Ten pulls Changing Rooms from schedule
Changing Rooms has been pulled from Ten’s schedule with the show to be ‘rested’ until later in the year.
The program, with stars Natalie Bassingthwaite as host, features a group of couples who swap houses with family, friends and neighbours and decorate key rooms.
It originally premiered at 7:30pm on a Wednesday, but averaged just 204,000 metro viewers. The following evening, the number climbed to 298,000, but the show was quickly moved to Friday and Saturday nights.
On the following Friday and Saturday, the show pulled metro audiences of 196,000 and 135,000 respectively. It is not yet clear when the show will return to air.
A Network Ten spokesperson told Mumbrella: “Changing Rooms is a great production with a great host and great transformations. We will be bringing the show to audiences in a new timeslot which we will announce later this year.”
The show was the least successful premiere for Ten this year, when looking at OzTAM’s overnight preliminary ratings.
Dancing With The Stars premiered with 621,000 metro viewers, and Sunday Night Takeaway captured an average audience of 383,000. The most successful program to date was long-standing reality show, I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here, which pulled 1.098m metro viewers for opening night.
Ten’s decision to ‘rest’ the show comes three weeks after it cancelled its 6pm game show, Pointless.
Yikes, another blow for Ten.
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I wouldn’t rest it, I’d bury it.
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Dont worry Channel Ten, you still have the high rating Game of Games you can unleash
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Changing rooms is a great show ….
It not only shows us that many streets have great neighbours that get along ….. it shows us humans still have trust in other humans ….
Keep it on as it’s not all about ratings ….. maybe put on in middle of the day instead of stupid repeats from previous nights or sport ( which not everyone likes )
So many elderly people are living alone and wanting a fun innocent show to watch during midday …
Come on channel 10 be different and keep changing rooms going …
Maybe get teams to decorate older people’s homes who have no money to decorate because they live on pensions and physically can’t do it themselves because of age as well ….
KEEP CHANGING ROOMS ON TV
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Pity they could not get rid of free to air altogether .
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Great show not fake like other renovating shows really enjoyed it sad just bad timeslot too much competition with popular fake shows enjoyed designers thought they did a great job will be waiting for show to return very hard these days too much trashy tv need to have quality tv sadly lacking ☹️
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It’s a great show???? Bull..it’s the same old rubbish that these networks keep pumping out time and time again. The ratings should be obvious..no one cares! This is why a national TV network can barely get the views of an average You Tube channel these days. Boring reality shows..the same formula over and over again..rehashing crappy shows like this that were taken of the air for a reason.
I find it unbelievable that they think the viewers are that hard up for something to watch that they will sit through any old tripe they put infront of us. Nahhhh we have options these days and unless these networks wake up, they are all going to collapse.
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I only just started watching the show and really thought it was great and different to what was on and now it’s been pulled and I think I’m stuck in the before and now I’m waiting for the after
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Bring back Suzie Wilkes…problem solved
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Replace Suzie Wilkes with Clementine Ford… problem solved.
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I think TV and Movie producers need to stop trying to reboot/revisit previously successful concepts and try to push it again.
So many flops and this is another one – tweaking the format certainly has not helped (and yes shows like MAFS and others are smashing ratings at present)
Also the host (yawn) and the “experts” (yawn) – this did not help.
If I was the CBS masters…putting some executive clout on these ideas could help (also please CBS – start broadcasting some US shows we’ve not seen)
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Air more shows like THE PROJECT or STUDIO 10, bring back quality TV, not junk….
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I thought this show was refreshing….all real people. Bring it back! Anytime is fine I will watch on catchup
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I watched Changing Rooms the first week and loved it. I didn’t realise that Ten changed the time slot the following week, and I assume many viewers were also unaware, accounting for its ratings drop. Come on Ten, advertise time changes so that viewers have a chance.
By the way, thank goodness Pointless has been axed. That host and his jokes are just embarrassing. Where did Ten find him.
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Love changing rooms. It is a shame to lose it. Friday night was a great night to enjoy this type of show – better than Better Homes and Gardens which I think has had its time. Back to Netflix.
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this show was shit! it wasn’t the length of the show or the format it was the designers. they were crap!!
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