The Ashes on Gem beats all reality shows with Restaurant Revolution losing more viewers
Seven’s Restaurant Revolution has continued to shed viewers in its third outing, dropping by 39 per cent since its launch on Tuesday evening to post a metro audience of 415,000 last night.
The new reality format was comprehensively trounced in its timeslot with The Ashes on Gem pulling the biggest non-news audience of the evening with 775,000 viewers from 7.30pm, with the Australian team toiling against England and securing its second highest ever audience share.
It squeezed out episode two of The Bachelor which slid to 739,000 metro viewers after grabbing 846,000 on debut the evening before however it did win across the key advertising demographics.
Nine’s new franchise The Hotplate also saw a mini-collapse to 656,000 viewers at 7.30pm, having pulled 713,000 the night before and 784,000 on launch.
On launch Restaurant Revolution was watched by 676,000, dipping to 515,000 on Wednesday evening.
Session two of the cricket on the multichannel dropped to 456,000 viewers.
The third and final night of SBS’ controversial documentary series Go Back To Where You Came From saw audiences slip again in the competitive 8.30pmn slot, with 309,000 metro viewers according to OzTam overnight ratings.
Ten’s US drama Zoo continues to slide just pipping the SBS show at 8.40pm with 315,000, with ABC drama Glitch getting 366,000 at 8.30pm.
The Footy Show on Nine was second in the timeslot behind the cricket, helping Nine win the night with an audience share of 19.2 per cent, ahead of Seven on 14.7 per cent which narrowly held off Gem which enjoyed 14.6 per cent of the available audience beating Ten’s 12 per cent and ABC’s 9.8 per cent.
In the increasingly topsy turvy breakfast battle Nine’s Today beat Sunrise with 322,000 to 308,000.
Nine News at 6pm topped the night with 1.088m and the 6.30pm bulleting getting 1.052m, ahead of Seven News’ 6pm offering of 941,000 and the 6.30pm bulletin and Today Tonight slot getting 911,000.
Top 15 shows:
1 NINE NEWS Network 9 1,088,000
2 NINE NEWS 6:30 Network 9 1,052,000
3 SEVEN NEWS Network 7 941,000
4 SEVEN NEWS / TODAY TONIGHT Network 7 911,000
5 A CURRENT AFFAIR Network 9 835,000
6 ABC NEWS-EV Network ABC 791,000
7 THE MID-YEAR ASHES: THIRD TEST-ENG V AUS SESSION 1 -D2 Network Gem 775,000
8 THE BACHELOR AUSTRALIA THURS Network TEN 739,000
9 HOME AND AWAY Network 7 720,000
10 THE FOOTY SHOW Network 9 679,000
11 THE HOTPLATE -THU Network 9 656,000
12 7.30-EV Network ABC 655,000
13 HOT SEAT Network 9 640,000
14 THE PROJECT 7PM Network TEN 628,000
15 TEN EYEWITNESS NEWS FIRST AT FIVE Network TEN 590,000
Channel audience share:
Network 9 19.2%
Network 7 14.7%
Network Gem 14.6%
Network TEN 12.0%
Network ABC 9.8%
Network 7TWO 5.7%
Network SBS ONE 4.8%
Network GO! 4.0%
Network ELEVEN 3.7%
Network 7mate 3.0%
Network ABC2 2.9%
Network ONE 2.1%
Network SBS 2 1.5%
Network ABC News 24 1.1%
Network ABC3 0.5%
Network NITV 0.5%
Total network share:
Network 9 TTL 37.7%
Network 7 TTL 23.4%
Network TEN TTL 17.7%
Network ABC TTL 14.4%
Network SBS TTL 6.8%
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Miranda Ward worked for Mumbrella from 2013 to 2017, eventually becoming deputy editor. Miranda joined Mumbrella in September 2013 from Sky News.
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What you don’t see in the above figures in that “The Bachelor” won all key demos.
18-49, 25-54 and 16-39.
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Hi Gary – that’s covered in the line “however it did win across the key advertising demographics”.
Cheers,
Alex – editor, Mumbrella
More like Restaurant in Receivership the way things are going
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Fascinating watching the excitement at shows that fail to even crack a million. Fragmentation is really starting to bite.
Once upon a time when our population was much smaller, the champagne corks were only popped when you hit that magic million mark.
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It goes to show the poor state of network TV when garbage like the Bachelor is being celebrated for hitting 739,000!!!
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The figure for The Ashes would be 775,002 if only NINE would give Foxtel satellite customers access to the channel.
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Hopefully after the second time this has happened this year – and Channel TEN has won by default – Seven and Nine will finally realise how stupid putting almost identical shows up against each other in the same timeslot really is.
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Tom, I don’t understand. I am on Foxtel satellite and am watching the Ashes right now live on Gem (209) – Aussies 8-235. If the bowlers can get us to 300 it could get interesting.
Are you on an Austar box, iQ2 or iQ3?
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