Big Brother falls to record low while Scorpion debuts at 597,000 for Ten
The Nine Network won the night on the back of strong audiences for renovation show The Block: Glasshouse but its reality show Big Brother continues to struggle pulling just 597,000, down from 667,000 last week.
Excluding late night and confidential episodes, the result is a record low metropolitan audience for the Big Brother franchise in Australia, which the Nine Network has own for the last three years and prior to that screened on Ten for eight seasons.
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Meanwhile on Ten the debut of American drama television series Scorpion, which is loosely based on the life of self-proclaimed genius and computer expert Walter O’Brien, drew 597,000 at 6.30pm, giving the network a rare top ten placing on Sunday night and boosting its main channel audience share from 9.8 per cent last week to 10.9 per cent last night. A new episode of Modern Family at 7.30pm drew 434,000 while a repeat at 8.00pm saw the audience fall marginally to 430,000.
The Nine Network still won the night with an audience of 25.1 per cent on the back of The Block which was the top rating program of the night with 1.546m viewers tuning in at 6.30pm.
On Seven, talent show The X Factor drew 1.113m viewers against The Block at 6.30pm, while the second part of Janet Albretchsen’s interview with former prime minister John Howard drew 1.027m, down from 1.058m last week. Sunday Night, which aired at 7.45pm, was narrowly beaten by 60 Minutes at 8pm which had 1.032m.
The second episode of the ABC’s new six part political thriller The Code drew 584,000 viewers at 8.30pm, third in its timeslot, while Doctor Who drew an audience of 569,000 at 7.45pm, also coming in third.
Ten showed Tom Cruise Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol at 8.30pm which had 394,000 viewers, behind SBS One’s Monty Python Live: One Down, Five to Go, which had 423,000 viewers from 8.30pm to 10.15pm, a rare top 20 placing for the broadcaster.
Seven News narrowly beat its rival Nine News an audience of 1.154m compared with 1.146m at 6pm.
While Nine topped the night and Ten boosted its audience Seven had an audience share of 21.7 per cent while the ABC had an audience share of 10.8 per cent.
Nic Christensen
Top 15 shows
1 THE BLOCK GLASSHOUSE Network 9 1,546,000
2 SEVEN NEWS Network 7 1,154,000
3 NINE NEWS Network 9 1,146,000
4 THE X FACTOR LIVE PERFORMANCE Network 7 1,113,000
5 60 MINUTES Network 9 1,032,000
6 SUNDAY NIGHT Network 7 1,027,000
7 ABC NEWS Network ABC1 767,000
8 SCORPION Network TEN 597,000
9 THE CODE Network ABC1 584,000
10 DOCTOR WHO-EV Network ABC1 569,000
11 BIG BROTHER -SUN Network 9 558,000
12 CASTLE Network 7 518,000
13 TEN EYEWITNESS NEWS Network TEN 507,000 1
14 CASTLE (R) Network 7 475,000
15 ABC NEWS UPDATE Network ABC1 434,000
Audience Share
Network 9 25.1%
Network 7 21.7%
Network TEN 10.9%
Network ABC1 10.8%
Network SBS ONE 6.5%
Network 7TWO 4.9%
Network GO! 4.7%
Network Gem 3.5%
Network ELEVEN 2.7%
Network 7mate 2.7%
Network ONE 2.5%
Network ABC2 1.8%
Network ABC3 0.7%
Network ABC News 24 0.9%
Network SBS 2 0.6%
Network NITV 0.1%
Total audience share
Network 9 TTL 33.2%
Network 7 TTL 29.3%
Network TEN TTL 16.1%
Network ABC TTL 14.2%
Network SBS TTL 7.2% 6.9%
Do you think nine programmers might finally get the message that BB last year was as boring as batshit and this year is a few orders of magnitude worse. My partner asked me if she could paint the loungeroom so she could watch it dry, instead of BB.
Since it’s been sanitised for earlier timeslots, it’s lost all of its spark. If showing it early on Go or whatever is a problem, simple – don’t show it. Regardless of what the holier than thous who get on social media or BB website and complain, we all know what the public watch BB for, don’t we? So give it to them, and stop the audience slide.
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The Code is absolutely brilliant. Glad to see it rated above BB!
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i honestly think big brother has had its day and why it is still on just boggles my mind completely!
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BB was a lost cause when Nine got it and made it “family friendly”. No Big Brother Uncut? Zzzzz …
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