Seven’s Martin Bryant report proves more popular than Ten’s The People v. OJ Simpson
The premiere of US drama The People v. OJ Simpson attracted 593,000 metro viewers for Channel Ten at 8:30pm.
The show, which stars Cuba Gooding Jr as OJ Simpson and Selma Blair as Kris Jenner, was the third most-watched show across the key advertising demographics (16-39, 18-49 and 25-54) while Seven’s My Kitchen Rules and Sunday Night took out the top two places in the demographics respectively.
The People v. OJ Simpson was out-rated by Seven’s Sunday Night which saw Mike Willesee lead an investigation into Port Arthur mass murderer Martin Bryant. It pulled in 1.201m metro viewers in the 8:30pm time slot.
Earlier in the evening, Channel Nine’s reality show Australia’s Got Talent shed 111,000 metro viewers on last week, pulling in 602,000 viewers at 8:00pm, down from last week’s audience of 713,000.
In the 7:30pm time slot, Seven’s My Kitchen Rules pulled in 1.325m metro viewers, winning the night – while, earlier in the evening, Ten’s I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here!, which aired from 6:30pm, was watched by 559,000.
Later in the evening, Seven’s The Blacklist, airing at 9:30pm, was watched by 518,000.
Seven won the evening with an audience share of 26.1%, well ahead of Nine’s audience share of 16.3%. Ten claimed fourth place with a share of 12.3% while the ABC settled for a share of 13.3%.
On the ABC, Doc Martin at 7:40pm was watched by 1.055m, to be the third most-watched program of the evening. Call the Midwife, airing at 8:30pm, pulled in 594,000.
In the news battleground, Nine News was watched by 1.040m while Seven News pulled in 977,000.
I’ve been watching the OJ Simpson show on piracy and it’s very, very good. If Ten had started showing it 5 weeks ago like it should have more people might have watched it.
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What a joke piece of journalism. After viewing this show it looks like Martin Bryant rather than a sinister mass murderer ( I understood him to be in 1996) is either a mentally incapacitated person with the mental ability of a 5 year old; or even worse a target scapegoat. The program showed more abaout the mind of his solicitor and I wonder about the so called confession on butchers paper. From what I saw in the video police interview, you could get Martin Bryant to say anything. No one is home in his head! I don’t believe he was even competent to stand trial. There is more to this than is being presented. Very poor investigative journalism on Mike Willisee’s part. Thought he would have been interrogating the solicitor. Just seem a very orchestrated program to resurrect the career of the solicitor that went to jail for 4 years.
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