The Slap debuts with 946,000
Australian drama The Slap debuted on the ABC last night with a healthy audience of 946,000, winning its time slot.
The show was the highest ranking for the ABC for Thursday and beat Seven’s Beauty and the Geek Australia (863,000), Nine’s new cop drama Unforgettable (732,000) and Rush on Ten (660,000).
Nine’s strongest outing was Nine News with 1.037 million and The Renovators was Ten’s most popular show with 800,000 viewers, according to preliminary metro ratings from OzTam.
Today Tonight won the night with 1.101 million.
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Is this how city people behave? I could not identify with any of the characters. Do you get your Valium from the vet without a script? I did have a mate who’s sister breast fed their kid till about 7yo, but she never did it in front of other kids. I was very disappointed with this after the anticipation it built in me. Won’t be going back for seconds.
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I thought it was really amazing – well done ABC!
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Yep! I’ll give The Slap a tick. I’m interested in where it goes from here. It is certainly an improvement on some of those damn reality shows!
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Amazing! You could feel the tension building bit by bit – and the direction with the camera following people around the house – glimpses through windows. Loved it. So difficult to translate the written word into television drama, they truly did it justice.
The acting ensemble did not have a weak link.
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Agreed! I was also impressed wih the tension building and although I didn’t warm to many of the characters, are we supposed to?
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Was the late night winner last night in my mind. Blade followed by The Ultimate Fighter followed by double South Park?! Get in
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Big tick from me too.
Beautifully cast, well acted and a great translation of the book…so far.
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The kid deserved the slap – I’d have given the little bastard a couple !
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Great first ep. Looking forward to the rest…
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