Here Come The Habibs performs strongly, pulling 1.249m but MKR still wins the night
Nine’s debut of comedy Here Come The Habibs at 8:30pm drew a metro audience of 1.249m well above the 900,000 viewers it had hoped for.
Here Come the Habibs: defies Nine’s expectations
The result is a win for Nine and comes after much media interest in the new series amid concerns about how it depicted people of Middle Eastern descent.
Last month, Nine programming boss, Andrew Backwell, told Mumbrella that the comedy was facing “a tough environment” up against Seven’s My Kitchen Rules and that he would “be happy if it was above 900,000 (viewers).”
Tuesday night saw My Kitchen Rules also perform strongly winning the night with an audience of 1.882m while Ten had 766,000 viewers for an episode of I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here! where Shane Warne and Brendan Fevola blew up at each other over the rules in camp.
Seven’s premiere of Rebecca Gibney drama, Wanted, also performed strongly with an audience of 1.184m in the 9:00pm time slot.
According to the OzTAM Preliminary Ratings, Nine’s lead-in to the Habibs, The Big Bang Theory, drew 793,000 in the 7:30pm slot for a new episode and 775,000 in the 8:00pm time slot for a repeat, while at 9:15pm Lip Sync Battle on Nine drew 645,000.
Ten’s screening of an NCIS episode at 8:30pm drew 521,000 viewers.
In news, Nine News narrowly won the 6:00pm time slot with 995,000 compared with 993,000 for Seven, while Seven regained the lead at 6:30pm with an audience of 1.017m to 1.002m.
In main channel audience share, Seven won the night with 29.2%, Nine had a 20.5% share, Ten 13.9% and the ABC 10.6%.
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Thats really sad. What has the world of TV come to?
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MKR editors outdid themselves last night.
They somehow managed to splice enough out-of-context material into the promos to make it seem like the much-hated lawyers were actually a chance of scoring less than the 31 the cougar and her fella got.
They got in the 90s, the top score.
Kudos for creativity. It worked in the ratings, but will we fall for it again?
Probably.
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HCTH is tired old humour trading off ethnic stereotypes for cheap laughs. If this is the best comedy Australia can produce, television in this country is well past its used by date.
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Get a grip people. It’s comedy. We should be proud that we are actually watching Australian content creating jobs for Aussie actors and crew. Remember the British sitcoms of the 70’s and 80’s like ‘Love Thy Neighbour’ and George and Mildred’ etc. All very politically incorrect but very funny. The world needs to lighten up.
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@Viewer – “Television in this country is well past its used by date”
Did you happen to catch “Wanted” last night?
Definitely captured and held my attention throughout and I even found myself chuckling in parts.
Agree that the TV networks have severely neglected their programming line-ups over the years, but ‘Wanted’ last night sparked a little flame that suggests it’s not quite past it’s used-by date.
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I watched the Habibs last night thought it was pretty funny lets hope it can hold that comedy its nice to see a come back of Aussie sit coms they had just about died out and replaced with all the USA stuff . Good to see Australian content other than soapies turning up on our screens hopefully it will be so successful Australia will start producing sit coms again we use to be so good at it until we replaced it with reality tv rubbish. Don’t worry if you missed it I am sure there will be encore after encore after encore on three different free to air channels until you ate tired of it
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Not bad and pretty good especially for 9 since the last time they showed a home grown comedy was way back in the nineties.It was funny in parts.I do miss the days of weekly episodes of Mom and Two Broke Girls though and hope once season 1 of Here come the Habibs is done with they have the sense to bring both back preferably at the same time of night on a Tuesday given the lack of anything decent elsewhere at the moment.What happened in all those years in between to the point we relied so much on sitcoms with some exceptions like the stuff SBS and ABC shows from America.Family Guy,How I met your Mother and Rules of Engagement amongst others for over two decades many of which are now shown as reruns.
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