Getaway’s audience goes away but so does Matty Johns’
Seven’s The Matty Johns Show and Nine’s Getaway both took a battering on Thursday night in the face of Aaron Harvie’s elimination from Masterchef.
The Matty Johns Show was 15th for the night in Sydney and 10th in Brisbane while the audience for Nine’s Getaway melted to 715,000 – 17th for the night.
In other markets Seven showed a Vicar Of Dibley Easter special which placed sixth in Perth, 10th in Adelaide and 12th in Melbourne.
A Seven source argued that The Matty Johns Show is doing its job as a spoiler for Nine’s The Footy Show, which is in the later 9.30pm slot, telling Mumbrella: “Matthew has destroyed The Footy Show in Sydney and Brisbane. That’s what counts.”
The Footy Show was in 26th place in Sydney and 27th in Brisbane.
Nine had a somewhat different interpretation to Seven’s, with a source telling Mumbrella: “With a string of recent failed shows, Seven has now lowered the bar so low that an average of 213k at 7.30pm over the past fortnight is a triumph according to its spokesman. Leckie predicted 2 million for this hour – he’s about 1.2 million short. Any more victories like this and he’ll be raising the white flag.”
Seven’s share dipped below 20% last night, according to preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTam.
The big winner for Thursday was Ten, with Masterchef delivering another weekday season high for the show, pulling in 2.2m viewers.
Much of the audience carried through to the return of Bondi Vet which was third for the night.
Thursday’s top 15 shows:
- Masterchef Ten 2.206m
- Seven News Seven 1.356m
- Bondi Vet Ten 1.323m
- Today Tonight Seven 1.268m
- Nine News Nine 1.163m
- Sea Patrol Nine 1.163m
- A Current Affair Nine 1.089m
- ABC News ABC 1.058m
- Two and a Half Men Nine 0.995m
- Home and Away Seven 0.959m
- The 7PM Project Ten 0.952m
- Ten News Ten 0.848m
- Law and Order: SVU Ten 0.843m
- How I Met Your Mother – Episode 2 Seven 0.760m
- The Footy Show Nine 0.743m
Thursday’s share:
- Ten: 25.7%
- Nine: 22.5%
- Seven: 19.9%
- ABC1: 14.0%
- SBS1: 5.7%
- GO!: 5.4%
- 7TWO 2.6%
- ABC2: 2.0%
- One: 1.0%
- ABC3: 0.8%
- SBS2: 0.5%
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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Maybe it’s time for Getaway to take a well-earned break!!!! Gettit? Ahhh, it’s a lemon, go back to your lives, people….
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“Matthew has destroyed The Footy Show in Sydney and Brisbane. That’s what counts.”
What a horrible pack of pr__ks! Play the ball not the man. Why not try to give the audience what it wants rather than trying to destory what others do. So negative. Playground bullshit!
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What a shame that Matty Johns show is not slamming it in the ratings.
My sources tell me there is an underground movement of women boycotting Channel7 for hiring men who treat women like rubbish. Ohhh.
So, Ch7: You reward Matty Johns behavior (edited by Mumbrella for legal reasons) by giving him his own show. And you give (edited by Mumbrella for legal reasons) Matthew Newton a top job on X Factor?
Are you kidding? Viewers don’t look like they are kidding either.
Take them off the air.
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Seriously?
I just wrote a comment about the audacity of Channel7 hiring Matthew Newton AND Matty Johns. Make your own assumption as to the connection between the two.
And the comment was removed.
Interesting, thanks, mumbrella.
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Matty johns show crap tv so good to see it reaping in the viewers…
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After what Nein did to Johns, I have no doubt he’s taken great pleasure in smashing them. And, frankly, good on him. His product’s better than The Footy Show anyway and, for our anonymous writer, the audience is packed with women. Enjoy.
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So pleasing to see The Footy Show take a dive. The hiring of Johns just showed up Australia’s television boys’ club for what it is – the last bastion for misogynists. Why do we keep rewarding the crappy behaviour of so-called ‘celebrities’ by giving them more airtime? Bah!
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