damianThis Weeks Top Twenty TV Shows
August 18th 2006 00:01
Aussie Idol returns to Australian TV but perhaps not as successfully as they hoped.
Top 20 Metropolitan TV Ratings 23rd- 29th July
Local Content Score- 14 of top 20
Fairly quiet week this week. Not a lot happened at all.
As usual Border Security and Medical Emergency took up there traditional first and third positions. How Medical Emergency always manages to miss out on second is one of those TV ratings mysteries but this week second went to 60 Minutes which goes to show we’re all fascinated with feral children (and it was a fascinating story).
Aussie Idol made it to eighth but there’s a lot of talk about the figures being lower than on previous years. To be honest that shouldn’t be a shock to anyone as the format has now reached maturity and is no longer relying on the novelty factor that drove a lot of the early reality TV ratings from a few years back but anyone declaring the death of reality TV should stop focussing on their own recent experience of TV and take a more considered view of TV history as a whole. Sure RTV ratings are down but that’s not saying much- they’ve been through the roof the last few years. As a format reality TV has revolutionised the game show genre and although ‘pure’ RTV may wax and wane its elements are here to stay.
Besides, txt message competitions make way too much money for TV producers to not have RTV. Just look at all those crappy late night gameshows that are on every network now. They’re all copying the format because it makes money- a lot more money than whatever else they have on late at night- and the only way they make money is through txt messages. This new income stream for TV may be, in retrospect, the greatest legacy left by the RTV revolution.
Having said all this, one of the most significant parts of this weeks viewing figures is the absence of Dancing on Ice in the Top Twenty. Eddie’s big spender has begun to wane and may just be the white elephant of the year. It’s too expensive to take off air and the final few weeks will no doubt lift it back into the Top Twenty but Channel 9 people have to be angry with the screw up.
Beyond that It Takes Two made it to ninth for its finale. Again, not a brilliant performance, but it would have been a lot cheaper than DOI so they’re very respectable figures really.
Behind IT2 were the usual suspects 20 to 1, All Saints, Home and Away, and Getaway to round out the rest of the chart.
To see the whole chart head over to OZTAM.
Top 20 Metropolitan TV Ratings 23rd- 29th July
Local Content Score- 14 of top 20
Fairly quiet week this week. Not a lot happened at all.
As usual Border Security and Medical Emergency took up there traditional first and third positions. How Medical Emergency always manages to miss out on second is one of those TV ratings mysteries but this week second went to 60 Minutes which goes to show we’re all fascinated with feral children (and it was a fascinating story).
Ready or not- it's back.
Aussie Idol made it to eighth but there’s a lot of talk about the figures being lower than on previous years. To be honest that shouldn’t be a shock to anyone as the format has now reached maturity and is no longer relying on the novelty factor that drove a lot of the early reality TV ratings from a few years back but anyone declaring the death of reality TV should stop focussing on their own recent experience of TV and take a more considered view of TV history as a whole. Sure RTV ratings are down but that’s not saying much- they’ve been through the roof the last few years. As a format reality TV has revolutionised the game show genre and although ‘pure’ RTV may wax and wane its elements are here to stay.
Besides, txt message competitions make way too much money for TV producers to not have RTV. Just look at all those crappy late night gameshows that are on every network now. They’re all copying the format because it makes money- a lot more money than whatever else they have on late at night- and the only way they make money is through txt messages. This new income stream for TV may be, in retrospect, the greatest legacy left by the RTV revolution.
Having said all this, one of the most significant parts of this weeks viewing figures is the absence of Dancing on Ice in the Top Twenty. Eddie’s big spender has begun to wane and may just be the white elephant of the year. It’s too expensive to take off air and the final few weeks will no doubt lift it back into the Top Twenty but Channel 9 people have to be angry with the screw up.
Beyond that It Takes Two made it to ninth for its finale. Again, not a brilliant performance, but it would have been a lot cheaper than DOI so they’re very respectable figures really.
Behind IT2 were the usual suspects 20 to 1, All Saints, Home and Away, and Getaway to round out the rest of the chart.
To see the whole chart head over to OZTAM.
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Also, I'm now taking bets on how long it takes before Eddie falls from grace at Channel 9. His profile is just too high.
Comment by Grant
It's also about everyday people, avoiding the American style uber hero, which always helps in Australia (think The Castle, The Dish- average Aussies being heroic).
Personally, if Eddie can last a year I think he'll be right. What bets are you taking?