Seven promises a Big Bang in the final quarter, but can they deliver the audiences?
Seven’s ratings dominance is under serious pressure from Nine. Nic Christensen talks to chief programmer Angus Ross and senior media buyers about whether the number one TV network can lift its game in the final quarter of 2015?
Seven has had its toughest year for a long while with many of its key franchises haemorrhaging viewers.
House Rules was down 33 per cent, Winners & Losers lost 29 per cent of its audience and My Kitchen Rules was down 12 per cent in consolidated viewing figures. Then there was the Restaurant Revolution debacle.
X factor declined in ratings last yr and will decline this year with judges like Chris issak and James blunt singers who are not big names. Chris issak? Come on! 800 words just from the title is not going to make me watch.
Well if 7 has been showing useless schtick how can 7 Loyalists like myself stick around? Eg – what the heck happened to Grimm?? And why is Castle on so late now? I’m sick of stations showing a season and then dumping it/changing time slots/switching channels at their own whim because they’re watching ratings and doing knee-jerk reactions. I’ve started doing a reaction myself: stopped watching TV and just gone out to buy the series on DVD.
Hard enough to watch Big Bang Theory the first time let alone re-runs. Is this seriously a good buy for Seven? You might be able to run Seinfeld forever but not this one.
At least they decided to axe House Rules from the Q4 schedule! We have a small break before enduring another awful run of renovation shows up against each other on 9 and 7.
X-Factor was already down significantly last year. I imagine it will follow the trends of other shows like The Voice/The Block/MKR where it will start with alright numbers (albeit still down significantly YOY) and then slowly dwindle off.
N.B. Those share figures quoted are commercial FTA network shares and not shares of the total viewing pie.
Fabulous. The TV forum I view features a large number of people who no longer watch FTA TV because of reality shows. I’m sure the decision to screen repeats of Big Bang Theory will drag them back. I can see a ratings shoot-out with Ten and its repeats of The Simpsons. The line-up photo for The Chase is like something out of Beauty and the Geek, but without the charisma. It’s like they and the other two are trying to drive people to Foxtel and VoD services.