Bumped: Australian Survivor, Deal or No Deal. Update: Gladiators
Whack. Despite a positive launch, 10 feels the ratings stick hit its summer entertainment show and pulls in a stronger fighter.
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10 has moved quickly on Gladiators programming after audience numbers fell faster than a contender from the Duel platform.
The show premiered to 395,000 metro viewers for its Monday premiere, easily higher than The Bachelors, Traitors, The Real Love Boat, The Challenge against the competition of the Australian Open. Online reaction was mixed with some positive comments around the cast, but confusion over the lack of a visible audience and questioning why the show was stripped into extended episodes.
But by night two it plummeted to 196,000, which was enough for 10 to scramble its plans. This week it will now screen on extra nights, Thursday & Friday. Next week it screens Sunday – Friday to ensure a final on Sunday 28th.
Australian Survivor, originally teased for February 5, will now screen on Monday 29th against MAFS and Australian Idol. 10 will also bring Deal or No Deal forward to the same night at 6pm.
Given Gladiators was originally announced for January 7 (before moving to January 15) this now marks three Network 10 shows which were moved from their intended launch -not good so early in 2024.
Gladiators has also enjoyed a bumper return in the UK where it screens weekly on Saturday nights.
Australia continues to strip formats that the audience prefers as a weekly proposition…
Updated: Double episode Wednesday 24th.
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Good news for us Survivor fans! Looking forward in the new season. Bring it on.
Not surprised about the Gladiators.
I dont get how many say it’s looks cheap n tacky. It is what it can be. MAFS would not rate up against the tennis/cricket so it’s a timing thing. In my view it’s aired 6 months to early. It should aired like the UK in winter, not summer. I agree with others l once a week airing is good. Lots of knockers out there that’s for sure. At least Ten are giving it a go.
Clearly an audience there for it but turned off by a sub-par product, and so dumb to put a sports entertainment show up against a big sports event. Still baffles me how execs don’t see the obvious issues that viewers point out in advance.
At least they’re correcting the mistake of giving Survivors’ rivals a week head start. Never made sense that and Deal launched in Feb.
Madness. I’d of stripped it back to one night a week and let it play out. As many others have said – it’s the lack of audience and the added in “audience cheers etc” / some of the challenges, that have ruined the show.
Personally, I’d actually like it to return for a second season with these improvements, 60min eps, once a week. Six week run. Done.
the networks never learn. 60 min episodes, 1 episode per week. it’s not hard!!!
It beggars belief that they were going to give MAFS and Idol a week’s jump on Survivor in the first place.
Wow ,win the series and become a gladiator.With the lack of ratings it makes you wonder if there will even be a series 2.We loved the original but this is like when channel 7 did “the price is right ” with woolworths prizes.
Last year when Ten didnt put on I’m a celebrity in summer break there was an outcry. Ten needs to listen to what the audience wants to watch and when.
I totally agree I miss my I’m a celebrity… in January- although not looking forward to it much without Dr Chris instead that annoying Irwin, but hopefully the ‘celebs’ doing it will be satisfying enough. I really love more shows on 10 than any other network. Don’t understand why they are so down in the ratings. Bu5 I can’t stand something like Gladiators or Survivor (never have) So I’ll be watching Idol when it starts, can’t wait! And can’t think of anything worse being renewed then Deal or No Deal. I want the Feud back- please!! Or even better the Price is Right.
I disagree with the decision to use the same games for all preliminary rounds. I feel it limits variety and excitement for viewers. For this reason, I’m out.
The dubbed in crowd noise and applause to add atmos proves it’s destined to fail. The audience can see through all this and unfortunately the producers and post producers have ruined what would’ve been a good show.
I am confused how they can squeeze a show that was initially supposed to be run for 4 weeks, then 3 weeks, into two weeks. How many episodes are there and how were they initially going to be played out? As someone has already said Gladiators was initially meant to start on the 7th (not 5th), then 8th, then settled on 15th. Channel 10 has real problems against 7 and 9, but it turns out I actually watch more things on 10 and I want to support 10. I actually want to help 10 to improve so I will doing up a report of ideas and would love help, if I could receive people willing to help on here. It would be great. I love all the feedback people give about 10 on here. It should be sent to 10. After all who should have a say about what is screened – the viewers.
As interview with Liz Ellis indicated there were 13 eps filmed.
So, 4 episodes this week, 6 episodes next week (Sun-Fri), would that mean triple episodes on the 28th so they can play them out to the finale? Weird.
The TV guide has Gladiators on Friday at 7:30 too. That would be 6 nights for 2 weeks plus the Finale on Sunday.
