Rescue Special Flops for Nine
Nine’s Rescue Special Ops may have borrowed its promo idea from the Discovery Network, but the debut of the new series had a second hand flavour to it too, rating just 983,000 on Monday night, putting it well out of the top ten shows.
Meanwhile, Ten’s Masterchef cruised on, with nearly 1.9m viewers, according to overnight metro ratings from OzTam.
However, despite the disappointing perofrmance of rescue Special Ops, Nine still won the night because of the strong performance of its suite of comedies.
Monday’s top 15:
- MASTERCHEF AUSTRALIA – Ten 1,863,000
- SEVEN NEWS 1,560,000
- NINE NEWS 1,510,000
- TODAY TONIGHT – Seven 1,474,000
- A CURRENT AFFAIR – Nine 1,382,000
- TWO AND A HALF MEN – Nine 1,281,000
- THE BIG BANG THEORY – Nine 1,209,000
- TWO AND A HALF MEN – Nine 1,151,000
- ABC NEWS-EV 1,127,000
- HOME AND AWAY – Seven 1,096,000
- GOOD NEWS WEEK – Ten 1,070,000
- THE 7PM PROJECT – Ten 1,006,000
- RESCUE SPECIAL OPS – Nine 983,000
- BORDER SECURITY – Seven 965,000
- DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES – Seven 944,000
TV station share:
- Nine: 24.2%
- Ten: 22.6%
- Seven: 22.1%
- ABC1: 14.9%
- SBS1: 6.1%
- 7TWO 3.5%
- GO!: 3.4%
- ABC2: 1.3%
- One: 0.7%
- SBS2: 0.6%
- ABC3: 0.5%
Tim Burrowes founded Mumbrella in 2008. He worked on Mumbrella until 2021. At various points he was editor, content director and editor-at-large.
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I’m loving The Big Bang Theory. Good stuff Channel 9. (bit worried didn’t see a promo for next week’s show last night though).
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Rescue beat Desperate Housewives, which is now a tired franchise and Nine won the night. Yet this still becomes a negatively led story about Nine. Im sure they would have liked better numbers but come on!
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Who really thinks big bang with its canned laughter funny…..maybe in the 80s it might have been .geez people grow up.
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Sean, I think ‘The Big Bang Theory’ is really funny. It did take me about a season and a half to warm to it, though. Give it some time.
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