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Stormy seas as Real Love Boat launches low for 10

10's new dating series had a tough first night, landing 4th in its slot with The Block triple its audience.

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10’s new dating series The Real Love Boat looks to be headed for rough ratings seas, premiering last night to just 215,000 metro viewers -fourth in its timeslot.

The Block still led the pack at 74000 -more than three times the audience- outranking Hard Quiz (549,000), 7:30 (504,000), and Highway Patrol (305,000 / 180,000).

Later Question Everything led with 415,000, followed by Summer Love (226,000),  My Life as a Rolling Stone (191,000)  and Air Crash Investigations (190,000).

Nine network won Wednesday with 31.9% then Seven 24.8%, ABC 18.2%, 10  15.3% and SBS 9.8%.

Nine News (795,000 / 784,000) was best for Nine then A Current Affair (634,000) and Hot Seat (322,000 / 206,000).

Seven News was #1 at 887,000 / 881,000 for Seven. The Chase led with 477,000 / 318,000 then Home & Away (493,000).  The Amazing Race pulled 85,000.

ABC News was 565,000 for ABC. The Drum (138,000) and Would I Lie To You? (195,000) followed.

The Project drew 306,000 / 196,000 for 10. 10 News First was 248,000 / 170,000. My Life is Murder was 138,000 while Bull managed 89,000.

On SBS it was SBS World News (151,000 / 121,000), The Australian Wars (147,000), and a double dose of  Nine Perfect Strangers (123,000).

Bluey led multichannels at 116,000.

Sunrise: 225,000
Today: 191,000
News Breakfast: 107,000 / 72,000

Total TV viewers for last Wednesday were:

The Australian Wars:  335,000
The Amazing Race Straya: 595,000
The Block: 1.38m
Summer Love: 399,000
Home & Away: 850,000

OzTAM Overnights: Wednesday 5 October 2022

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  1. I received an email offering me an exclusive preview ahead of the TV showing….but I am afraid even that did not tempt me….the ads were enough of a turnoff ….but then I am not young…

  2. Good, Ten do not deserve higher ratings due to their predictable, lazy and unoriginal production of this show! Ok its only one episode in but they could have made this show with some point of difference from other dating shows, admittedly i only saw the promos & about 1/2 hr of the show but see no originality so far. They could have made it more fun by eg using some of the boat theme in games for the contestants like…..no no, i am not going to give any producers reading this free ideas lol.

    I honestly do not know if that would result in higher ratings but at least they could say they really tried something new. Ten even managed to ruin ‘First Dates Australia’ which was imho a really fun show for the most part when it was on 7.

  4. Predictable. This felt like an inevitable flop the moment it was announced and even more so as details (or lack of) emerged.

    Feels like a format forced on 10 by CBS, similar to The Challenge which will inevitably flop as well.

  9. Have to give credit to channel 10. There trying new things, yes their failing but at least there trying. Also let not forget, for some reason channel 10 always fighting an up hill battle, compare to the other stations.

  11. Channel 10 will not lose any sleep on the response to The Real Love Boat.

    They receive money/”benefits” from the cruise liner to do this semi-advertorial show – whatever the ratings.

    308,000 last Tuesday for the far costlier The Amazing Race Australia – that’s another story.

  13. Oh it was on last night? There you see, without Neighbours, I’m not watching 10 regularly enough to be reminded. I’m not a reality fan, but I would have checked it out.

  14. I predict that TRLB will mvoe to 10Peach in the wake of disastrous ratings. This sort of result was a complete disaster. This year, we’ve seen the failures of Brain Eistedfod and now TRLB.
    But at the end of the day, it all comes down to viewership in the first two eps.

  15. Lol wow ,I said 317K last night so I was way too generous,but of course TEN will say their happy with the demographics as usual ,if I was ViacomCbs I’d be very worried about the position of this network.

    1. I have a theory that RLB was cheep to produced – while the numbers and reaction were bad, the show was produced in conjunction with an American version (also airing now) and I suspect that the series is sponsored heavily by the cruse line

      It’s one and done for sure, but it should not impact 10’s bottom line as much as any other failed season.

  17. I think the figures of love boat were to the surprise of no one! Who in their right mind wanted that show to be made? 10 are in a bit of strife as they’ve had so many more misses than hits. In general I think dating is the new cooking and renovation, just chuck it on the pile of worn out formats (although the block just keeps on keeping on!).

    1. Paramount who have created it and franchised The Real Love Boat and used it to try and reshow The Love Boat. There’s no reason why it had to be worse than any of the other trashy dating shows. Won’t know how bad it is until we see streaming figures. I only watched My Life Is Murder which has moved to Auckland and is prettier, which is a good thing because there is nothing else to it. They badly need to find someone who can write a proper murder mystery. GS1 dies before the credits, GS2 is wrongly arrested, Alexa bakes bread while Madison hacks something and exposes GS3, same plot every episode. The best actor in it is still the cat. Even Rosemary and Thyme is better.

  18. Let’s not right it off just yet. Streaming on 10Play may bring in enough young viewers to keep it afloat. I’m sure 10 are bombarding social media platforms.

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