After its week from hell with AFP raids, Sunday Night was rewarded with bumper numbers last night, showing once again that our fascination with INXS is still at a high.
The show topped the night with a whopping 1.91m viewers -a new record for the show.
Seven and Nine both pulled big shares, at the expense of the rest.
TEN will again be grateful its multichannel share propped up some dire numbers.
A 6.4% channel share was its lowest primary channel share in survey since the introduction of OzTAM ratings in 2001.
Seven network share was 35.9% then Nine 32.6%, ABC 14.4%, TEN 13.1% and SBS 3.9%.
Also scoring for Seven were My Kitchen Rules (1.73m), Seven News (1.19m), Downton Abbey (1.13m) and Castle (462,000).
Fat Tony and Co. won its timeslot for Nine at 1.38m / 1.24m viewers. Next were The Block (1.33m), Nine News (1.09m), 60 Minutes (926,000) and a Love Child repeat (430,000).
ABC News (801,000) was best for ABC1 followed by Flying Monsters with David Attenborough (706,000), Rake (617,000), Australia’s Remote Islands (447,000) and Tim Winton’s The Turning (272,000).
TEN’s night was a shocker with 378,000 as its best audience for So You Think You Can Dance Australia, despite its amazing talent. TEN Eyewitness News was 348,000, Modern Family was 280,000 / 254,000 and Have You Been Paying Attention? was just 168,000. Thankfully Sochi Winter Olympics gave ONE a 5.1% share.
SBS ONE also struggled with World News Australia (180,000), Plane Crash (167,000) and Archaeology: A Secret History (146,000),
Sochi Winter Olympics led multichannels at 271,000 viewers.
OzTAM Overnights: Sunday 23 February 2014
Neighbours at 6:30pm works well but find something that’s fresh and new for 7pm.God knows how many hundred times Ray Romano’s show about him has been recycled over and over again.
Not 3 hours.
Did SYTYCD seriously run for 3 hours on Sunday night?? That’s totally ridiculous and unforgiveable. I didn’t watch it of course, but in any reality program there’s so much time wasted on interminable backgrounds of contestants that such programs become one big yawn.
Stick to the basics of the program, the actual dancing and cut all the extraneous comment and crap.
TEN will never rate well on Sunday nights at the moment, the competition is too fierce – to the detriment of all – so there’s not much point in them scheduling Puberty Blues or Offspring up against the others, such programming would be wasted completely. And for what?
What has befallen Network Ten, has been an entirely self-inflicted loss of viewer trust and a forgiving loyalty, and purely demonstrates the destructive influences of vested interests who rarely display loyalty to anyone, except their own self interests.
Many raise that they cannot understand why some very good shows and popular programs with some very talented performers receive the kiss of death at Network Ten, and to cite just one glaring example, and this is regardless of the poor selection of some of the hosts of Wake Up, and refer to the studio acoustics that sounds hollow, and to me instills in my mind not the slightest hint of the possibility of any permanency.
As to the talented performers and programs, live or syndicated, the answer is very simple, all the talented ones are just on the wrong side of the TV camera’s, excepting Andrew Bolt of course.
Can TEN end up so bad it will actually shut down?
How long before Good News Week comes back for a 77th time?
Channel TEN doesn’t know what to do next after flopping its SYTYCD and HYBPA. SYTYCDA should have been moved to Eleven.
Ten needs to seriously work on things people want to watch.I gave up on their own offerings quite a long time ago.
The Project at 6:30pm is a bit much that’s 90 minutes after the regular news for crying out loud.I wonder what figures were like when they were in the old days using old sitcoms at 7pm on 10 in the time period from 1994 to 2009.
I can’t stand SN or most of the other shows on Seven but I do like Castle. Its a shame TEN just can’t find shows that rate, even if they are good.
ABC and SBS had some great shows on last night!
Geeez…where will ten be next week without any Olympics on ONE?
I would think there will be some serious decisions made this time next week when TEN has had a full post olympics week.
They have to move their news more into prime time….especially on the weekend. 5pm news is just a complete waste. Especially when there is the huge hole at 6pm….7 days a week.
