Nine’s Here Come The Habibs and Seven’s Wanted both slightly down on debut audiences
Nine’s comedy Here Come The Habibs pulled in a metro audience of 944,000 on its second outing, down on its debut audience of 1.249m last week.
Airing at 8:45pm, Here Come The Habibs was the second most-watched show across the demographics (16-39, 18-49, 25-54) with Seven’s My Kitchen Rules the most-watched program.
MKR delivered Seven a metro audience of 1.550m at 7:30pm, out-rating Ten’s I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here which was watched by 648,000.
I’m A Celebrity was also beaten by Nine’s The Big Bang Theory which, at 7:40pm, pulled in 944,000 metro viewers. A second episode of the US sitcom at 8:15pm was watched by 915,000.
Seven won the night with an audience share of 27.1%, ahead of Nine’s share of 20.6%. Ten claimed third place with a share of 14.6% as the ABC settled for a share of 10.9%.
The second outing of Rebecca Gibney drama, Wanted, which aired on Seven at 9:00pm, grabbed 922,000 metro viewers, down on its premiere audience of 1.184m.
Ten’s NCIS, on at 8:30pm, was watched by 571,000 as Nine’s Lip Sync Battle, on at 9:20pm grabbed 542,000.
On the ABC, 7:30 Report was watched by 639,000 and Catalyst (8:00pm) pulled in 609,000.
In the news battleground, Seven News at 6:00pm had a metro audience of 1.087m, dipping to 1.005m from 6:30pm. Nine News at 6:00pm was watched by 1.014m, growing to 1.027m from 6:30pm.
Miranda Ward worked for Mumbrella from 2013 to 2017, eventually becoming deputy editor. Miranda joined Mumbrella in September 2013 from Sky News.
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There go the Habibs…
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Exactly Hank! isnt a right fit for Australia
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^^^^ Are you guys high?Almost a million people living in metro areas seem to think its “a right fit”!
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Exactly Tim – nowadays a series non news or sport to pull in close to 1m is more than acceptable to programmers. Shows like MKR rule’s are pretty freaky in year 7 to be doing what it is doing. Shows the format is right and people to date have not got tired of it. I think 9 thought around 900k was a good solid result. Just an opinion and no I don’t work for any media outlet!!!!
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Here come the habibs is a disaster. Tacky, poorly written comedy riddled with cliched stereotypes and almost a dumb simplistic narrative for the target audience to follow. Numbers will continue to fall but 9 will stick with it and not admit defeat “mid season” as its only a 6 episode season. There is no way this thing will get renewed for another series and even if it does what are they going to write about, more cringe worthy showdowns with other rich neighbours?
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