Nine’s Perfect Couple slightly less than perfect
After yesterday’s disastrous ratings showing for Dance Your Ass Off, Nine was back on the reality bandwagon again tonight.
Contestants? Check. A house? Check. An eviction? Check. Yup, it’s Australia’s Perfect Couple.
Now I must confess that I enjoyed this a bit more, albeit wincing along the way.
But here’s what the tweetstream had to say:
- oh tv, don’t give me this. ch9 are clearly trying to force me to get foxtel by broadcasting this perfect couple shit.
- what the hell is this perfect couple show? reality tv has hit an all time low!
- watching australias perfect couple… its bad. i’m hooked, i think
- is liking the new show australia’s perfect couple 🙂 its quite good
- Too busy tweeting, just realised there is some crap on my tv called Perfect Couple! Definite #tvfail
- ‘Australia’s Perfect Couple’ is the worst show I’ve seen since ‘Taken Out’
- australia’s perfect couple isnt that bad of a show actually ahaha
- “Australia’s Perfect Couple” – yet another terrible show on Nine!!
- i’m loving australia’s perfect couple. i hate myself
- australias perfect couple, new show on win. sooo shit lol bring back the funny reality tv programs
- watching australia’s perfect couple and it is absolutely awful!! what are people thinking when they go on these shows???
- who are these people at television networks coming up with shockers like “dance your ass off” or “perfect couple”?? what is wrong with you??
Tim Burrowes founded Mumbrella in 2008. He worked on Mumbrella until 2021. At various points he was editor, content director and editor-at-large.
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Remember when we had cool shows like “Beyond 2000” which satisfied the neurons? ok so we had crap shows then too to be fair. Thankfully we do have Catalyst, New Inventors and Spicks and Specks… I quite like Millionaire Hotseat
and Doctor Who is genuinely worth spending an hour with.
But if it’s superficial nonsense on offer such as perfect couple, I’m not going to watch. The internet is so much more engaging.
What really gets up my nose is women (mostly) on these aussie produced shows who are apparently Aussies but sound American. Now I don’t want to seem like I’m putting down Americans… I like a *genuine* American, what I hate is Aussies who swear they love the country, yet have barely a trace of a home grown accent.
If I had a TV station and auditioned people for shows, the first thing I’d do is show the door to anyone who was trying to fake a US accent, or just had “grown one” due to ignorance of ones own culture.
The host of Funniest Home Videos is a prime example.
even The ABC “Me on 3” promo had an announcer who sounded American.
Hi-Five urg!
Frankly I’m amazed I watch as much TV as I do.
Wolfie!
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Interesting to me that you decided not to post their @names. At first I thought it was lazy, but then I realised it may very well have been over privacy concerns. Ah the new rules of journalism.
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Interesting question, Matthew. In truth it was lazy (well, didn’t particularly add anything).
My view – although I’m very interested to hear others, is that unless you lock your Twitter profile, everything you say is potentially in the public domain.
Cheers,
Tim – Mumbrella
It’s another stinker from Nine…will be interested to see what the ratings were like today
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The public will speak through ratings. But as the reality river runs its course (or dries up…), the time has to come to invest in some original work.
The evidence through Underbelly / Packed to The Rafters is crystal clear.
Foxtel have a number of pending drama series and the free to airs will be wise to look at investment in original drama or factual programming to secure their position.
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The public has indeed spoken – less than 800,000 of them, anyway. Easily Nine’s worse-rating show of the night. I’ll post a story shortly.
Cheers,
Tim – Mumbrella
At least the internet, twitter, etc are giving a more realistic viewpoint of what people are actually watching rather than the decrepit and non-representative ratings sytem – especially when you consider it’s something like around only 2000 households that are actually part of the ratings (does anyone actually know somebody who is part of this ratings scheme?!) and thus it is a “representative sample/trend based” – a bit like the wanky demographics waffle that radio stations come out with. It has always amazed me some of the total crap that has been in the top 10 ratings – especially when I and many people I know have never even watched many of these “hit” shows!
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@real figures. Thanks for putting your ignorance on show for all to see. There are over 5,000 homes compromising around 13,000 people who contribute to the TV ratings every minute of every day. And yes I do know people who have been part of the ratings system – but that’s because I’ve in the system in a previous life.
Your opinion is that Perfect Couple is crap (and you may very well be right) but you’re a sample of n=1. Why is your opinion right and the verified viewing of 13,000 people wrong? How you think that Twitter is representative is beyond me – it can provide opinions, but not robust data on how many people hold those opinions.
Consider the following. In the Tweet list provided there are 12 responses (all of who were viewers by the way), three of which were in some way positive (including the “it’s bad I’m hooked”). Even on a sample of n=12 that is a 25% ‘approval rate’. Examing the TV ratings, Perfect Couple got a 14% share … in the ball-park I would suggest, wth Twitter maybe a little on the high side.
But hell, what would I know … my statistics degree predates Twitter.
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Should be called “Australias perfect IDIOTS “
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