Slight ratings improvement for The Bachelor in new Wednesday night timeslot
Channel Ten’s first Wednesday night outing of The Bachelor saw a slight lift in its audience last night to 656,000 across the five city metro.
The show was 15th for the night. However, it was still fourth in its timeslot behind Big Brother on Channel Nine, Slideshow on Seven and the ABC’s 7.30 and QI repeat.
But The Bachelor was seventh in Ten’s target category of 25-54s.
Ten moved the show to the less competitive Wednesday night timeslot at 7.30pm after the show’s audience declined of its launch from 669,000 last Sunday to 622,000 in its second outing Monday, and then again to 576,000 on Sunday.
The bachelor himself is rather “whitebread” and is it just me or does it feel like there are too many female competitors who all look the same?
And does Andy G still get paid even though they have cut 92% of his scenes out of the now once-a-week show?
It was always meant to be a once a week show with two eps in launch week only. Shine haven’t had to recut the show at all
Million Dollar Minute will be gone by the years end. It’s absolutely horrible like most of the other crap on TV at the moment. If TEN had delayed Masterchef until now it would be winning its timeslot easily. Big Brother is pathetic, The Batchelor is a chick flic and Slideshow is not worthy to lick the boots of “Thank God Your Here”. Thank God for the ABC.
Ten has a number of great shows, but why The Bachelor. To be honest I have only seen the promos, which I found cringe making. I am a 74 year old male, and all I could think was that it demeaned women. The fact that it was beaten by Julia Zemiro was great news. Now there’s a woman of substance!
Onya Russel Howcroft, great to see you were appearing in the top rating entertainment show of the night, which was not on the station you are paid plenty of $$$$ to be the GM of. What the?