Australia’s Perfect Couple final gives Nine one of its worst 8pm audiences of the year
Australia’s Perfect Couple bowed out on Wednesday night with one of the lowest 8pm commercial TV audiences of the year.
The disastrous reality show – featuring couples competing in various tasks – pulled in just 610,000 for its final outing, according to preliminary TV ratings from OzTam. This compared to 1.3m for World’s Strictest Parents on Seven and just over 1m for Ten’s Australian Idol. Last week Australia’s Perfect Couple had rated 698,000.
The audience’s disdain for the Jules Lund-hosted series -which was cut from an hour to half an hour during its run – was underlined by the relatively solid performance of other Nine shows last night.
The episode of Two And A Half Men before Australia’s Perfect Couple averaged 1.3m, suggesting that more than half of that audience then turned over. After the show ended, the audience recovered to an average of 1.1m for RPA.
Seven won the night with 28.2%, just ahead of Nine’s 26.4%. Ten was on a disappointing 20.6%, only just ahead of the ABC’s 19.9% SBS got 4.9%.
ummm….dont bag me for asking – but which couple won? It was like a train wreck i couldnt stop watching – but missed the final!
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Gemma and Raf won but really think the boys should have. I also liked the show!
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It deserved to fail once Nine went all weak at the knees and didn’t show the boys kissing- wusses!
Also Jules Lund was the wrong guy – he is a great host of other shows but he has a nice guy image and can’t really play the mean guy well..
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What utter rubbish, I guess ch9 could be happy that this sort of stuff doesn’t cost much. I still can’t get over that so many people watch 21/2 men, the shows failing clearly has nothing to do with taste.
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reality may not be dead yet but there are some distinctly terminal signs
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Hey cak – don’t be dissing 2 and 1/2 men – funny show
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2 and 1/2 men is a god send, the show must last forever!!
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Two and a half laughs, if you’re lucky. I haven’t seen a show since the 70s that telegraphed its jokes so obviously – you hear the clicks and creaks in the gag writer’s brain before the punchline dribbles from the actors, who have not the vaguest idea of comic timing.
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Hey Renee, 2 1/2 Men is a god send for Nine…Just imagine where the EX Still number 1 network would be without 2 1/2. Twenty hours of Bert every week…God help us.
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Gasp…a crap show got bad ratings…who would have ever guessed that?!?!?
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Bert the talking cadaver – where did they dig him up from?
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loved australias perfect couple and gem and raf def deserved to win!!
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When are Channel 9 going to get with the times? What a dreadful idea for a show. And it was doubly doomed by the woeful Jules Lund. He’s one of those guys that you really do wonder how the hell he gets on tv. Every female I know finds him to act and look like a little irritating boy. Urrrgghhh…
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