Schapelle Corby report halves Sunday Night audience, Ten’s dance show rises slightly
Seven’s controversial screening of Schapelle Corby’s first moments of freedom on Sunday Night saw ratings for the show nearly halve from last week as it was outrated by a cold case murder investigation and Bollywood special on Channel Nine’s 6o Minutes, preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTam show.
The Corby interview in which the convicted drug smuggler spoke few words to reporter Mike Willesee was on in just the first section of Sunday Night delivered 1.086m for Seven. The screening of the footage comes after controversy as to whether the network paid up to $2m for an exclusive interview with Schapelle following her release from prison last month which resulted in a police raid on the network’s Sydney offices.
Last week the show pulled in 1.9m viewers for an exclusive interview with the remaining members of INXS.
Meanwhile 60 Minutes averaged 1.208m for an investigation into the murder of two nurses who disappeared on their gap year in Queensland 40 years ago, and a feature on the Bollywood film industry.
If the ABCs Catch Up service, iView, wasn’t so damned good, I’m sure the ABC would do better. Nine, Seven and Tens is hopelessly slow and buffery. (If Buffery is a word..)
I agree with James. I’ve watched all three of the new episodes of Rake but none of them on a Sunday night. SBS’s catch up service is just as good – the new episodes of Wilfred are the best yet.
Agree with KS (shouldn’t you be getting ready for your next heat) and James. I tried using Jump In last night – so clunky.
why anybody would watch Fat Tony is beyond me? as usual, in my opinion, Rake is by far the best Sunday night viewing….
Yep – I watch Rake on iView. It is an excellence service.
Who cares what happens to Ms Corby… Nine’s mini-series bombed (well in comparison to INXS) and now its Seven’s turn – hope even fewer people watch the next Willessee Corby outing… boring… next…
Fat Tony is good
Hey Tim,
What happened to dad’s show yesterday?
Did he smash those leftist communists on Insiders?