Repeat showing of Highway Patrol beats The Bachelorette as Gruen tops non-news shows
A repeat of Highway Patrol beat The Bachelorette last night while Shaun Micallef’s new show The Ex-Prime Minister enjoyed a strong debut with 803,000 viewers.
The Bachelorette managed 879,000 viewers last night, down on its 918,000 the week before, and was again outrated by ABC show Gruen which had 903,000 viewers in the 8.40pm timeslot and was the most watched non-news show of the night.
Highway Patrol had 883,000 viewers at 8pm, however the Ten show still won in all the demographics ahead of Nine’s 7.30pm offering The Block, which managed 872,000 last night.
Micallef’s new show won its 9pm-9.30pm timeslot on debut, ahead of Seven’s The Blacklist and The Celebrity Apprentice which managed its highest ratings of the series so far with 643,000 viewers from 8.40pm.
Seven managed to claim another win in the news battle with 948,000 viewers at 6pm ahed of Nine’s 934,000, although Nine picked up to grab the 6.30pm slot with 944,000 ahead of Seven News and Today Tonight which had 903,000.
On pay-TV Gogglebox continues to perform strongly with an audience of 130,000 on Lifestyle Channels, while The Flash had 118,000 on Fox 8 nationally.
Top 15 shows:
1 SEVEN NEWS Network Seven 948,000
2 NINE NEWS 6:30 Network Nine 944,000
3 NINE NEWS Network Nine 934,000
4 SEVEN NEWS / TODAY TONIGHT Network Seven 903,000
5 GRUEN-EV Network ABC 902,000
6 HIGHWAY PATROL (R) Network Seven 883,000
7 THE BACHELORETTE AUSTRALIA WED Network TEN 879,000
8 A CURRENT AFFAIR Network Nine 877,000
9 THE BLOCK -WED Network Nine 872,000
10 BORDER SECURITY – AUSTRALIA’S FRONT LINE Network Seven 860,000
11 ABC NEWS-EV Network ABC 814,000
12 THE EX-PM-EV Network ABC 803,000
13 HOME AND AWAY Network Seven 766,000
14 7.30-EV Network ABC 756,000
15 THE CELEBRITY APPRENTICE -WED Network Nine 643,000
Audience share by channel:
Network 9 18.7%
Network 7 18.1%
Network TEN 15.1%
Network ABC 14.0%
Network SBS 5.1%
Network 7TWO 5.0%
Network GO! 4.5%
Network 7mate 3.8%
Network ELEVEN 3.4%
Network Gem 3.7% Network ONE 2.6%
Network ABC2 2.5%
Network ABC News 24 1.6%
Network SBS 2 1.1%
Network ABC3 0.6%
Network NITV 0.1%
Total network share:
Network 9 TTL 27.0%
Network 7 TTL 26.9%
Network TEN TTL 21.2%
Network ABC TTL 18.7%
Network SBS TTL 6.3%
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Watched the much anticipated – by me – Ex- Prime Minister and realised 15 minutes in that I hadn’t laughed once. And I’m a massive Micallef’ admirer.
The writing sucked – obvious tired verbal gags you saw coming a mile.
More of a problem is – I don’t give a shit about this ex-PM dick head because he doesn’t seem to give a fuck about anything either. Utopia’s lead character suffers every day at work — and we relate and epathise as we feel his pain.
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I felt the same as Rushdie. I’m also very appreciative of all that Micallef does but this seemed like a single hander. Just a few support roles written in so that it didn’t come across as too one-man-band.
There was nothing relatable. The current events references felt forced. The vindictiveness displayed by his family towards him felt punishing. The cameos from his staff felt like extras from a working dog production (not that that’s a bad thing – merely that it wasn’t original). And the premise of the memoirs felt flimsy – more like a case of the ABC deciding not to go out and about but film as much in situ as possible.
Perhaps the worst Micallef effort I’ve seen. But I will watch again because I rate him as highly as any Australian performer.
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