Top Gear Australia stalls at the start line with just 503,000 viewers
Nine’s Top Gear Australia had a disastrous return last night with the 8:30 show receiving just 503,000 viewers, less than half of its debut audience last season.
The show was ranked 25th most-watched and was beaten by Seven’s Packed To The Rafters (1.597m), Ten’s NCIS (774,000) and ABC1’s Australian Story: David Hicks (647,000), according to preliminary metro ratings from OzTam.
It was followed by a repeat of the UK version of the show at 9:30 which pulled in only 344,000.
Last year’s debut episode of Top Gear Australia, which was in the 7:30 time slot, received 1.218 million. It was the fourth most-watched show of the night.
Shit My Dad Says at 8pm on Nine also had a poor showing with 532,000.
The X Factor auditions on Seven at 7:30 won the night with 1.69 million viewers.
A new episode of Modern Family on Ten was the highest ranking show for the network with 872,000.
Seven easily won the night with 29.2% share. Ten beat Nine with 15.6% over 14.4%. Digital channel 7TWO received 4.1% over SBS1’s 3.8%.
Tuesday’s top 15 shows:
- The X Factor – Seven – 1.690m
- Packed to the Rafters – Seven – 1.597m
- Seven News – Seven – 1.321m
- Today Tonight – Seven – 1.309m
- Home and Away – Seven – 1.162m
- Nine News – Nine – 1.116m
- A Current Affair – Nine – 0.939m
- ABC News – ABC – 0.937m
- Modern Family – Ten – 0.872m
- The 7PM Project – Ten – 0.846m
- The Big Bang Theory – 7:30pm – Nine – 0.776m
- NCIS – Ten – 0.774m
- Dinner Date – Seven – 0.771m
- The Big Bang Theory – 7:00pm – Nine – 0.763m
- The Renovators – Ten – 0.69m
- Seven: 29.2%
- Ten: 15.6%
- Nine: 14.4%
- ABC1: 12%
- 7TWO: 4.1%
- 7mate: 3.8%
- SBS1: 3.8%
- Eleven: 3.4%
- Gem: 3%
- Go!: 3%
- ABC2: 2.5%
- One: 2%
- SBS2: 2%
- ABC3: 0.6%
- ABC News 24: 0.5%
karma
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Rafters is a puzzle. watched the show to see why it was so popular. nothing happens on the show to develop the storyline.There is no explanation for why all these characters are there.
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Whenever I’m flicking around the channels and I land on Rafters, the ten seconds I see is nearly always people standing out the front of a house waving goodbye to a car…
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I’m guessing Nine only do a local version of Tog Gear because of some rights package with the BBC? They really needn’t bother.
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