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We are now edging closer to mid year 2019 and still no sign of the Great Australian Bake-Off… I believe we are getting close to a year since it wrapped it’s filming? I don’t get the delay…
Foxtel told me when MasterChef wraps, so probably late July or thereabouts.
Oh sweet! Cheers David.
Have Foxtel confirmed any further seasons beyond this imminent one?
Not yet.
Been watching ‘Timeless’ on 9 the last few weeks-really wish that the 2 male leads would stand closer to the razor in the morning-in all the periods they’ve gone to so far, little would stand out more in a crowd than a scruffy 3 day growth!
Given all the focus on how wrong the political polls were following Saturday’s election, I can’t help but wonder about how accurate television ratings are. I know their sample is far bigger than your average Newspoll, and unlike elections there is no possible way of ever really knowing, but it does make you wonder how drastically different ratings might look if every household had a ratings box for a night compared to the regular sampling.
I am inclined to agree with you !
You can calculate the error mathematically, its approximately a 2% error. However, that assumes a random sample perfectly matched to the population. The switch over between the Nielsen and Oztam systems, reveals that the samples were not as well matched as had been assumed and the difference between them was more than that. But it’s certainly accurate enough for advertisers and more than accurate enough to see what people like to watch on TV every evening.
How many Sevens in that comment ? I dont have enough fingers to count it
I’m disappointed there’s nothing on here about the season 30 finale of The Simpsons which 7 mate are airing this evening. While the latest series is far from it’s best I’ve still cracked up laughing.
Mastermind Australia presenter Jennifer Byrne had a bad fall recently while walking her dog so movie guy and the Feed’s Marc Fennell is filling in.
It’s in the TV calendar.
I’m enjoying season 30. Lots of laughs. Looking forward to season 31! 🙂
I guess 5 seconds of an opposition to maccas is worthy of balanced reporting by ACA. Thought ACA was headed in the right direction but apparently not.
I can’t stand ACA and their trash. I deleted Nine, but I do go on ACA’s website to see what crap they put on. 7 minutes on some messy divorce? 3 minutes to McDonalds? And just a couple of weeks ago, 7 minutes on the royal baby. It is stories like these that people are beginning to tune out.
I thought ACA was onto something a couple of months ago with the Internet thing, but I was right when they went back to the crap they normally broadcast. But just remember that ACA only cares about ratings and not journalism. If they cared about journalism, then we would get serious stories that shapes the world we live in.
Could be a good article for David one day…
For anyone interested in multi-channel ratings, Seven’s “Inside7″ website released a graphical document yesterday highlighting 7Two, 7mate, 7flix and 7food’s individual and combined performances, year to date.
It was a really interesting read, including reach, targets, buyers and weekly averages (which even for the top two multi-channels are a low lower than you’d think).
There was also a cool table showing the ”skews’ of each. Main channel around the centre of demographics, with 7food rating really young and really female, 7flix similar but not as much, 7mate very young and very male and 7Two very old and female.
7mate is Number 1 year to date survey in Total People and just 0.1% behind 9Go! in 25-54s (as of a week or two ago, 7mate probably tied or in front now).
David, have you ever asked Nine why their epg no longer updates with the correct (well not actually correct, but closer than the Sunday TV guide) times anymore? If not, can you please consider doing so?
Yes, essentially they are updated 3 x a day, late Friday for weekends.
The channels from Seven, Ten, ABC, SBS2 (SBS itself actually ends programs on time) and GEM all have programs starting and ending on funny little numbers like 33, 54, 05 etc. Nine and GO are lying with straight 00, 30 and one 45. They didn’t used to be this way. Their epgs only started lying in the last few months (in Newcastle at least).
I ran The Late List for 2 years with readers tracking and crowdsourcing discrepancies. Eventually readers tired of submitting them, with little change on air.
David, do you have any info on airdates for The Rookie and Marvel’s Agents of Shield?
The Rookie was advertised as coming to 7 after Easter, and does 7 even still have M:AOS, nothing is listed on any of their sites?
I think Agents of Shield moved to Foxtel from Season 3
Sorry no it didn’t. I thought it did haha
Can someone please explain to me why Channel 9 are wasting half of The Voice on unnecessary back stories of the singers that mean nothing to the judges, as they don’t hear them. Just show us singing…
What! There is singing on the Voice! Judging by all the ads for the show thought it was the Delta Goodrem show with B grade celebrity guests!!!!! It’s not about contestants , it’s all about those has been judges!!!!!
The strangest TV programming I have ever seen. And it works well for me.
The Whispers episodes 1-5 12am-5 Wed on 7Mate
Episodes 6-10 12:30am-5:30 on 7Two
Episodes 11-13 1:30am-4:30 on 7Flix
That is so weird! I just hope they all come to Seven’s catch up channel so
I can watch the show. Thanks for the info, Sean.
They did this with the US series ‘The Family’ last year which I commented on at the time-was then immediately shown 1 ep at a time late night and then repeated after that 1 ep a day for a couple of weeks during the week in the afternoon-Lord knows what thinking (if any) is behind this approach.
According to the 7Plus FB page all episodes will be available from tomorrow.
Thanks!
Bizarre scheduling… I couldn’t get a straight answer.
My guess would be they had to broadcast it if they wanted to stream it, so they burn it off in one morning with 3 different episodes on simultaneously, which my Topfield is perfectly capable of recording.
My second best guess is that they have internal metrics on shows acquired, and one episode per week wouldn’t cover someone’s arse.
The TV catch up services are decent except for one major factor and that is the placement of ads. They are never where a show allows for an ad break and just cht into the show at inappropriate moments.
Really. Which one in particular?
I know SBS is a bit ropey when I watched Handmaids tale but I’ve no problems with any of the others.
Does anyone know what the record for longest commercial break on fta is?
During tonight’s (monday) episode of ‘god friended me’, there was one that went for six minutes.
Thank god for pvr’s and time skipping.
Yeah,…. The Block is generally a 90 min commercial break….
When some have had tech problems they have stretched to 20 mins etc. When one deal could not be reached with WIN they played looped travel clips for at least a few days.
With all the celebrities in last week’s BBT, it might have been nice if the episode was actually funny. It decisively doesn’t make my rewatch list.
Hi David. Do you know whether Nine / SKY will start another new business channel? I though Your Money was a great channel, especially when it came to Auction Day ( Saturday’s). I would really like it if they could, do you have any idea if they will? Thanks David.
No plans as far as I know.