Talkin Bout a ratings hit
Ten has a surprise hit on its hands with Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation pulling in an audience of 1.65m yesterday, making it the top rating TV show of Tuesday night.
The inter-generational quiz show looks set to change the shape of Tuesdays, which so far this year have been dominated by Seven, thanks to Packed To The Rafters, which has now completed its run.
Instead, last night saw only a narrow peaktime victory for Seven, according to OzTam ratings, just 0.2% ahead of Ten.
Seven’s most successful show was A Lion Called Christian, a one off documentary about a couple who adopted a lion and released it into the wild before being reunited with it.
Nine struggled, with legal restrictions stopping it from showing its repeat of the first series of Underbelly in Victoria meaning the show only took in an estimated metro audience of 460,000.
Tuesday night’s ratings share: Seven 29.7%; Ten 29.5%; Nine 23%; ABC 13.6%; SBS 4.2%.
For the TV ratings week to date, Nine still has a healthy lead over Nine (30.2% to 26.7%) because of its double whammy of the Logies on Sunday night and the Underbelly finale on Monday.
Meanwhile, tonight sees The Gruen Transfer take on the saga of how Coke’s “myths” advertisement fell foul of the ACCC.
Tuesday’s top ten shows:
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Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation – Ten 1.6m
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A Lion Called Christian – Seven 1.6m
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Seven News – Seven 1.5m
- NCIS – Ten 1.5m
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Today Tonight – Seven 1.5m
- Nine News – Nine 1.3m
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A Current Affair – Nine 1.3m
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Home and Away – Seven 1.2m
- MasterChef – Ten 1.2m
- All Saints – Seven 1.2m
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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Good for Ten. Now: can they address the irritating upside-down apostrophe that precedes ’bout?
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Oh no. More proof that middle Australia dictates what we see on TV… I’m going home to hug my FOXTEL iQ box.
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Torn between our own project and celebrating new good shows on Ten, I thought that A Lion Called Christian achieved a great result given the media and marketing campaign behind the new game show.
…and I believe it’s an Australian concept. Which makes a nice change.
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I think Nine dropped the ball during the Easter break when they paused the Underbelly 2 series and did some reruns of it. The viewers could not understand what was going on and simply went elsewhere. What is more, they forgot to come back after Easter; and that’s what caused the drop in the ratings. Ouch! Regarding the Lion, I reckon’ it’s great that it was so close to the XYZ Generation.
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