Safran’s audience drops while Seven continues ratings run
Wednesday night saw Channel Seven win its fourth night in a row this week while John Safran’s controversial Race Relations documentary saw a drop in viewer numbers.
News, current affairs and Australian reality shows won the night for Seven, which have also fared well all week.
Its 6pm news bulletin was the most-watched show with 1.4m viewers, according to preliminary OzTam data.
On the ABC, the second episode of John Safran’s Race Relations – where he disguised himself as a black man and interviewed members of America’s black community – saw a drop in audience to 671,000 from 706,000 last week. A spokesman told Mumbrella the station had received 28 phone and 65 written complaints following the premiere episode last Wednesday where Safran was filmed sniffing women’s underpants and masturbating over a photo of Barack Obama. At the time of writing, the ABC had not received any complaints about last night’s episode.
Would be interested to know how it will rate on ABC2 and also what sort of podcast and iview numbers it will receive. With the ABC allowing so many ways to see their content and no commercial imperative I don’t think the overnight ratings are the real measure of their reach.
thats cos no one was watching
I’ll be more interested to see what happens to the ratings of ABC2’s Good Game since they sacked host ‘Junglist’ after five years without warning last week. It’s turned into quite the ugly spat on the show’s official message boards.
Well more people watched it than Neighbours, the 7pm Project, Deal or No Deal or the Hotseat and they were on earlier and are much more established products. I didn’t watch it, I was underwhelmed by the first episode but I might watch it on iview. Times are changing, if you’re on at 9:30 at night and you get over 650,000 I don’t think that’s all that bad. Plus it’s clearly not for everyone.
Safran’s show was an ABOMINATION – all controversy and no substance, can’t believe this dork has his own show – The black man episode was in extreme poor taste – not funny, not interesting, just complete STUPIDITY and clearly it shows and thousands are switching off weekly –