Gruen wins on slow night for Nine and Ten
The Gruen Transfer was the top performing non news show on a Wednesday night which saw Nine and Ten both fail to land an entertainment show above 800,000 viewers.
The Gruen Transfer rated 1.162m, third for the night, according to preliminary metro ratings from OzTam. It was number one in the age demographics of 16-39, 18-49 and 25-54.
It was closely followed by ABC1 stablemate Spicks & Specks with a five-city metro total number of 1.074m.
Seven’s best entertainment performers were Home & Away on 1.048m and World’s Strictest Parents on 1.004m.
Ten’s best rating show of the night was the return of Glee on 760,000 followed by The Renovators on 754,000. Nine’s was The Big Bang Theory on 713,000.
The most watched program of the evening was Seven’s Today Tonight with 1.198m.
For metro channel share Seven won overall and Nine edged just ahead of ABC1 for second place with 15.9%.
Wednesday’s top 15 shows:
- Today Tonight – Seven – 1.198m
- Seven News – Seven – 1.189m
- The Gruen Transfer – ABC – 1.162m
- Spicks and Specks – ABC – 1.074m
- Home and Away – Seven – 1.048m
- World’s Strictest Parents – Seven – 1.004m
- Nine News – Nine – 0.915m
- ABC News – ABC – 0.906m
- Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior – Seven- 0.875m
- A Current Affair – Nine – 0.816m
- At Home With Julia – ABC – 0.773m
- Glee – Ten – 0.760m
- The Renovators – Ten – 0.754m
- The Big Bang Theory – Nine – 0.713m
- Ocean Giants – Nine – 0.69m
Wednesday’s metro channel share:
- Seven: 23.2%
- Nine: 15.9%
- ABC1: 15.5%
- Ten: 13.7%
- 7TWO: 5.1%
- Eleven: 4.8%
- 7mate: 4.5%
- Go!: 3.7%
- SBS1: 3.5%
- ABC2: 3.2%
- Gem: 2.4%
- One: 2.3%
- ABC3: 0.8%
- SBS2: 0.7%
- ABC News 24: 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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honestly, wednesday is a dead night for television- and last nights Gruen was suprisingly boring. Not up to their usual high standard- nobody got fired up, nothing really groundbreaking was said and both the pitches went for laughs, not actual ideas.
still, better than- harcore pawn? Is that what its called? 1 hour of poor people selling their possesions so they can buy some more crack… shoot me now.
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I agree Thomas! It was a boring episode. I’m tired of same old, same old with Gruen – Russel starts to make a point, Todd jumps in & all over him, Wil seems to enoy it & then Russel eventually makes his point people agree with it. Some really obvious jokes were made, which you usually expect with Wil elsewhere, but he holds back on Gruen.
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What does it say when the top-rating non-news show of the night is about advertising on a non-commercial station? Not sure actually.
Re the episode being not quite up to previous standards, at least it was the last in the current series. Andrew Denton understands that you don’t milk something to death just because it rates well.
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People dont seem to realise(or are just starting to) that the comedians( I use the term loosely) on TV smile and think they are very clever when they say something they think is clever and witty. Same old stuff being said week in and week out.the hosts just sit back and let the others do the work-see Good news week,spicks and specks. etc. why do all these shows just have quizzes- see spicks and specks, your gen.etc paradigm shift anyone?
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Why does no-one else see what I see with Gruen Transfer? Sorry, my wife is the exception. She sees “Smug advertising people thinking they’re so smart telling us the really obvious ways their industry sucks us all in”. Ok I feel better now.
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Peter…if you’re so anti advertising what on earth are you doing on this website?!
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