Seven’s whodunnit: Where did City Homicide’s audience go?
Strong performances from Ten and the ABC impacted on Nine and Seven last night with Hey Hey it’s Saturday pulling in an average audience of 851,000 and the return of City Homicide attracting 936,000.
Among Wednesday’s winners were Masterchef, on Ten, which attracted an average of nearly 2.2m metro viewers, and The Gruen Transfer which had one of its best results in any series, attracting just over 1.3m.
Hey Hey It’s Saturday, which will take a break after next week, pulled in 851,000, according to preliminary overnight ratings from OzTam.
Concerningly for Seven, City Homicide’s new series failed to break the 1m mark. That marks a significantly lower debut than previous series. In 2007 the show opened with 1.65m; in 2008 1.61m ; and in 2009 it did 1.36m.
Wednesday’s top 15 shows:
- Masterchef Ten 2.192m
- Seven News Seven 1.498m
- Today Tonight Seven 1.394m
- Nine News Nine 1.370m
- The Gruen Transfer ABC 1.341m
- A Current Affair Nine 1.237m
- Spicks and Specks ABC 1.230m
- Two and a Half Men Nine 1.125m
- ABC News ABC 1.075m
- Home and Away Seven 1.054m
- Lie to Me Ten 0.946m
- City Homicide Seven 0.936m
- The 7PM Project Ten 0.895m
- Hey Hey It’s Saturday Nine 0.851m
- World’s Strictest Parents: UK Seven 0.827m
Wednesday’s share:
- Ten: 24.5%
- Seven: 22.8%
- Nine: 21.3%
- ABC1: 16.0%
- SBS1: 6.9%
- GO!: 2.7%
- ABC2: 2.0%
- 7TWO: 1.9%
- One: 0.9%
- ABC3: 0.7%
- SBS2: 0.4%
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Must have gone the way of the Flash Forward audience..
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Look at the top 10. 5 of the shows have production values the other five are cheap TV so an even mix.
Then the next five. hmmmm choice is getting thin as seen by number 15 on the list and lets be honest TV in Oz has become so dumbed down and cheap in comparison to the rest of the world.
Did anyone dispel the rumour that city homicide was using re-hashed scripts from the 60’s?
I for one can’t believe how such purile crap like Hey hey even made it back on to our TV screens (well not mine at home)
Time to go back to the pub and be social.
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I’m not surprised at the results for City Homicide. Last week, the official site still said returning in 2010 . They’ve kept fans hanging on for almost a year with no idea when it was going to return. Many people probably didn’t even know it had started yet. Their PR dept needs a boot up the backside.
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I agree, I had been waiting for it. Discover tonight were in episode 4, what the?!!! Not happy.
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