And give there news some credibility. A reason for people to watch….when they wan’t to watch it.
It actually ain’t rocket science.
@ EdTV
Agree with everything except movies tues and Thursday. When I can get any movie I like for 2 bucks from the corner store, or on Foxtels five movie channels all commercial free, why would I want to suffer constant ad breaks, pop ups, watermarks on FTA.
Solution to Ten:
- Get a serious news bulletin, Eyewitness news is woeful (could Brad McEwan be anymore up himself if he tried, he reads the news like it’s a bother to him, road reports from the air for people that are still driving home, comical and overdrawn weather)
- Get Neighbours back on Ten at 6.30pm and kill The Project.
- Return Sandra Sully to a serious national news bulletin at 10.30pm
- Kill Wake Up but retain Studio 10.
- Get back rights to Big Brother and return it to Sunday’s at 7.30
- Reinstate Rush, White Collar Blue for new seasons (or similar cop drama).
- Return Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation to Sunday’s at 6.30 before Big Brother.
- Seek some serious movie content for Tuesday and Thursday nights.
- Try and land a big fish Sport.
Is Australia too small for five FTA networks with their multi-channels? I’m beginning to think so.
First TEN sacked David Mott for bad ratings (two years ago their primary channel was delivering a 15% share) then they sacked James Warburton for dismal ratings (mid last year their primary channel was delivering a 13% share) now they have a whole new management team and are delivering a primary channel share of 9.4% last week and last night a 6.4%! The TEN board must be very proud of their decisions!
Sytycd was amazing last night! Entertaining and great performances, I have no idea why Australia would rather watch depressing crap over positive tv
David
Out of interest sake, how did SYTYCD (US) rate when it was on 11 last year? I don’t think it was a big rater then.
Also is it possible for you to ask the 10 programmers why they put SYTYCD against the two juggernauts? As a casual viewer, even I could see that was a stupid decision, especially for an Australian show.
Looks like Ch 10 will need to screen wall to wall Bolt Reports. That will get the punters in!
1.91M, for Sunday Night???????? Wow, that is amazing. Loved the story, it was very well put together and it was great to see all members of INXS put their 0.02c worth in. Loved all the old footage of Michael, what a talent he was and what a tragedy his untimely death was. LOL’d at the way SN put the boot into the AFP in the segment immediately following the INXS story! Channel Seven – 1, AFP- 0
@FKlein, I agree. The Ten brand is horrendously damaged, almost everything they touch turns to poison. Seven would have had Sochi rating through the ceiling, on Ten it was a damp squib. Why? Ten is seriously on the nose with viewers.
Ten should see if they can rush out Offspring maybe put it on with Puberty Blues. One of the editors tweeted they were on their way to the last Offspring wrap party ever, so this must be the final series. Ten should really think about a spin off or recommissioning it if they can.
Loved watching SYTYCD last night, the brothers routine and the top 10 girls routine were amazingly beautiful. Wish it were getting better numbers, but there isn’t the interest in dance here as there is singing or cooking. Perhaps a different night would help things.
Agree Carrie does not need to shout. I remember Nat guilty of the same. Personally, I find the problem becomes exacerbated when female rather than males shout.
So You Think You Can Dance should be scheduled in a quieter Wednesday or Thursday timeslot. Modern Family and Elementary were doing fine on Sundays, why did Ten abandon something that was working?
6.4%? Ten will prob only give themselves a silver medal for that. Sunday is the night that sets you up for the whole week so what an earth were they thinking taking off their one half-decent performer and kicking off with HYBPA?
Thanks to an overworked PVR I was able to watch MKR, INXS, Downton Abbey, Fat Tony and SYTYCD. I don’t think I’ll bother with SYTYCD again. Yes the dancers are very talented and the judges were truthful and fair. However Carrie Bickmore gave me a headache. Carrie stop shouting you have a microphone. SYTYCD wins the prize for using the words amazing, awesome and spectacular the most in a 3 hour time period.
