damianThis Weeks Top Twenty TV Shows
July 13th 2006 01:09
Big week as Border Security continues to dominate, the State of Origin storms into second place with some big figures and the American dramas just kind of disappear.
Top 20 Metropolitan TV Ratings 2nd - 8th July
Local Content Score- 17 of top 20
Well, it happened- the State of Origin broke the 2 million milestone last week, convincing 364,000 Melburnians to tune into what is usually avoided like the plague down south for a total 2.02 million sets of eyeballs. The coverage made its way to second place, splitting the Border Security/Medical Emergency team and rating just a little short of the recent world cup soccer games. Pretty impressive for a ‘two state’ game that only managed 89,000 people in Perth and Adelaide combined.
The other big story is that you had to scroll all the way down to ninth to find the first import as Big Brother proved that all publicity is good publicity with their eviction show making it to seventh (their Sunday show being a bit further down the chart in at eleventh). What’s Good for You also made an impressive effort in at eighth and was just the highest of a number of lifestyle shows that have returned to form with Getaway and Better Homes and Gardens in at fourteenth and fifteenth respectively.
All Saints kept Aussie drama on the map in at twelfth and It Takes Two rounded out the top twenty showing Big Brother that it’s not the only game-show reality TV that can be successful. Apart from that it was the usual array of news and current affairs programs that saw seventeen of the twenty highest rating shows in Australia last week were local productions. Go team.
But there’s a local content ratings storm on the horizon. Next week (or this week, depends on how you look at it) sees the first challenge being laid out to the all powerful ratings titan that has dominated the charts recently, even in the face of the Socceroos World Cup run- Border Security. Yes, Channel 9 has brought out the big guns as they try to takeout, or at least slow down, the juggernaught but if imitation is the highest form of flattery than Channel 7 is blushing at the moment. The show Channel 9 has produced to take on Border Security is the shameless knock off of a Channel 7 smash-hit Dancing on Ice. It has the same format (except on ice) it has celebrity hosts (who may or may not be as plastic as Daryl Sommers) and is played in the same time slot Channel 7 had Dancing with the Stars. Yes, the same time slot even! They’ve even gone out and got Jennifer Hawkins boyfriend so the show is practically a sequel, just on another channel.
The show itself should rate well as it involves the same ‘fish out of water subject matter’ we’re used to with these shows and has some big star power across the board from the dancers through to Torville and Dean, a master stroke of television promotion that will no doubt get the nostalgia pumping. If it doesn’t rate well and gets stopped at customs by Border Security then Channel 9 have spoiled a ratings winner and wasted a decent amount of money. My prediction is that it wont happen though and Dancing on Ice should do okay. Can it win? That'll be hard.
Should be a very interesting result next week…
To see the full Top Twenty OZTAM chart go here.
Top 20 Metropolitan TV Ratings 2nd - 8th July
Local Content Score- 17 of top 20
Well, it happened- the State of Origin broke the 2 million milestone last week, convincing 364,000 Melburnians to tune into what is usually avoided like the plague down south for a total 2.02 million sets of eyeballs. The coverage made its way to second place, splitting the Border Security/Medical Emergency team and rating just a little short of the recent world cup soccer games. Pretty impressive for a ‘two state’ game that only managed 89,000 people in Perth and Adelaide combined.
State of Origin
The other big story is that you had to scroll all the way down to ninth to find the first import as Big Brother proved that all publicity is good publicity with their eviction show making it to seventh (their Sunday show being a bit further down the chart in at eleventh). What’s Good for You also made an impressive effort in at eighth and was just the highest of a number of lifestyle shows that have returned to form with Getaway and Better Homes and Gardens in at fourteenth and fifteenth respectively.
All Saints kept Aussie drama on the map in at twelfth and It Takes Two rounded out the top twenty showing Big Brother that it’s not the only game-show reality TV that can be successful. Apart from that it was the usual array of news and current affairs programs that saw seventeen of the twenty highest rating shows in Australia last week were local productions. Go team.
But there’s a local content ratings storm on the horizon. Next week (or this week, depends on how you look at it) sees the first challenge being laid out to the all powerful ratings titan that has dominated the charts recently, even in the face of the Socceroos World Cup run- Border Security. Yes, Channel 9 has brought out the big guns as they try to takeout, or at least slow down, the juggernaught but if imitation is the highest form of flattery than Channel 7 is blushing at the moment. The show Channel 9 has produced to take on Border Security is the shameless knock off of a Channel 7 smash-hit Dancing on Ice. It has the same format (except on ice) it has celebrity hosts (who may or may not be as plastic as Daryl Sommers) and is played in the same time slot Channel 7 had Dancing with the Stars. Yes, the same time slot even! They’ve even gone out and got Jennifer Hawkins boyfriend so the show is practically a sequel, just on another channel.
The Big Guns- Torville and Dean
The show itself should rate well as it involves the same ‘fish out of water subject matter’ we’re used to with these shows and has some big star power across the board from the dancers through to Torville and Dean, a master stroke of television promotion that will no doubt get the nostalgia pumping. If it doesn’t rate well and gets stopped at customs by Border Security then Channel 9 have spoiled a ratings winner and wasted a decent amount of money. My prediction is that it wont happen though and Dancing on Ice should do okay. Can it win? That'll be hard.
Should be a very interesting result next week…
To see the full Top Twenty OZTAM chart go here.
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