Aussie TV audience exhibits unusually good taste in rejecting DYAO
Thank goodness for that.
Last night I was beginning to get worried. Dance Your Ass Off started to trend quite heavily on Twitter.
People were laughing at the dancing fat people in lycra. Could it be that Nine had a hit on its hands with the US-made, derivative cross between The Biggest Loser and So You Think You Can Dance?
Was I just being a culture snob who really should be watching SBS? Had Nine’s programming gurus channeled the spirit fo Kerry Packer and against the odds found the next breakout hit?
No.
It averaged less than 800,000 last night, took a kicking from Ten’s Talkin Bout Your Generation (which did double the audience ) and was trounced by Seven’s lineup too.
I’ve got a funny feeling that we’ll see it drop out of Nine’s schedule quite swiftly, and end up as a staple of its digital channel Go instead. I wonder if this was just a way of introducing the punters to a future Go staple.
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Maybe if they’d bothered to change “Ass” to “Arse” for the Aussie viewer… oh I forgot, sorry, We only change OUR words to suit THEM? I may have to start saying “Cookie” more often… it’s printed on all our biscuits now anyway *grumble*.
“Mum I’m off to Maccas, I wanna be on that cool new dance show but I have to put on a lot of weight first” 😉
Wolfie!
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Ha, can anyone say “Hole in the Wall”?
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I was heavily amused for about a minute. Then nauseated.
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This show was absolute genius. It’s what Loser should’ve been all along.
I love that people criticise it, but Idol, ANTM and Loser all are thumbs-up. This is testament to the fact that ANY idea can now be greenlit.
Hurrah!
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I managed to watch 2 minutes before my brain quietly mentioned to me that I was insulting it.
I vote NO to the dancing hog show.
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Yes, I agree with the author.
Getting fat and being a loser is a choice we all make. Please don’t blame macca’s or fast food chains. You can say NO to anything.
Hope 9 drop it from their line up fast and give something with local content a go on Air.
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I miss HomeMADE. That’s the only reason I switched over to Ten!
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Actually DYAO was just another part of Nine’s new reality show currently under production called “Last Viewer Watching”. It’s been in production for a couple of years now and they’ve done well, managing to eliminate millions of people. It’s getting exciting with the show down the the final 800k contestants.
The winner gets the keys to the network.
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“Dance Your Ass Off” , ” Australia’s Best Couple” – what next, “The viewer wants a life”???
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Tim,
Perhaps the title should have read “New low for TV programming, Nine produces steaming pile of dog turd, films it and plays image for 1 hour”
Or perhaps more of a prophetic title: “Nines advertising revenue suffers due to poor judgement and programing”..
TV would be better if Shaun Micallef simply ran a 24 hour monologue and occasionally interacted with a special guest. The guy is generally witty.
J
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Thanks Adam, i thought it was just me that heard about Nine’s new reality show…. ‘Last Viewer Watching’ I might miss it though, busy watching reruns of Doug Mulray’s naughtiest videos…
By the time DYAO finishes, Last Viewer Watching will be premiering…
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Funny Renee – I actually worked on that show many moons ago! I remember getting a memo from management saying how delighted they were with the show – but that was before it (almost) went to air…
I wish I’d kept it!
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online buzz is by no means a good indication of how something will perform.
remember snakes on a plane?
Adam Paull – I reckon they should make a show about you. Thanks for putting a laugh into my day with you “Last Viewer Watching” concept!
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That’s funny Adam 🙂 Maybe they should also do one called “Don’t let the door hit your arse on the way out”.
Wolfie!
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@Lauren – Glad you liked it, I’ll be here all week – two shows Saturday.
@Wolfie – Keep an eye out – you just know that somewhere a Seven exec has just written that down…
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I agree, and the show should GO away! If that means it gets shafted to GO, then fine! It’s fine for people to dance their fat away, and hooray for them doing it, but TV producers don’t get the concept that “less is more” and in this case “more is less”. Much less.
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as one bright spark said in relation to the obesity crisis, ‘just shut your gob an go for a walk!’
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I give it three weeks before digital.
As a hybrid of The Biggest Loser and So You Think You Can Dance, this fails terribly. the title telegraphs the quality…and the lack of any real originality in the format.
An American shocker of no interest to the rest of us.
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I know Aussie tastes are extraordinarily different to US tastes, but this show was actually a sleeper hit for the network that produced it – the highest rating show for Oxygen so far. Its semi-understandable 9 thought it might translate (though agree with previous comment it would’ve been nice for 9 to translate ass to arse)
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There is dumbing down and there is dumbing down. Will the last intelligent person to leave Channel 9 please turn out the lights
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AKA Wipeout…
All about catering for the dumbed down public. NOT ALL which is an indication the last remnants of intelligence are being knocked off… 🙁
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I thought it was hilarious train crash tv.
So bad its good type thing.
A flash in the pan but worth a go – which is where it will be scheduled next.
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Go Ross! Americans are trying to convince themselves that fat is beautiful and I saw this program as part of that movement. They even have scientists now coming out and saying fat is healthy. We shouldn’t take it too lightly as it will happen here as well. Each to their own; to me fat is ugly – except on a Sumo where it’s great (yea I know its not the same fat but I mean the appearance is fine by me).
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How long until Nine starts showing porn or paedophilia with the voiceover “The latest smash hit from Belgium / Austria”?
Don’t think it couldn’t happen. They are going downhill so fast.
It’s a race to the bottom of the cesspit.
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You just cant merge or breed “so you think you can dance” with “biggest loser” and expect a hit.
Mind numbing television at its best.
That anti missle tanker aka fat chick in purple has got some major ghetto booty though, id tap it..haha not really
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