Celebrity Name Game slips to 214,000 metro viewers on Friday night
The Grant Denyer-fronted comedy game show on Ten, Celebrity Name Game, has slipped to one of its lowest audiences to date, attracting just 214,000 metro viewers on Friday night. Its combined audience, which includes regional viewers, was a total of 273,000 viewers.
The show has the difficult task of filling the 6pm slot, which in recent years has been problematic for Ten, as it faces off against Seven News – which last night topped the ratings ladder with 978,000 metro viewers – and Nine News (860,000 last night).
Celebrity Name Game premiered on 13 May
Celebrity Name Game replaced Ten’s other 6pm game show push, Pointless, which premiered in July last year to 493,000 metro viewers across Ten and its various multi-channels. Pointless’ appeal, however, dwindled, with the show being cancelled earlier this year.
Pointless had itself replaced Denyer’s previous game show effort, Family Feud. When Family Feud ended in July last year, it went out with 213,000 metro viewers – just 1,000 below that of last night’s Celebrity Name Game.
Celebrity Name Game did manage to beat the ABC’s 6pm offering of The Drum, which had 200,000 metro viewers last night. With the addition of regional viewers, however, The Drum came out on top, with 286,000, compared to Celebrity Name Game’s 273,000.
Celebrity Name Game premiered in May to 314,000 metro viewers, and 387,000 across the country. It remains the series’ high in terms of ratings.
The show has dropped as low as 93,000 metro and 136,000 national viewers when it screened a repeat – or encore – episode. Its previous low for a first-run episode was 200,000 on 24 May.
On other networks, the most-watched entertainment program last night was The Chase Australia on Seven, which had 582,000 metro viewers and 962,000 nationally.
Better Homes and Gardens also had 582,000 metro viewers, but slightly less on a national scale, at 930,000.
Also on Seven, the AFL match between two Melbourne teams, the Richmond Tigers and the North Melbourne Roos, had 571,000 metro viewers, and 764,000 in total. It screened on Seven’s main channel in Melbourne and Adelaide, and on multi-channel 7Mate in Brisbane, Perth and Sydney.
The NRL on Nine had 424,000 metro viewers and 668,000 across the country. The match between two Sydney teams, the Parramatta Eels and the South Sydney Rabbitohs was on 9Gem in Adelaide, Melbourne and Perth, and on Nine’s primary channel in Sydney and Brisbane.
In a sign of the football divide between Australia’s two biggest cities, just 22,000 people in Sydney tuned into 7Mate for the AFL match, while in Melbourne only 9,000 watched the NRL on 9Gem.
Earlier in the day, Seven won the breakfast battle, with Sunrise pulling 261,000 metro viewers and 447,000 nationally. Its rival, Today, on Nine had 204,000 in the metro markets and 296,000 nationally.
Overall, Seven won the night with a 25% audience share, ahead of Nine’s 18.5%, Ten’s 10.3%, ABC’s 10.2% and SBS’ 3.5%.
The most-watched multi-channel was 7Mate with 5.5%, helping Seven to solidify its position as the overall network winner on 37.9%. Nine was well behind on 26%. The ABC nudged ahead of Ten on a network level, with 15.4% and 15% respectively. SBS Network had 5.7% of the market.
So switching to Celebrity Name Game ended up being pointless.
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What is it with Grant Denyer? Is he on a ‘9 strikes and you’re out’ policy?
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I wish channel 10 had of stuck with Pointless. I thought it was a great show.
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Agreed. If they’d moved it to a later timeslot, rather than going up against 7 & 9 news, I’m sure it would have picked up a much bigger audience. But they didn’t even try…
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Agreed. Pointless was a good family show that we’re can watch with the kids. Certainly can’t want the news with kids these days.
Celebrity name game is ordinary. Can’t even play along a they have the answers behind.
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The problem is the show is boring.
They seem to get the same out of work actors. Maybe it’s cheap by the dozen. I would rather watch Skippy.
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Fake, attention seeking Denyer!
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I agree with Pointless the BBC version was excellent went for 45mins but the Australian format was short leaving out one round which was disappointing. Would like to see it back on TV with Grant hosting it as his character suits game show TV, he has the most experience of anyone currently around. He hosted Million Dollar for a long time. Pointless needs to be on at a different time, not up against 6.00pm news or up later at 6.30pm after everyone has seen the headlines.
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the celeb.game is fun to watch but they do need to update ad to what is classed as a celebrity on T.v. having some one on there from a once a year and one appearance on a jungle show,does not make them a celebrity.
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When they started I really liked but after a while, it becomes to be boring. I think the same thing happened to a lot of people.
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Nothing special… It’s boring to me
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