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Old People’s Home for Teenagers wins slot for ABC

Seven News, ACA, The Block and Old People's Home all on top, Nine wins Tuesday.

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Old People’s Home for Teenagers debuted last night, down on editions with 4 Year Olds but enough to claim its timeslot nonetheless.

The Block again led entertainment at 777,000 metro viewers, well ahead of 7:30 (487,000), MKR (478,000),  Great Southern Landscapes (334,000) and The Amazing Race Australia (316,000).

Old People’s Home for Teenagers led with 394,000 then The Hundred with Andy Lee (328,000) and The Cheap Seats (268,000).

Nine network won Tuesday with 30.2% then Seven 27.0%, ABC 18.2%, 10 16.7% and SBS 8.0%.

Nine News (844,000 / 813,000) was best for Nine then A Current Affair (697,000) and Hot Seat (373,000 / 232,000). True Story with Hamish & Andy replayed to 187,000 / 142,000.

Seven News was 31 with 897,000 / 895,000 for Seven. The Chase led with 493,000 / 304,000. Home & Away was 475,000. Harry Palmer: The Ipcress File managed 133,000 / 95,000.

ABC News drew 582,000. Science of Drugs with Richard Roxburgh (205,000) and The Drum (182,000) followed.

The Project pulled 316,000 / 212,000 for 10. 10 News First was 300,000 / 211,000. NCIS was 108,000.

On SBS it was Great Coastal Railway Journeys (164,000), Insight (125,000), SBS World News (123,000 / 107,000), Dateline (83,000).

Outback Opal Hunters on 7mate led multichannels at 113,000.

Sunrise: 214,000
Today: 204,000
News Breakfast: 118,000 / 54,000

In Total TV viewers last Tuesday were:

Harry Palmer: The Ipcress File: 345,000
The Block: 1.34m
MKR: 917,000
The Masked Singer: 753,000
Great Southern Landscapes: 544,000

OzTAM Overnights: Tuesday 30 August 2022

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      1. yes i know but maybe people are getting tired of it, and also there is more & more alternate viewing offerings than ever before. I also felt the TAR promos especially from last week were extra annoying, so perhaps old fans watched but it gained no new ones partly due to that. Or maybe the show just wasn’t as good as previous seasons. Another factor maybe that Hunted played recently, there are some similarities with TAR & people just don’t have time to watch everything.

  2. Once networks start moving shows around I quickly lose interest….as I have stated before….I do not want to have go hunting for shows….

  3. The problem with The Amazing Race is its 30 minutes too long. Unfortunately Australian TV networks have a habit of doing this though. They just drag and drag instead of being tight episodes. Some shows just need to stick with a 60 minute formula. The Amazing Race is one of these shows.

  4. I’d been watching The Masked Singer. It’s amazing how the lead in does count as I’d forgotten about The Cheap Seats last night and was streaming cause I ain’t got time for The Amazing Race and after almost two decades of cooking and building on FTA it appears this quarter streaming wins in our house. Hope the poor lead in doesn’t continue to see a ratings decline for Cheap Seats. I’ll have to watch it on 10 Play this evening.

  5. Channel 10 already have a competitive lineup on Monday and Tuesday nights with HYPBA & The Cheap seats starting after their 7:30 pm reality show. There was no need for them to be pushed back to 9 pm just for 90 minute drawn out episodes of The Amazing Race to air beforehand. I watch The Cheap Seats every week, but chose not to last night due to its extra late start. Looking at the audience numbers, it appears I wasn’t the only one.

  6. It wasn’t very long ago that The Cheap Seats was winning its timeslot – now it’s No.3.

    A casualty of endless reruns during the week – people figure they’ll catch it at some later date.

    And several No.3 or 4’s during the week are better than one big No. 1.

    2. ‘A casualty of endless reruns during the week’ …yes this, i’ve said many times that i think too many or even any ‘encores’ of a show means first run ratings will suffer. Perhaps if they get enough people watching the encore’s though then the overall rating will be high anyway *shrug*

  7. If you looked at the timing of the slot for Old People’s Home (2030-2133) and ran these times against other Networks it was actually in 3rd spot.
    Seven were 1st with combo MKR/Ipcress File
    Nine were 2nd with combo Block/The Hundred
    ABC were third.

    It’d be reasonable to say OPHFT did well but ‘slot winner’ is drawing a long bow.

