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Travel Guides, 1% Club score on Wednesday, SBS booms in Total TV.

New Jim Jefferies quiz helps Seven to pip Nine for the night. In Total TV numbers Alone Australia continues a strong debut season.

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Seven’s new quiz show has made a good debut, landing second in its slot and helping the network to inch ahead of Nine for a Wednesday win.

Travel Guides was best in entertainment at 563,000 then The 1% Club 527,000 -which did quite well with younger demos-, Hard Quiz (484,000), 7:30 (435,000), I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here (422,000) and Alone Australia (231,000).

Later The Weekly with Charlie Pickering drew 399,000 then Accused (224,000), Footy Classified (166,000 across the network), Brian Cox: How the Other Half Live (162,000), Law & Order: SVU (153,000) and Aunty Donna’s Coffee Cafe (129,000).

Seven network at 27.8% pipped Nine’s 27.5%, then 10 17.5%, ABC 16.8% and SBS 10.4%.

Seven News was #1 at 960,000 / 916,000 for Seven. The Chase was 554,000 / 343,000 then Home & Away (497,000). The final We Interrupt This Broadcast was 90,000.

Nine News (760,000 / 750,000) was best for Nine. A Current Affair led at 641,000 then Hot Seat 340,000 / 197,000. Movie: Hitman’s Wife’s Bodguard managed 152,000.

The Project drew 280,000 / 179,000 for 10. 10 News First was 226,000 / 155,000. Fire Country was 76,000.

ABC News scored 534,000. The Drum was 156,000 with Staged at 50,000.

On SBS it was SBS World News (140,000 / 119,000), Rogue Heroes (98,000) and Mastermind (77,000) -but Wednesday shows continue to draw big numbers in Total TV results.

Bluey led multichannels at 113,000.

Sunrise: 218,000
Today: 195,000
News Breakfast: 94,000 / 49,000

In Total TV numbers last Wednesday were:

Rogue Heroes: 439,000
Alone Australia: 858,000
Travel Guides: 1.1m
I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here: 726,000
QI: 293,000
Home & Away: 875,000

OzTAM Overnights: Wednesday 26 April 2023

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  1. My family love the concept of The 1% Club but we can’t stand the host. He is constantly yells and is rarely funny. Would be a great family show if it had a better host.

  3. Love the concept of the 1% club but the host doesn’t feel right and the audience interaction is exhausting to to watch. Would love a 30 min version.

  4. Love the concept, I have been a trivia host for many years and love this idea, however that clown at the front of this tv show, is that the best we can do, just a bogon, I could do a better job, let me at it I would love it, he needs more polish, more professional and.more pizzazz

  5. To be honest the best bit for me was Seven News reporting on The Moose in Alaska going into a movie theatre and eating popcorn….they outdid themselves this time with useless information. 👏

  7. Very surprised to see 1% do so well in a tough timeslot. It’s one of Seven’s best new show launches in ages. To build on the poor lead in like that and dominate among younger viewers Seven have been struggling to attract – is quite an accomplishment.

  9. The concept is great. I got to 50% without getting any wrong – then downhill from there. The questions were mind benders, which was fun. But the host, and talking… and talking… and talking…!

  10. I checked out 1% Club this morning having recorded it last night. I deleted the recording once I got to the first commercial break. This show was dreadul from the start, unfunny bogan host, the contestants laughing was awkward and forced, I don’t need to meet the contestants either with filler chat. This would be better as a quick-fire 30 min show at 5pm with a host who has the ability to annunciate.

      1. I too gave it a go, but I found some remarks disparaging and inappropriate. I lasted until the 50% question, thus 5/10 for me. Good on 7 for giving something new a go.

      2. I recorded the 1% and found it much better to watch with the sound off and fast forwarding through most of it. I didn’t get the Birthday clue or missing letter puzzles inside 30s, fortunately they provided ad breaks to work on them. The one I couldn’t solve was the compass directions clue because I was confused by the pictures, guessed it as switch and scissors seemed impossible. The last supposed 1% clue was the easiest of the latter puzzles, they must have wanted a winner for the first show.

    2. Dead right. My eyes and ears couldn’t take anymore after 8pm so switched to Hard Quiz. What a difference. The shouting host and the over-the-top lighting were too much. The ‘laughter’ was obviously fake, but hey that’s Seven.

    3. I enjoyed the questions themselves, there was a good mix of number, words and logic style puzzles. I surprised myself by getting most, if not all of the questions correct. Can’t remember every question but I certainly got the second half all right.

      I was disappointed with the host. I understand the concept of having him fill in the 30 second silence while the contestants work through each question but most of his jokes didn’t really land and sometimes he was just babbling. I was also shocked by the crudeness and language for a 7:30PM time slot. I let my primary school-aged daughter watch the first few questions so I was unimpressed when the host was dropping swear words five minutes into the show. I did like the banter with the contestants though, especially when he would go back to the same ones and build up a rapport across the show.

      1. No judgement but alas it is up to parents to allow children to view or not view M rated material, which the show was classified. So there would be no breach on Seven’s part. Some years ago ACMA allowed M content from 7:30pm so ultimately it is up to the community to tell politicians about public values, and otherwise to monitor classification in the home.

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