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Lego Masters leads entertainment as Big Brother slips

Nine won Tuesday just ahead of Seven, but returning reality juggernaut has its work cut out. Cheap Seats wins later slot.

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Big Brother has dropped in its second outing for Seven, with the network only just beaten by Nine for the night.

Lego Masters won the slot at 609,000 viewers and topped the demos.

That was comfortably ahead of MasterChef Australia (504,000), 7:30 (491,000) Big Brother (394,000), People’s Republic of Mallacoota (252,000) and Great British Railway Journeys (203,000).

Later The Cheap Seats (360,000) won for 10 then The Family Court Murders (290,000), Wild Territory (258,000), The Good Doctor (209,000) and Insight (145,000).

Nine network won 28.2% then Seven 27.2%, 10 19.4%, ABC 15.8% and SBS 9.3%.

Nine News (890,000 / 881,000) was best for Seven. A Current Affair won at 668,000 then Hot Seat (427,000 / 291,000) with Nine News Late at 165,000.

Seven News was #1 at 997,000 / 922,000 for Seven. The Chase won with 595,000 / 367,000 then Home & Away (500,000) and The Rookie (125,000).

The Project pulled 391,000 / 268,000 f0r 10. 10 News First was 287,000 / 235,000 with NCIS on 147,000.

ABC News drew 621,000. Louis Theroux’s Hidden America (158,000) and The Drum (154,000) followed.

On SBS it was  SBS World News (174,000 / 143,000), Mastermind (110,000), Dateline (108,000) and The Feed (61,000).

7mate’s Outback Opal Hunters led multichannels at 129,000.

Sunrise: 226,000
Today: 202,000
News Breakfast: 112,000  / 69,000.

In Total TV viewers last Tuesday were:

The Rookie: 424,000
NCIS: 318,000
Lego Masters: 1.04m
MasterChef: 738,000
Tiny Oz: 311,000

OzTAM Overnights: Tuesday 10 May 2022

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  1. Agree with all these comments for BB-

    Why have all these secret rooms for all stars?just bring contenders night one. All stars night two. Straight into the house.

    Editing is ridiculous. One of Josh’s sentences during eviction ceremony was highly edited when not on screen – merging sentences from different rooms. A sentence from eviction room then from somewhere else then back to eviction room. You could tell by the audio levels.

    We don’t need to plotted into a weird a** love story that is just ridiculous either. A lot of social media comments from housemates about Josh’s relationship building with Estelle and especially reggie and protecting her at all costs till the end. Shame we don’t get to see this stuff and just see strat chat more.

    Lastly what happened to one eviction per week after nominations and HOH. If you wanted to get some viewer loyalty, introduce this from night one – you know how much we hate this current format.

    End rant.

  2. I loved BB back in the day, even going to a few live evictions at Dreamworld including the finale that Reggie won. It was exciting TV, and unpredictable at times as evidenced by Merlin’s Free the Refugees protest. Now it just seems too manipulated and edited, and so the care factor goes down.

  3. Seven have clearly messed up with Big Brother. It should have been a complete All Stars season. Instead they give us this Josh and Sam crap and all these alpha infuriating men like Joel. I couldn’t care less for the majority of these newbies. They’ve made it unwatchable. Good job Channel 7. They should have put more effort into The Voice instead of all the culling they’ve done. Would have worked out better for them. They’re treating the fans of The Voice with so much disrespect.

  4. The success of BB was its live aspect. The new version fails cause it’s pre-recorded and highly edited. They turned it into a very product today. Half the fun was watching it live, seeing things as it happened.

  6. To me the problem with Big Brother is easily solved. Take the show back to one hour edited episodes, three times a week for starters like the US and Canada versions. Have the live feeds on 9now or whatever for the real diehards. Leave us wanting more BB instead of just wanting to go to bed through boredom. Drum it into the powers that be that it is not Survivor with those stupid challenges and we don’t need Sonia trying to act all serious asking silly questions like in a jury room for 15 minutes every night. Lastly don’t, please don’t bring evicted people back. Defeats the whole purpose of the show. If that doesn’t work, I don’t think anything ever will. Rant over !

  7. BB’s problem is it’s a tired brand trying to attract new eyes. The age group this show is pitched at aren’t watching FTA, and the superfans of the show are too busy lamenting the loss of the old live format. The question then remains, who is this production for?

    I’m going to generalise here a bit, but the same could be said about survivor and the bachelor. High quality productions for sure, but both are an old, tired format that’s really only watched by people who love the show, but both struggle to attract new fans. The diminishing ratings each season are testament to this I think.

    BB won’t recover from here, and the regular season will go the way of the VIP version.

    But having said that, even Lego Masters is down, and that’s a new format. All I know, is I’d hate to be in the FTA programming game.

    1. I think a big part of the equation is time – who has time to commit to a 2 hour broadcast (Ep 1 of BB ran from 7:30-9:30) 3-4 times a week for 8-10 weeks. Either people will watch online (fewer ads, lower time commitment, option to binge) or not at all.

      Contrast BBAus with BBCanada (43 min + ads on 7Plus, 3 eps a week), I am more intrigued in Can than Aus.

      Same with Survivor (Aus: 100 min broadcast, 3 eps a week. US: 60 min broadcast, once a week, Sth Africa: 55 min ep + ads on 10Play, once a week).

      And it doesn’t help that Aus shows are very bloated (30 secs of establishing shots after ads, obvious Diary Room comments that provide no game insight or engaging content (“to stay, I need to get votes on my side”, “this idol can keep me safe at tribal”, “I can make a big move with this nomination”, showcasing few people and leaving majority as background characters). I would love an action packed 90 min show, but not the fluff-filled show that the Aus shows currently provide.

      1. I couldn’t agree more with your comment. I used to watch a fair amount of Australian reality TV, but so far this year I’ve watched the start of two Australian reality shows and given up on them both pretty quickly. The main reason is too much content and poor editing. I’m not prepared to commit to long episodes night after night. I still watch US Survivor as it’s one night a week and gives me something to look forward to each Thursday. Other than that streaming is a god-send, with so much great content. I’ve re-discovered drama and i’m loving it!

  9. Big Brother is flopping now for a third time on a third network when most shows are usually afforded that honour once. Devastating impact too on Good Doctor, down 100k on last week.

    1. You’ve taken a wide view there… it was highly successful, then struggled, on both 10 and Nine -as is cyclical for most reality shows. First two seasons on Seven did well enough, but struggled with VIP. I don’t feel it can be summarised as you’ve worded.

      2. I agree it was a hit on all networks, largely Ten and to a lesser extent Seven and Nine. The numbers from now though suggest it is flopping. Down year on year, down night on night, fourth in timeslot means flop to me unless the 7plus figures are like 70-80% uplift on the overnights which I doubt they will be .

  10. Seven should be embarrassed that they’re prioritising Big Brother tonight, and not showing the final debate until after 9pm. It should have gone to the ABC, who would have shown it in primetime. I think it’s likely it would rate higher than what Big Brother currently is also.

    1. Fully agree , i bet they are hoping people will tune in from say 8.30 and stay till 9.10 PM , both networks have failed in this regard and would have been better on the ABC but they are too biased towards Labor.

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