Ten’s Sunday Night Takeaway debut fails to size up to Nine’s Married behemoth
Ten’s new variety show failed to size up to the competition on Sunday night, with 383,000 metro viewers tuning in to Chris & Julia’s Sunday Night Takeaway, which aired at 7.30pm.
By comparison, Nine’s Married at First Sight attracted its biggest audience so far this season, with 1.659m metro viewers in the 7.00pm time slot, according to OzTAM’s preliminary overnight figures.
Nine’s Married hit another season high on Sunday night
Nine’s 60 Minutes, which aired directly after Married, also performed well with 1.077m viewers turning into the Michael Jackson special.
Married at First Sight topped key advertising demographics 16-39, 18-49 and 25-54, with 60 Minutes coming in second in each demo.
In a statement, Ten’s chief content officer Beverley McGarvey said: “Chris & Julia’s Sunday Night Takeaway was a big swing for Ten last night and while we’re disappointed it didn’t have a bigger impact, we’re happy to have offered fresh, family-friendly entertainment as an alternative on a Sunday evening.
“Chris and Julia pulled off a mammoth task and we’re so proud with how seamlessly they pulled the show together, mere moments after arriving back from Africa. The great thing about a live show is that we can listen to the feedback and tweak the show making it snappier as it builds over the coming weeks.”
Due to a coding error, the figures for Seven’s My Kitchen Rules were unavailable at the time of writing. MKR aside, Seven’s most watched program for the night was its news show, with 892,000 metro viewers, as was the ABC, with 661,000 for its news offering.
The success of Married at First Sight and 60 Minutes meant Nine won Sunday, with a 30.9% share on its main channel. Seven attracted 18.8% of the audience on its main channel. ABC managed 12.1%, while Ten attracted 9.0%.
On a total network level, Nine drew 39.5% of the total viewing audience, while Seven attracted 26.6%. ABC’s network achieved 16.3%, while Ten managed 12.1%.
Hughesy we have a problem!
Ten’s Highly paid chief content officer Beverley McGarvey said Chris and Julia’s Sunday Night was a big swing to Ten.
A swing in which direction?
Hughesy do you have a hotline to CBS so you can ask them whether running a distant third is what they expect.
Seriously, Ten needs fresh ideas and a fresh team.
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Of no interest to me and appeared to be staged and could only watch a segment at the start and turned it over to MAFS
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I have said it before – CBS needs to clean out TEN… CEO and Head of Programming…… too many failures…
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Sunday night takeaway a load of rubbish
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For a long time channel 10 and its offshoots have been at the bottom of the stack with the result most people dont even bother to
look at their programme guide.They are a crummy channel which in spite of all the new glitzy bullshit fails dismally.One option would be to shut the whole sorry affair down.
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Ten keeps taking formats that were popular in the UK and bringing them here, but failing to see that these were programs popular in the UK, 10 – 15 years ago. The world has moved on.
Though almost as annoying as Julia Morris and the doctor, Ant and Dec in the UK are still fairly popular. So they have managed to carry both Celebrity and Saturday Night Take-away (it is on a different night in UK) a few extra years than they deserved. Take-away is a format that belongs in the 1980s.
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In spite of all the new glitzy bullshit they are spewing,channel I0 and its offshoots remains at the bottom of the heap.While ever they treat viewers like idiots…What few viewers they have…They will remain in that position..Maybe shutting the whole sorry affair down would be the answer.
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i think u r right. last one out turn off the lights. u keep putting on people who are just not funny. julia morris is about as funny as toothache. the doc ok
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I am confused on how Ten can seem to make and screen so many failed formats every year
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Channel 10 seems to be using the some 4 “celebrities ” for all their new shows. Same humour transferred from previous shows. Boring and not that funny. Some new faces please or some decent movies, docs or series.
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Ten can do better by having more reality shows than games .
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I think you are all being a little over critical.
Having been around for a while I can remember when just one show made all the difference to the then struggling Ten Network – true..it was not yesterday but the lesson still remains – Number 96.
If Ten can crack the younger market as they are trying to do then it will be a much more competitive commercial television landscape.
Best of luck – Ten
Peter Menton
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The show has Beau Ryan on it !!!!! In what universe is what he does considered as entertainment?
great singing Channel !0.
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The problem with 10 is they try to revamp shows that are very successful in the UK but dont have the right combination of hosts to pull it off. Please Channel 10 there must be more hosts out there, Grant Denyer is like an annoying case of measles, hes everywhere!!!! The Project over summer, Sunday game show (failed), Family Feud (failed) Dancing with the Stars, The Living Room . . . ugh give it a rest!!! Then Chris and Julia again for the Sunday live show, straight after ratings were average for Celebrity Jungle . . . funny woman Julia but why does she insist on acting like an absolute moron!
Why does ten insist on running shows for long periods of time . . .Hughesy was supposed to be on at 9pm last night and it didnt start til 9.40pm!
Then I turned it off because Kyle Sandilands was on, obviously to promote and get his new show some profile! Hughesy and The Project have become promos for shows coming up on ten!
