think that the 30 minute penalty was fine for watch was meant to be a smaller challenge on that leg of the race: penalties are usually only 2 hours long for detours and six hours long for roadblocks.

    1. I think you are mistaken

      It’s usually 2 hours for an unmarked challenge (which that task was), 4 hour for Roadblocks, 6 hours for detours.

      30 minutes is only used for minor errors (mistakenly used the wrong form of transport or improperly completed task)

  4. Celebrity Dog School was 60 minutes and not strip programming. It failed.

    To those that wish to see weekly shows and shows kept to 60 minutes or less, please see above. Thankyou.

  7. I usually record the show I know I want to watch (so I can see every minute without interruption) and watch the doubtful one live. Last night TAR was recorded, and HM watched live.

    I didn’t really enjoy HM. There wasn’t enough minigolf with all the challenge holes achievable in one or two shots. When playing myself I really dislike the holes where getting the ball into a section guarantees the ball goes to the hole. There were too many of them, and too much squealing/jumping around/back stories. The best part was Matt Shirvington, whose straight man was so much funnier than the import.

    What a relief to watch TAR. We (Aus) do it differently to the US version but I find that refreshing. It is so much less pretentious and more funny. It was long, but I think you need that at the start when there are so many teams. Maybe 11 teams rather than 14 would have been wise.

  8. Just an observation – Holy Moly had two very attractive female contestants in short mini skirts for eye candy, but no equivalent male contestants. All the blokes were “characters” (farmer, funny fat guy, real estate tycoon). Hope the casting shows a little more variety in future.

  11. Not going to lie here, I struggled with The Amazing Race last night. It was too drawn out i feel. 90 minute episodes of TARA doesn’t work. I felt that last season on 10 too. I love the quick pace episodes. I’m kind of sick of Australian networks trying to draw out shows for longer episodes. Keep it to standard. I know it was night one but if thats what we’re to expect all season, i might not last.

    1. Looks like launch week they’re all going for 90 minute episodes, Amazing Race and Holey. Way to drawn out but you can see their trying to fill their schedules, not the best idea if people turn off or don’t commit to 90 minute 3-4 episodes a week. At least TARA back to 1 hour next Monday.

  12. I am hoping not all episodes of the amazing race have been edited to 90 minutes. It is a bit too long,
    60 -70 minutes would be more ideal. Also, not sure why on earth the team who quit the ball challenge were only penalised 30 minutes. The time penalty in the US version is normally 2 hours if the team doesn’t complete one of the challenges. They ended up being rewarded for taking the time penalty and saved time by not having to complete the challenge when they should really have been eliminated. The whole purpose of the time penalty is to penalise the team. 30 minutes is a ridiculous time frame for the penalty when it took a number of the other teams longer than this to complete the challenge.

    1. I just finished watching the replay and t’s been a long show ,it appears from Monday that it’s about an hour on the EPG so that’s probably a better watch I hope.

    2. Exactly what was up with the 30 minute penalty in TAR, way to low, standard international rules is 2 or 4 hour penalties for skipping a task, one team took an hour and a half in the needle in the haystack challenge they might as well have quit and taken a 30 minute penalty and saved themselves an hour as well.

    3. Agree with all that you said. I was angered by the weak 30 min penalty. I wonder if the team knew this when they quit the challenge. I’d skip most of the challenges for only a 30 min penalty. 2 hours is much more of a punishment and rightfully would have seen that weak team eliminated.
      I think the eps will gradually get shorter from next week as there are less teams each ep.

    4. I am pretty sure I heard Beau say that they were “timed out” (at the mat). I presumed that meant that the crew said “enough” and told them to take the penalty. I didn’t mind the 30 minutes but only because the eliminated team were so annoying – I was glad to see the back of them.

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