damianThis Weeks Top Twenty TV Shows
July 29th 2006 02:31
Border Security finally proves that it is unassailable in the top spot as It Takes Two works its way into the top five.
Top 20 Metropolitan TV Ratings 16th - 22nd July
Local Content Score- 13 of top 20
Well we can pretty much say that Border Security is now untouchable. Like boxing you need legendary opponents in order to prove yourself the ultimate and with the big guns brought to bear our security people just took it on the chin then declared ice skating an undeclared item in the bags of one Torville and Dean. Eddie’s expensive cash cow is now sprawled out in the background down in sixteenth spot with its only achievements being a high celebrity ice skater body count and the deflection of a few hundred thousand viewers from Channel 7's star performing reality TV duo. Not the result they were looking for.
So with first spot lock tied, chiseled in stone and all but written into the constitution it’s to the rest of the chart that we look and it’s another Channel 7 reality show that is stealing the limelight with It Takes Two making it to number five. I have to admit that I don’t watch a lot of Sunday night television so I can only guess that they’re reaching the finals or something so it looks like the quiet, younger sibling of Dancing with the Stars is finally paying off, much to the chagrin of DwtS’s evil clone Dancing on Ice.
Below that we had Medical Emergency down in seventh who, like Border Security, has lost about 200,000 viewers since the arrival of Dancing on Ice but has still managed to hold it’s place in the Top Ten. Not a bad effort.
Good to see Aussie drama still being represented in The Twenty with McLeod’s Daughters in at twelve. Local drama is vital to the industry as the infrastructure and actors it produces often flows on into film and the rest of the TV industry. Without healthy drama you don’t have a healthy industry and after All Saints finished for the year it was looking a bit dodgy but it’s good to see the girls representing.
An interesting one in at fifteenth is the documentary Planet Earth. As far as I can tell it’s not a local production but seeing a documentary in the Top Twenty for the last two weeks goes to show that we’re still interested in a good look at nature on the telly. The fact that it’s an ABC program is also good for the public broadcaster who doesn’t regularly put in a showing on the Top Twenty charts.
And from there we go to sixteenth where the drastically underperforming Dancing on Ice currently resides. Although it’s not living up to expectations the show is still doing alright with around 1.4 million viewers but it is still getting its tail thrashed by Channel 7 on a Tuesday night. The most remarkable thing to come from this is how solid the Tuesday night timeslot is as only 200,000 of those 1.4 million viewers have actually migrated from the other channel. Why is a Saturday night ratings death in Australia and Tuesday nights ratings gold? Do we have better things to do on a Saturday night or do we just really like our mid-week fix of reality TV?
The last two locals were What’s Good for You in at eighteenth and Getaway in at twentieth (all other locals were news or current affairs programs) to make it thirteen locals in the top twenty. As usual, if you want to see the chart yourself just head over to OZTAM’s site here.
Top 20 Metropolitan TV Ratings 16th - 22nd July
Local Content Score- 13 of top 20
Well we can pretty much say that Border Security is now untouchable. Like boxing you need legendary opponents in order to prove yourself the ultimate and with the big guns brought to bear our security people just took it on the chin then declared ice skating an undeclared item in the bags of one Torville and Dean. Eddie’s expensive cash cow is now sprawled out in the background down in sixteenth spot with its only achievements being a high celebrity ice skater body count and the deflection of a few hundred thousand viewers from Channel 7's star performing reality TV duo. Not the result they were looking for.
It Takes Two in the top 5
So with first spot lock tied, chiseled in stone and all but written into the constitution it’s to the rest of the chart that we look and it’s another Channel 7 reality show that is stealing the limelight with It Takes Two making it to number five. I have to admit that I don’t watch a lot of Sunday night television so I can only guess that they’re reaching the finals or something so it looks like the quiet, younger sibling of Dancing with the Stars is finally paying off, much to the chagrin of DwtS’s evil clone Dancing on Ice.
Below that we had Medical Emergency down in seventh who, like Border Security, has lost about 200,000 viewers since the arrival of Dancing on Ice but has still managed to hold it’s place in the Top Ten. Not a bad effort.
Good to see Aussie drama still being represented in The Twenty with McLeod’s Daughters in at twelve. Local drama is vital to the industry as the infrastructure and actors it produces often flows on into film and the rest of the TV industry. Without healthy drama you don’t have a healthy industry and after All Saints finished for the year it was looking a bit dodgy but it’s good to see the girls representing.
An interesting one in at fifteenth is the documentary Planet Earth. As far as I can tell it’s not a local production but seeing a documentary in the Top Twenty for the last two weeks goes to show that we’re still interested in a good look at nature on the telly. The fact that it’s an ABC program is also good for the public broadcaster who doesn’t regularly put in a showing on the Top Twenty charts.
And from there we go to sixteenth where the drastically underperforming Dancing on Ice currently resides. Although it’s not living up to expectations the show is still doing alright with around 1.4 million viewers but it is still getting its tail thrashed by Channel 7 on a Tuesday night. The most remarkable thing to come from this is how solid the Tuesday night timeslot is as only 200,000 of those 1.4 million viewers have actually migrated from the other channel. Why is a Saturday night ratings death in Australia and Tuesday nights ratings gold? Do we have better things to do on a Saturday night or do we just really like our mid-week fix of reality TV?
The last two locals were What’s Good for You in at eighteenth and Getaway in at twentieth (all other locals were news or current affairs programs) to make it thirteen locals in the top twenty. As usual, if you want to see the chart yourself just head over to OZTAM’s site here.
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