1.456m watch Hamish & Andy take New York
Hamish & Andy’s Gap Year stormed to a metro audience of 1.456m for Nine on Thursday night, easily winning its timeslot.
The show is the first featuring the duo’s adventures in the US.
Airing at 8.30pm, it trounced Ten’s reality contest The Renovators, which rated 909,000. It also beat Seven’s Law & Order LA 8.30pm episode which rated 620,000 (up on its debut of 514,000 last week).
However, Seven’s second episode of Law & Order LA rated 495,000 and was beaten by a repeat of Law & Order SVU (546,000) on Ten, according to preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTam.
Hamish & Andy’s performance was also an impressive improvement on the 1.026m audience it inherited from Hot Property which ran at 8pm. Although the second show of the night among all viewers, Hamish & Andy’s Gap Year won in the advertiser-friendly demographics of 16-39, 18-49 and 25-54.
Nine will also have been happy enough with the performance of The Block, which rated 1.294m.
Thursday’s schedule fell into place for Nine almost across the board. After running close for most of the week, Today (390,000) beat Sunrise (358,000) in the battle for breakfast
The best performing show of the night was Masterchef, which rated 1.517m for Ten.
Thursday’s top 15 shows:
1. Masterchef Ten 1.517
2. Hamish and Andy’s Gap Year Nine 1.456
3. The Block Nine 1.294
4. Seven News Seven 1.195
5. Today Tonight Seven 1.191
6. Nine News Nine 1.128
7. Hot Property Nine 1.026
8. A Current Affair Nine 1.003
9. Home and Away Seven 0.939
10. The Renovators Ten 0.909
11. ABC News ABC 0.826
12. The Footy Show Nine 0.743
13. The 7PM Project Ten 0.663
14. Law and Order: LA – Episode 1 Seven 0.620
15. Hot Seat Nine 0.606
Thursday’s channel share:
Nine: 26.9%
Ten: 19.1%
Seven: 16.2%
ABC1: 10.1%
GO!: 4.7%
Eleven: 3.8%
SBS1: 3.4%
7TWO 3.4%
7mate: 3.3%
Gem: 3.1%
One: 2.0%
ABC2: 1.8%
ABC3: 0.8%
SBS2: 0.8%
ABC News 24: 0.6%
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“Thursday’s schedule fell into place for Nine almost across the board. After running close for most of the week, Today (390,000) beat Sunrise (358,000) in the battle for breakfast” – Two words: Andrew O’keefe. Ratings Fail.
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I’m a fan of H&A, but that 1.456 will dip to under a million next week for sure.
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H&A to drop below 1m on the second ep? no chance buddy
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Love H&A, but it’s been 8 months since they were on TV… ratings will decline steadily over the coming weeks. They’ll end up averaging in the 8’s at best.
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Ditto to James Archer’s comment – fan of the duo, but the show was SOOO bad! They looked so uncomfy and out of their zone.
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The Gap year was a terrible show. Those two arent talk show hosts. the format is all wrong for them. Seems channel nine cannot come up with anything resembling a entertainment show. I just caught the last part where Neil Patrick Harris came on. This show cannot go on.It does not seem to have any purpose-seems just like any other talk show-why do something when it is only a copy of something else?
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I’m betting this will shed half its audience in the next few weeks and wouldn’t be surprised to see it axed prematurely.
1.4 is about what I expected it to do off the back of all the promotion but good luck to it holding onto that for future eps. The show was just awful.
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If either of these two tried stand up, they would be boo’d off in seconds.
They are not funny(.)
Ant and Dec in the UK are not funny – like these two. Same caliber.
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Only caught a few minutes of the show but it just didn’t grab me despite my normal enjoyment of H&A. Disappointed in a “memories of Ben Elton” kind of way 🙁
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Cant remember the last time I actually sat down and laughed out loud with a good aussie variety show. Graham Norton in the UK is hilarious some so called aussie comedians should take a leaf out of his book and see what a proper show should be like!!
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