Footy Show arm break watched by 435,000 as Todd Sampson’s Redesign My Brain finale rises
The finale episode of Leo Burnett CEO Todd Sampson’s Redesign My Brain, which saw the adman complete a skywalk across a 3cm capable suspended between two buildings 21 floors high, was watched by 682,000 metro viewers at 8.30pm on the ABC.
While it was down on the finale of last year’s season, which grabbed 874,000 viewers, it was the show’s best performance this year, up on the debut audience of 675,000 and last week’s audience of 626,000.
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Meanwhile, 435,000 people in Sydney and Brisbane tuned into The Footy Show which was forced to throw to a hasty commercial break when Ben Ross broke his arm on live TV during a charity arm wrestling contest with Wendell Sailor.
The AFL version in Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth got 115,000 viewers from 8.40pm, taking total viewership to 650,000.
Ten claimed a second place audience share of 17.1 per cent, behind Nine’s share of 19.2 per cent and ahead of Seven’s share of 16.4 per cent, thanks to Masterchef which was the most-watched show of the evening .
When secondary channels are accounted for, Seven claimed second place with an audience share of 25.5 per cent, ahead of Ten’s total share of 22.5 per cent.
Ten’s cooking reality show grabbed 1.118m metro viewers and was the most-watched show across the key advertising demographics (16-39, 18-49 and 25-54).
It easily out-rated Nine’s Top Gear which managed an audience of 475,000 in the 7.30pm timeslot.
Seven’s two-hour Home and Away episode, airing from 7pm to 9pm, pulled an audience of 727,000 metro viewers.
Meanwhile on the ABC, The Checkout, which is facing a lawsuit from A2 Milk, grabbed an audience of 658,000 at 8pm, the same number of viewers it pulled last week.
On Ten at 8.30pm Law & Order SVU was watched by 507,000, while The Footy Show, on Nine from 8.40pm, had an audience of 650,000.
In news, Nine News at 6pm was watched by 1.084m, dipping to 1.035m from 6.30pm. Seven News at 6pm grabbed 1.023m viewers, dropping to 930,000 at 6.30pm.
Top 15 Shows:
1 MASTERCHEF AUSTRALIA THURS Network TEN 1,118,000
2 NINE NEWS Network 9 1,084,000
3 NINE NEWS 6:30 Network 9 1,035,000
4 SEVEN NEWS Network 7 1,023,000
5 SEVEN NEWS / TODAY TONIGHT Network 7 930,000
6 A CURRENT AFFAIR Network 9 907,000
7 ABC NEWS-EV Network ABC 845,000
8 HOME AND AWAY Network 7 727,000
9 REDESIGN MY BRAIN WITH TODD SAMPSON-EV Network ABC 682,000
10 7.30-EV Network ABC 679,000
11 THE CHECKOUT-EV Network ABC 658,000
12 THE FOOTY SHOW Network 9 650,000
13 HOT SEAT Network 9 618,000
14 FAMILY FEUD Network TEN 605,000
15 THE PROJECT 7PM Network TEN 604,000
Audience Share:
Network 9 19.2%
Network TEN 17.1%
Network 7 16.4%
Network ABC 13.6%
Network 7TWO 5.7%
Network GO! 5.3%
Network SBS ONE 4.4%
Network 7mate 3.4%
Network ABC2 3.2%
Network Gem 3.2%
Network ELEVEN 3.0%
Network ONE 2.4%
Network ABC News 24 1.3%
Network SBS 2 0.9%
Network ABC3 0.5%
Network NITV 0.5%
Total Audience Share:
Network 9 TTL 27.7%
Network 7 TTL 25.5%
Network TEN TTL 22.5%
Network ABC TTL 18.6%
Network SBS TTL 5.7%
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Miranda Ward worked for Mumbrella from 2013 to 2017, eventually becoming deputy editor. Miranda joined Mumbrella in September 2013 from Sky News.
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And if you missed it… You would have heard it over and over again on the Today Show this morning.
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Redesign Your Brain was an absolutely brilliant series and i loved every episode but the final walk was an incredible way to end. still…putting Masterchef up against it was clever by channel 10. i reckon it was howcroft.
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Agree Marty. Congrats to everyone who worked on Redesign. Great story well told.
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I think you will find the NRL Footy Show in Sydney and Brisbane only had an average audience of 238,000 while the AFL Footy Show had an average audience of 412,000 in Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth.
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I did not expect much from this show and got a lot. Thank you Todd Sampson and the ABC.
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