damianThis weeks Top Twenty TV chart
August 3rd 2006 00:03
Fairly quiet week as Medical Emergency reestablishes itself in at second and locals take out eight of the top ten spots.
Top 20 Metropolitan TV Ratings 23rd- 29th July
Local Content Score- 14 of top 20
The status quo re-established itself with a vengeance this week as a lot of ‘not much’ went down in TV land. To highlight just how normal this week was Medical Emergency even managed to graft itself back to the backside of Border Security, once again making it the top two from Channel 7's reality TV division. Both shows even managed to recover from the Dancing on Ice diversion and reclaim their usual, pre Dancing on Ice 2.1 and 1.7 million viewers. How they’ve managed to do this while DOI finds another 1.4 million viewers in the same Tuesday night timeslot is, well, confusing.
Game show RTV is also doing well at the moment with It Takes Two in at eighth and Big Brother in at ninth. As we pass the half way mark of a decade of Post-Survivor TV it appears the RTV phenomenon is indeed more than a fad which is cold comfort for its detractors. Who knows where the industry will head next here in Australia but with its low costs, high ratings, publicity and text message based revenue you can bet that RTV will fuel Australian content from here-on in.
Tenth spot went to All Saints and here I have to make a correction to a former post where I said that All Saints had its season finale. Apparently I was very, very wrong and to be honest I’m not sure where I got the idea from. Maybe I just mistook an advertised cliffhanger ending for the season finale....? Either way my previous argument still stands and it’s good to see Aussie drama not only in the Top Twenty but in the Top Ten.
Fifteenth spot shows we really do love a good bit of shared nostalgia as we’re still watching reruns of 20 to 1. Interestingly Channel 7's attempt at the nostalgia genre Where Are They Now with that Koshie bloke and his offsider is no longer with us and it’s no surprise- some of those interviews were really uncomfortable to watch. Anyone see the one with the guy who made the Crocodile Dundee-esque documentaries? They couldn’t have picked a worse person to stick in front of a camera. Nostalgia or not, that was just bad television and it obviously collided with Darwin’s theory of television production- no ratings = no show.
Speaking of evolution gone wrong we have Dancing on Ice in at sixteenth with a question- why does Jamie Dury have such a fake laugh on this show? Whoever the producer of DOI should have a good look at themselves as they’re really butchering what should be a top of the table contender. For a start you’ve got way too many names involved. Between the celebrity trainers, the celebrity hosts, the big name commentator, the celebrity ice skaters and the people they try to interview in the crowd it’s no wonder people are quite happy going back to watching a simple game of chase between customs officials and illegal workers over on Border Security on Channel 7. They also need to do something about audience reaction times or get a host that doesn’t need people to laugh with him. It’s a huge set and that means a delayed audience reaction which also means you cant treat the place like a giant backyard populated by your workmates. Different course means different approach Channel 9 so get your act together.
So, fourteen locals in the Top Twenty watched TV shows this week as we can look to next week and a few debuts, including what I think is Australia’s first marriage reality show, Yasmine is Getting Married. (Aussie Princess doesn’t count as they didn’t get married. Did they?) Stay tuned...
Checkout Oztam to see the full Top Twenty chart.
Top 20 Metropolitan TV Ratings 23rd- 29th July
Local Content Score- 14 of top 20
The status quo re-established itself with a vengeance this week as a lot of ‘not much’ went down in TV land. To highlight just how normal this week was Medical Emergency even managed to graft itself back to the backside of Border Security, once again making it the top two from Channel 7's reality TV division. Both shows even managed to recover from the Dancing on Ice diversion and reclaim their usual, pre Dancing on Ice 2.1 and 1.7 million viewers. How they’ve managed to do this while DOI finds another 1.4 million viewers in the same Tuesday night timeslot is, well, confusing.
Slaying all before it with RTV
Game show RTV is also doing well at the moment with It Takes Two in at eighth and Big Brother in at ninth. As we pass the half way mark of a decade of Post-Survivor TV it appears the RTV phenomenon is indeed more than a fad which is cold comfort for its detractors. Who knows where the industry will head next here in Australia but with its low costs, high ratings, publicity and text message based revenue you can bet that RTV will fuel Australian content from here-on in.
Tenth spot went to All Saints and here I have to make a correction to a former post where I said that All Saints had its season finale. Apparently I was very, very wrong and to be honest I’m not sure where I got the idea from. Maybe I just mistook an advertised cliffhanger ending for the season finale....? Either way my previous argument still stands and it’s good to see Aussie drama not only in the Top Twenty but in the Top Ten.
Fifteenth spot shows we really do love a good bit of shared nostalgia as we’re still watching reruns of 20 to 1. Interestingly Channel 7's attempt at the nostalgia genre Where Are They Now with that Koshie bloke and his offsider is no longer with us and it’s no surprise- some of those interviews were really uncomfortable to watch. Anyone see the one with the guy who made the Crocodile Dundee-esque documentaries? They couldn’t have picked a worse person to stick in front of a camera. Nostalgia or not, that was just bad television and it obviously collided with Darwin’s theory of television production- no ratings = no show.
He wants to be as omnipresent as Eddie
Speaking of evolution gone wrong we have Dancing on Ice in at sixteenth with a question- why does Jamie Dury have such a fake laugh on this show? Whoever the producer of DOI should have a good look at themselves as they’re really butchering what should be a top of the table contender. For a start you’ve got way too many names involved. Between the celebrity trainers, the celebrity hosts, the big name commentator, the celebrity ice skaters and the people they try to interview in the crowd it’s no wonder people are quite happy going back to watching a simple game of chase between customs officials and illegal workers over on Border Security on Channel 7. They also need to do something about audience reaction times or get a host that doesn’t need people to laugh with him. It’s a huge set and that means a delayed audience reaction which also means you cant treat the place like a giant backyard populated by your workmates. Different course means different approach Channel 9 so get your act together.
So, fourteen locals in the Top Twenty watched TV shows this week as we can look to next week and a few debuts, including what I think is Australia’s first marriage reality show, Yasmine is Getting Married. (Aussie Princess doesn’t count as they didn’t get married. Did they?) Stay tuned...
Checkout Oztam to see the full Top Twenty chart.
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