damianThis Weeks Top Twenty TV Shows
September 1st 2006 00:03
Big week of couch potatoism as three tv shows score 2 million plus viewers including Channel 7's latest RTV blockbuster The Force.
Top 20 Metropolitan TV Ratings 20th -26th August
Local Content Score- 16 of top 20
Although nothing can stop Border Security’s reign at the top of the TV charts Channel 7 did the next best thing by almost equaling it’s star performer with The Force getting a massive 2.295 million viewers. That’s only 3,000 less than Border Security.
Channel 7 is on a roll with reality TV at the moment, something which stretches back to the first season of Dancing with the Stars, and they obviously believe that when you’re on to a good thing you stick to it. For the few Australian TV watchers who haven’t seen it The Force is just the police version of Border Security, chasing Western Australian cops as they go about their 9-to-5. It’s a blatant clone but it’s a blatant clone of something Channel 7 is already good at so the good times roll on which is more than can be said of Channel 9's Dancing on Ice which has fallen off the chart for good with it’s final week. With reports that Channel 7 is now the most profitable Australian TV channel you could say that DOI’s demise is kinda symbolic of what’s going on over at Channel 9 but we’ll leave that chestnut to the board of PBL and their unhappy shareholders. Not happy Eddie.
There was also an import breaking 2 million viewers this week which makes three shows above the magic mark. Usually it takes something like a World Cup type event to get more than one or two shows with so many Australians watching so maybe there’s been some very cold nights going on round the capital cities.
Aussie Idol made it to seventh and tenth as the competition gets into it’s rhythm and once again there was a documentary show in the Top Twenty with Prehistoric Park in at ninth. Like the ABC’s Planet Earth series earlier in the year Prehistoric Park, as far as I know, isn’t a local production but it’s still an interesting part of Australian viewing habits. We still love a good doco if it hits the spot.
Beyond the Top Ten it was all local with three dramas (if you count Home and Away as a drama), which is healthy, and the usual mix of lifestyle, news and current affairs programming. Don’t listen to the naysayers, Australian tele ain’t doin’ that bad. If sixteen of the top twenty programs we watch are local, ten of which aren’t news or special events related, there’s little you can say to convince me that we don’t have the industry to show Australian stories. We just got to make sure they’re quality.
To see all the figures head over to Oztam.
Top 20 Metropolitan TV Ratings 20th -26th August
Local Content Score- 16 of top 20
Although nothing can stop Border Security’s reign at the top of the TV charts Channel 7 did the next best thing by almost equaling it’s star performer with The Force getting a massive 2.295 million viewers. That’s only 3,000 less than Border Security.
Channel 7 is on a roll with reality TV at the moment, something which stretches back to the first season of Dancing with the Stars, and they obviously believe that when you’re on to a good thing you stick to it. For the few Australian TV watchers who haven’t seen it The Force is just the police version of Border Security, chasing Western Australian cops as they go about their 9-to-5. It’s a blatant clone but it’s a blatant clone of something Channel 7 is already good at so the good times roll on which is more than can be said of Channel 9's Dancing on Ice which has fallen off the chart for good with it’s final week. With reports that Channel 7 is now the most profitable Australian TV channel you could say that DOI’s demise is kinda symbolic of what’s going on over at Channel 9 but we’ll leave that chestnut to the board of PBL and their unhappy shareholders. Not happy Eddie.
Channel 7's latest RTV blockbuster.
Aussie Idol made it to seventh and tenth as the competition gets into it’s rhythm and once again there was a documentary show in the Top Twenty with Prehistoric Park in at ninth. Like the ABC’s Planet Earth series earlier in the year Prehistoric Park, as far as I know, isn’t a local production but it’s still an interesting part of Australian viewing habits. We still love a good doco if it hits the spot.
Beyond the Top Ten it was all local with three dramas (if you count Home and Away as a drama), which is healthy, and the usual mix of lifestyle, news and current affairs programming. Don’t listen to the naysayers, Australian tele ain’t doin’ that bad. If sixteen of the top twenty programs we watch are local, ten of which aren’t news or special events related, there’s little you can say to convince me that we don’t have the industry to show Australian stories. We just got to make sure they’re quality.
To see all the figures head over to Oztam.
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Comment by JohnDoe
Film & TV on DVD
Comment by Grant
I wish I had Foxtel
Comment by JohnDoe
Film & TV on DVD
I would tape anything I wanted to watch so I could fast forward the ads, but now it just seems there is nothing.
If I didnt own My Name Is Earl on DVD from the US I may have weakened recently and started taping again..
At least they played Oz on SBS for a while there.