But it didn’t start until Monday this week, not Sunday, so it would be 5 episodes this week (Mon – Fri) and 6 episodes next week (Sun-Fri), so that’s 11. Then it must be a double episode on Sunday 28th.
Yes Friday too, now corrected.
I’ll give Deal Or No Deal ago because I like Grant Denyer
Agree
I so wanted to like this. I love Liz Ellis, don’t mind Beau Ryan and was willing to deal with the awful Marvel-ness of it all. But it was just terrible. And the biggest thing that put me off was seeing on the EPG that it was 90 minutes. I was out.
An hour once a week would have been more than enough. This was just so padded and I’m tired of padded reality shows.
The limitations of gladiators is on full display with the lack of crowd and same games over and over, but it’s not a bad show. Yes it’s cheap and too long, but the games are good once they start and bring back some nice nostalgic feelings. But this is a once a week show. Most comments are about how this is a once a week show. So what do 10 programming do once the ratings slide? Put it on 6 times a week!
To be fair it is still non-ratings and the show was offered as summer content, so the network is playing out the show, but to wrap it up sooner. I suppose they could have moved it to another slot or channel, but for full transparency it went up last night to 219k.
To think how much they spent on marketing this show and all for naught.
The fact is, some shows work stripped (Survivor, MAFS), some shows work better weekly. The UK clearly got something right.
Also, putting Survivor up against MAFS is asking for poor overnights. I think it will come in second and Idol third, but will rely heavily on BVOD to make up numbers.
Watched my recorded copy of the first episode yesterday. Remember the original and thought it would be OK. Poor decision.
It started badly with the first game. The gladiator reminded the young contestant that ‘hitting before the whistle’ meant disqualification. Gladiator hit the contestant early and was only warned. Seriously?
Not enough games/challenges for such a long episode. Won’t be returning.
The fact is there is too much news already u don’t need 5pm news followed by 6pm news on 9 same with channel 7..watching old eps on you tube of wheel of fortune sale of the century miss these game shows.. as for gladiators playing the same 4 games is boring wheres hang tough the gauntlet suspension bridge… the hosts still in same outfits
It is a once a week show and had it been I may have watched it. It certainly isn’t a 3 night a week premise, who are 10 trying to kid?
Probably tanked for a combination of reasons, it is still summer (so we are outside…), it’s going up again tennis (we may watch outside on our TVs), as well as they usually have IACGMOOH, so reintroducing an old show had the potential to fail.
One day Aussie networks will learn…we are not really a fan of stripped formats. We get fatigued!
We lap up stripped formats like MAFS IACGMOOH and The Block.
This was a stinker
Maybe Ten should have started airing Survivor earlier this month instead of bringing back Gladiators?
Their programmers over there come up with some crazy ideas that don’t seem to work in 2024 – I think the revamped Deal or No Deal will be a ratings turkey for them, the endless Grant Denyer ads are irritating enough.
Endless Grant Denyer ads? I only saw endless Gladiators ad. Makes me glad it’s tanking, haha. (though I am not a fan of non-scripted content so maybe a tad biased)
Shambolic scheduling from Ten.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing and despite the patchy quality and awful ending, they’d have been better doing a two week drama event burning off Paper Dolls as a summer point of difference. Can’t imagine it’s been a big driver of new subs to Paramount but they desperately needed more content for that platform so I don’t blame them for running it first there.
It was always going to be a dumb idea to launch Aus Survivor a week later than the other key 7.30 competition. Would love know why Gladiators was delayed (twice), almost as if they knew it was terrible. Originally 7th, then 8th then 15th.
The annoying thing about this is the audience was there, this isn’t a “nobody wanted this” situation like Blow Up or Real Love Boat. But I can’t pinpoint a single thing either Ten or the production company did that didn’t seem specifically calculated to drive as many people away as possible. The interesting thing is a flop this big is usually enough to kill a career, and yet Ten is so insistent on making Beau Ryan work (despite repeated evidence that nobody cares for him) that he’s still got two tentpole shows with them coming later this year.
It’s like they wanted this to fail. 80min episodes three nights a week, little game play, slow build up to game play, moving the dates. It reminds me of tMitch McTaggert’s segment about Farscape.
The odd thing about the first episode is it topped one demo and third in the other two. The fact that the ratings dropped 50% showed people (myself included) thought the show wasn’t for them.
Personally I’d think Ten would have had more success screening it once per week on a Thursday or Saturday slot (away from MAFS/Survivor/Idol).
Deal will flop. It doesn’t matter what Ten show at 6pm. That hour is news time for most households.
I was just one of the 196,000 for Ep 2.
Cheap and tacky.
Not me – the show.