Guy Pearce tele-movie Jack Irish: Bad Debts rates well for ABC
Jack Irish: Bad Debts, an Australian TV movie starring Guy Pearce has delivered the ABC its highest rating for Sunday night.
Produced by Essential Media and Entertainment for ABC1, the film rated 950,000 across the five city metro markets, according to preliminary ratings from OzTam.
In its 8.30pm time slot, the movie beat Ten’s series return of Homeland which rated 633,000 and 14th for the night, but couldn’t top Nine’s House Husbands, which rated 1.04m and fifth for the night.
The first of two Jack Irish tele movies adapted from the Peter Temple book series, rated sixth across all viewers. Directed by Jeffrey Walker, the film also starred Aaron Pederson, Roy Billing, Marta Dusseldorp and Anthony Hayes. The second in the films, Jack Irish: Black Tide will screen next Sunday at 8.30pm on ABC1.
Homeland deserved better figures, surely. The best show on TV at the moment. Intelligent writing, outstanding performance, incisive, gripping and enthralling.
Umm, homeland fans are watching the 3rd episode tonight?? When is fastracked actually going to be….fast??
@ Daniel – as Julie says, we can watch the 3rd episode online rather than waiting for Ten to show it weeks later (supposedly fast-tracked).
Ten’s numbers aren’t due to Homeland being a bad show, just poorly broadcasted.
People are getting a bit carried away with ‘fasttracked”. I think it means we dont see it next year when our tv season starts but we are seeing it just after it has aired in the US. I have got a bit sick of Homeland and have not bothered this season. It seems that the story is more about Claire Daines character and the other guy rather than what it is supposed to be.Plus they never seem to get the guy(whoever it is they are supposed to be looking for) more American hype. Not for me.
House Husbands beat jack Irish? what a shame……
Jack Irish: Bad Debts was brilliantly written and brilliantly acted. Great that the audience was the largest the ABC has had on a Sunday night this year but sad that more didn’t watch. If we prefer American shows to the best of our own home grown there may come a time when our own stories are in the archives and all we have that’s Australian reality TV. Is that a fate we really want??? If Jack Irish: Black Tide is as great as Bad Debts it would have to beat any of the American shows on at the same time.
@Daniel if you are a fan of Homeland, check out Hatufim (English title: Prisoners Of War) if you get the chance. This is the Israeli series Homeland is based on and brilliant viewing – Israel’s highest-rated TV drama of all time. I stumbled across it one day and am so glad I did.
Fast tracked needs to be within 24 hours or you will not get the people downloading watching. It is incredibly convenient and easy to download something. If they want us to put up with the ads instead it needs to be instant. They should stream it on their website the moment it is released overseas. At least they’d get the ad revenue. Obviously people can’t download 1st run Australian content which is why The Assange Movie, House Husbands and Jack Irish rate. The networks need to buy local if they want people to watch television. There are no Jack Irish torrents. It’s on iview. The networks should also have a good look at Anh Do’s ratings and realise that there are a lot of people who like seeing some people on Tv sometimes who aren’t white. We’re a multi-cultural country it’s about time our television reflected it more. They might even make some money while they’re at it.
Loved Jack Irish! And loved the fact that it is Aussie….and one that isn’t a bloody soap opera! Jack Irish was a brilliant movie all-round, and I am hanging out for next week’s episode.
i loved the first episode of jack irish, i agree with vee it was very well acted and written, i had read the books so i was waiting to see if the movie lived up to the books and it did, the cast were all fantastic guy pearce, ray billing , colin friels , the gorgeous aaron pederson and shane jacobson, a great aussie show !
Jack irish was a good Aussie show. Caught it on Iview yesterday.
Perhaps the reason Homeland didn’t rate is because it’s great TV. Seemingly, most of the drivel that does rate is aimed at the great swath of mindless Australian inbreds with the intellectual capacity of a rotting eggplant, who tune in each week to watch Sonia Cougar do the K-Pop horse dance or other programming of that ilk. Mad Men, Nurse Jackie, Boardwalk Empire, The Wire etc all amazing TV, never bothered the ratings folks too much.
Movies like Jack Irish or other, good Australian movies and series come first for me, in front of most US movies and series. Same for films from Great Britain.
The people they show in US films are ‘too beautiful’ , very unnatural looking, for my liking. Series from Britain and Australia show real looking people.