The Big Adventure comes fourth in timeslot as ABC beats Seven on primary station share
Seven’s winner announcement of reality show The Big Adventure saw 649,000 viewers tune in to see 27-year-old tradie Mark Sellar win the show and take home $1m, after 628,000 tuned in for the final double-episode from 7.30pm.
The low numbers meant Seven was beaten into third place for audience share on its primary channel with 17.2 per cent share, behind Nine’s 18.6 per cent and the ABC which had a very strong 17.7 per cent, as Ten was fourth with 14.1 per cent.
The show struggled to build an audience after debuting to 945,000 viewers on Seven and 7Mate in October, posting a season low of 447,000 on Sunday evening, according to OzTam metro overnight figures.
A decent show used to be minimum 1 million, a hit was 2 million, now the average top rating show is 800,000. The wheels really have fallen off free to air tv.
Why do Channel 10 persist with showing Homeland at 10.40 PM?
Are the consciously doing this to drive people online to their website to watch it or drive extra time shift viewing.
I for one am switching off and will watch it elsewhere
Fast track in Malaysia means showing a program on the same day it is shown in US. Not here. They have already shown new episodes of Revenge in KL.
The Big Adventure was my favourite show of 2014 – I guess it’s a bit too cerebral for most though.
Very true Jennifer. Well in a way.
The 38 #1 shows (in the “TV season”) of 2014 averaged 1.958,132 in the Metropolitan markets. That’s just a smidge more than your 800,00. Ok, it’s more than a million.
But you are right in one aspect. The highest ‘annual’ average I have tracked is 2003 with an average of 2,235,792. So the average #1 programme is down 12.4% over 11 years. Plus the population has grown 18.8% during that time.
But looking at it another way, it does mean that the average #1 programme attracts 12.2% of the metro population. If that proportion holds in the regional markets, then that means that one-in-eight Australians are watching that programme in the average minute.
With a current population of 23.7m (ABS) means 2.9m Australians on average watch the #1 TV programme.
Now I ask you, name me one other medium that can deliver (on average) almost 3m Australians per minute over a (typically) 60 minute duration with a single piece of content.
So, yes a wheel may be wobbling but they are still damned big wheels.
Or as Samuel Clemens neatly put it … the rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
Cheers.