Part two of Molly draws 1.52m while Australia’s Got Talent sheds almost 200,000 viewers
The second part of the Molly Meldrum telemovie, Molly, continued to draw impressive numbers for Seven last night with a metro audience of 1.52m, buoyed, in part, by a strong lead-in from My Kitchen Rules, which had 1.67m viewers.
The result is down from last week when the Molly miniseries drew 1.793m viewers, while MKR was up on last week where it had 1.399m.
Over on Ten I’m A Celebrity was up on last week, with 706,000 compared with 626,000 last week for its elimination show screen from 7.30pm-8.15pm, while Australia’s Got Talent took a major tumble falling from 884,000 last week to 688,000 last night.
Molly was okay, but it was another cookie-cutter Aussie mini series.
Contrived to within an inch of its life last night.
The first ep was much better. Perhaps three eps, and less rush to cover all bases so quickly, might be the go in future?
Molly was ok, but was not the number of eps that dogged it, and I doubt that three eps and slower pace would have helped.
Same old direction problems had it looking like a series of 30 and 45 sec’ segments strung together like pearls, and some of them were pearls but far too few.
Too much emphasis on main character and not enough story , support characters appearing and disappearing as required, rather than appearing to have a life outside their association with the Molly character.
Too much dependence on old clips and restored footage, and erratic pacing, all played a part against it. However, it was not a poor show, it appeared to have been rushed, and though it was a success, with two or three very fine performances, it was a flawed success I would say.
Three errors that stuck out from the series. You never saw Molly with a cigarette. Molly was a chain smoker and was always seen with a smoke outside of the studio in real life. Also not a single mention of ABBA. Molly was instrumental in making them huge in Australia, but not a single mention in the series. The focus on the Countdown years neglects his most important part of the Australian music industry, and that is of groundbreaking music producer and journalist, but you never saw that in the series.