    1. Thanks for feedback. As the days of strictly adhering to 60 and 30 min shows are no more, the alternative is to no longer compare any shows in analysis (which frankly would free up a fair bit of time at my end). The story clearly indicates Block and MKR numbers as higher, but OPH was the highest show to debut from 8:30 onwards. I realise you have allegiances at Seven, based on your long history of comments, so you may have more minute to minute numbers than the rankings OzTAM supply me.

      1. To be fair, my comment doesn’t have any leanings to which Network I prefer to watch.
        If you call out OPH as a slot winner/leader, that was incorrect.
        If you want to call out ‘the highest show to debut after 8.30’ then that would be correct, but you should add this detail to your story.
        I’d suggest your headline of ‘Old People’s Home for Teenagers wins slot for ABC’ is misleading.

        1. Your objection is noted. But actually the headline is correct. OPH ran from 8:30 – 9:30 and none of those shows you mentioned did. So you can see how complex this becomes and why I’ve landed on current editorial appraoch. It used to be a lot easier when networks stuck to 7:30 / 8 / 8:30 / 9 etc. Also OzTAM has Block and Hundred as higher than MKR and Harry Palmer, can you link me to numbers you’re drawing on?

          1. Whilst OPH aired between 8.31 and 9.33, Nine had 10 minutes of The Block and 52 minutes of The Hundred.
            Seven had MKR running to 9.20 so was 49 minutes of MKR and just 13 minutes of Harry Palmer.
            Seven wins the OPH slot because it was almost 80% MKR audience numbers.

            I can understand why you’ve chosen this editorial approach but I disagree that the headline is correct.
            Because the program timings don’t exactly match up shouldn’t exclude other titles from the slot.

          2. You’re effectively advocating no more comparing of any shows outside of say, game shows and news that stick to strict timings. It’s just not practical. Can you link me to the numbers that put MKR / Palmer above Block / Hundred?

          3. The only real way to sort out this argument would be to look at 15 minute block ratings (11 or 12 years ago when writing for Throng I got sent one of these reports by mistake by one of the networks, was very interesting reading!) which shows how many are watching each channel in 15 minute blocks (like 8.30-8.45, etc) regardless of the show that is on.

            People have to bear in mind that the overnight ratings listed here are the average for the whole show, and, as we can see from split ratings like the 5pm game shows, the 6pm news for example, two halves of a show can be very different to each other in terms of ratings. Who’s to say that wasn’t the case more MKR? More watched the first half than the second half, or vise versa?

          4. True. I don’t have that info readily either, so not being a mind reader I have to take OzTAM at face value and arrive at something workable. But I once had a network release that said their show won a timeslot despite another outranking it in OzTAM. When I queried it I was told something like, “Ours was the only show that ran from 7:31 – 9:17 so it won” despite another show higher overall at 7:30. But I’m definitely not a believer in adding two separate shows to claim a win. The shares can reflect that kind of overall performance.

  8. HOw many people watched the US Open on GEM? I haven’t watched the final few hours of the US open coverage, but I feel that the hosts look quite tired at the end of the telecast.

    1. I’ve been watching on Stan Sport. So much better than the ESPN Foxtel coverage. Stan is more about the matches than the chit chat with the personalities.

  9. It’s really not looking good for The Amazing Race Australia. If, by some miracle, the numbers are enough to secure a season next year, I think they’ll need to go back to weekly 60 minute episodes, similar to how The Amazing Race US and The Amazing Race Canada do things…

  10. Not too surprised by the drop in viewers for the Amazing Race. Needs to be trimmed to 60 minutes, plus the 30 minute time penalty is a joke. You would be better off skipping tasks and taking the time penalty to get ahead as some of the tasks clearly look to be taking longer to complete. The whole point of the penalty is to put the team at a disadvantage, not help them skip ahead of other teams. The US version time penalty is 4 hours.

    1. Was thinking the same thing, better off skipping the tasks and taking the 30 minute penalty especially the longer tasks or ones where you have to wait your turn, seems way out of whack and should be like other countries and be hours at least so it is actually a penalty.

  12. So TAR drops 145K in it’s second episode ,that does not bode well for the rest of the series let alone another series next year.
    It does look like they are heading towards shorter episodes but the damage looks to be done.

    1. Yes, they lost nearly 30% of the viewers from episode 1. As for shorter episodes, that will be next Monday, after 4 x90 minutes episodes.
      I know we live in the land of streaming and PVR’s but I do not know how people can commit to 4.5 hours of TV for one show over three nights. I haven’t even started watching TAR-AU yet…..

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