Slideshow premiere tops the night with 1.3m
The premiere of Channel Seven’s new entertainment program Slideshow topped the TV ratings last night with an audience of 1.3m viewers.
Ten also performed strongly boosted by an audience of 1.05m viewers who tuned in for a dramatic episode of Offspring which saw the death of character Patrick Reid, the partner of the show’s star Nina Proudman (played by Asher Keddie).
According to the OzTam overnight ratings, the performance of Offspring and also Masterchef, which had an audience of 933,000 viewers, helped Ten’s main channel narrowly overtake Nine with an audience share of 17.7 per cent compared with 17.6 per cent. Seven remained on top with an audience share of 20.9 per cent on its main channel.
Nine reality show Big Brother continued its ratings slide pulling just 754,000 viewers last night. The show is down on last year’s ratings where it drew in audiences of closer to one million viewers.
“Slideshow” is an idea nicked from a 1951 Fred Astaire movie called “Royal Wedding” where he created a revolving room stage set and danced around it.
Astaire was a genuine genius, and deserves the credit.
It was very cool in 1951.
It’s not cool now, nor is it original.
watch the ratings slide show next week.
Thank god the Aussie public tuned into Offspring. A million is great for Ten. Slide Show was awful and unfunny. How did This Week Live go?
Can someone please explain the appeal of Grant Denyer to me?
And when someone has explained the appeal of Grant Denyer to LW, can someone please explain the appeal of Anh Do to me?
It’s not my cup of tea but how many shows can a family watch together? I think Slideshow will do okay in the weeks to come. If big brother goes down the toilet kids will put on home and away and leave it on. If it’s not very funny there’s always the possibility it will get better during the next game. If I had kids I’d rather they watch this harmless silly show which at least involves a degree of talent to think on your feet, than a bunch of attention seekers sitting around in a house. Grant Denyer is annoying and should not be hosting it. You can tell the performers don’t like him. It will get whole households watching and grocery buyers watching. I’m cynical about shows that are cynical. This is pantomime. It’s not clever but it’s not evil. It’s old fashioned and I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that because it has something celebrity splash and hole in wall didn’t. Creative people trying their best to improve an average format and make it as good as they can.
The Week Live was #1 in its timeslot, 620,000 metro viewers
The lesson here is, if you’re going to do improve, use writers — like Thank God You’re Here does.
Didn’t watch slide show. Fell asleep midway thtu this week live! Good to see Rovie back tho.
I know the show itself looks lame but if you sit down and watch it, it’s actually really funny!