@EDTV how many overhauls can you have?? Moving the furniture every 6 months helps nobody. Knee jerk management.
remember when 9 mocked Sunday night? last night beat it by a million people (more than double)…..egg
I think we are watching ch10 die a long slow painful death. They do have some good shows, but now Sochi has gone they will drop back to a distant 4th, sad but true. Comm games may give them a boost, but otherwise their year has finished as a dismal failure. Shame cos I don’t think ch7 or ch9 are doing anything that spectacular….
Ten needs a complete overhaul, from management through to on-air programming. What a complete disaster!
SYTYCD was really good last night. Some good performances and the judges gave some good feedback. Its just such a shame that everything else outrated it. It really is well worth a watch if you like dancing.
@Harry you wrote “Ten needs to dump this plus SYTYCD straight away and spend their money on a show can at least has a chance of working.” Does not matter what Ten has nothing will work. I would even say that if Ten had the rights to Game Of Thrones and put it up against 7 & 9 reality offerings it still would not rate. The Ten brand is damaged.
Thanks,David.I think that’s part of 10′s problem.You just never know when they’re going to pull a programme from the line up at the last minute,or move it to a later timeslot.It’s really a very confused method of programming and must deter a lot of people from watching their shows.
Channel 10 would have been better to put Elementary on instead of SYTYCD. Elementary is still quite popular – SYTYCD is a flop.
Elementary was a late amendment. Think it is out for a while.
Harry
60 minutes was fantastic last night.
Sunday night jumps on the INXS Bandwagon.
I Wont watch Sunday Night.
SYTYCD must move to Eleven on those numbers or maybe could do something on Thursdays at 7.30 for Ten.
Housewives is a hit and will probably mean FTA will want to develop this franchise if they are allowed to as it will spell big ratings.
Have you been paying Attention!
This only did 168K – why would you renew this series when it was already a flop? Then why would you schedule it, it a look back at last weeks news, against two news services with the current news? Ten needs to dump this plus SYTYCD straight away and spend their money on a show can at least has a chance of working. Both shows are recorded this week so easy to get out of them now and save the money. Is this yet another gold medal performance by TEN as far as their CEO is concerned?
Was Elementary on last night?I saw it in my tv programme guide,but forgot to watch it or tape it because there was so much else on last night.
Wonderful to have Downton Abbey back. Even after several years, it still has that zing. First rate television.
I thought Fat Tony was great, loved it and will be back. With this and Love Child, Nine’s drama is going pretty well, now the best local drama slate. Sunday Night was the hit of the night and totally smashed 60 Minutes, 60 Minutes has a lot of work to do as third week it’s been demolished. And then there is TEN!
I feel for ten too – they tried in investing in a return of SYTYCD and it really has backfired. However, I do think it’s about the overall Ten brand. Would Dance, The Project, Biggest Loser, Puberty Blues etc be eating much higher on 7 and 9 where the brand is less tarnished?
Wow. TEN has hit new lows. That is incredible. Sunday Night, what a figure. The show is doing so much better at 7:30pm. Seven should keep it there for the entire year because it really is doing well. Last night INXS was a great interview. They know what they are doing this team. MKR again does really well at 6:30pm. Fat Tony had a good premiere too. I am yet to watch it but will watch it sometime during the week. Downton returned well too considering but TEN i see a dire future ahead for them. Nothing is working.
TEN moved Dance to avoid the MKR / Block battle, which I think was the right decision. But they hadn’t counted on the fact it was an INXS interview that pulled out the bigger audience. In fairness some of their audience would have also been over on ONE. But that’s where it ends from tomorrow.
Real Housewives was 117,000 for Foxtel, their best entertainment offering of the night (see daily ratings).
Hi David
How did Housewives go?
Doesn’t Ten realise that the public doesn’t want shows like HYBPA (or the Project for that matter) airing in the early evening. These shows only have a chance of success (and even then it’s only a small chance) if they air later in the evening.
SYTYCDA has flopped but had no chance with such a poor lead-in.
I really feel for TEN. SYTYCD was good last night, but with a running time of about three hours, the ratings were never going to be great.