Lisa Wilkinson hosting The Project was a bad move for ten, she could suck the moisture out of a cactus shes so boring!
I loved to watch and laugh at Gogglebox but that too has become boring, although probably a result of nothing good to watch on TV these days!!!
Do yourself a favour Channel 10 . . . .get rid of your programmer and employ people with fresh ideas!
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Love dating shows ? australia has done some great ones ..surely it can be done again put your thinking caps on ???
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I love Studio 10 (much superior to 7 & 10). Dancing with the Stars is good (not quite up to 7’s) – I agree Julia Morris is very annoying but Dr Chris is lovely! I’m a Celebrity was entertaining so get off channel ten’s backs – don’t want to be left with just the 2 commercial stations!
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first thing i felt was it was almost a copy of “dont forget your toothbrush’ perhaps it got better later,but i remember the original,just missing something
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I think we’ve all had enough of Julia and Chris’s childish antics to last a lifetime !
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Why would 10 not realise that Chris and Julia are a pathetic attempt at copying Ant and Dec. Saturday, sorry, Sunday night takeaway is doing the same thing again and expecting a different result
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Certainly takeaway is fresh and new and live but no one is watching or wanting that .Married is what the people want but we cannot have all 3 channels delivering crap tv
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I didn’t even know it was on to be honest with you. I don’t think 10 have done a great job with marketing this.
I watched The Umbrella Academy instead on Netflix after seeing buses, advertising on social media, web sites, the beach, etc. Seems as though 10 could learn a thing or two about marketing a show.
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My kids aged 10, 9, 8 said it was the ‘best show ever’! They are already looking forward to next Sunday!
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Most annoying part of the night Channel 10 has no idea of Time Management. NCIS did not start until 38 mins past advert. Time which I taped.
Less of the hosts unnecessary antics. The show lost me as your hosts were not natural and Julia had my teeth on edge rolling around the floor. Who at Channel 10 is responsible for the hosts behaving like Morons? SACK THIS PERSON OR YOUR SHOW WILL DIE.
We viewers do not like our intelligence being insulted
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I agree Ch 10 needs to get sack the EP’s of these shows no insight into what looks and sounds good for tv in 2019. They probably see a show and try and copy the style which does not work for their shows. Also having the same presenters for different shows gets boring.
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With all the talk of who is and who isn’t actors or actresses, what is and what isn’t staged, who’s broken up, who have already got partner’s, AVO’ S, blah blah blah blah. If they tried to make this season THE MOST controversial EVER ….. NEWSFLASH, You have failed. The only thing I believe to be sincere is the love between Cam and Jules , and Cyrell.
As far as anything else goes ,,, RIDICULOUS
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I have to disagree with some of these comments. I loved Sunday Night Takeaway! I found it very entertaining and I think Chris and Julia did an excellent job! There are not many shows left that you can sit down and enjoy with the family, but I found this one to be fun and entertaining. Love the whole concept!
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I loved this show. Something I can watch with my son is great and we laughed our asses off. It’s about time we get some family entertainment. Stop comparing it to MAFS and MKR they are completely different shows. I love the new look 10 and I watch it all. Julia Morris is hysterical and Chris is awesome too. More family entertainment is just what Australia needs more of.
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Ummm…I thought the Michael Jackson thing was on Seven’s Sunday Night….not Nine’s 60 minutes…?? Besides…would rather watch anything OTHER than MAFS…that is certainly rubbish….?? However…I agree Julia Morris goes overboard with all her stupid crap…!! ?
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Hi Dee,
The Michael Jackson segment appeared on Nine’s Sixty Minutes. You can watch the segment in its glory here.
https://www.9now.com.au/60-minutes/2019/episode-4
Regards,
Paul Wallbank
I agree we have had enough of Julia & Chris. My suggestion for 10 why not have a talk show like the Graham Norton show I would like Joel Creasy to be the host as he is a great talent.
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I would rather watch re runs of ncis than this rubbish
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What happened to Sunday night at the movies?????
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Can’t stand MAFS same rubbish, just read news.com.au people act like self indulged idiots, I enjoyed Chris and Julia Sunday night but I don’t think I’ll watch it too often, Julia rolling around the floor I wasn’t too impressed. The show seemed to drag out too much but I do like Chris and Julia but not sure about them in this format.
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Let me have my 5 seconds of fame lol. The only show I watch on Channel 10 is The Bold and The Beautiful. OMG How pathetic. I thought that when 10 was sold that it would begin to change for the better. Unfortunately the management is not listening to the viewers out there. We don’t want more of nothing.
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should go to Saturday night take away as there’s not much on that night bit like the old hey hey its Saturday light entertainment..
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How to improve. 1. Get rid of your out of date Voiceover man in my household he has become very very annoying, 2 Get rid of Hughesy he’s just loud not funny, Start running your programs on time you do it in America do it here. A few less self promotional promos each hour would lift your programs and also have you running closer to time.
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People actually watch TV these days? Haha. Idiot viewing on all channels at all times.
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