Grimshaw vs Ramsay makes for good Tuesday night TV ratings
Tracy Grimshaw’s war with TV chef Gordon Ramsay has been good for Nine’s ratings – Tuesday night’s edition of A Current Affair was about 25% up on its usual audience and overtook Seven rival Today Tonight.
Last night’s ACA, which returned to the spat, averaged nearly 1.5m viewers while Today Tonight was on 1.4m according to preliminary metro figures from OzTam.
By contrast, last week, ACA averaged 1.2m across the week, with Today Tonight averaging 1.4m.
interesting – would be more interested to know how Gordon’s two shows went last night compared to this season’s average….???
any info on that???
There was a slight increase for both Kitchen Nightmares and Hell’s Kitchen over the previous two weeks, and both were well above the average (Melbourne – GTV only).
The whole media game is about ratings and good stories sell, looks like 9 are leaping on this one as they did with Matty J. Ramsay is a maverick, chef and entertainer what makes him different and unique is what makes him entertaining. Dont try and sanitize the man.
Seems to me its a PR stunt that went out of control. if it was meant to drum up people to the food festival it probably worked. If it was to promote Gordon and Gordon’s new restaurant probably bombed big time in conservative Melbourne. End result who cares
But if it was a PR stunt it does have two of Nine’s network stars on the front of every newspaper, so it benefits them…
Yes that’s true but he was also out to shock on Rove and that’s on 10
Methinks he profanes for Gordon’s dosh
Total beat up. These sorts of stunts are steadily replacing news.
Jesus! It’s even lead story in The Aus. Oh look, the ratings have improved!!!
http://blogs.theaustralian.new.....ays_abuse/
get me a bucket.
You have to be kidding! As a Chef of 25 yrs it appalls me that an unbelievably talented man is being scrutinised by a bunch of gutter journo’s that really don’t deserve his attention. It would be a much better place if they took their jobs as seriously as he does.
Remember that hes a real Chef that the media made a Celeb. not the other way around.
Besides, aren’t all journo’s still supposed to have hides of steel, or is that just the real ones?
This whole thing is classic Gordon Ramsay. These aren’t impulsive, off-the-cuff remarks. The cameras weren’t hidden; they were swirling around him everywhere he went. This is a PR stunt and Ramsay has a distinguished history of them. Similar “controversies” have been manufactured by the Ramsay crew all through his career. He had a similar tapestry of insults for journalist Cherry Ripe, leading to several days worth of jabs between the two. In an earlier series, Boiling Point, a nearly identical conflict occurred between Ramsay and a New Zealand TV Chef, which led to a week’s worth of exhanges between the chefs on every talk show in the country. On another episode of the same show, he was paid to use Bramley Apples in a cooking demonstration, but admitted (to the camera, of course) the he had used a different brand and then made a disparaging remark about the company president. In the US, he has taken personal jabs at Mario Batali and Rachael Ray. If you’ve follwed Ramsay’s rise, you will definitely see the patterns. There’s nothing new here, except the unwitting members of the public who are taken in by the drama.