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.
So switching to Celebrity Name Game ended up being pointless.
What is it with Grant Denyer? Is he on a ‘9 strikes and you’re out’ policy?
I wish channel 10 had of stuck with Pointless. I thought it was a great show.
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…
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.
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.
Fake, attention seeking Denyer!
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.
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.
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.
Nothing special… It’s boring to me