Todd Sampson’s Redesign My Brain draws 865,000 viewers
Todd Sampson’s Redesign My Brain was the top entertainment show in primetime viewing with 865,000 for its first episode on ABC1 last night.
The show starring the CEO of Leo Burnett Sydney, a panelist on the Gruen series, was more popular than Beauty and the Geek Australia on Channel Seven which had 804,000 viewers at the same time. Redesign My Brain with Todd Sampson was seventh in all programs, while Beauty and the Geek was eighth, however Beauty and the Geek was the top program in people 25-54.
Meanwhile Ten’s Law and Order was 12th for the night and third in the 8.30pm timeslot with 703,000 total viewers. The show was tenth in people 25-54, Channel Ten’s target demographic.
And Top Gear on Channel Nine was fourth in that timeslot with 512,000 total viewers, preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTam show.
Big Brother on Channel Nine from pm to 8.30pm was ninth for the night and second in people 25-54, with 801,000 total viewers.
Second in that timeslot was Channel Seven’s US sitcom How I Met Your Mother, which with 720,000 was 11th for the night.
Meanwhile Channel Ten’s Jamie Oliver program Save with Jamie was fourth in that timeslot with an audience of 570,000, putting it behind Jennifer Byrne presents Tim Winton on ABC1 which had 637,000 viewers and was 14th for the night. Save with Jame was 17th in all programs, but 12th in people 25-54.
The breakfast battle was a close race yesterday with Channel Nine’s Today beating Seven’s Sunrise with 322,000 viewers above 313,000 for Sunrise.
Seven won the night with 23.4 per cent of the audience share, while Channel Nine had 16.9 per cent, and ABC1 was close behind with 15.6 per cent of the audience. Channel Ten had a 12.6 per cent share of the audience.
Thursday’s top 15 programs:
- Seven News Seven 1,076,000
- Nine News Nine 1,039,000
- Today Tonight Seven 952,000
- ABC News ABC1 907,000
- Home and Away Seven 888,000
- A Current Affair Nine 878,000
- Redesign My Brain with Todd Sampson ABC1 865,000
- Beauty and the Geek Australia Seven 804,000
- Big Brother Nine 801,000
- 7.30 ABC1 788,000
- How I Met Your Mother Seven 720,000
- Law & Order: SVU Ten 703,000
- ABC News Update ABC1 677,000
- Jennifer Byrne Presents: Tim Winton ABC1 637,000
- Hot Seat Nine 609,000
Thursday’s share:
- Seven 23.4%
- Nine 16.9%
- ABC1 15.6%
- Ten 12.6%
- SBS1 5.0%
- GO! 4.6%
- 7TWO 4.0%
- ABC2 3.6%
- 7mate 3.6%
- Eleven 2.9%
- Gem 2.6%
- ONE 1.9%
- ABC News 24 1.3%
- ABC3 1.2%
- SBS 2 0.9%
- NITV 0.1%
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I watched Mr Sampson’s brain show, it was excellent TV. Far better than watching fat people losing weight or C-grade karaoke shows parading as a talent contest.
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He’s popular, rugged good looks, eloquent, high achieving Everest climber; I so want to hate him and yet it was a very interesting and informative show. That it rated so well is fantastic. Who would have thought that so many people care as much about their brain as losing their flab. Well done Mr Sampson. Stay cool and humble!
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Missed the show can’t wait to watch it. A genuine talent born from the ad industry.
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Was a great show very informative and Todd certainly put the hard yards in.
Well Done.
DCB
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Holy Crap,
Thought this was so good I want to be the mother of his next child, and I’m a bloke. That shows you how good it was.
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A predictable and entirely understandable amount of bromance for Todd on here.
It was a great show and it’s reassuring to see intelligent TV can still rate well.
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The show is one long ad for the brain training products of Mr Merzenichs companies with an ad man presenting dubious effects that would not survive rigorous scientific testing.
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Excellent show it looked like a ‘copy’ of an English version I have seen. But still very well done.
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Over 1000000 people watch the mind numbing drivel peddled as news and current affairs on the moron box!!?#. That’s a million that need major neural upgrades. Looks like Todd has a market for his new show.
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Interesting show – Todd hosted it well. Sure it was a very nice long ad for Dr Merzenich’s brain training stuff but with the tipping age profile to the older end its time to take neural degradation due to aging seriously and kick it into gear. The only complaint is ‘anybrain’ can become a ‘superbrain’ – thats rubbish. However, finding a baseline and improving on that is pretty cool – I wonder how many people took up juggling after the show!
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