No love for Russell Crowe’s Secret Millionnaire
It was a slow night’s TV for all the networks on Thursday with Ten’s Glee pulling in only just over 1m at 7.30pm, Seven’s new show Beaty And The Geek rating less than 1.1m in the 8.30pm slot and Nine’s Russell Crowe-narrated Secret Millionnaire rating just 926,000 at 9.30pm.
According to preliminary ratings from OzTam, Nine narrowly won the night:
- Nine: 27.1
- Seven: 26.1
- Ten: 20.4
- ABC1: 16.9
- SBS1 4.0
- ABC2: 1.7
- GO!: 1.7
- ONE: 1.5
- SBS2: 0.6
Thursday’s highest rating shows:
- Seven News Seven 1.3m
- Today Tonight Seven 1.2m
- Getaway Nine 1.2m
- Two and a Half Men Nine 1.1m
- Nine News Nine 1.1m
- A Current Affair Nine 1.1.
- Beauty and the Geek Seven 1.1m
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Nine 1m
- Glee Ten 1m
- Home and Away Seven 1m
- ABC News ABC 0.983m
- Secret Millionaire Nine 0.926m
- Rush Ten 0.871m
- Dead Famous ABC 0.871m
- Ghost Whisperer Seven 0.841m
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another show that I believe should have been screened earlier (like the Apprentice)
I think it would have rated far better in an earlier time slot
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I’d agree with Helena. Its a real “family friendly” and “feel good” show. why put it on so late?
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It’s hard to look at ratings objectively when you are comparing different time slots, so whilst the Secret Millionaire scored fewer ratings as Heléna said things might have been different had it been on at 7:30pm.
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I agree with Helena and Charlie.
I thought the show was great and I LOVED Russell Crowe but my poor hubbie fell asleep out of sheer exhaustion,
not boredom.
PLeeeeese – David M put it on at 8.30pm!
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Agreed… I wanted to watch it…. but i was still catching up on lost sleep from staying up to watch the Apprentice!
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I have watched the UK version and thought it was great. I also think that it could do very well here in Australia but that is way past my bed time!
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I agree – I loved the UK show and couldn’t wait to see the Australian version … but 9.30 on a school night?
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Hi Kate,
You’re right about the timeslots – I don’t think you should compare the performance of those three shows mentioned above to one another. However, what they do have in common is that each of the networks (and their advertisers) would have hoped for better in terms of ratings for each of those shows.
Cheers,
Tim – Mumbrella