Beat The Star fades out as the host enjoys a beer in the shower
Seven’s gameshow Beat The Star ended its short life in primetime by shedding nearly 100,000 viewers more on its second outing.
The show – this week featuring a family testing their skills against former basketpall player Andrew Gaze – rated 14th for the night with an audience of 862,000. Seven has now ditched it from the Tuesday 7.30pm slot with no word on whether its remaining episodes will be run in the future.
Last week the show, hosted by Daniel MacPherson, made its debut with 955,000.
On Tuesday night the show again finished third, behind Top Gear on Nine (1.339m), and Talkin Bout Your Generation on Ten (1.365m), according to preliminary overnight metro figures from OzTam.
After a viewer tweeted their commiserations to MacPherson on the axing of the show last night, he replied: “Hey that’s tv! I think ‘rescheduled’ is the official term.”
Later that night he confided that his TV wasn’t working so he wasn’t able to watch the show himself, before tweeting: “I just had a beer in the shower.”
By contrast, Seven’s ratings blockbuster Packed To The Rafters bounced back from its small inherited audience and more than doubled it to 1.867m. making it top show for the night and taking Seven to a win.
Meanwhile, Chk Chk Boom girl Clare Werbeloff made a modest TV debut, with Nine’s The Real Hustle delivering an audience of 740,000 in the 9pm slot.
- Packed to the Rafters Seven 1.867m
- Seven News Seven 1.385m
- Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation Ten 1.365m
- Top Gear Nine 1.339m
- Today Tonight Seven 1.326m
- A Current Affair Nine 1.299m
- Nine News Nine 1.253m
- Two and a Half Men Nine 1.122m
- ABC News ABC 1.067m
- Home and Away Seven 0.975m
- NCIS – Episode 1 Ten 0.972m
- Parenthood Seven 0.965m
- The 7PM Project Ten 0.916m
- Beat the Star Seven 0.862m
- Ten News Ten 0.849m
Tuesday’s channel share:
- Seven: 26.9%
- Nine: 23.5%
- Ten: 21.5%
- ABC1: 13.0%
- SBS1: 4.4%
- GO!: 3.7%
- 7TWO: 3.0%
- ABC2: 1.5%
- ABC3: 0.7%
- SBS2: 0.7%
- One: 0.6%
- ABC News 24: 0.4%
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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wow. didn’t see that coming at all.
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so what…a beer in the shower sounds good! he works hard and obviously trains hard. good on him! who wrote this piece of shit story? someone from womans day?
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