Ten’s new comedy The New Normal rates 552,000
Ten’s new US comedy The New Normal saw a rise for the network last night on the previous Sunday but the prime time show is still struggling.
The sitcom, which aired at 8pm, rated just 552,000 and 19th in total viewers for the night, according to preliminary ratings from OzTam.
It’s an improvement on last week’s figure of 488,000, however last week it placed higher, in 16th position for total viewers.
The show was behind Nine’s 60 Minutes on 1.237m at 7.30pm, Seven’s Air Ways 1.066m and ABC1’s The Making of the Kingdom of Plants rating 972,000 which both went out at 8pm.
Across the key advertising demographics, the show was fifth in the 16-39 age group, 12th in 18-49 and 14th in 25-54.
Seven’s Sunday Night was the top show of the evening. The episode featured an interview with 2DayFM’s Kyle Sandilands discussing his life and career, on the back of his new autobiography, Scandalands.
The current affairs show dropped back to eighth in 16-39, fifth in 18-49 and third in 25-54.
On the Nine network, House Husbands dipped below 1m for just the second time in its first season and recorded its lowest overnight ratings.
The Nine drama rated 944,000, and first in its time slot placing eighth in total viewers, but jumped to fourth in 16-39, 18-49 and fifth in 25-54.
The program’s previous low of 961,000 was when it was up against Ten’s Julian Assange Story two weeks ago.
Jack Irish: Black Tide, starring Guy Pearce, was the second episode of the movie-length mini-series based on the John Temple novels.
The show rated 851,000 and 13th for total viewers, slipping to 19th in 16-39, 18th in 18-49 and 17th in 25-54.
Last week’s episode rated 950,000 in total viewers, ranking sixth.
In the battle for Weekend breakfast ratings, Weekend Sunrise rated 315,000 ahead of Weekend Today on 276,000.
Seven won the night on total channel share with 22.4% just ahead of Nine on 21.6%. ABC1 was third on 15% in front of Ten on 12.5%. SBS1 was sixth on 3.8%, behind Nine’s digital channel GO! on 4.1%.
Sunday’s Top 15 shows:
1. Sunday Night – Seven 1.377m
2. 60 Minutes – Nine 1.237m
3. Seven News – Seven 1.163m
4. Air Ways – Seven 1.066m
5. Border Security – Seven 1.052m
6. Nine News – Nine 1.012m
7. David Attenborough’s Kingdom of Plants – ABC 0.972m
8. House Husbands – Nine 0.944m
9. Big Brother – Live Eviction – Nine 0.911m
10. The Making of Kingdom of Plants – ABC 0.909m
11. Modern Family – Ten 0.908m
12. ABC News – ABC 0.875m
13. Jack Irish: Black Tide – ABC 0.851m
14. Bones – Seven 0.792m
15. Homeland – Ten 0.712m
Sunday’s channel share:
Seven: 22.4%
Nine: 21.6%
ABC1: 15.0%
Ten: 12.5%
GO!: 4.1%
SBS1: 3.8%
7TWO 3.8%
7mate: 3.4%
One: 3.0%
Eleven: 2.9%
Gem: 2.8%
ABC2: 2.4%
ABC News 24: 0.9%
ABC3: 0.8%
SBS2: 0.5%
Not surprised – the promos were terrible
It did 488 last week so is up about 15%
Positive story.
A blatant ripoff of of Modern Family, without the likeable characters. Deserves to die.
The biggest disappointment would be ‘Homeland’. Won a slew of Emmy awards and was ‘fast-tracked’ here, but still couldn’t lift in the ratings stake. Network Ten wouldn’t be very happy.
Not sure New Normal is anything like Modern Family aside the gay characters.
Does that mean any show with a gay character or two is a Modern Family rip off?
Not saying it’s good or bad but it’s really nothing like MF.
@ Shamma… It’s bad…. The audience might be up but so was every bodies audience last night. That’s why they slipped from 16th to 19th. Stop being positive start being realistic. It’s bad.
not surprised at the poor début…..reckon it will do worse next week . Acting was terrible…true….Homeland to me was the far bigger disappointment. how much extra would it have cost Ten to fast track it?
ended up doing 520 on consolidated, I think it will continue to improve, MF was up last night as well
The New Normal is a great show, and it gets better as it goes on, I really hope Ch10 stick it out. Not like they have anything to replace it with that will rate any better…
I agree with Justin… I love The New Normal and all my gay friends are enjoying it as well. My partner and I lay together and get a great laugh and sometimes a tear watching it…. I also love Modern Family and have seen all the seasons… I wouldn’t compare MF to NN… They are completely different shows…