Apprentice bows out with well under 1m
Although ratings for the final episode of The Apprentice were up slightly on last week, the show failed to make an impact on Monday night’s schedules.
Nine’s contest frotned by businessman Mark Bouris saw Andrew Morello win the right to work for the Wizard Home Loans founder.
The show, which aired from 9.30 until after 11pm, averaged 0.834m viewers, according to preliminary ratings from OzTam.
Criminal Minds, which aired on Seven from 9.30pm to 10.30pm, gained an audience of just under 1.1m. And Ten’s final episode of Good News Week – on from 8.30pm to 10.30pm rated just under 1m.
But while Seven was the top channel for the night, its blockbuster scifi series FlashForward continued to slip, rating 972,000 – well down on last week’s 1.1m and its stellar 1.8m opening.
Monday’s share:
- Seven: 27.1%
- Nine: 26.1%
- Ten: 20.6%
- ABC1: 12.5%
- SBS1 8.1%
- GO!: 1.8%
- ABC2: 1.7%
- 7TWO: 1.1%
- ONE: 0.7%
- SBS2: 0.3%
Monday’s top rating TV shows:
- Seven News Seven 1.4m
- Highway Patrol Seven 1.3m
- Today Tonight Seven 1.3m
- Two and a Half Men – 7:30pm Nine 1.3m
- Two and a Half Men – 7:00pm Nine 1.2m
- The Mentalist Nine 1.2m
- Home and Away Seven 1.2m
- Nine News Nine 1.1m
- Destroyed in Seconds Seven 1.1m
- The Big Bang Theory Nine 1.1m
- Criminal Minds – 9:30pm Seven 1.1m
- A Current Affair Nine 1.1m
- Hamish and Andy Re-Gifted Ten 1.1m
- ABC News ABC 1m
- Flash Forward Seven 0.972m
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Good last episode and I think a pretty good series I watched every week end to end. Felt bad for the Perth lady as she had a team that clearly weren’t working with her, but Morello seems like a genuine character.
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Well here we are at the silly time of the year again when we all climb into our repective boxes and TV stations go in hibernation.
All the current affairs programmes go on holiday until late January or early February, we get endless repeats of old stuff that didnt rate during the year.
It is interesting to see the ratings for the different channels ( i dont know how they are measured in Tasmania as we get the regional stations) and how well they are doing.
I dont know if anyone watched the Apprentice or Flashforward (has it got a definate storyline or is it going to be like lost??) and the apprentice is so predictable with Andrew Daddo I think doing the voiceover.
Two and a Half Men repeats are really doing well against Home and Away , perhaps they might rerun the Flintstones or the Jetsons over the summer break.
Next year we might be fortunate enough to see the Amazing Race from Pole to Pole North to South and when they get there it turns into Survivor!!!!.
We can take all our favourite celebrities from Beauty and the Geeks, split them into two camps, see who gets their first, the girls with their looks of the Geeks with their brains. But then I think what have the polar bears and penguins done to insult us by inflicting this upon them.
I look forward to any more comments.
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Love Morello! He deserved to Win!
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I quite liked the Apprentice, and I’m happy to see Morello win. Although, who knew his name was Andrew?!
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The show was ok but pales in comparison to the US version. Bouris is no Trump by any standard and his logic and reasoning on many occasions was just lame. I love the business savvy Trump ooooozes. Bouris was uninspiring. But I guess that’s why he’s only a millionaire as opposed to a billionaire.
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Stacey, I agree. I didn’t like Mark Bouris at all. He was too slimey-businessmanish. Other than that, the show was cast well.
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Bouris was okay. I still think the show would have been better with someone like Aussie John.
Richard, maybe we can get the polar bears and penguins to try-out for ‘The Apprentice’ next year?
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I actually thought the show was very badly cast. In my opinion none of the candidates were likeable which meant there was no care factor about who won. I also thought that none of them were the calibre required for a 200K job. I actually think Morello would struggle to get a $60K job in the real world. He is seems to have limited intelligence and very poor communication skills. Good luck to him though.
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Good to see the CH9 schedule purposely running late as usual and having the end cut off on the Foxtel IQ recording (even with adding +5mins to the end).
With Bouris as charismatic as a jellyfish and Morrello the obvious winner from the beginning, coupled to terrible casting and editing, this was a great example of how to take a winning formula and totally stuff it up.
As per the UK and US versions, if you’re going to do it again, get people who are, or at least kid themselves they are, high achievers, rather than teenage students, bogans and the fantastically boring.
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Billythesyd – You crack me up!
But you can’t say you’re surprised at Channel Nine’s handiwork are you? After all, what’s new?
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The Mentalist was amazing this week and deserved to be on this list. What an amazing writing staff, cast and crew. Keep up the great posts.
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True Richele, true, I knew what it was going to be like when ch9 got it. They should stick to blokes in dresses on the footy show and ’70s racist humour from their stable of dinosaurs.
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Really looking forward to the 2 and a half men triple bill tonight! yes you heard right – triple bill!!!! AHHHHHHHHH. Can’t wait for summer scheduling it will just be on a 24 hour loop on Channel 9. Talk about over egging the pudding!
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Gavin and Mark should have a baby…how similar are they..
The show was crap and weak ending, can’t wait for Nine to say it’s axed and to never return….
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Brilliant Series!
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