TV audience finds Beat The Star’s bread-turning-to-toast a turn-off
Seven’s new Tuesday scheduling weak link appears to be Beat The Star, a game show in which families compete in challenges against TV personalities.
Last night’s first outing of show – which climaxed with the family trying to guess more accurately than occasional My Kitchen Rules guest chef Manu Feildel when toast was done – rated an average audience of 955,000 according to preliminary TV ratings from OzTam.
Beat The Star came fourth in the 7.30pm timeslot, behind Nine’s Top Gear (1.295m), Ten’s Talkin Bout Your Generation (1.210m) and ABC1’s The 7.30 Report (1.021m).
Beat The Star marks Seven’s second stalled attempt to launch a new format to sit with Packed To The Rafters on a Tuesday night. Its clip show Australia Versus, fronted by Tim Ross, was a ratings disaster and was quickly taken off air.
The show was well behind Seven’s ratings in the same timeslot last week when The X Factor auditions show rated 1.482m.
The lower inherited ratings from Beat The Star also appeared to hurt Packed To The Rafters. Although the show was top for the night with 1.739m, it was more than 100,000 down on last week.
Much like Nine’s much-panned debut of Cops LAC last week, Twitter was harsh about Beat The Star, describing it as “bogan Gladiators” and one askign Seven: “Why do you hate your viewers?”:
@MolksTVTalk: ANYTHING would be better than #BeatTheStar. If this is what they produce with the cash left after #xfactorau… God help us all.
@Zoe_was_here: I’m not watching #BeatTheStar next week. It was far to lame to watch another episode of it.
@muzgaz: I didn’t watch #beatthestar but I detect from the tweets it was a truckload of shite. Even with Manu.
@JodieNicholson: @SevenNetworkau….. why do you hate your viewers? Why are we punished with utter crap like #beatthestar?
@liz_baillie: Why the hell are hotManu & #DanMcPherson on such a travesty as #beatthestar? I admit I love crap TV but this makes my eyes bleed
@Helly_Hino: what the fuck is #beatthestar ? TERRIBLE!
@MrsBker: It’s like Bogan Gladiators #beatthestar
Tuesday’s top rating TV shows:
- Packed to the Rafters Seven 1.739
- Seven News Seven 1.506
- Today Tonight Seven 1.389
- Top Gear Nine 1.295
- Nine News Nine 1.260
- A Current Affair Nine 1.238
- Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation Ten 1.210
- ABC News ABC 1.127
- Two and a Half Men Nine 1.042
- The 7:30 Report ABC 1.021
- Home and Away Seven 0.956
- Beat the Star Seven 0.955
- The 7PM Project Ten 0.944
- NCIS – Episode 1 Ten 0.852
- Parenthood Seven 0.842
Tuesday’s channel share:
- Seven: 27.0%
- Nine: 24.4%
- Ten: 20.3%
- ABC1: 14.8%
- SBS1: 4.1%
- GO!: 3.7%
- 7TWO 1.8%
- ABC2: 1.4%
- SBS2: 0.9%
- ABC News 24: 0.7%
- ABC3: 0.5%
- One: 0.5%
*ding*! This show is toast.
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I saw the promo and I couldn’t believe it… is this what Australian television has come to – an audience watching a group of people watching a toaster?? Whats next week – guess how long grass will grow with Jamie Durie?
Time to get a new focus group Seven.
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Here’s a comment from that linked story, from back in May – even the live audience thought it sucked so much they had to switch off!
— Emma says:
May 1, 2010 at 12:38 pm
God!!!!! Channel seven owe’s me and my partner $50,000 for being in the audience! This is soooooo bad it’s not funny. Over half the audience left, and they had to re-arrange the remaining to make the studio look full. I myself would of left, except I have a disability and could not! The one and only time in my life I was annoyed with my disability! This show will not make it to air…. I hope! —
I give it 4 weeks or less, then it’ll be onto 7TWO or to the graveyard to join that other stupid game/physical challenge show on 9 where people got dressed up in lycra and tried to fit through shapes…I can’t even remember the name it was so forgettable.
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What a stupid show Beat the Star…they should Beat the show to death…now they are repeating it again during the day….like we would want to suffer through it again..
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The show was pathetic. I couldn’t watch all of it. The host was flamming annoying!!!!!! Talking about toast popping like it was the most suspense filled story. The fake sound affects of the audience going oooooooohhhh when they were pouring the goats milk into the container blah. I only watched the end of it today because it was on before all saints. I hope it doesn’t come back on.
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Beat the Star more like Death Star Mate!!
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silly show nobody likes it
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