Ratings Megaweek Day 4: Nine’s Hey Hey loses out to Seven’s The Pacific
If Nine was hoping to repeat the 2m+ TV ratings it achieved for last year’s reunion of Hey Hey It’s Saturday it will have been disappointed – Wednesday night’s return of the Daryl Somers fronted show rated just 1.5m, finishing second to Seven’s Second World War blockbuster The Pacific.
However, despite Seven heavily promoting the Melbourne connections of its drama it was the only city where Hey Hey outrated The Pacific – by 603,000 to 509,000 – according to preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTam.
In its 7:30pm time slot Hey Hey also led, ahead of Seven’s Brace for Impact: Inside the Hudson Plane Crash and Ten’s The Biggest Loser: Couples.
The Pacific was the most-watched show among 16-39s, 18-49s and 25-54s.
In overall free-to-air TV viewing, Seven’s main channel led with a 31.5 per cent share, followed by Nine with 28.4 per cent and Ten with 16.6 per cent.
Wednesday’s most-watched shows:
- The Pacific Seven 1.593m
- Hey Hey It’s Saturday Nine 1.521m
- Today Tonight Seven 1.430m
- Seven News Seven 1.366m
- Nine News Nine 1.215m
- A Current Affair Nine 1.111m
- ABC News ABC 1.094m
- Home and Away Seven 1.073m
- Brace for Impact Seven 1.064m
- Two and a Half Men Nine 1.055m
- The Big Bang Theory – Episode 1 Nine 0.997
- The Biggest Loser Ten 0.969
- Ten News Ten 0.839
- So You Think You Can Dance Ten 0.832
- Spicks and Specks ABC 0.782
Wednesday’s channel share:
- Seven: 31.5%
- Nine: 28.4%
- Ten: 16.6%
- ABC1: 12.5%
- SBS1: 3.6%
- GO!: 2.3%
- 7TWO 2.2%
- ABC2: 1.7%
- One: 0.7%
- ABC3: 0.3%
- SBS2: 0.3%
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Pacific should do better once time-shifted audience is included. Pity the advertisers who are fast forwarded through!
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They should call it Hey Hey it’s Wednesday. The whole thing is just wrong.
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It’s like the Hey, Hey crew are stuck in some kind of demented time warp where nothing never, ever changes.
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If it is just a good harmless laugh, why should Hey Hey change? I watched it. It was good, harmless, family fun. Something which is missing on free to air nowadays. Yes, I have time-shifted Pacific. I reckon I will check it out tonight. A load of doo-dahs on tonight.
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Hey .. next week with Pacific set in 1942 Melbourne, 7 should out rate HHIW.
(Was it just after WWII that HHIS stared at & o’Clock in the morning?)
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Harmless – yes. Laugh – not for mine.
It was just lame. I say that based on about 10 minutes, couldn’t last any longer than that.
Interestingly The Pacific didn’t even factor for me, just didn’t appeal for some reason. Given the budget I’d be disappointed with those numbers.
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You’d love this Tim, wouldn’t you, one of the networks having a go and you knock em down, you love seeing failure, I can tell, it’s very English
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Thanks for your comments, NY Nemisis (do you mean nemesis, by the way?)
It’s useful for all of us to see your helpful definitions of national characteristics. I see from a comment on another thread (“wake up Australia, you’re being conned, but I must say, it is easy to con you people”) that Australians are gullible.
By the way we discuss The Pacific vs Hey Hey in a little more detail in our weekly podcast (uploaded in a few minutes). But to answer your question, I actually think it’s a good thing when local productions outperform syndicated content.
Cheers,
Tim – Mumbrella