Nine’s Embarrassing Bodies rates modestly in new time slot
Nine’s Embarrassing Bodies has rated modestly in its new time slot of 9pm in the Wednesday night ratings.
The British series, which sees people have their embarrassing medical conditions diagnosed on TV, had previously run in the 10.30pm and 11pm time slots.
Last night the show, which was set in Thailand, rated 651,000 across the five city metro market, according to preliminary ratings from OzTam.Heavily promoted by Nine, the show was 16th for the night and well behind Seven’s Criminal Minds, which began at 8.50pm to rate 1.019m in 7th place.
However, Embarrassing Bodies did beat ABC1’s Randling at 9pm, which rated 495,000.
In the key advertising demos, the show did better, placing fourth in 16-39, ninth in 18-49 and 12th in 25-54.
Ten’s hour-long drama Puberty Blues, which at 8.30pm for a half hour overlap with Embarrassing Bodies, rated 728,000 in 14th.
The Ten drama won its time slot in both 16-39 and 18-49 key advertising demographics and was the network’s highest rating show.
Winning the night was Seven’s The X Factor yet again, on 1.542m. The show also won in all key advertising demographics.
Nine’s Big Brother stayed just above 1m with 1.027m to be in sixth place in total viewers, but jumped to second across the key advertising demographics.
ABC1’s Gruen Planet rated 917,000 in 10th place overall, as well as 25-54 while placing 8th in 16-39 and 7th in 18-49.
Ten’s I Will Survive continues to struggle at 7:30pm, rating just 338,000 and 27th in total viewers. It climbed to 18th in 16-39, 22nd in 18-49 and 23rd in 25-54.
Ten’s school room reality show Class Of at 9:30pm didn’t make the Top 50 shows in total viewers but the show was 29th in 16-39 and 18-49 and 33rd in 25-54.
In the battle for breakfast television, Sunrise rated 359,000, beating Today’s 308,000 while Ten’s Breakfast rated 43,000.
Seven won in channel share, with $25.5% beating Nine’s 17.8% with ABC1 in third on 13.8% and Ten on 10.1% in foruth place. ABC2 again bumped SBS1 to sixth place, with 5.3% to 5.1% respectively.
Wednesday’s top 15 shows:
1. The X Factor – Seven 1.542m
2. Seven News – Seven 1.294m
3. Today Tonight – Seven 1.150m
4. ABC News – ABC 1.120m
5. Nine News – Nine 1.101m
6. Big Brother – Nine 1.027m
7. Criminal Minds – Seven 1.019m
8. Home and Away – Seven 0.995m
9. A Current Affair – Nine 0.960m
10. Gruen Planet – ABC 0.917m
11. The Farmer Wants A Wife – Nine 0.784m
12. QI – ABC 0.774m
13. 7:30 – ABC 0.750m
14. Puberty Blues – Ten 0.728m
15. Ten News – Ten 0.702m
Wednesday’s channel share:
Seven: 25.5%
Nine: 17.8%
ABC1: 13.8%
Ten: 10.1%
ABC2: 5.3%
SBS1: 5.1%
7TWO: 4.3%
Eleven: 4.2%
7mate: 3.6%
One: 2.8%
GO!: 2.5%
Gem: 2.1%
SBS2: 1.1%
ABC3: 0.8%
ABC News 24: 0.8%
Puberty Blues = Devastatingly good drama
I Will Survive = Devastatingly bad TV
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Newsflash: Channel 10 has just announced they are changing the name of “I Will Survive” to “WIll I Survive”
Place you bets.
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The problem with Puberty Blues is that is would probably have worked far better as a mini-series over two nights. This is the same issue as arose with Bikie Wars. Ten think they can milk dramas over many more nights than the idea allows. They might have won the young demographic but still the numbers asre small. When Ten is able to put an Australian drama to air which consistently rates over a million then the advertisers will come knocking again. It needs to seriously review its development slate and its strategy as it appears not to have one at the moment.
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Should move the “Bodies” ack to the later slot, a much better time for this quirky show.
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Television does not get any better than watching a woman put coffee “up her butt everyday” as EB continually reminded us.
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@ Harry – I agree, Puberty Blues should have been produced as a miniseries or telemovie, however, if its longevity prevents more hours of reality tv, I can’t say I mind
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EB is a desperate move by a desperate network trying to find a hit. It’s unwatchable paytv content.
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How is it “embarrassing” if the person is willing to be seen and talk about it to millions of viewers? I agree with some of the above comments – the show would be better moved to a later evening timeslot. The same with SBS’s “Inside Nature’s Giants” series. Wonderfully educational but the programme includes substantial imagery of animals being dissected apart, at 8.30 p.m., I’ve only just finished eating Sunday dinner. :/
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Full vaj shot at ten past nine on a major network channel?
Are you seriously f*%king kidding me??
If my child was 9 or 10 s/he would have seen that. .
Australia- stupid one day, hypocritical the next….
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