Home Made’s departure witnessed by only 900,000
Home Made’s lingering death finally came to an end on Tuesday night, in a departure witnessed by few TV viewers.
The prime time final of Nine’s home renovation reality show was viewed by just 900,000 people, according to preliminary ratings from OzTam.
The show’s final outing was slaughtered by Seven’s special of The Zoo, featuring Taronga’s new baby elephant, which pulled in 1.6m viewers and Ten’s Talkin Bout Your Generation with nearly 1.7m viewers.
In a dismal night for Nine, the only show in its post 7pm lineup that rated more than a million viewers was Two And A Half Men. Nine had a share for the evening of 21.3%.
HomeMade had so much promise, but ultimately NINE ruined it by making it to info-tainment and not a competition.
If it looks like I’m being sold to I aint watching it.
It was done so badly with potentially great talent. Nine panicked and made sure it would make their sponsors happy. I think a popular and well watched show makes sponsors happy.
I disagree, I think it had nothing to do with the sponsors, and everything to do with a weak format in a genre which has been overdone and is more suited to an economy on the up and up.
I’d have to disagree Bravo have made a few reality shows based on interior design concept and are far superior. They focus on the contestants and what they do and how they do it. The Nine show from the short bursts I watched didnt do that. NINE made a show that was about the products and the result. Focusing on the products , presumably donated, def is in their sponsorship favour.
Also, making the challenges about working withing a range of cost – again would have focused more on the designer skills would solve the economic issues.
One of Homemade’s biggest problem was its casting … if they’d bothered to look beyond just a gym in Sydney’s Eastern suburbs more might’ve cared
Good riddance to bad TV!
Yeah! Good riddance to bad TV.
The whole show was out of touch with Joe Average.
More Chaser, and Good News Week programmes will do me.
So HomeMADE at 900,000 is a loser, but Australia’s Next Top Model at 680,000 is a winner?
Hi AW,
That thought occured to me as I was writing this piece.
I did nearly throw in a line pointing out that pay TV programming generally sees audiences of maybe 20-30,000 for some channels/ shows.
But free-to-air television has potential access to wider audiences, and also higher investment costs. So for a show to be considered a success on a free TV channel it would need to deliver a bigger audience than it would on a pay TV channel.
Cheers,
Tim – Mumbrella.
Top Model should be booted off Foxtel forever and never return…after numerous seasons it’s very very tired and boring
I lost interest in this commercial in the first ten seconds – they really need to stop making mini-films and focus on real yield