Tough night for Ten as Nine wins Monday
It was a poor Monday night for Ten, which failed to get any shows into the top ten most watched and saw less than 1.1m tune in for the heavily promoted return of Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader?.
The Rove McManus-presented show tried to make the most of the rapidly waning Masterchef effect with food critic Matt Preston as the first celebrity guest. But according to preliminary metro TV ratings from OzTam, the show was beaten into second place by an episode of Nine’s Two And A Half Men. However, it was ahead of Seven’s How I Met Your Mother.
Meanwhile, Ten’s The 7pm Project entered its second week with an average audience of 764,000. This was well behind last Monday’s debut of 1.3m, but a little ahead of Friday’s 656,000.
Ten had a poor night across the board, finishing fourth in Sydney behind the ABC.
Monday night’s five city metro share: Nine 27.4%; Seven 26.4%; Ten 20%; ABC 18.7%; SBS 7.5%.
Monday’s most watched TV shows:
- Seven News Seven 1.7m
- Today Tonight Seven 1.6m
- Two and a Half Men 7:30pm Nine 1.4m
- Two and a Half Men 7pm Nine 1.4m
- Home and Away Seven 1.3m
- Sea Patrol 9:30pm Nine 1.3m
- Sea Patrol 8:30pm Nine 1.3m
- Nine News Nine 1.2m
- Desperate Housewives Seven 1.2m
- Australian Story ABC 1.2m
- A Current Affair Nine 1.2m
- ABC News ABC 1.1m
- Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? Ten 1.1m
- Four Corners ABC 1m
- How I Met Your Mother Seven 1m
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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By the way, having seen The 7pm Project last Monday, then not again until the Friday night, I really hope it gets given some time to bed in.
Based just on Friday’s episode, I thought they really had something. The hosts are starting to gel a little. And the high tempo dash round the five cities had a real start-the-weekend feel to it.
It’s not perfect yet, but I’m (in a very small minority) a fan.
Cheers,
Tim – Mumbrella
T7PP is certainly slicker, but a slick turd is still a turd. They would have been better off doing a tv version of this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00kvs8r Also, weeknightly comedy is a recipe for writer burnout.
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