Finale of Excess Baggage pulls in just 95,000
The finale of celebrity weight loss show Excess Baggage pulled in just 95,000 last night, ranking 53rd in the multichannel top 100 shows.
The show struggled to find an audience on Nine when it debuted against Ten’s The Biggest Loser at 7pm, pulling in 880,000.
Its ratings had halved one month later, before the show was bumped to multi-channel Go!.
It was another quiet Thursday night for TV ratings overall, with Seven News the only show to reach over 1m viewers across the five city metro market.
The show took 1.13m viewers, according to preliminary reports from OzTam.
The top five programs of the night were news or current affairs programs with Seven’s Today Tonight placing second on 987,000 viewers, ABC News third with 985,000, Nine News with 943,000 and A Current Affair with 796,000 viewers. Ten’s News at Five rated 10th with 651,000.
In the battle of the breakfast shows, Nine’s Today topped Seven’s Sunrise with 369,000 to 356,000, a small victory for the Nine team who have been beaten on a regular basis lately.
For the ABC, The Straits finale took 461,000, placing 21st. The Australian-produced show, by Matchbox Pictures, has struggled to hold the audience their previous production The Slap did, taking 831,000 viewers in its last episode, which also went out on Thursday nights at 8:30.
For Ten, a special of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Gala took 556,000, placing 16th.
Thursday’s top shows
1. Seven News – Seven 1.133m
2. Today Tonight – Seven 0.987m
3. ABC News – ABC 0.985m
4. Nine News – Nine 0.943m
5. A Current Affair – Nine 0.796m
6. The Big Bang Theory – Nine 0.790m
7. The Biggest Loser – Ten 0.691m
8. 7:30 – ABC 0.666m
9. AFL on Seven: Thursday Night Football – Seven 0.665m
10. Ten News – Ten 0.651m
11. Home and Away – Seven 0.645m
12. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation – Nine 0.618m
13. RBT – Nine 0.594m
14. Catalyst – ABC 0.588m
15. Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation – Ten 0.583m
Audience share
Seven: 22.1%
Nine: 17.3%
Ten: 15.2%
ABC1: 10.9%
SBS1: 5.9%
7TWO 5.4%
GO!: 4.2%
7mate: 3.9%
Eleven: 3.8%
Gem: 3.5%
ABC2: 3.2%
One: 2.3%
ABC3: 0.8%
ABC News 24: 0.7%
SBS2: 0.6%
