Offspring launches with 1.1m for Ten as Latham’s 60 Minutes show finishes third
Ten’s launch of Melbourne-based relationship drama Offspring in a two hour episode worked reasonably well for the network, delivering an average audience of just over 1.1m on Sunday night.
The show was seventh for the night according to preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTam.
However, Offspring’s popularity fluctuated across Australia. In Melbourne, the show was sixth, although it was most popular in Perth where it was fourth. In Brisbane it was 15th.
Meanwhile Modern Family has continued to fade for Ten, only just getting above 1m viewers on Sunday night.
And last night saw Nine air its controversial 60 Minutes guest slot from former Labor leader Mark Latham.
But despite a week of controversy, 60 Minutes pulled in an audience of just over 1.3m, third in its timeslot behind Seven’s Dancing With The Stars (1.362m) and Ten’s Talkin Bout Your Generation (1.38m). (However, it should be noted that Latham’s segment was on first on 60 Minutes and as Mumbrella does not have access to minute-by-minute ratings it is possible that viewing was higher towards the start of the show.)
On SBS, the free to air premiere of the latest series of 50s adland drama Mad Men disappointed, with the show failing to make it into the top 50 for the night.
Sunday’s top 15 shows:
- Seven News Seven 1.626m
- Nine News Nine 1.489m
- Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation Ten 1.438m
- Dancing with the Stars Seven 1.362m
- Sunday Night Seven 1.331m
- 60 Minutes Nine 1.310m
- Offspring Ten 1.124m
- RBT Nine 1.089m
- Send in the Dogs Nine 1.071m
- Modern Family Ten 1.015m
- Rules of Engagement Ten 0.979m
- Life ABC 0.959m
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Nine 0.944m
- ABC News ABC 0.925m
- Bones Seven 0.700m
Sunday’s share:
- Seven: 27.1%
- Ten: 22.6%
- Nine: 21.9%
- ABC1: 11.8%
- SBS1: 4.6%
- GO!: 4.6%
- 7TWO: 4.1%
- One: 1.6%
- SBS2: 0.6%
- ABC2: 0.5%
- ABC News 24: 0.5%
- ABC3: 0.2%
Tim Burrowes founded Mumbrella in 2008. He worked on Mumbrella until 2021. At various points he was editor, content director and editor-at-large.
Linkedin
Yeah, according to the wife it’s her new favorite show….
Reminded me of Secret Life of Us a bit.
User ID not verified.
The Latham spot was a travesty. It was nothing more than a sad cocktail of arrogance and of sour grapes. I sincerely look forward to the end of the election campaign and Mark Latham’s career as a journo.
User ID not verified.
Modern Family – they shouldn’t have changed the timeslot. I used to watch it on Tuesdays, now I’m not really sure when it’s on.
User ID not verified.
10 would have to be very dissapointed with the Offspring numbers. The show has been heavily plugged for weeks. They would have had to be aiming for a premier of over 1.5M int he cap cities. So not sure what has happened with viewers.
IMO it was pretty good. Very much shades of secret life of us, but still worth a look for me.
User ID not verified.
I really liked the Offspring show, mind you the fact that the nurse Sheree had a one night stand with the Dad Darcy and fell pregnant shows that they had unprotected sex which in this day and age I thought was a bit bloody foolish… the script writers could have sorted that bit out properly to still fit in with the story line.
User ID not verified.
I’m with Claire…Offspring is great new show.
User ID not verified.
Hi iusedtosellshit,
Bear in mind that’s the viewing average over two hours. It seems fair to assume that it faded in the final, post-10pm half hour. I guess we’ll know better once it reverts to normal length eps.
Cheers,
Tim – Mumbrella
I think part of SBS’s problem with Mad Men is that they are so far behind with the show. While they have just started screening Season 2, Season 4 is currently airing in the US and season 3 is already available on the shelves of JB Hi-Fi.
Watching it on SBS is by far the least practical option when compared to the Blu-ray/DVD option (or more clandestine solutions for maintaining parity with the US schedule).
I’m a big fan of SBS and was excited when they first picked up the show, but they’ve let themselves fall too far behind now.
User ID not verified.
offspring is TERRIBLE – its like they bought the dialogue off an iPad app.
Convinced the ratings will drop next week
User ID not verified.
I love Latham’s statement ‘politics is no longer about policy, no longer about making Australia a better place, but it’s about power’ – when was politics ever about ‘making Australia a better place’?
With some shining exceptions, politics has always been about power and vested interests
What an embarrassment – and yes, whoever made the comment about Modern Family is exactly right – they moved it to a crap slot, so shouldn’t be surprised it has dipped…….
m
User ID not verified.
Re Modern Family, I agree. Channel 10 moving the time slots around just makes it difficult to get people to commit to a show. It is a great show. If they need to do a double episode, then do it back to back, not one on a sunday and another on the Tuesday. BTW how hilarious was Tuesday’s Valentine’s episode!
User ID not verified.
Are there really only about 10 decent actors in Australia? The cross over in casts between Offspring, Tangle, Secret Life, 30 Seconds, Underbelly etal is getting silly – excellent though she is, its hard to work out which nightmare sister character Kat Stewart is playing this week.
The casting agents certainly didn’t do much to earn their money.
User ID not verified.
Greg is bang on and Apple has sorted more up-to-date downloads as well so why would you do SBS. It’s a shame really because Mad Men is one of the best things on TV.
User ID not verified.
I’m not sure why Ten released Offspring on iTunes before Sunday, maybe those with Apple TV had already seen it. I had.
User ID not verified.