True Story with Hamish & Andy tops TV ratings on debut
Radio hosts and media personalities Hamish & Andy premiered their television series True Story with Hamish & Andy last night, smashing the ratings and managing an average metro audience of 1.282m.
The show, airing on Nine, also managed to top the key advertising demographics 16-39, 18-49 and 25-54, according to OzTAM’s overnight preliminary metro ratings.
Nationally – including both regional and affiliate stations – True Story managed 1.827m.
The duo also had success in the latest radio ratings survey in the Melbourne market where their drive show was number one with a 12.7% audience share. In Sydney however, the radio show only managed a 4.8% share.
Also airing in the competitive 7.30pm timeslot was Seven’s House Rules, which was the second-most-watched program of the night, averaging 1.218m metro viewers.
Meanwhile Ten’s Masterchef fell to number 12 on the ratings ladder as it pulled 767,000 viewers.
Nationally, House Rules saw 1.990m – beating True Story – compared to Masterchef’s 1.037m.
With the help of Hamish & Andy’s success, Nine managed to win the night with an overall audience share of 23%, topping Seven’s 21.7% and Ten’s 13.5%.
Meanwhile, ABC averaged a 13.6% share ahead of SBS’ 3.7%.
The news battle for the evening saw Seven News at 6pm manage 1.180m metro viewers and 1.952m nationally, ahead of Nine News’ 1.129m metro viewers and 1.141m nationally.
At 6.30pm Seven News/Today Tonight attracted 1.125m ahead of Nine News’ 1.080m.
Abigail Dawson was Mumbrella's senior content journalist covering event content. She left Mumbrella to move into an agency role in 2020.
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I can’t wait to see the massive drop it experiences next week. Judging from the response on social media I would say that around 90% of the feedback was negative.
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30 minutes to tell a 10 minute story was repetitious and if that is the format for rest of series I will watch something else . It needs at least two stories per episode to keep people interested. First episode 5/10 at best.
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You may well be right Andrew – time will tell.
But what if there is no massive drop? Wouldn’t it imply that social media focuses on the negative and doesn’t reflect broader Australia’s opinions?
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That episode in the True story where they were invited to dine in a fancy Chinese restaurant in Hong Kong is absolutely [edited under Mumbrella’s comment moderation policy]. Whoever supported and created that episode: just because you don’t respect other’s culture doesn’t mean you should make fun of it. If someone offers to buy you the food you don’t like, you always have the option to reject it politely. Be in the shoes of the Chinese couple that was treating them food, they pay for the food, offer to treat your whole family to a meal. But ended up being mocked at. It’s not like Chinese people are not considerating if you tell them you don’t enjoy the food but you appreciate their offer of treating you and your family to a meal, they will understand it and may even try to get you the food you actually enjoy. Show some respect people.
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