My Kitchen Rules and Shit My Dad Says both debut with 1.2m
The official summer ratings blackout does not end until the weekend, but last night saw Seven and Nine share the spoils as the networks began competing again with new series.
Seven’s series return of My Kitchen Rules debuted with 1.206m, while Nine’s heavily promoted comedy Shit My Dad Says featuring William Shatner rated 1.183m, according to preliminary overnight ratings from OzTam.
Ten’s series return of Glee was just behind with 1.016m.
Official ratings blackout? I’m sure I’ve seen ratings over summer and there’s been a couple of TV spots bought based on them……
shit my father said was not funny at all and the canned laughter made it worse we were all sitting there asking ourselfs was that funny when the canned laughter came on .Its a dud wont last…
We’ve had ‘day-after’ TV ratings for all 24 hours a day and 365 days a year since early 1991.
Basically, while the ratings continue and TV buying continues every day of the year, the FTA networks shift to “summer programming” to give their on-air talent a break and to trial new talent and programming. I guess it also gives the network PR departments a break! Australia has a 40-week “TV season” which is longer than most other countries.