ABC soars above Ten as Rove flops again
The ABC received a rare 20.8 per cent ratings share for Sunday night, bumping Ten under the 20 per cent mark and into fourth place after Australian Idol and Rove numbers decreased again.
Midsomer Murders on the ABC was the top performer for the station, coming in as the third most watched show for Sunday with just under 1.3m viewers, according to preliminary OzTam results. Another two ABC programmes made the top ten, Stephen Fry in America at 7:30 with 1.1m and ABC News at 7pm, just over 900,000.
For Ten, Rove dropped from 1.1m to just over 830,000 and despite the introduction of new judge, Sony Music talent scout Jay Dee Springbett, Australian Idol dropped from 1.2m last week to a little under 1.1m.
The first session of The Ashes at 7:30 pulled in a respectable audience for the station with just over 400,000.
Over at Seven, Dancing with the Stars took out the 6:30 timeslot for the second Sunday running with 1.4m, taking the network to a win for the beginning of the ratings week.
Last night’s share: Seven 26%, Nine 24.2%, ABC 20.8%, Ten 19.9% and SBS 9.1%.
Sunday’s top 15 shows:
- Seven News – Seven 1.7m
- Dancing with the Stars – Seven 1.4m
- Midsomer Murders – ABC 1.3m
- Nine News – Nine 1.3m
- Bones 8:30pm – Seven 1.1m
- Domestic Blitz – Nine 1.1m
- Stephen Fry in America – ABC 1.1m
- Australian Idol – Ten 1.1m
- 60 Minutes – Nine 1m
- ABC News – ABC 0.9m
- Rescue Special Ops – Nine 0.9m
- Bones – 9:30pm – Seven 0.9m
- Rove – Ten 0.8m
- Ten News – Ten 0.7m
- The Einstein Factor – ABC 0.7m
Rove, at last people are waking up to the fact that he is talentless. I hope this is the case because there are some very intelligent people in Australia and it is an insult to have such a show as a hit. I hope these rankings continue to dip for him. I scratch my head as to why he os on TV at all??? Anyone know why he is apparently so successful?
Hear hear!
Good or bad, I think Rove is a tired format and seeing they had to “make changes” with this new season shows it’s not doing well and the ratings are proving that.
Will Nine come back with Hey Hey specials and possible return? But it will probably fall into the trap it did originally and Rove now, that you get tired of the same gags and format each week. Maybe it needs to be more like Conan/Letterman?
Double that Hear Hear!
(My god its like Parliament all over again!)
There’s something very wrong if Midsomer Murders is winning the slot. Rove can’t be THAT bad?
The Panel, Hollowmen, Frontline, The Castle, The Dish – the same team know when to stop. When to change tack . And when to come back again. Sometimes with them in front of the camera. Sometimes behind. So does Andrew Denton. Rove – go and have a chat to those guys – and see you next year with something new ?
I agree that Rove is getting tired, but my problem with it is that Rove and Crew believe they are the talent now. Bring back the ‘good old days’ when the real talent (the guests) was on for longer than 3 minutes each and not constantly being interrupted by the local jokesters!
rove is teh suck.
rove is so cringe worthy to watch. It’s just a back slapping session for a bunch of nerds who never graduated from back of the bus pranks. He never packs any punches with interviewing guests so what we are given each week is a really same same safe insight into some people who actually have really interesting stories to tell.
I tuned out from Rove years ago.
ps. The shine has well and truly come off Idol.
Andrew Denton hosting a Letterman style show would be fantastic! Denton is one of the best interviewers around. I might be bold enough to say globally…
He would be awesome.
On 7, 9, or 10: how about Matty Johns?? “The Matty Johns Show” – could be a come back…?