The Blacklist and The X Factor win Seven the night as Homeland fails to recover for Ten
The Blacklist and The X Factor topped the ratings for Seven last night, averaging audiences of 1.457m and 1.445m, preliminary overnight ratings from OzTAM show.
The X Factor live results on at 7.30pm was the top program of the night. And The Blacklist was the number one program in people 25-54, and second in all people.
Channel Ten’s second episode of the third series of Homeland, broadcast hours after the US, failed to recover on last week’s opening, rating just 435,000 across the five cities.
Homeland was 22nd for the night, even beaten by Ten’s afternoon soap The Bold and the Beautiful. It was fourth in its timeslot behind Four Corners on ABC1 and Nine’s Big Brother as well as The Blacklist.
I didn’t even realise season 3 of homeland was airing yet! Great marketing Ch 10!!
The gap between Sunrise and Today seems to be widening with Sam in the chair. Go Sam!!!
The airing of Homeland, the show that in spite of its awards ( largely chauvinistic) has all the earmarks of having been written by computer analysis and directed by committee, is just another example of the panic rush to grab ratings.
This mad scramble for viewers is the main contributor and major cause of all the problems with bad television production in our age.
Cater for blanket mass appeal and you not only lose all quality input, you remove the very reason for its existence. Sooner or later you have varying levels of mediocrity on all network stages, with SBS and ABC picking up the staggering hungry deserters.