damianThis Weeks Top Twenty TV Shows
September 6th 2006 22:42
Topsy turvy week with another big Aussie Idol showing, footy in the top ten and some interesting maneuvering ahead of next week.
Top 20 Metropolitan TV Ratings 27th August- 2nd September
Local Content Score- 15 of top 20
Last week had three shows with over two million viewers. This week had none. Why this is the case is anyones guess but I’ll take a swing at it- it must have been raining a lot week before last on Tuesday. Beyond that crappy theory I’ve got nothing.
The usual suspects were in at number one and two- Border Security and The Force- with 1.981 and 1.956 million viewers respectively. Next week’s figures will be interesting as The Force has moved to Wednesday night. How it will fair on its own without Border Security to introduce it will be very interesting. At the same time Tuesday will continue to heat up as the front line of the channel wars as Eddie moves one of his big guns- the new series of 20 to 1- into direct competition with Channel 7's RTV hour. We wont see the full damage of this move till the week after next as there was a Steve Irwin tribute show on this week, but things are getting interesting.
One of the coolest things about the rating wars is that all the shows being wheeled out as the ‘big guns’ are local. Another example is the return of Thank God You’re Here to Channel 10 on Wednesdays. Not many people would know this but TGYH actually won an award this year as the world’s best new concept in TV, an award complemented by huge ratings. Personally I would’ve thought screening theatre sports on TV was highly unoriginal but it just goes to show you that TV producers out there often miss a good concept. That and the Working Dog crew have the TV Midas touch which helps.
There were three Aussie Idol shows in The Twenty this week, in seventh, tenth and eleventh. Not bad for a concept that is getting not so rave reviews. In eighth was Where Are They Now, revealing that Channel 7 can do nostalgia just as well as Channel 9, and the football, this time the Sunday version, made it all the way up to ninth. The finals will be helping all this along but this weeks ninth place result can be put down to a massive 404,000 viewers in Perth and a healthy 293,000 viewers in Brisbane. Obviously there was a big derby in Perth and a decent game for the Broncos in Brisbane.
Beyond that was Dancing on Ice in at fifteenth with 1.423 million viewers. This result is a saving grace for a show that really performed short of expectations, falling out of the Twenty for it’s last few regular weeks. Fortunately T & D doing their most famous dance salvaged a good result for the final but it will be interesting to see if it makes a comeback for season two.
Finally All Saints was in at seventeenth to round out The Twenty with 1.42 million sets of eye balls tuned in. The rest of the fifteen locals were news or current affairs, so we can look forward to next week where it will all be hitting the fan as the Channel Wars go to the next level of inter-station ballistics. Tune in next week as we pick over the wreckage.
To see all the figures head over to Oztam.
Top 20 Metropolitan TV Ratings 27th August- 2nd September
Local Content Score- 15 of top 20
Last week had three shows with over two million viewers. This week had none. Why this is the case is anyones guess but I’ll take a swing at it- it must have been raining a lot week before last on Tuesday. Beyond that crappy theory I’ve got nothing.
The usual suspects were in at number one and two- Border Security and The Force- with 1.981 and 1.956 million viewers respectively. Next week’s figures will be interesting as The Force has moved to Wednesday night. How it will fair on its own without Border Security to introduce it will be very interesting. At the same time Tuesday will continue to heat up as the front line of the channel wars as Eddie moves one of his big guns- the new series of 20 to 1- into direct competition with Channel 7's RTV hour. We wont see the full damage of this move till the week after next as there was a Steve Irwin tribute show on this week, but things are getting interesting.
Thank God You're Here- back this week.
One of the coolest things about the rating wars is that all the shows being wheeled out as the ‘big guns’ are local. Another example is the return of Thank God You’re Here to Channel 10 on Wednesdays. Not many people would know this but TGYH actually won an award this year as the world’s best new concept in TV, an award complemented by huge ratings. Personally I would’ve thought screening theatre sports on TV was highly unoriginal but it just goes to show you that TV producers out there often miss a good concept. That and the Working Dog crew have the TV Midas touch which helps.
There were three Aussie Idol shows in The Twenty this week, in seventh, tenth and eleventh. Not bad for a concept that is getting not so rave reviews. In eighth was Where Are They Now, revealing that Channel 7 can do nostalgia just as well as Channel 9, and the football, this time the Sunday version, made it all the way up to ninth. The finals will be helping all this along but this weeks ninth place result can be put down to a massive 404,000 viewers in Perth and a healthy 293,000 viewers in Brisbane. Obviously there was a big derby in Perth and a decent game for the Broncos in Brisbane.
Beyond that was Dancing on Ice in at fifteenth with 1.423 million viewers. This result is a saving grace for a show that really performed short of expectations, falling out of the Twenty for it’s last few regular weeks. Fortunately T & D doing their most famous dance salvaged a good result for the final but it will be interesting to see if it makes a comeback for season two.
Finally All Saints was in at seventeenth to round out The Twenty with 1.42 million sets of eye balls tuned in. The rest of the fifteen locals were news or current affairs, so we can look forward to next week where it will all be hitting the fan as the Channel Wars go to the next level of inter-station ballistics. Tune in next week as we pick over the wreckage.
To see all the figures head over to Oztam.
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