2015 Annual: TV flops and TV hits
It has been another a year of dizzying highs and crashing lows in TV land. Here we recap some of the biggest TV flops of 2015 and some of the big successes.
Flops
Gallipoli, Nine
When the boss of Nine Entertainment Co describes a show as his “biggest disappointment for the year” you know it was the flop of the year. Nine’s much-anticipated Gallipoli premiered in early February with a metro audience of 1.104m however the audience more than halved on the second outing, with only 580,000 metro viewers tuning in.
Audiences continued to slide, with Nine then moving to air double episodes, a programming move often referred to as ‘burning off’ a show.
The Verdict has potential but it is on the wrong night. I think Nine needs to move it to Monday nights to go head-to-head with Media Watch & QANDA. Also they need to keep Peter FitzSimons off the show – he talks over other panellists & hijacks each topic when he’s on.