Nine’s Here Come the Habibs continues to slide as Seven’s My Kitchen Rules wins the night
Nine’s comedy Here Come the Habibs has continued to slide on its third outing, with 896,000 metro viewers tuning in at 8:35pm.
Ten’s NCIS was watched by 532,000 metro viewers, while Seven’s Rebecca Gibney drama, Wanted, grabbed a metro audience of 899,000 metro viewers at 9pm.
Earlier in the evening, Seven’s My Kitchen Rules pulled in 1.447m metro viewers at 7:30pm, easily beating reality rival I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here! which delivered Ten a metro audience of 753,000, up on last week’s audience of 648,000.
Nine’s The Big Bang Theory was watched by 896,000, with 822,000 sticking around for a second episode of the US sitcom at 8:00pm.
Nobody can compete with MKR. Still a good result for Habibs though. Went up from it’s lead-in of 822K for Big Bang, whereas Wanted dropped from its lead-in of 1.4mil from MKR (though it was 9PM so still a decent result). And Ten would be heartened by Celebrity’s increase on last week’s result despite losing its slot.
Is it just me or are the commercial networks seriously lacking in promoting the return of their long established shows? I have just found out that Downton Abbey has already had two episodes of the final series broadcast already (after making viewers wait months after it was broadcast in the UK) and I only lucked upon NCIS’s new series being on last night
OMG after all the hype, WTF? Just Another dumb Australian wannabe comedy. Oh puleeze!
What? Laurel. It didn’t live up to your intellectual expectations. OMG, better write to the Race Discrimination Commissioner and lodge a complaint!! Can’t have ethnic stereotype comedy not being funny.
I’m with Laurel. No qualms about ethnic comedy.. I was hoping it would be funny, as the scenario seemed to have the potential, but after 2 episodes it’s so weak and flat & just silly I reckon I could have written much funnier. Disappointing. It’s a wasted opportunity. It looks like it had good budget but just poor material, & will make it harder for anything like it in future to get off the ground. And likewise I’m amazed at the hype. The execs surely knew it was a dud but had spent the money so had to press on with it?
Has nothing to do with race if a comedy is just not funny. Habibs has the usual tired writing that channel 9 was flopping out in the 90s. They will continue to fall behind 7 as long as the same decision makers occupy the big chairs at 9 and refuse to believe the world has changed.