Big ratings night for Gruen Transfer, big morning for Sunrise
The Gruen Transfer last night enjoyed its biggest ratings since it made its debut in 2008 with an average audience of 1.482m on Wednesday night.
The ABC1 show about the advertising industry rated second for the night, behind Seven’s Today Tonight (1.507m) according to preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTam.
Meanwhile, Seven’s Sunrise (429,000) followed on from last week’s big numbers and yesterday opened up one of its widest gaps in recent years over Nine’s Today (285,000). The margin of 144,000 meant that the show had 50% more viewers than its bitter rival.
The last time the gap was as wide was on November 4, 2008 when it was 169,000.
The stellar audience also carried through to Seven’s Morning Show, which rated 206,000.
In prime time, reality show Four Weddings fared less well for Seven, averaging 1.012m for its debut. It was beaten by Nine’s Two And A Half Men (1.177m) and Hot Property (1.104m). But it was well ahead of Ten whose double episodes of the Simpsons rated 642,000 and 817,000. The repeated season two finale of Lie To Me rated 727,000, uncerlining a poor night for Ten.
Wednesday’s top rating TV shows:
- Today Tonight Seven 1.507m
- The Gruen Transfer ABC 1.482m
- Seven News Seven 1.408m
- Spicks and Specks ABC 1.361m
- Nine News Nine 1.328m
- ABC News ABC 1.256m
- The Farmer Wants A Wife Nine 1.221m
- Two and a Half Men – 7:30pm Nine 1.177m
- A Current Affair Nine 1.154m
- Hot Property Nine 1.104m
- The 7:30 Report ABC 1.069m
- Home and Away Seven 1.047m
- Four Weddings Seven 1.012m
- Two and a Half Men – 7:00pm Nine 1.000m
- RPA Nine 0.950m
Wednesday’s share:
- Nine: 26.6%
- Seven: 22.9%
- ABC1: 19.2%
- Ten: 16.4%
- SBS1: 3.7%
- GO!: 3.5%
- 7TWO: 3.4%
- ABC2: 1.9%
- One: 0.7%
- SBS2: 0.6%
- ABC3: 0.5%
- ABC News 24: 0.5%
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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To be honest Gruen last night was one of the least impressive I have watched. The so called “experts” tended to let their religious bigotry drive their comments rather than advertising expertise. Pity. However, given Denton’s history of religious bigotry it was no surprise.
So the viewers hit a high mark but the show calibre hit a low mark.
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I was thinking how fair-minded the panel were being considering they were examining advertisements selling the virtue of love from a 2000-year-old dead guy.
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@ Adam he was only dead for a few days.
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Go back to church MattP it’s pretty obvious you have your nuts nailed to the cross, you’d be angry at anyone who provided a level headed argument contrary to your own beliefs because you’re probably the product of the advertising they were analysing anyway.
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I didn’t pick up on any anti religion sentiment to be honest MattP – I kept waiting for it but was impressed that they were assessing the advertising undertaken in a solid way. Well I do feel the criticism was constructive and not biased.
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I thought their critique of religion was relatively tamed, keeping their personal views somewhat out of it (although they still ended up coming through).
I didn’t quite agree with their view of Jesus all about life ad, being only targeted at “trying to keep insiders in”.
It was probably more trying to target the majority of Australians who are “nominal christians” who go to church 1-3 times a year.
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@ Mattp thanks for the level headed response. You are incorrect on all counts.
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I don’t think there was any anti religion sentiment either. It pointed out inconsistencies in all religions, not just one.
And that bible thingy you might want to read yourself, ‘he who takes offence’ etc etc.
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