George Negus improves at 6.30pm as Million Dollar Drop falls again
George Negus saw an audience improvement in his first outing in the new 6.30pm timeslot, but still missed the half a million Ten has been aiming at.
6.30PM With George Negus rated a metro audience of 452,000, according to preliminary overnight ratings from OzTam. It was more than 100,000 up on how Ten’s 6.30 bulletin had been doing. According to Ten it was up 24% on the timeslot.
However, it was still well behind Seven’s Today Tonight (1.193m) and Nine’s A Current Affair (1.051m).
Ten’s newly extended 90 minute Ten News at Five averaged 669,000 – down slightly on what it achieved as an hour long show.
Meanwhile, Nine’s Million Dollar Drop also hit a new ratings low with an audience of 570,000, 23rd for the night.
My Kitchen Rules was top show for the night with an average audience of 1.388m.
One bright spot for Nine was Two And A Half Men moving back above 1m for one of its episodes. It rated 1.043m. However, the next episode fell dramatically, down to 709,000.
Undercover Boss USA, a late replacement in Ten’s schedule, performed poorly with ratings of 544,000.
But Neighbours, on sister station Eleven, was the best performing digital only show, rating 402,000.
Monday’s top 15 shows:
- My Kitchen Rules Seven 1.388m
- Seven News Seven 1.306m
- Today Tonight Seven 1.193m
- ABC News ABC 1.116m
- A Current Affair Nine 1.051m
- Nine News Nine 1.051m
- Two And A Half Men 7:30pm– 1.043m
- Home and Away Seven 0.972m
- Australian Story ABC 0.871m
- 7.30 ABC 0.855m
- The 7pm Project Ten 0.755m
- Melbourne Comedy Festival Gala Ten 0.751m
- Conviction Kitchen Seven 0.743m
- Four Corners ABC 0.742m
- Two and a Half Men 8pm Nine 0.709m
Monday’s channel share:
- Seven: 24.4%
- Nine: 17.4%
- ABC1: 15.0%
- Ten: 14.9%
- 7TWO: 5.1%
- SBS1: 4.5%
- Eleven: 4.4%
- 7mate: 3.8%
- Gem: 2.6%
- GO!: 2.5%
- ABC2: 2.0%
- One: 1.2%
- ABC News 24: 0.8%
- SBS2: 0.8%
- ABC3: 0.6%
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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When will Channel 9 get the hint that Eddie and his style of manufacturing drama over the most trivial of events is no longer wanted? I wonder if Eddie knows what jumped the shark means?
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JZCar, couldnt agree anymore. That whole, “we’ll find out after this break” drives me made and makes me want to give him a “break”. Channel nine also has to know that when you repeat a show, it doesnt need to be repeated every three months such as 2.5 Men.
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Wait, Eddie McGuire’s still on TV?
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That was the most enjoyable episode of MDD so far should be left at Thursday only
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