Audience drop off for Hey Hey It’s Saturday and The Pacific
Nine’s Hey Hey It’s Saturday and Seven’s war drama The Pacific last night had their lowest audience share since launching last month.
Hey Hey It’s Saturday saw 1.034m tune in, according to preliminary overnight OzTam data in the main metro markets.
This was down from the 1.2m of last week and the 1.5m it attracted for its launch episode.
For The Pacific, its 8:30pm episode attracted just over one million average viewers, while its second episode fell to 956,000.
The war epic launched the same night as Hey Hey and was the most watched show with 1.59m viewers.
The ABC’s Spicks And Specks in its 8:30pm to 9pm time slot faired better, despite a small drop from last week. It rated ahead of The Pacific at 8:30pm and was also ahead of Hey Hey.
Ten’s Masterchef had a strong night with 1.74m tuning in.
Wednesday’s most-watched shows:
- MASTERCHEF 1,741,000
- SEVEN NEWS 1,413,000
- TODAY TONIGHT 1,333,000
- NINE NEWS 1,291,000
- A CURRENT AFFAIR 1,154,000
- TWO AND A HALF MEN -RPT 1,087,000
- ABC NEWS-EV 1,079,000
- SPICKS AND SPECKS-EV 1,074,000
- THE PACIFIC 1,061,000
- HOME AND AWAY 1,036,000
- HEY HEY IT’S SATURDAY 1,034,000
- DOG SQUAD 964,000
- THE PACIFIC – EP.2 956,000
- SURF PATROL 899,000
- THE 7PM PROJECT 858,000
Tim Burrowes founded Mumbrella in 2008. He worked on Mumbrella until 2021. At various points he was editor, content director and editor-at-large.
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In shock news, people have discovered that Hey Hey is shite – amazing. I watched 5 minutes of it a couple of weeks ago, and watching Daryl introducing Jet was just cringe-worthy – he is terrible talent.
So sad about The Pacific – Band of Brothers was so great, and TP just misses out on the same emotional connection. I just don’t think the cast works as well as Damian Lewis and Ron Livingston did in BoB
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Boring news.
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From a purely story telling/narrative/character perspective, Band of Brothers was about “heroes” and the Pacific is more about “survivors”, almost bordering on “victims”.
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