Kyle & Jackie O victim’s family helps A Current Affair to Tuesday ratings win
Nine’s hyped A Current Affair interview with the family of the 14-year-old who blurted out on the Kyle & Jackie O show that she had been raped may have turned out to only be with her aunt and cousin, but it still delivered ratings for the network.
The Tracy Grimshaw-conducted interview delivered an average audience of 1.4m, according to preliminary TV ratings from OzTam, making it the network’s most watched programme of the night.
Indeed, the only other bright spot of the night for Nine was Eddie McGuire’s Millionaire Hot Seat (714,000) again came close to catching Seven’s Deal Or No Deal (754,000).
Other than that, audiences fell away with 1.3m for the 7pm episode of Two And A Half Men; 1.2m for 20 To 01; 1m for more Two And A Half Men; and then a dire 624,000 for Commercial Breakdown Adults Only.
Menawhile, Ten only had one decently performing programme – Talkin Bout Your Generation with 1.5m, but it was enough to beat Nine into third place for the night.
Seven was Tuesdays’s winner though, with an audience that built steadily though the night, peaking with Packed To The Rafters’ 1.9m.
Tuesday night’s TV viewing share:
Seven 31.5%; Ten 25.9%; Nine 23.8%; ABC 15.3%; SBS 3.6%
Tuesday’s highest rating TV shows:
- Packed to the Rafters Seven 1.9m
- Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation Ten 1.5m
- Seven News Seven 1.5m
- A Current Affair Nine 1.4m
- Surf Patrol Seven 1.4m
- Today Tonight Seven 1.3m
- Air Ways Seven 1.3m
- Two and a Half Men 7pm Nine 1.3m
- Nine News Nine 1.3m
- Home and Away Seven 1.3m
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There are no search results for “Tracy Grimnews”, so I’m hereby staking my claim as its inventor.
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ACA/Nine were very sneaky in their promotion of this..they did not let on orginally that it was not the mother/daughter who would be interviewed…they got the ratings though. Thought it was pretty weak in showing the aunties/cousin as they can only speculate and offer their opinion. Was interesting though that the mother/daughter were on the Missing Person Unit show previously as the girl had been a runaway..etc.
Still trashy TV for Nine. TT did more stories on Vile and Tacky O
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The world would be a better place if there were less Bogans in it – and that includes Grimshaw
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I’ve got dibs on “Tacky Grimnews”.
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Once again another example of how lying to your audience might deliver a quick bump in the ratings but does long term damage to the brand. Nine’s been shooting themselves in the foot for so long now that they have no legs left and they have begun shooting themselves in the torso…
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What would happen to the sales of botox and collegen injections if Tray Tray Grimshaw was not around?
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It usually takes less than 2 minutes to delete/tune off from ACA ‘editorial’ but I felt that despite the misleading promotion of it that this was one of the first times I can recall ACA actually trying to present an argument that was counter to the pop culture, tall poppy, blue rinse mob style journalism that they usually conduct.
Seems there was nothing sensationalist left in this story so they (shock horror) presented a story that may just help Kyle.
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This Tracy Grimjaw interview was almost as despicable as the original awfulness on Kyle and Jackie O.
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Just heard a TT promo on the radio..cosmetic surgery ruining Australian women and “Packed to the Rafters” with filth and the landlord can’t do anything about it. Hard hitting journalism!
Nice work Seven in working in the name of your high rating drama program into a story title..phht!
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Get the kid on here:
http://www.cmt.com/shows/dyn/w.....copy.jhtml
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Will someone please explain how ACA can get away with that crap and K and JO can’t
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Because ACA is meant to be “serious” journalism where as Vile and Tacky O is just radio fluff…phht!
ACA and TT have never been “serious” journalism, maybe in the early days a long time ago. I think it’s now aimed at people who dont know that the ABC has better quality “current affairs” and journalism overall…or cannot find the 2 button on their remote or are too lazy to watch.
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